Blog Tour: The Long Way by Aaron Redfern - tourwide rafflecopter giveaway

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It is my pleasure to feature Aaron Redfern and The Long Way.

Aaron Redfern

Aaron Redfern has been reading and writing fantasy since a time when he could count his age on his fingers. He went to Williams College and studied English, a language in which he was already proficient, and although he learned almost nothing from the English professors, dead poets and novelists taught him a great deal. While at college, he fell thoroughly in love with New England. He has decided never to leave and currently resides near Northampton, Massachusetts.

Aaron has written three novels, including The Long Way and its sequel, The Forgotten Way. His short-fiction titles include Stories About the Rain and Crawl.

LINK TO BUY

Buy this eBook on BookRix  

Amazon http://www.amazon.com/The-Long-Way-ebook/dp/B00866HDP0/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1366381230&sr=1-1&keywords=9783864796821

Kobo http://www.kobobooks.com/ebook/The-Long-Way/book-h0HkYZEnX0SC4GnSypJY8Q/page1.html

Barnes and Noble http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-long-way-aaron-redfern/1111277834?ean=9783864796821&isbn=9783864796821  

iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/the-long-way/id530386834?mt=11

Young Adult

Fantasy/Adventure

Published by BookRix: 5/19/2012

In a move that defies all logic and likelihood, a young boy named Spiff is called upon to carry out the most important quest that has ever been undertaken. His mission drags him headlong across the face of the world, through a veritable pantheon of hardships and threats that are at once chilling and baffling. Along the way he meets dragons and madmen, and learns that the lovable and the monstrous are two sides of the same coin.

Conceived as a darkly whimsical loose retelling of the Tolkien saga, The Long Way poses the question that high fantasy rarely cares to ask:   Why?

Short Excerpt:

 The city was suddenly there, a huge half-circle sprawled out before them.  It was ringed by high walls of gray stone, broken here and there by towers.  Blue and white banners stood atop the ramparts, tossing gently in the morning breeze.  And sure enough, behind it rose the great stony peaks of the Pummeling Razor of God, forming an impenetrable wall against the sky.  They completely dominated the view of anyone looking west.  Where had they been all this time?

Three gates punctuated the walls.  A wide cobbled road led to each.  Spiff’s eye followed one of these roads out from the city, and saw it branch into a few smaller roads, each of which spiderwebbed out into tinier paths.  The dirt road they were on led to one of these.

They came to the intersection, and Spiff saw that there was a signpost driven into the ground.  Two sharpened slats of wood were nailed to it, one pointing down each of the paths away from the city.  Nothing was written on either of them.

He asked Euclid what it meant.  The mouse shrugged, a barely perceptible gesture when made by a creature his size.  “We were nowhere.  Now we are Somewhere.”

My thoughts:

Wow!  I wasn't sure what to expect from this little book, but I was pleasantly surprised by such a big adventure.  Well written and filled with a host of unforgettable, widely varied characters.  I love fantasy adventure and was thrilled with this story.  

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