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Welcome to The Wormhole and my stop on the tour.
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 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
Barnes and Noble http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-long-way-aaron-redfern/1111277834?ean=9783864796821&isbn=9783864796821
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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