I did something a little different for AwesomeTalk this week – book reviewin’. Here’s Amazon’s synopsis of The Wild’s Call:
It is seven years after the collapse of modern civilization, and the world is entering a new Dark Age. Can best friends Elysia and Darien trust the animal spirits that are beckoning them to escape into the wilderness and create a new way of life? And will they give in to the mutual passion they’ve always denied?
So many questions. This mutual passion, is this between best friends Elysia and Darien, or Elysia and the wolf on the cover, or Darien and the forest full of untrustworthy spirit animals? Now, I didn’t take the time to actually read The Wild’s Call as part of my book review, but I decided to write an excerpt myself and base my review on that.
Notebooks are spiral bound on all four sides in this dystopian nightmare world.
Chapter 4: Deadly Beginnings
Elysia stood at the edge of town and holstered her sword or gun or whatever and said, “Looks like the world is ending. Damn.” She lit a cigarette and thought, the ash on this cigarette is a metaphor for earth. Soon the ash will be not on the cigarette anymore, just like the people. OK wait, maybe the ash is more like-
But before she could finish her thought, she was interrupted by her best friend Darien who was riding his hover bike or horse or hover horse or whatever. “We should get out of here Elysia. It’s not safe. The world – it’s entering a new dark age.” She knew he was right. It all started 7 years ago when an evil corporation was elected president. The rest is history.
“You’re right,” said Elysia. She took a bite of a nourishment cube and consulted her holo-map. “But where should we go?” Darien smiled like a dumb fucking stupid idiot and said, “Remember the spirit animals? The ones in the wilderness? We should go to them for reasons that are too complicated for anyone to understand.”
Elysia had a look on her face that said but I don’t understand Darien and said, “But I don’t understand, Darien. I thought the spirit animals were outlawed by the president. You know, the president that’s an evil corporation?” Seven years, she thought to herself. Seven damn years.
Darien punched the air like an anime character and yelled ‘THEY’RE IN A SECRET PLACE NOW YEAH!!” Suddenly a spirit animal materialized in front of them. It was a stately wolf, sexy, dangerous, and very, very anatomically correct. “Follow me Darien” the wolf whispered in his secret wolf language. It sounded like a garbage disposal full of screaming gravel, but at the same time sexy, dangerous, and very, very anatomically correct.
Elysia looked at her best friend Darien. Poor, foolish, stupid, slovenly, ugly idiot Darien. He’ll never know the truth. He’ll never know that his best friend Elysia was actually an evil corporation, and he was leading her right to the secret place where the spirit animals do whatever it is they do. “Let’s go,” said Elysia. “And plunge the world into a new dark age,” she whispered under her breath. “Forever.” She said at a normal volume. “And ever.” she whispered.
I give The Wild’s Call 5 out of 5 stars. It’s really good. I liked the part with the wolf and the unfinished cigarette metaphor.