About this series
If you liked Inception, The Maze Runner and Ready Player One, you'll love the mind-bending thriller Foreverland!
The boys woke on a tropical island. The girls in the wilderness.
They don't know where they are or how they got there. Or why. Remembering who they are is only the beginning of their escape.
Reed will make great sacrifices to find his lost love and Danny Boy will refuse to let the old men win. Cyn will have to battle through madness. Self-discovery is the only way out, but a journey through dreamlands of alternate reality and the greed that powers them is difficult to escape when you have everything you could ever want. In the end, they will all discover what Foreverland really is and what it wants in return for making dreams come true.
Will they find their way out?
REVIEWER FOR FOREVERLAND
"Foreverland is a psychic roller coaster." – Reviewer
"Soo amazing that I was yelling at everyone to leave me alone to finish." –, Reviewer
"One of the best series I've ever read." – Reviewer
"What a freaking ride!!" –Dianne, Reviewer
"Addictive and delicious!" – Reviewer
"Potent page-turner… Foreverland will grasp you from the very first page." –Mallory a. Haws, The Haunted Reading Room Reviews
"It doesn't get better than this…" – Reviewer
"Mindblowing and original… one of the best I've ever read." –Alex Slater, Reviewer
"Brilliant read… will have you on the edge off [sic] your seat." –John Jackson, Reviewer
Titles in the series (2)
- Foreverland is Dead: Foreverland, #2
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Six teenage girls wake with no memories. One of them is in a brick mansion, her blonde hair as shiny as her shoes. The others are in a cabin, their names tagged to the inside of their pants. Their heads, shaved. Slashes mark the cabin wall like someone has been counting. Hundreds of them. There's wilderness all around and one dead adult. The girls discover her body rotting somewhere in the trees. As the weeks pass, they band together to survive the cold, wondering where they are and how they got there. And why. When an old man arrives with a teenage boy, the girls learn of a faraway island called Foreverland where dreams come true and anything is possible. But Foreverland is dead. In order to escape the wilderness, they'll have to understand where they are. More importantly, who they are. INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHOR HOW IMPORTANT ARE NAMES TO YOU IN THIS BOOK. DID YOU CHOOSE THEM BASED ON SOUND OR MEANING? Almost all of my books have names with special meaning, some foreshadowing a big twist. In The Annihilation of Foreverland, Reed's name was symbolic of his ability to tolerate suffering, bending in the face of gale forces but never breaking. WHERE DOES YOUR TOMORROW SPRING FROM? IN OTHER WORDS, HOW DID YOU COME UP WITH THE CRAZY WORLD? Sometimes, I can't remember how the story started by the time I get to the end. The Annihilation of Foreverland started with the premise of identity. I wanted to write it as a YA book in the science fiction dystopia genre in a way that slowly unfolded as well as questioned who we are and explore our fear of death, and what we're willing to do to avoid it. Like all of my stories, it does have a romantic angle mixed into the action. Because it should. GIVE YOUR BOOK THE BECHDEL TEST. IT HAS TO HAVE AT LEAST TWO (NAMED) WOMEN IN IT WHO TALK TO EACH OTHER ABOUT SOMETHING BESIDES A MAN. I failed because there's only one female in The Annihilation of Foreverland. However, the young adult sequel (Foreverland is Dead) passes with flying colors since its mostly female characters that rarely talk about men. WHAT SORT OF BODY COUNT ARE WE TALKING HERE? The bodies die, but not necessarily the characters. Chew on that a second. YOU CAST YOUR CHARACTERS FOR A MOVIE. WHO MAKES IT? In The Annihilation of Foreverland, I only casted two characters in my head while I was writing it. The Director is Jeff Bridges and Mr. Jones is Anthony Hopkins. It was like watching a movie as I wrote. HAVE YOU WRITTEN IN ANY OTHER GENRES BESIDES YA DYSTOPIAN? WHAT DREW YOU TO YOU THIS GENRE? I've been fascinated by consciousness, identity and what this all means since I was young. I would read my grandfather's science fiction books with elements of artificial intelligence and alternate realities and wonder what happened when they died? I suppose that's why all of my writing deals with the big mysteries of life in one way or another. In a way, I write for my own exploration, in a sort of thought experiment approach, pulling apart our identities, exploring what makes us who we are. If I lost my memories, would I still be me? If I had my body parts replaced with synthetic replications, at what point would I not be me? Do I even need a body? What am I? A few years ago, I figured I'd write a romance novel. Since all of my books have a romantic element, I thought it would be fun. Halfway through the novel, I found myself thinking more and more about the next project—a dystopian idea. So 40,000 words in, I scrapped the romance novel and got back to what I love. Science fiction.
- Old Bastards (A Foreverland Short Story): Foreverland, #4
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Thomas woke on an island. His arms and chest bleeding, legs exhausted, he hears his name called from the tropical jungle. They sound friendly. But a voice tells him to run. A voice inside his head. The old bastards were coming. The voice leads him to a hideout. In the days that follow, it shows him the dead body and the cells where they were keeping him. There are others like him. It's not till the voice leads him to save one of the boys that the old bastards capture Thomas. That's when he discovers what they're really doing on the island and why he's hearing a voice. And why he can't remember anything before waking up. This is an introduction to the Foreverland trilogy, a mind-bending journey into the cyberspace of identity and greed.
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