The Forever Gate: Books 1-5

The Forever Gate: Books 1-5

The Forever Gate is not Picasso-esque. More Boschian, if weâ€™re doing fine-art comparisons. But it is very definitely the work of a man with full-color sleeves. (Ed.: see author photo)

I canâ€™t say the tiniest thing about the plot without giving away the surprises, and the fun of this book rests largely on those surprises. I can vouch that I was taken off guard over and over again. The big reveal involving Hoodwink? Hats off to any reader who saw that coming. Hooke doesnâ€™t cheat on his withholds, though. He cunningly switches points of view so that weâ€™re usually in the head of the one character who has the least idea whatâ€™s really going on.

And what exactly is going on in this book? Letâ€™s see, what I can tell you without giving it all away? The central character is Hoodwink, a regular guy whom we meet on the eve of his execution by guillotine. Hoodwink has a daughter, Ari, and an ex-wife, Cora. His commitment to protecting Ari will take on Shakespearean proportions during the drama that follows. Little is what it seems in this world, even this central father-daughter relationshipâ€“but the good guys stay true to one another, and the bad guys are satisfyingly fiendish. 600 pages later, everything is wrapped up neatly, and if youâ€™ve hung on for the ride, you too will feel like youâ€™ve got a knowing smirk, a tribal necklace, and full-color sleeves.

- Felicity Savage, Amazing Stories Magazine

Book Description

The world as we know it is about to end.

Hoodwink Cooper has been sentenced to death. His crime? Attempting to blast a hole in the Forever Gate, the colossal wall that surrounds the city and protects the denizens from the uninhabitable Outside. There's only one problem - he isn't the one who planted the bomb.

His daughter did, at the behest of a secretive society known as the Users.

As the gols, the humanlike automata who have enslaved the humans, prepare to carry out Hoodwink's sentence, the Users plot even greater turmoil. If Hoodwink gives up the ghost without first extricating his daughter from their clutches, she will most likely join him in the afterlife.

What Hoodwink and the Users don't realize is that they are all pawns in a greater game whose stakes are the very survival of humanity itself.

Will Hoodwink escape in time to save his daughter? More importantly, will he break free of the invisible forces that guide him?

Or will he succumb to the domination of his unseen masters and cause the breaking of the world, losing not just his daughter, but everything?

THE FOREVER GATE combines elements of science fiction & fantasy to evoke a unique setting entirely unlike anything you've ever read before.

This compendium edition contains THE FOREVER GATE volumes one through five. 160,000 words. 600 pages. Strap yourself in, because the mind-bending thrill ride that explores what it means to be human has only just begun.
Country USA
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2013-12-31
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2013-12-31
Format	Kindle eBook

The Forever Gate: Books 1-5

Book Description

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