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Foreverland is Dead: A Science Fiction Thriller (Unreality Book 2) Kindle Edition

by Tony Bertauski (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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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.
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"This is one of the best reads for me this year."

"This story will suck you in."

"Fantastic, highly recommended series."

"Great read for young and adult readers alike!"

"FOREVERLAND will grasp you from the very first page..."

"LOVED. LOVED. LOVED it."

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00D4GFD8G
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ DeadPixel Publications (January 9, 2014)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 9, 2014
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1295 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 322 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1484024397
  • Customer Reviews:
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Tony Bertauski

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My writing career began with magazine columns, landscape design textbooks, and a gardening column at the Post and Courier (Charleston, SC). However, I've always fancied fiction.

My grandpa never graduated high school. He retired from a steel mill in the mid-70s. He was uneducated, but he was a voracious reader. I remember going through his bookshelves of paperback sci-fi novels, smelling musty old paper, pulling Piers Anthony and Isaac Asimov off shelf and promising to bring them back. I was fascinated by robots that could think and act like people. What happened when they died?

I'm a cynical reader. I demand the writer sweep me into his/her story and carry me to the end. I'd rather sail a boat than climb a mountain. That's the sort of stuff I want to write, not the assigned reading we got in school. I want to create stories that kept you up late.

Having a story unfold inside your head is an experience different than reading. You connect with characters in a deeper, more meaningful way. You feel them, empathize with them, cheer for them and even mourn. The challenge is to get the reader to experience the same thing, even if it's only a fraction of what the writer feels. Not so easy.

In 2008, I won the South Carolina Fiction Open with Four Letter Words, a short story inspired by my grandfather and Alzheimer's Disease. My first step as a novelist began when I developed a story to encourage my young son to read. This story became The Socket Greeny Saga. Socket tapped into my lifetime fascination with consciousness and identity, but this character does it from a young adult's struggle with his place in the world.

After Socket, I thought I was done with fiction. But then the ideas kept coming, and I kept writing. Most of my work investigates the human condition and the meaning of life, but not in ordinary fashion. About half of my work is Young Adult (Socket Greeny, Claus, Foreverland) because it speaks to that age of indecision and the struggle with identity. But I like to venture into adult fiction (Halfskin, Drayton) so I can cuss. Either way, I like to be entertaining.

And I'm a big fan of plot twists.

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Terry Licia
5.0 out of 5 stars WHAT a find!
Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2014
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I loved this novel! I found it intriguing from the very beginning and by Chapter Three, knew I was not going to put it down until I got to the very end! I won't spill the beans and spoil it for other readers, but if you like psychological thrillers, science-fiction and have even a modest understanding of quantum physics and philosophy, you will truly enjoy this novel. If you've ever had thoughts about alternate realities, you will want this book - yesterday! I have to admit, there were a couple of times that I shouted out loud at the girls, urging them to action about one of the more violent characters! I've never done that before either. This book really "got" me!

I gave it a full five stars for being such an entertaining read. It was very easy to understand even though it definitely goes into areas not often visited by other writers - probably because the ideas presented are usually so difficult to write about well, but Tony does it! It certainly does have quite the unique story concept, too. New, refreshing, fun and a little bit scary, too - all great qualities to find in any modern novel. I'm glad the author has a lot more for me to read! If his other works are anything like this book, I'm his biggest new fan.

But remember this: this is the middle book of a trilogy. Even though I think this book can and does stand alone, it will be so much fun to re-read it, after getting book one and then finishing up with the final, third book. Looks like an all-night reading jam for me! Yeahhhh!
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Waspish Bookie
4.0 out of 5 stars A unique and lovely change from all of the love story based YA
Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2014
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This is by far one of the most disturbing and creepy YA novels I have ever read (right next to the very first book in Bertauski's Foreverland series) and with in it's disturbing and creepy visage, it contains a huge amount of what I can only call humanity. Bertauski delves down and explores some of the darkest and most vulnerable corners and crevasses of the human experience while simultaneously executing a detailed and vibrant world building. He pokes and prods all of the soft tender spots of the soul, explores what 'reality' actually means and how we see our selves in such a way as to scrape it raw and leave us wondering where it will go next.

Also, it's just a really interesting look at the dynamic of group of people with in a 'reality' they are not fully aware of, yet know that something is not quite right. It explores the relationships between a group of girls who come from different backgrounds, but don't quite know what those backgrounds are, and in a way they get to start from a clean slate; but, are you already predisposed to a particular personality, despite not 'knowing' it? Or is there really a chance you can start over?
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R. West
5.0 out of 5 stars Great follow up, see how the girls fare
Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2014
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Second in the Foreverland series, "Foreverland is Dead" brings back even more twists and turns when none were thought to be possible. The first installment told the story of how our boys fared in Foreverland and now this will be our window to the girls' experiences.

In Short: Waking up in a lone cabin, several girls are not sure who or where they are. They only discover their own names upon finding them marked inside their garments. Exploring they find themselves in a forest, and confined to the area due to an object that seems to have been implanted at the base of their heads. Well, all but one girl. Together they take care of their own needs by farming, tending, cooking and such, but soon find a thief amongst them. Whoever she is, she is stealing out of the rationed pantry. If that isn't bad enough, the weather is getting harsher and colder. Then an old man and quiet boy arrive from nowhere. The girls have a great and bizarre tale of their time in Foreverland.

Loved both of these books. They kept me completely entranced and engrossed. "Foreverland is Dead" is wonderfully strange and unlike anything else I've read.
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Donna S
4.0 out of 5 stars Read in two days!
Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2014
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I enjoyed how the plot unfolded and was surprised by the direction the story took. It's not what I expected after reading the synopsis, but I wasn' t disappointed.

From the sample I downloaded, I could tell the novel would be easy to read, perhaps less challenging than I was looking for, but the plot offered plenty to chew on.

The tension kept me reading to find out what would happen next. There were just so many questions!

I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys their mystery in a sci fi setting that doesn't seek to overwhelm with technical jargon.

Edit: I neglected to mention that I mistakenly thought this was the first in the series and didn't read the prequel. This didn't detract from my enjoyment at all.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting take on well-trodden ground
Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2015
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So, I stayed up until 2:30 a.m. reading this book. It's a compelling read, but not exactly a good one. I disagree with many of the other reviewers who were surprised by the twists--I thought they were telegraphed well in advance, and while the "how" of what happened was novel, the "what" of what was happening is a sci-fi trope by this point. I can't be more specific without spoilers. All this said, it kept my attention for a few hours and is well worth the price and time.
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anezor24zool
5.0 out of 5 stars WOW, This was an incredible story!
Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2014
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I read the first book of this series, however the second book could be a stand-alone book on it's own. I read the previous book first, and upon ending realized there was a second book and jumped on in. I am glad I got the second book even more than the first! This book was grippingly detailed and I felt like I was there with the girls. You don't realize that they are IN the other world to begin with, unlike the previous book which started with the boys in the real world. I don't really want to write a lot or give away much, all I know is when I got to the ending I exclaimed "WHAT????!!!!" I'm very interested in the fact that there is supposed to be another book coming after this one!

This is one of the best books I have read in a long time. If you are a fan of sci-fi / fantasy books in an easy to read writing style, read this book!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Keeps you guessing until the end, going straight to book 2, a real page turner.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 1, 2013
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Wow this novel has it all, so long as you can leave your brain at home, mystery, suspense, genuine frightening moments, thrilling, weird, wacky and very imaginative. I kept wondering how the author was going to explain the protagonists circumstances. I thought this was going to be like a weird art house film, where you end up wondering what it all means, and there's no real ending, it certainly keeps you guessing, but its not until 2 thirds of the way in, some of the mystery gets revealed. Can't wait to read 2nd book to find out what happens next.
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RichCowell
4.0 out of 5 stars Loved it, had me intrigued from the start... Reason for dropped star in review (no spoilers)
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 4, 2016
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I throughly enjoyed this book, apparently some people say it can be read by itself, but I'd definitely recommend reading the first book first...

Having said that, I was confused for quite a quite when starting this book as I've never read a sequel that seems so different to its prequel...

The reason for the lost star - the author describes clothes quite a few times in this book, but kept specifying which big brand name they were, some I've heard of some I've not, but it seemed so out of place, especially having not gone into so much detail in the first... The cynic in me things he's just after freebies from the companies!

I couldn't put this down in the end, and really looking forward to reading the next in the series!
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Simon Haine
5.0 out of 5 stars Twists and turns aplenty
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 5, 2014
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The Annihilation of Foreverland  is a book everybody should be reading. When I read it, I loved it - a story along similar lines to the amazing  Idlewild (Idlewild Trilogy 1)  by Nick Sagan. I don't recall at the time this being part of a trilogy, so I was pleasantly surprised to find this book whilst hunting through the murky depths of Amazon's Kindle store.

I'll admit that when I started reading this I was right confused as to what was going on - simply because it had been a while since reading the first, and I couldn't remember how that had finished. In my opinion it would have been good to see a brief catchup at the start to cater for memory deficient people such as myself. I picked it up soon enough though, which was nice.

I've seen reviews of this book that suggest it can be read as a standalone, and not just as part of the trilogy. I don't agree with that - there is a lot of stuff in this that would spoil the first book if read out of sequence, and reading one of them would certainly make you want to read more. Also, a lot of what goes on here makes a whole lot more sense if you've read the first (or can remember reading it, see above).

If you've read the first book already, then you should read this - it covers the girls' camp touched upon from the first book really well, with a lot of twists uncovered - right to the very end. If you've not read the first, I would recommend it, right now.

I'll be looking out for the third book now.
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Dale
4.0 out of 5 stars Overall,nearer to 4.5 stars.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 8, 2015
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Overall,very good.After reading and loving the first book in the series,I was hoping for the same in this but it's slightly different.To start with anyway.Not that it's a bad thing,it's just I guess I was still on a high from the first book.
This one is based on 6 girls who wake up in a desolate cabin with a desolate world outside.There is animosity and hate that grows between the 6 of them whilst they are trying their best to survive.They also discover a dead body but nobody dares to go near it again.This is the story for 40% and don't get me wrong,it's well written and enjoyable but I was wondering when it was going to entwine with the first book.It finally does here and boy does it get good!!The discovery for me of how the story pans out from here to the end is amazing,I loved it.
It keeps you gripped till the very end and leaves you wanting more at the very end...which is why I'm going to buy the third book right now!
Overall,the first 40% was a 3 star and the rest was a 5 star so I've had to go in the middle and give it a 4 star,although I would say,because of how good it got,I'm leaning nearer to 4.5 stars.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Trail
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 28, 2015
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Unusual pschologi cal thriller very thought provoking with the characters likable and unlikable at the same time a brain teaser unusual
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