The Genes of Isis by Justin Newland Book Tour and Giveaway :)
The Genes of Isis
by
Justin Newland
Genre:
Epic Fantasy
Akasha
is a precocious young girl with dreams of motherhood. She lives in a
fantastical world where most of the oceans circulate in the
aquamarine sky waters.
Before
she was born, the Helios, a tribe of angels from the sun, came to
Earth to deliver the Surge, the next step in the evolution of an
embryonic human race. Instead they spawned a race of hybrids and
infected humanity with a hybrid seed.
Horque
manifests on Earth with another tribe of angels, the Solarii, to
rescue the genetic mix-up and release the Surge.
Akasha
embarks on a journey from maiden to mother and from apprentice to
priestess then has a premonition that a great flood is imminent. All
three races – humans, hybrids and Solarii – face
extinction.
With
their world in crisis, Akasha and Horque meet, and a sublime love
flashes between them. Is this a cause of hope for humanity and the
Solarii? Or will the hybrids destroy them both? Will anyone survive
the killing waters of the coming apocalypse?
The
Hanging Gardens
The
soft rain pattered against her face and sprinkled onto the swollen
river. A dull thud nearby announced something falling out of the sky.
Akasha looked: it was a small bird with brown and white markings. One
wing lay open, the other broken and twisted. The tiny feathers on its
chest were still.
If
only she could pass on the stirrings of this new life in her womb to
the bird and bring it back to life. She felt so helpless. The sheer
bulk of her belly prevented her from even bending over and picking it
up. Instead, she caressed its mangled body with the tip of her staff.
This was all wrong. Birds flew in the air; they weren't disgorged by
it. A hawk? Now that would be ironic. The poor thing had no wounds or
predatory marks, so what had killed it?
A
wave of sadness washed over her. The river had broken its banks and
flooded her herb garden. A bird had plummeted out of the sky. To hide
it and cover her melancholy, she sprinkled garden cuttings over its
lifeless body. Beneath glowering skies, she stood alone in the slow,
persistent rain, feeling vulnerable and sad. Her time in the gardens
had been serene but now her body tensed in preparation for something
worse, much worse.
It
was as if the dead bird had fallen through a tear in the mystical
fabric of the world, a tear through which the furies themselves were
about to burst.
JUSTIN NEWLAND writes historical, fantasy and speculative fiction with a supernatural bent. His first novel, The Genes of Isis (Matador, 2018), is an epic fantasy set under Ancient Egyptian skies. His second novel, The Old Dragon's Head (Matador), is a historical fantasy set in Old China and is due out in November 2018. His work in progress is a historical novel set in Prussia during the Enlightenment in the 1760’s. His stories add a touch of the supernatural to history and deal with the existential themes of war, religion, evolution and the human’s place in the universe. He lives with his partner in plain sight of the Mendip Hills in Somerset, England.
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