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Foreverland Boxed: A Science Fiction Thriller Kindle Edition

by Tony Bertauski (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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A place where dreams are a nightmare to escape…

The boys woke on a tropical island. The girls in the wilderness. Remembering who they are is only the beginning.

It wasn’t exactly a hospital, where they woke up. More like a resort. They were there to heal, they were told. Their bodies were young and able. It was their minds that were broken. They wouldn’t want to know their past, they were told. But, with time, they would remember. All it required was a trip to an alternate reality where anything was possible. It was a dreamland where they could do anything they imagined.

They called it Foreverland.

One boy, however, will refuse to go. He seems, to the others, quite mad to resist. But his determination will expose the truth. He will remember who he was and how he got there. And, more importantly, why they are there.

It’s not the island they need to escape.

Their head-spinning journey takes them through labyrinths of alternate realities, where nothing is what it seems. They will question their senses and the world around them. There’s a price for making dreams come true.

The island was just the beginning.

“Foreverland is a psychic roller coaster.” –Amazon Reviewer

“Soo amazing that I was yelling at everyone to leave me alone to finish.” –Shannon, Amazon Reviewer

“One of the best series I’ve ever read.” –Amazon Reviewer

“What a freaking ride!!” –Dianne, Amazon Reviewer

“Addictive and delicious!” –Amazon 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…” –Amazon Reviewer

“Mindblowing and original… one of the best I’ve ever read.” –Alex Slater, Amazon Reviewer

“Brilliant read… will have you on the edge off [sic] your seat.” –John Jackson, Amazon Reviewer

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March 21, 2015
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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 ‏ : ‎ B00UGTDC8C
Publisher ‏ : ‎ DeadPixel Publications (March 21, 2015)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 21, 2015
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 4149 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
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Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 724 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #764,263 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #353 in Teen & Young Adult Aliens eBooks
- #6,093 in Dystopian Science Fiction (Kindle Store)
- #9,126 in Science Fiction Adventure

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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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A well written 3 book series

Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2017

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This was a wonderful three book series - well written, with intriguing ideas and captivating characters. While the underlying sci-fi concept may initially seem familiar, the series quickly develops its own unique themes, realms and plots. The first book was a very satisfying read and could easily stand alone. The second book takes us into a different, but related, realm with new characters and a lot more mystery. The third book provides a deeper understanding of the stories and characters from the first two books, while merging and advancing those plotlines. Significant new characters, mysteries and plot twists emerge throughout the third book on its way to a successful series ending.

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Amazing author. Entraps reader into new worlds that are all too realistic.

Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2021

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This is third series I have read, starting with the one about a psychic moonshiner who was more real and honest than most could bear that mixed politics, social conflict and justice in an addictive blend, on to the Halfskin set, now this boxed set. Science fiction, fantasy, social commentary? All of the above and more. An exploration of internal worlds, external worlds, and human relationships using an extensive vocabulary and well written (and proofed!) prose makes for a very time consuming, but strangely welcoming, distraction from this pandemic impacted time we are in.

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E. Powell

A satisfying reality-bending trilogy

Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2018

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While this trilogy has its weak spots, it does deliver a satisfying package in the end. Book 1 'The Annihalation of Foreverland', has a fairly straightforward and predictable plot with little in the way of unexpected plot twists, but to be fair, it has the added burden of introducing the overarching premise of the trilogy, which the subsequent books do not. That said, it ably manages to keep the reader on the hook and open to finding out what happens in the next installation. Book 2, 'Foreverland is Dead', is, to me, far more intriguing and the high point of the trilogy. For one thing, one never knows which 'reality' the characters are in. The third book, 'Ashes of Foreverland', bounces from location to location and character to character for the first half, leaving the reader struggling to connect the seemingly disparate plot lines together. Eventually, they do merge into a taut thriller. Tony Bertauski's use of language is engrossing, sometimes almost poetic, and to his credit, he wrote each book with a satisfying conclusion so they can be read as standalone stories but are even better when taken as a whole. The third book wraps things up perhaps a little too neatly and sweetly but it does lay out a path linking it into Bertauski's 'Halfskin' trilogy. If you like reality bending sci fi like the Matrix trilogy and Inception, you'll enjoy the Foreverland trilogy.

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Shannon

Don't think, just buy!

Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2016

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This was soo amazing that I was yelling at everyone to leave me alone to finish. From book one I was hooked!

What I loved was that it was very much like going on a journey with these characters. Each one was fleshed out and three dimensional. Each one will tug at you long after finishing. The plot of all the books grabbed me and refused to let go. I loved that this author didn't talk down to the reader and in fact left a lot of clues to discover what's going on as you're reading. So every revelation, every connection was such a joy!

I had to pause in multiple places in order to think about what I figured out and then quickly read through it to see if I was right. It was a wild and awesome roller coaster that I hate that finished. This is science fiction in its purest form and I will definitely read this over and over and over again.

Don't think, just buy!!!

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Imaginative story line with an incomplete presentation..............

Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2016

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While I give the author numerous stars for his imaginative approach to the scientific fictional story, there are a number of bumpy parts that the reader must get through in order to appreciate his creativeness. Book #1 presents itself fairly well such that by the time it is finished we have deduced why the boys are on the island and what their fate was destined to be. We are left with questions, however, of this vague existence that lies beyond Forever Land and why only a few persons are able to return from it. But we feel confident that this will be dealt with in the remaining volumes. Book #2, however, does not answer this question but, rather, takes us to a completely different digital reality. The population here is filled with girls rather than boys but how they got here is quite different from the boys journey with 'the needle'. And we are never sure the 'how' just the 'why'. This story, like book #1, examines the present reality of a few main characters and their eventual escape. Their leaving of this matrix however smacks more of magic than it does digital technology. Hold onto a barren tree and fall? This does not maintain the flow of the storyline to this point. Book #3 we assume will bring the main characters of both previous books together for a final conclusion to the destruction of Forever Land. This part is true for we end the tale with a Walt Disney 'happily ever after' conclusion but the way we are forced to get there is highly, highly confusing. As Book #3 is perused we are never really sure which, if any, of the digital worlds we are in or if we are actually back on planet Earth. Yes, the bad guys get there comeuppance and the boy meets girl story is completed but we are never really quite sure which road we took to get there.
In conclusion it is my feeling, and my feeling alone, that the author may have written these three books separately and with time gaps in between. There are too many questions that remained to have this be a continuous writing.............

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Jess. (JessReviews)

Great boxset

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 13, 2018

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This boxset is great.
All 3 books are enjoyable and well thought out.
Definitely recommend reading these.
You can find my reviews of all three here:
Jessreviews.co.uk

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Truely Unique

Reviewed in Australia on October 6, 2018

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Brilliant, I loved it! It was fresh and imaginative, I couldn't put it down, I fell asleep reading it each night until I finished the entire set.

D. T.

Foreverland Boxed Set

Reviewed in Canada on August 26, 2015

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As an older female I wasn't quite sure if it was storyline that would keep my interest. It was different than anything I have previously read or ever thought about. As technology progresses there are so many possibilities. Tony Berauski made me think about the good and evil that makes up mankind. What could happen, not just in our nightmares.

With technology advancing as it is there are so many possibilities. This is one that shows the horrors that mankind could and probably are capable of. I

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