Vlogentia: A Tale of Second World - Softcover

Somers, Wm W

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1735787906 ISBN 13: 9781735787909

Publisher: Wm W Somers, 2020

Synopsis

Fans of Terry Brooks' Shannara series may find this book entertaining!
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Over four hundred year ago a Mayan village in the Yucatan was fleeing from the Inquisition and found the portal, a way to transfer to a world similar to ours in a parallel universe. They called this new home Second World. They settled there and founded a peaceful realm named Vlogentia, named after their founder. But now a new king has been crowned.Bianca was looking forward to the New Year’s Day festival. She’d play her favorite Mesoamerican ball game with her team in the capital city’s Grand Ballcourt in front of the city’s religious and cultural elite. The game and the day went well until she became unwillingly entangled in the new king’s plot to militarize the realm so he could set out on his plan to conquer all of Second World. Together with Jason and Margaret, two equally unwilling captives kidnapped from our universe and who the king meant to assist in his plot, she would have to find a way past the threat to her life and discover a way to return to the capital and foil the king’s plan. She and Jason and Margaret would have to face annoying fairies, malevolent merpeople, pirates, mountain trolls, forest trolls and dragons.Then after all this the three friends would discover an even greater threat to the portal between our universes and possibly the very existence of Second World. It would take all their ingenuity and courage to counter this threat and reestablish the peaceful coexistence of the two universes.In this fantasy novel, a king in an alternate universe plans to conquer an entire realm, and he kidnaps people from ourEarth to do it.An entertaining, if occasionally uneven, fantasy tale about a parallel Earth and the strange creatures therein. -“Kirkus Reviews”Vlogentia is a exciting fantasy novel in which people from parallel worlds face each other down. -“Forward Clarion Reviews” Clarion Rating: 4 out of 5

About this title

About the Author

Wm Somers is retired and quietly living in central Florida with his wife and two dogs. Although he's never had to transit between parallel universes he has traveled extensively, having visited six of the seven continents of our world, save only Antarctica. He is a dedicated fan of "hard" science fiction, some fantasy and the works of Clive Cussler. He has visited Egypt and spent a week on the Nile and crawled into a pyramid (they weren't meant for someone six foot two). He spent time living in Tokyo. He drove a car up the coastal road in Australia and to Katherine in the outback. He's been to Hong Kong prior to the mainland takeover, to Seoul, Brussels, London, Managua, Cairo, Cartagena de Indies and Fiji. He's visited the Panama Canal and Stonehenge and the old forts in St Augustine, Nassau and San Juan in Puerto Rico. His most interesting trip was his visit to Central America and the Mayan ruins, which inspired this book. The ruins at Xunantunich in Belize

Edition details

• Publisher: Wm W Somers
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1735787906
• ISBN 13: 9781735787909
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328