The Sound of Seas

July 25, 2016
The third and final volume of Anderson and Rovin’s Earthend Saga is sure to please readers of the previous two books, A Vision of Fire and A Dream of Ice, though newcomers would have benefited from a summary of what came before. Manhattan psychiatrist Caitlin O’Hara has teamed with U.N. translator Ben Moss to solve the mysteries of the long-dead world of Galderkhaan, an advanced ancient civilization that once ruled Antarctica. Caitlin’s soul has wound up in Galderkhaan in another’s body, while her own body remains, unconscious, in a New York City hospital. Caitlin’s efforts to deal with experiencing another time and place, as well as finding her way back home, are complicated when she learns that her preteen son, Jacob, is also present in Galderkhaan in spirit. The plot features further bizarre occurrences that will appeal to X-Files fans, including a spontaneous human combustion, en route to a resolution that leaves the door open to a possible return to the authors’ well-constructed imaginary realm. Agent: Doug Grad, Doug Grad Literary.

July 1, 2016
Final part of the X-Files-ish trilogy (A Dream of Ice, 2015, etc.) about contact with an ancient civilization now buried under the Antarctic ice.The civilization of Galderkhaan destroyed itself in a power struggle between Priests and Technologists. But some of them survived by becoming spirits, sort of; still others fled and persisted into the present, of which a group, known as the Group, plan to do--well, something--by means of the stone tiles which are both computers and power sources. Previously, child psychologist Caitlin O'Hara discovered supernatural links between seemingly unrelated global weird events and, somehow, acquired strange new abilities. Meanwhile, archaeologist Mikel Jasso, a field agent for the Group, found an entire city buried beneath the Antarctic ice and collected some of the mysterious tiles. In the past, meanwhile, where Caitlin finds herself in another body, the Priests and Technologists are battling over a power source known as, you guessed it, the Source. Mikel, still in Antarctica, learns that the Group has been taken over by Casey Skett, who's not averse to burning a few people to death in order to learn how to control the tiles. Plenty of classic X-Files plot ingredients, then, but nobody to stand in for Mulder the believer and Scully the skeptic and do some real investigating. Despite the hardworking narrative, even dedicated trilogy fans might not be happy with the obvious padding and tepid plot. And the resolution neither satisfies nor adds up. Ideas that looked thin for a single book stretched beyond all reasonable elasticity.

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April 1, 2016
Having proven herself as a writer with her well-received "EarthEnd Saga" series, written with "New York Times" best-selling author Rovin, award-winning actress Anderson wraps up the series with some time travel. Caitlin O'Hara's son has cracked the secrets of the Gaalderkhani tiles, which store not just memories but deeply destructive forces, and gets thrown back in time for his troubles. To save him, Caitlin must figure out how the tiles work.

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