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    Foreverland is Dead: Foreverland, #2
    Foreverland is Dead: Foreverland, #2
    Foreverland is Dead: Foreverland, #2
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    Foreverland is Dead: Foreverland, #2

    By Tony Bertauski

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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.

    INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHOR

    HOW IMPORTANT ARE NAMES TO YOU IN THIS BOOK. DID YOU CHOOSE THEM BASED ON SOUND OR MEANING?
    Almost all of my books have names with special meaning, some foreshadowing a big twist. In The Annihilation of Foreverland, Reed's name was symbolic of his ability to tolerate suffering, bending in the face of gale forces but never breaking. 

    WHERE DOES YOUR TOMORROW SPRING FROM? IN OTHER WORDS, HOW DID YOU COME UP WITH THE CRAZY WORLD?
    Sometimes, I can't remember how the story started by the time I get to the end. The Annihilation of Foreverland started with the premise of identity. I wanted to write it as a YA book in the science fiction dystopia genre in a way that slowly unfolded as well as questioned who we are and explore our fear of death, and what we're willing to do to avoid it. Like all of my stories, it does have a romantic angle mixed into the action. Because it should.


    GIVE YOUR BOOK THE BECHDEL TEST. IT HAS TO HAVE AT LEAST TWO (NAMED) WOMEN IN IT WHO TALK TO EACH OTHER ABOUT SOMETHING BESIDES A MAN.
    I failed because there's only one female in The Annihilation of Foreverland. However, the young adult sequel (Foreverland is Dead) passes with flying colors since its mostly female characters that rarely talk about men.

    WHAT SORT OF BODY COUNT ARE WE TALKING HERE?
    The bodies die, but not necessarily the characters. Chew on that a second.

    YOU CAST YOUR CHARACTERS FOR A MOVIE. WHO MAKES IT?
    In The Annihilation of Foreverland, I only casted two characters in my head while I was writing it. The Director is Jeff Bridges and Mr. Jones is Anthony Hopkins. It was like watching a movie as I wrote.

    HAVE YOU WRITTEN IN ANY OTHER GENRES BESIDES YA DYSTOPIAN?  WHAT DREW YOU TO YOU THIS GENRE?
    I've been fascinated by consciousness, identity and what this all means since I was young. I would read my grandfather's science fiction books with elements of artificial intelligence and alternate realities and wonder what happened when they died? I suppose that's why all of my writing deals with the big mysteries of life in one way or another. In a way, I write for my own exploration, in a sort of thought experiment approach, pulling apart our identities, exploring what makes us who we are. If I lost my memories, would I still be me? If I had my body parts replaced with synthetic replications, at what point would I not be me? Do I even need a body? 

    What am I?

    A few years ago, I figured I'd write a romance novel. Since all of my books have a romantic element, I thought it would be fun. Halfway through the novel, I found myself thinking more and more about the next project—a dystopian idea. So 40,000 words in, I scrapped the romance novel and got back to what I love. Science fiction.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDeadPixel Publications
    Release dateJun 6, 2013
    ISBN9781498996389
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    • 4/5
      As with The Annihilation of Foreverland, I was very impressed by the character building/development and the skilful showing and not as much telling. I love the clever plot!
    • 4/5
      cool book. glad there was a sequel. now just waiting for the third :)
    • 5/5
      This was absolutely fantastic! At first I wasn't feeling the vibe as much as book 1 in the series, but I was still liking it and then it hit a point of no return for me. And the ending! OMG, the ending! Wonderful dystopia. This book tkes place immediately after book 1 but it switches to the girls' story wich is very different and has completely different characters. So it does take a bit to find the groove but it's set in the same "universe" so there is that familiarity. It is reaally very good. I have bought the final book and can't wait to continue reading!!
    • 5/5
      A girl wakes up, remembering nothing, in a room with slashes on the wall, as if she’s been counting days. She walks toward a brick house and collapses unconscious. Other girls help her, and there’s a Lord of the Flies feel to these castaway lives; no one really sure of who she is, all seeking their own input to who they will turn out to be. Of course, who you are is always a balance between who you were and where you’re going, and this fast-paced novel explores the concept powerfully and mysteriously.Mysteries abound as food disappears from the kitchen, a dead body lies on the path, and one shy little girl seems to have powers beyond everyone else's. Meanwhile danger rears its head in the choice between starvation and escape. And always those hauntingly missing memories threaten from the gray.Foreverland is Dead is a sequel to Tony Bertauski’s the Annihiliation of Foreverland, but it stands alone as a powerfully evocative and disconcerting tale. The teen girl voices are convincing and compelling. And the mystery enthralls. The story draws readers in on its own, with no need for preconceptions, and I truly couldn't stop reading; I wanted to know what would happen here and now; I wanted to know why these girls were trapped (and remembered vaguely, there were boys in Annihilation). And I wanted, like the characters, to know which things were real and which were dream—and who could be trusted.The solution is scary, dark, and pleasingly self-contained by the end of the tale, despite a final line that begs for more. Personally, I hope there will be more—this series has all the classic elements of reality vs imagination, self vs image, the value of life, and fast, intriguing storylines. And these books are really good reads for teens young and old.Disclosure: I was given a free ecopy and I’m offering my honest review. I honestly loved it.

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