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Two Paths
A Samantha (Sam) Lacroix serialized thriller suspense novel, set mostly in Vermont, of approximately 100,000 words, released in an estimated 37 episodes (books).
Each book includes the previous book's last chapter and one or more short excerpts of the next book. Each entry also includes two new original photos of either Texas or Vermont.
Sam is fresh off a recent crisis in the Texas Hill Country and is hoping for a respite in her home state of Vermont. Stilo, a local Vermont king pin, hopes to find a fresh out-of-state victim, one he can shift the blame to for the area's rising drug crisis.
Each book includes the previous book's last chapter and one or more short excerpts of the next book. Each entry also includes two new original photos of either Texas or Vermont.
Sam is fresh off a recent crisis in the Texas Hill Country and is hoping for a respite in her home state of Vermont. Stilo, a local Vermont king pin, hopes to find a fresh out-of-state victim, one he can shift the blame to for the area's rising drug crisis.
36 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 25, 2015
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About the author
Felipe Adan Lerma
95 books13 followersThrillers featuring Samantha Lacroix (Sam), multigenerational thrillers and family fiction. Photo-memoir non-fiction.
Watch my short YouTube videos for excerpts from my newest thriller: Queen, a Serial Novel.
Amazon Author Page: http://www.amazon.com/Felipe-Adan-Ler...
Grandfather of five, dad of three, oldest of six, and married 30+ years. Plenty of gist for fiction (smiles).
Participates in Kindle Unlimited (KU), Kindle Worlds (KW).
On KU: Dozens of short stories, novellas, and novels. Set in Austin Texas, Paris, and Vermont. Family, mysteries, and (recently) thrillers.
On KW: short in Joe Konrath's Jack Daniels world, and a short in Ann Voss Peterson's Codename: Chandler world.
Watch my short YouTube videos for excerpts from my newest thriller: Queen, a Serial Novel.
Amazon Author Page: http://www.amazon.com/Felipe-Adan-Ler...
Grandfather of five, dad of three, oldest of six, and married 30+ years. Plenty of gist for fiction (smiles).
Participates in Kindle Unlimited (KU), Kindle Worlds (KW).
On KU: Dozens of short stories, novellas, and novels. Set in Austin Texas, Paris, and Vermont. Family, mysteries, and (recently) thrillers.
On KW: short in Joe Konrath's Jack Daniels world, and a short in Ann Voss Peterson's Codename: Chandler world.
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February 19, 2016
I reckon I might retrospectively give this one 5 stars instead of four, but I really would have to read more to find out. I like a hefty read, this short piece clearly stated to be a part of a series is nonetheless quite a read. At heart an excellent pacey piece with a few things that will drive grammar Nazis mad, one word sentences, sentences without subject or object or verbs but hey it works. It is clearly intentioned and not a flaw and my fellow countryman James Joyce ignored many of the rules so what the heck. I genuinely liked this. The story is well told, has a sharp edgy feel and kept me entertained. Every box ticked except for perhaps I would have preferred the series in one volume. I know this is again an intentional tactic of the writer and while others will love the idea, it is the star that dropped for me. No other quibbles, lovely unique style, I would recommend this writer without hesitation, perhaps pick up the whole series and I know when I get around to the rest If it turns out to be as good as I expect, I will happily come back and upgrade the star value. Pick it up.
January 1, 2016
A gripping thriller, or rather beginning of a thriller. Told in alternating chapters we follow criminal Stilo go about his ill-natured plans and Sam, who appears set to become his nemesis for the series.
The first instalment of the series is promising and has all the right ingredients for a compelling thriller. Great writing and an interesting premise.
You may find yourself hooked and in desperate wait for the next episode as the story doesn't come to a natural conclusion, though.
The first instalment of the series is promising and has all the right ingredients for a compelling thriller. Great writing and an interesting premise.
You may find yourself hooked and in desperate wait for the next episode as the story doesn't come to a natural conclusion, though.
January 19, 2016
The thing about KU (as us cool kids call Kindle Unlimited) is it basically says for about ten bucks a month you can read anything you want that has been published as a KU title. There’s been some back and forth on whether this is a good thing or a bad thing for authors, but some of the more adventurous authors out there are starting to change the rules of writing to better fit some of the new technologies out there. One of those authors is Felipe Adan Lerma, a Texas author with no small amount of books already under his name.
Lerma reckoned, probably correctly, that one good use of the Kindle Unlimited platform might be to make use of it to bring back a largely lost art form: the serial. Back in the day you used to be able to listen to the radio and hear parts of a story told every week. Think of it as television without the incessant commercials.
Traditional publishers would never go for such an outrage because it would cost far too much to print a whole mess of parts of a story. Heck, even traditional eBooks would probably not work terribly well because the cost would add up pretty quickly. But KU is a game changer and Lerma is using it to his advantage to release a whole book but in multiple parts spread out over a large block of time.
Queen is Lerma’s first shot at this strategy and I’ve only read the first bit but already I’m getting hooked on the two characters I’ve seen so far. Part I is a slow build to what will likely be a climactic conclusion; a literary smash-up of good and evil.
It’s too early in the cycle to say how the whole story will play out but Lerma’s poetic prose is intoxicating. Already he’s establishing a calm, calculating villain (the scariest kind) and a hero that’s centering herself in the middle of a brewing storm. He’s already building what will likely be a great story and with the advent of KU readers will be able to experience as it happens.
Lerma has also promised to compile the collection into a single compendium when it’s finished so Luddites like myself can experience the majesty of the whole thing. But for that you’ve got to wait.
It’s almost enough to make me sign up for Kindle Unlimited.
Lerma reckoned, probably correctly, that one good use of the Kindle Unlimited platform might be to make use of it to bring back a largely lost art form: the serial. Back in the day you used to be able to listen to the radio and hear parts of a story told every week. Think of it as television without the incessant commercials.
Traditional publishers would never go for such an outrage because it would cost far too much to print a whole mess of parts of a story. Heck, even traditional eBooks would probably not work terribly well because the cost would add up pretty quickly. But KU is a game changer and Lerma is using it to his advantage to release a whole book but in multiple parts spread out over a large block of time.
Queen is Lerma’s first shot at this strategy and I’ve only read the first bit but already I’m getting hooked on the two characters I’ve seen so far. Part I is a slow build to what will likely be a climactic conclusion; a literary smash-up of good and evil.
It’s too early in the cycle to say how the whole story will play out but Lerma’s poetic prose is intoxicating. Already he’s establishing a calm, calculating villain (the scariest kind) and a hero that’s centering herself in the middle of a brewing storm. He’s already building what will likely be a great story and with the advent of KU readers will be able to experience as it happens.
Lerma has also promised to compile the collection into a single compendium when it’s finished so Luddites like myself can experience the majesty of the whole thing. But for that you’ve got to wait.
It’s almost enough to make me sign up for Kindle Unlimited.
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