What do you think?
Rate this book
Marah Chase #2
Marah Chase and The Fountain Of Youth: A Novel
Marah Chase has everything she wants. Her academic career is back on track, she’s moved into a Manhattan apartment, and a dream job is waiting at the American Museum of Natural History. So why can’t she seem to stop slipping into her old ways, traveling the world in search of lost relics and buried treasure?Back out in the field, Chase finds the lost Ark of the Covenant, a discovery that could trigger a holy war, as religions and nations argue over ownership of the sacred item. The Ark also brings Chase into conflict with another legendary relic runner, August Nash, and the clash between them is one the entire underground smuggling community has been waiting for―and it’s not one that will end anytime soon.Upon returning home, Chase is hired by US soda billionaire Lauren Stanford to find the Fountain of Youth. At first, Chase dismisses this idea. But then Stanford tells her that an old friend found some information on the Fountain’s location and is now missing. Chase agrees to take the job―but only to find her friend―and enlists allies along the way on a trail from New York to London and then on to Glasgow. Behind the myth, they find, lies a much older secret, and now they’re in a race to find the Fountain ahead of Nash and his nefarious cohorts. Whoever gets there first will have control over the future of humanity.Marah Chase and the Fountain of Youth is a tense, exciting, and epic adventure novel, spanning three continents and broadening the world of the Marah Chase series, placing Chase in a unique position to confront questions of identity, faith, imperialism, and appropriation.
Audio CD
Published July 7, 2020
8 people are currently reading
28 people want to read
About the author
Jay Stringer
39 books118 followersJay Stringer was born in 1980, and he’s not dead yet.
He’s English by birth and Scottish by rumour; born in the Black Country, and claiming Glasgow as his hometown.
Jay is dyslexic, and came to the written word as a second language, via comic books, music, and comedy. He writes hard boiled crime stories, dark comedies, and social fiction.
His first three books, the Eoin Miller Trilogy explored the political and criminal landscape of the West Midlands.
He now writes books set in Glasgow and New York.
Jay won a gold medal in the Antwerp Olympics of 1920. He did not compete in the Helsinki Olympics of 1952, that was some other guy.
Jay is represented by Stacia Decker at Dunow, Carlson & Lerner.
He’s English by birth and Scottish by rumour; born in the Black Country, and claiming Glasgow as his hometown.
Jay is dyslexic, and came to the written word as a second language, via comic books, music, and comedy. He writes hard boiled crime stories, dark comedies, and social fiction.
His first three books, the Eoin Miller Trilogy explored the political and criminal landscape of the West Midlands.
He now writes books set in Glasgow and New York.
Jay won a gold medal in the Antwerp Olympics of 1920. He did not compete in the Helsinki Olympics of 1952, that was some other guy.
Jay is represented by Stacia Decker at Dunow, Carlson & Lerner.
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 reviews
March 23, 2021
Hugely over the top action, Chase(!) scenes in Glasgow, unambiguous religious/supernatural happenings, volcanos, huge owls... Loved it :)
May 7, 2021
Lesbian Indiana Jones (or Tomb Raider?) strikes again. Just like the first one, this was a lot of fun! Rather than the espionage spin, this one involves corrupt corporations and heavier emphasis on the new wave of Nazis.
After being double-crossed while finding the Ark of the Convenant, Marah Chase is enlisted by Lauren Stanford, the orphaned owner of Dosa Cola corporation, to find the Fountain of Youth. Although Chase believes the Fountain truly is a myth, she agrees in the interest of finding Ashley Eades, a reporter she knows, who Lauren tells her has had to go into hiding after interviewing a man thought to have been to the Fountain. Meanwhile, August Nash, a competitor and Chase's former mentor, is on the case as well as he attempts to find the infamous Caliburn, who he was supposed to have killed ten years prior.
Wild and filled with action, this really is a good time and has a lot of good representation as well. Marah Chase is a lesbian, Hass is explicitly stated to be a transgender man, and he's also a person of color. Honestly, this checks all of my boxes for when I'm looking for something I don't have to take seriously and will keep me entertained. The only reason it doesn't get five stars is because the writing can be a little heavy-handed at times.
After being double-crossed while finding the Ark of the Convenant, Marah Chase is enlisted by Lauren Stanford, the orphaned owner of Dosa Cola corporation, to find the Fountain of Youth. Although Chase believes the Fountain truly is a myth, she agrees in the interest of finding Ashley Eades, a reporter she knows, who Lauren tells her has had to go into hiding after interviewing a man thought to have been to the Fountain. Meanwhile, August Nash, a competitor and Chase's former mentor, is on the case as well as he attempts to find the infamous Caliburn, who he was supposed to have killed ten years prior.
Wild and filled with action, this really is a good time and has a lot of good representation as well. Marah Chase is a lesbian, Hass is explicitly stated to be a transgender man, and he's also a person of color. Honestly, this checks all of my boxes for when I'm looking for something I don't have to take seriously and will keep me entertained. The only reason it doesn't get five stars is because the writing can be a little heavy-handed at times.
October 21, 2020
4.5 Stars
I really liked this as a continuation to Conqueror's Tomb. Not only did it pick up on lose thread from the last book and deliver an adventure just as exciting, Stringer kept with the real life facts sprinkled throughout the book that made it feel so much more real and dropped a lot of the small prose quirk that irritated me in the last book.
This book was great. I'm hesitant to give it 5 stars just because there were parts where it didn't quite grip me like the last one did but honestly? My biggest fault with it is that Chuy Guerrero should have been in it more.
I really liked this as a continuation to Conqueror's Tomb. Not only did it pick up on lose thread from the last book and deliver an adventure just as exciting, Stringer kept with the real life facts sprinkled throughout the book that made it feel so much more real and dropped a lot of the small prose quirk that irritated me in the last book.
This book was great. I'm hesitant to give it 5 stars just because there were parts where it didn't quite grip me like the last one did but honestly? My biggest fault with it is that Chuy Guerrero should have been in it more.
August 17, 2020
Over the top escapism, but fast paced and fun, like an Indiana Jones movie. This is the second book, and I look forward to more Marah Chase adventures.
November 27, 2021
DNF to much toxic political hatemongering, I turned off social media and the news because of it, I am not going to spend my free time reading about it.
Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 reviews