Book Review of Atlas
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BLURB:
Kala Hicks never
imagined she’d be fighting demons, angels and gods when she joined the Navy.
But when her elite covert military team is on a mission aboard Air Force
One and Kala is forced to shoot the President her life changes forever.
The moment the
President is killed the Titan god, Atlas, speaks to Kala, telling her that she
has to do his job by committing one act of atrocity every four days… or the
world will end. Kala faces off against creatures of legend; from demons
determined to make her fail and plunge the Earth into chaos, to angels who
don’t trust her to do the job and are willing to kill her to claim it for
themselves.
Pitted against the
forces of good and evil, Kala must choose whether to save the
world by doing the unthinkable, or sit back and let it burn.
Four days later,
she’ll have to do it again.
BIO:
Becca C. Smith received her
Film degree from Full Sail University and has worked in the Film and Television
industry for most of her adult life. In 2010 Becca published her first novel,
Riser followed by the sequel, Reaper, in 2011, and the finale, Ripper in 2013.
In 2012 Becca wrote the children’s novel Alexis Tappendorf and the Search for
Beale’s Treasure. She is also the co-author of the teen graphic novel Ghost
Whisperer: The Haunted. Becca currently lives in Los Angeles, CA with her
husband, Stephan and their two cats Jack and Duke.
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Excerpt
End of Chapter 3:
Very
carefully, Jack opened the door that led to the President’s office.
What
awaited them was terrifying.
President
Jareth Wilton stood behind his desk. He was wearing a vest that held five grey
bars of C-4 wired into a bomb. Wilton was a tall man, well over six feet with
stark black hair and a long face. He was a young President, only fifty years
old, but he looked like he’d aged twenty years since the last time Kala had
seen him at a press conference, with dark rings under his eyes and worry lines
on his forehead.
But
his smile was what made the scene surreal and horrific. His thin lips were
grinning as if he’d just climbed Mt. Everest.
President
Wilton stared directly at Jack as the door swung open the rest of the way. “I
figured it out! I figured out how to break it! No one will ever have to do what
I’ve had to do again! Do you realize what this means?”
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Kala
knew then and there that the man was cracked. Figured what out? Break what? He
was rambling like a mad man.
But
the more frightening moment came when Jack responded back to Wilton. “Killing
yourself is impossible. People have tried that in the past.”
Not
only was President Wilton talking crazy, but apparently Jack knew his language
and was responding accordingly.
Kala
noticed that Wilton’s eyes lit up when Jack spoke. “You’re the one they sent to
replace me.”
Jack
nodded.
What?
Kala was seriously
confused.
Kala
spoke up, “What’s going on Jack?”
Replace
him for what?
Jack
didn’t acknowledge Kala or the rest of the team, which was shifting
uncomfortably behind him.
Wilton
shook his head, serious. “You can’t do it. You have to let me detonate this
bomb. We have to crash the plane! It’s the only way to stop it!”
“You
can’t stop it!” Jack yelled back.
“I can
and I will!” Wilton talked into an earpiece. “NOW!”
The
plane nose-dived.
Everyone
jolted forward and stumbled from the force of it.
Jack
barked orders, “Lali get up to the Flight Deck and by any means necessary take
over this plane!”
Lali
paused for a second, she looked more confused than Kala felt, but after a
moment to gain her bearings as the plane was falling fast, she managed to
high-tail it out of the room and up to the Flight Deck.
Kala
was sure they’d hit ground at any moment.
Jack
aimed his gun at the President’s head.
Wilton
was frantic. He ducked behind his large oak desk that was bolted to the ground.
“You
can’t kill me! You’ll ruin everything!” Wilton yelled.
Jack
turned to Kala and Derek. “No one shoots him but me!”
Kala
kind of nodded, but she was in shock at the fact that they were about to
flatten a part of the capital with Air Force One. She really didn’t care what
Jack was saying. She couldn’t let President Wilton set off that bomb and kill
thousands.
Jack
shot at the desk, trying to hit the president, but he didn’t come close.
Only
Kala could make a shot like that and not get them all killed from shooting a
hole through the plane.
Kala
and Derek made eye contact. Kala could tell Derek was thinking the same thing.
He whispered so only Kala could hear, “Do it.”
Kala’s
nod was barely perceptible.
Jack
saw her and his eyes went wide. “Kala STOP!”
Kala
shrugged. “I can’t let him do this, Jack. I’m sorry.”
Only
the top of Wilton’s head was showing.
It was
enough.
Kala
took her shot.
Review:
Greek
mythology, modern day elite warriors, angels, demons, and arch-angels combine
to create a sweeping story that grips the reader and pulls them along with Kala
through the gut twisting decision of the love of your life or the fate of the
world. That is not a choice I would ever
want to have to make, but it is the one that faces Kala when she gets pulled
into a horrible choice and has to make a decision that no-one ever wants to
make. From there on things just get
weird.
Atlas
is a great read. I give it 5 out of 5
clouds.
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