The Forever Gate Series: Books 1-5

✍ Scribed by Hooke, Isaac

• Book ID: 100594876
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 280 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

The Forever Gate is not Picasso-esque. More Boschian, if we’re doing fine-art comparisons. But it is very definitely the work of a man with full-color sleeves. (Ed.: see author photo)

I can’t say the tiniest thing about the plot without giving away the surprises, and the fun of this book rests largely on those surprises. I can vouch that I was taken off guard over and over again. The big reveal involving Hoodwink? Hats off to any reader who saw that coming. Hooke doesn’t cheat on his withholds, though. He cunningly switches points of view so that we’re usually in the head of the one character who has the least idea what’s really going on.

And what exactly is going on in this book? Let’s see, what I can tell you without giving it all away? The central character is Hoodwink, a regular guy whom we meet on the eve of his execution by guillotine. Hoodwink has a daughter, Ari, and an ex-wife, Cora. His commitment to protecting Ari will take on Shakespearean proportions during the drama that follows. Little is what it seems in this world, even this central father-daughter relationship–but the good guys stay true to one another, and the bad guys are satisfyingly fiendish. 600 pages later, everything is wrapped up neatly, and if you’ve hung on for the ride, you too will feel like you’ve got a knowing smirk, a tribal necklace, and full-color sleeves.

- Felicity Savage, Amazing Stories Magazine

Book Description

The world as we know it is about to end.

Hoodwink Cooper has been sentenced to death. His crime? Attempting to blast a hole in the Forever Gate, the colossal wall that surrounds the city and protects the denizens from the uninhabitable Outside. There's only one problem - he isn't the one who planted the bomb.

His daughter did, at the behest of a secretive society known as the Users.

As the gols, the humanlike automata who have enslaved the humans, prepare to carry out Hoodwink's sentence, the Users plot even greater turmoil. If Hoodwink gives up the ghost without first extricating his daughter from their clutches, she will most likely join him in the afterlife.

What Hoodwink and the Users don't realize is that they are all pawns in a greater game whose stakes are the very survival of humanity itself.

Will Hoodwink escape in time to save his daughter? More importantly, will he break free of the invisible forces that guide him?

Or will he succumb to the domination of his unseen masters and cause the breaking of the world, losing not just his daughter, but everything?

THE FOREVER GATE combines elements of science fiction & fantasy to evoke a unique setting entirely unlike anything you've ever read before.

This compendium edition contains THE FOREVER GATE volumes one through five. 160,000 words. 600 pages. Strap yourself in, because the mind-bending thrill ride that explores what it means to be human has only just begun.

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Review

★★★★★ "I've never read an indie author. Until now. So imagine my surprise when I found Isaac's The Forever Gate was not only not sludge, it was pretty darn good." - ScienceFiction-Lit.com

★★★★★ "I normally go for established authors.. this time, however, I got my hands on a short novel by indie author Isaac Hooke, called The Forever Gate, and I am very glad I did. I found myself immediately sucked in to the narrative. I actually enjoyed the story so much that I felt like giving it a bit of publicity." - BookReviewsGuru.com

★★★★★ "The Forever Gate is a fast-paced, thoughtful, and extremely well-written foray into the F/SF genre. I highly recommend this book." - WJ Davies, author of Binary Cycle

★★★★★ "Every chapter has something suspenseful happening, making the book very hard to put down, and Isaac's writing style flows like few others. To top it all off, the editing was superb. I was never bored or disappointed." - Jasper Scott, author of Dark Space

*★*★★★★ "I like my fiction the way I like my single-malt scotch--complex, unpredictable, with a long, lingering hint of things to come on the palate. With this in mind, the Forever Gate is easily comparable to an Aberlour 12 Year Old, Double Cask. In other words, one of the finest drams of fiction you'll ever stick your nose in." - *Tammy Salyer, author of Spectras Arise Trilogy

★★★★ "The author does a good job of quickly getting you into the heads of the characters and feeling like you are right in the middle of it." - Michael Gallagher (AMAZON TOP 10 REVIEWER, HALL OF FAME REVIEWER)*

About the Author

Isaac Hooke s experimental novel, The Forever Gate, achieved Kindle #1 bestseller status in both the science fiction and fantasy categories when it was released in 2013, and was recognized as Indie Book of the Day. He holds a degree in engineering physics, though his more unusual inventions remain fictive at this time. He is an avid blogger, cyclist, and photographer who resides in Edmonton, Alberta.

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