Waking Up Lost – A Mystical Fantasy Adventure
(The Adirondack Spirit Series)
By David Fitz-Gerald
Publication Date: December, 2021. Publisher: Outskirts Press. Page Length: 263 Pages. Genre: Historical Fantasy/Historical Fiction
Traveling without warning. Nights lost to supernatural journeys. Is one young man fat-ed to wander far from safety?
New York State, 1833. Noah Munch longs to fit in. Living with a mother who communes with ghosts and a brother with a knack for heroics, the seventeen-year-old wishes he were fearless enough to discover an extraordinary purpose of his own. But when he mysteriously awakens in the bedroom of the two beautiful daughters of the meanest man in town, he realizes his odd sleepwalking ability could potentially be deadly.
Convinced that leaving civilization is the only way to keep himself and others safe, Noah pur-sues his dream of becoming a mountain man and slips away into the primeval woods. But after a strong summer storm devastates his camp, the troubled lad finds his mystical wanderings have only just begun.
Can Noah find his place before he’s destroyed by a ruthless world?
Waking Up Lost is the immersive fourth book in the Adirondack Spirit Series of historical fic-tion. If you like coming-of-age adventures, magical realism, and stories of life on the American frontier, then you’ll love David Fitz-Gerald’s compelling chronicle.
Trigger Warnings:
Rape, torture, cruelty to animals, sex, violence.
Book Rating:
📚📚📚📚📚⭐ = A book in a million
📚📚📚📚📚 = I could not put this book down. I Highly Recommend it.
📚📚📚📚 = A really great read.
📚📚📚 = It was enjoyable.
📚📚 = It was okay.
📚 = Um...! 😕
My Review
Waking Up Lost
📚📚📚📚📚 = I could not put this book down.
I Highly Recommend it.
I always love coming back to a series, as you know what to expect, and you know that you will enjoy it before you even start reading. Out of this series, I have only read the prequel, The Curse of Conchobar, and what I got in this book is not at all what I was expecting! Not only is it an entirely different cast of characters, it is also set much (much) later. Then again, I did assume The Curse of Conchobar was a stand-alone novel, so I shouldn’t have expected this book to be too similar.
Noah Munch has grown up in a family where being normal makes you different. His mother and brother both have ‘gifts’, supernatural abilities. His mother talks to ghosts, and his brother has, annoyingly, an affinity to be a hero. Noah, though, is normal, and that makes him stand out. His brother overshadows him, and Noah doesn’t seem to fit in anywhere.
Although, when Noah starts sleepwalking far away from home, waking up miles away, things start to change. No longer is he the odd one out in his family, but his gift isn’t helpful and gets him into more trouble than he was getting into before. Especially so when he wakes up in the bedroom of the girl he has a crush on, whose father would kill him first, and ask questions later.
Noah gets into plenty of sticky situations in this book, the kind of situations that, when reading, you are certain he will never be able to get himself out of them, and that this is where his life comes to an end. But, his story continues, until the next time you’re on the edge of your seat, waiting to see if he will make it out this time. Noah is a very easy character to like, and he goes through so much, it is impossible not to feel sorry for him. But, there’s always the hope of a happy ending!
I loved how Noah’s gift, as well as his mother’s and brother’s, are portrayed, and how the historical setting mixes with it. This book is completely unputdownable, for you are left wondering what is going to happen next, and you simply have to pick it back up and find out.
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David Fitz-Gerald writes fiction that is grounded in history and soars with the spirits. Dave en-joys getting lost in the settings he imagines and spending time with the characters he creates. Writing historical fiction is like making paintings of the past. He loves to weave fact and fiction together, stirring in action, adventure, romance, and a heavy dose of the supernatural with the hope of transporting the reader to another time and place. He is an Adirondack 46-er, which means he has hiked all of the highest peaks in New York State, so it should not be surprising when Dave attempts to glorify hikers as swashbuckling superheroes in his writing.
I am so glad you enjoyed Waking Up Lost. Thank you so much for hosting today's tour stop.
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Mary Anne
The Coffee Pot Book Club
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to read it.
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