Infinity + Giveaway

Infinity
Written by: Tabitha Lord
Publisher: Wise Ink Creative Publishing
Month, Year: June, 2017
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A brief summary from Tabitha Lord:

In the second installment of the award-winning Horizon series, Dr. Caeli Crys returns to her war-torn world to fight for those she left behind.

Almagest, Caeli’s home, stands on the brink of revolution. Long hidden from the rest of the galaxy, the once-peaceful planet suffers under a regime that grows more violent and oppressive by the day. Marcus, Almagest’s dictator, is building an arsenal of alien weaponry by selling empathic children into slavery. A resistance has risen, but they are outmanned, outgunned, and in hiding.

Joined by Commander Derek Markham and his elite squadron of operatives, Caeli embarks on a dangerous mission to find the Resistance, rescue her captive people, and save her civilization from destruction.

My Thoughts:

Building on the tension in Horizon, Tabitha Lord’s second novel, Infinity, brings a whirlwind of action, political unrest, and romance.

Accepting a mission that isn’t quite approved by the Allegiance due to regulations, Commander Derek Markham makes good on his promise to bring Dr. Caeli Crys home to her planet, Almagest. But this secret mission to aid the resistance isn’t going to be easy. Upon arriving on Almagest, Derek and Caeli find things more worse than they thought – the resistance is scattered, starving, and broken; the will to fight almost gone. It’s up to Derek, Caeli, and their elite team of operatives to ignite the spark of resistance again and defeat Marcus, the ruling dictator, once and for all. But as their people get picked off one by one, will the resistance be the ones to lose the battle after all?

Infinity is packed with so much action that it was hard to put this book down. In fact, I breezed through this novel in two sittings – it was so good! I may actually like it better than Horizon! I loved the fact that Caeli got a bit of rest for her soul while staying with Derek’s family before having to go back into battle on her home planet. And their relationship was so sweet, how they both cared for one another through all the struggle, even enough to let each other go at times. Infinity ends with quite the set-up for a third installment of this series, and I’m excited to see where this story goes next.

I would like to make a point to say this book might not be suited for children due to multiple sexual encounters in this novel, including an act of rape.

About the Author:

Tabitha currently lives in Rhode Island. She is married, has four great kids, two spoiled cats, and lovable lab mix. Her degree is in Classics from College of the Holy Cross and she taught Latin for years at an independent Waldorf school, where she now serves on the Board of Trustees.
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Tabitha’s debut novel, Horizon, won the Writer’s Digest Grand Prize for Self-Published Fiction in 2016, and was named finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards and National Indie Excellence Awards. Infinity, the second book in the Horizon series, will be released in June 2017. Her short story “Homecoming” appears in the anthology Sirens, edited by Rhonda Parrish and published by World Weaver Press, and was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is also a senior editor for http://www.BookClubBabble.com.

Visit her blog at http://www.tabithalordauthor.com where she discusses favorite topics including parenting, teaching, and her writing journey.

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Giveaway:

Tabitha is giving 5 lucky readers a chance to win a copy of both books, Horizon & Infinity, in this series!! Plus a $10 Amazon gift card! Click on the cover below to enter the giveaway.

I was graciously provided a free copy of this novel from iRead Book Tours in exchange for an honest review.  I was not required to write a positive review and the opinions I have expressed are my own.