ASTRID FALLS
Andrew Cownden
GENRE: Fantasy
BLURB:
Vancouver is falling down—crumbling into sand. To save it, Astrid O'Brien boards a bus to a parallel dimension, there to confront the demons of the city, and to answer the question: Are we who we're told we are, or who we decide to be?
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Excerpt:
Space: Vancouver, Canada
Time: The September of 2009
In a city built between the mountains and the sea, Astrid O’Brien worked in a shop. It was a cute little out-of-the-way bijou boutique that sold umbrellas, and umbrellas exclusively.
For some, this would seem to be a poor business model. Why not diversify? Why not sell raincoats or rubber boots? Or gum? Why not put some gum by the register for the impulse buyers—those godsent, reckless morons who keep the wheels of the economy greased with cash? Surely some gum would’ve helped to keep the lights on. Surely there was gum.
No. Just umbrellas.
Dense clusters of umbrellas lined the racks and hung from carousels crowding the floor. Some clung to the walls. An ambitious few managed to occupy segments of ceiling. Umbrellas were everywhere, and umbrellas were all there were. Champions of small-business-ownership looked upon the little shop with pity. How could it possibly hope to survive without gum?
But the founders of The Pennies from Heaven Umbrella Company ©* knew their business. They knew the one thing essential to their financial solvency, and they had acquired it long ago: a location on a street with high foot-traffic and absolutely no shelter from the elements whatsoever.
Unhappy pedestrians would wince up at darkening clouds, flip up their collars, scrunch up their shoulders. They would glance about anxiously, pining for a bit of eave or awning, for any form of preserving architecture jutting out over the street. Finding no such comfort, they would resign themselves to a fate of squelchy shoes and soggy underwear … And then, like a lighthouse at sea, they would spy the flashing neon sign of The Pennies from Heaven Umbrella Co. © and leap gaily over puddles to their salvation.
Needless to say, in Vancouver—in Rain City—the humble little umbrella shop did swift business.
My Review:
Vancouver where Astrid O'Brien lives is falling down. Astrid sets out to find a way to fix it. She takes a bus to another dimension. Astrid meets a lot of different people on her journey through the other dimension.
Astrid Falls is unlike anything I have read before. It reminded me of other books or movies that I have read or seen but I can’t quite put my finger on which one.
I liked Astrid as she seemed to be a very honest person. She didn’t want to do anything that may hurt someone else or put them in danger. The search for a way to fix her crumbling world led her down different paths as she tried to figure out who she was.
Astrid Falls is the kind of book that will stay with you long after you have read the last page. It will keep you hanging on wanting to know what is happening until the very end. It will keep you on your toes as it pulls you deep into its world trying to figure out what is going on.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Andrew Cownden is an actor and writer living in Vancouver, Canada. ASTRID FALLS is his first novel.
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1 comments:
This looks like a fantastic read. Thanks for sharing and hosting this tour.
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