Faith Awakened | Grace Bridges | A Fascinating Premise

Faith Awakened | Grace Bridges | Talk about being Awakened!

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Faith Awakened

	Faith Awakened Grace Bridges Lulu.com, 2007 - 180 pages average customer review:based on 19 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Have you ever wondered... if your life is designed? Coincidences, déjà vu, fate, God... what does it all mean? Have you ever wished you could go back and do things differently? Maybe you can. Maybe you did already. If you could design your own virtual world to live in, what would it look like? Is God a computer programmer? And can he take you to heaven... before you die?

A Fascinating Premise

Mariah lives in a dystopic world where a few overseers
run the planet and supply food, shelter, and weekends
off to the populace. Mariah longs for more, and finds
it when she is invited to a mysterious meeting to
worship the Awakener -- God.

A genetically engineered virus wipes out almost
everyone in her city -- her country -- her world. With
her friend Peter, also a follower of the Awakener, she
finds a few survivors. They eke out a simple yet not
unpleasant existence.

But then the virus reappears, and the survivors are no
longer immune. Mariah comes up with a desperate plan
to put all of them in suspended animation, dreaming in
a simulated world, where they might meet and live a
different life, again ...

Especially Mariah, now Faith, with her love Peter.

Grace Bridges' style is lyrical and graceful, and she
describes disturbing images intermingled with beauty.
Almost a fable, this story will remain with you long
after you read it.

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Talk about being Awakened!

If you had the chance to start over, would you take it? If you could program your entire life in a better world, would you do it? These questions are asked (and answered) in Faith Awakened, the new novel by Grace Bridges.

Enter Mariah, trapped in a life--and a world--filled with trouble. And not just any "trouble," but the Trouble, a series of events that has left the world near void of human life save for a small band of survivors. Struggling to put the pieces of a broken life back together is no easy challenge, but thanks to the company of a few close friends and the guidance of an ever-present Awakener, Mariah seems to pull through. That is, until, something even worse happens and she is left with no choice but retreat into a virtual reality program for several decades until it passes. Once inside, and without memory of her previous life, Mariah must discover what it truly means to live, to find purpose in life, and how to truly be awakened.

It's hard to imagine this is Bridge's first book. The way Faith Awakened is written makes you think she's been at this for a long time. The prose is detailed yet smooth, firm in approach yet comforting, well-articulated yet easy to read.

I've always been a fan of end-of-the-world type of stories and while reading this book I was often reminded of Stephen King's The Stand, where a super virus has taken out most of mankind. Bridges captures the loneliness of an empty world, one filled with dead streets and empty houses, with only pockets of life (human or otherwise) scattered here or there. She truly makes you feel for these characters and care about their every move.

Told as a dual narrative (one following Mariah and the other a girl named Faith), Bridges seamlessly blends two storylines with ease, ones where I wish they had gone on once each were finished. There are rumors she might start up a sequel.

This reviewer is hoping for it.

Recommended.

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Faith Awakened

A great read! I couldn't put it down. I was drawn into the lives of the characters. A great "What If" story.

Imagine that everyone around you is dying of a virulent strain of Ebola. Imagine that the new world government is responsible for loosing the virus on the population. How would you survive? Why would you want to go on living? How would your faith be examined? Would it fail you or would your faith grow?

Follow the lives of Faith and Mariah as they move through very different times and circumstances to ultimately share their story.

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Faith Amist Trouble

Faith Awakened, the debut self-published novella by Grace Bridges, is the story of a woman named Mariah and a child named Faith told in alternating chapters.

The first chapter accomplishes exactly what a good story should, it hooks the reader as several characters enter into a cryogenic state to escape a virus that has run amok in the world. At this point I was captivated.

Then I turned to chapter two and it was about a girl named Faith who was somewhere other than Mariah and her friends. In a world untouched by the virus.

What?

I found myself fully engaged in the Mariah chapters and loving every minute of it, while the Faith chapters just seemed to get in the way and were completely unconnected to the Mariah. It wasn't until well into the book that any connection was made and by that time it was really obvious.

Stories like this are hard to pull off even for a skilled best-selling novelist. Nearly impossible for a first timer. I sure wouldn't have tried it. Still, you've got to give Grace props for her imagination and courage to present this work. The two separate storylines are well written and Grace has a definite talent that I look forward to seeing develop as she publishes more of her work.

Fans of fantasy and sci-fi will find this an interesting tale based on a premise that has been done before, but with interesting twists this time around.

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