Parallel by L. J. Bacon
Hi, and welcome to my stop on the tour!! Thanks for stopping in today! You will find info on the book and the author, Lee Bacon, and as always, My Thoughts (cause I love to share!!). Oh, and make sure you check out other stops on the tour for author interviews, guest posts, and lots more fun!
Summary:
Have
you ever had an incredibly vivid dream?
A
dream so real that you can feel, taste and smell the world around
you?
Déjà
vu is a feeling which all too clearly tells you that you’re going
somewhere you’ve been before, or experiencing something you know
has happened to you already. Jacob knew that his weird dreams were
much more significant than that.
When
Jacob suddenly realises that the life he’s living isn’t his only
life, he will have to uncover ancient truths and the schism that
changed mankind’s history forever. He must determine the point at
which the parallel world was created; the world the other version of
Jacob inhabits.
He
must discover who is controlling these split universes and why,
before it’s too late.
Information
about the Book
Title:
Parallel
Author:
L
J Bacon
Release
Date:
26th
November
2019
Genre:
Thriller
Page
Count:
334
Publisher:
Clink
Street Publishing
Author
Information
Hi
I’m lee, I was born May 1969 and raised along with my younger
sister Dawn by our young mum in Barrington Road Brixton.
I
went to Loughborough junior school where I didn’t do too well due
to my being Dyslexic, back then Dyslexia wasn’t as recognised as it
is now, and so I was seen as a disinterested or naughty child and so
left to stare out the window with my mind full of magical creatures
and locations. I would sit in my own little world having little
imaginary adventures, but even so I still wished I could read all the
books the other children were reading, but for me at that time it
wasn’t possible, I loved the look of the books and the way they
smelled and felt as I turned the pages but I couldn’t read them,
and when asked to read in class as the other children did I would try
but didn’t have a clue what I was looking at, I didn’t even know
the letter sounds, my dyslexia didn’t allow me to remember them.
And so, the children would laugh as I tried to sound the words out,
and then I would just shut-down with embarrassment and clam up, I
felt so ashamed.
When
I went to secondary school it was much the same, I went to Henry
Thornton boys school Clapham. The system couldn’t seem to help me,
but I was clever with my hands and after school and weekends I would
work in the garages at Loughborough junction railway arches where I
learned a trade, the automotive repair trade, I was 12 years old when
I started. I was striping and rebuilding crashed cars and loving it.
Back
at school bulling was becoming a real problem so bad in-fact that I
reacted when a bully had me cornered in the toilets stamping on my
toes with football boots on, I had plimsolls on so you can imagine
the pain was excruciating, I exploded and battered the bully, big
mistake, the bully was very well connected and knew every other bully
in the school and I was their target now. I was actually warned by a
good friend that the bullies were after me and intended to do me real
damage.
We
were sitting in registration when about ten of the bullies stormed
the class grabbed me and tried to drag me out the class kicking and
punching me, the teacher just screamed for help, next thing I knew I
was surrounded by teachers, in the brake time I was taken to the
teachers tea room for my safety, and yet the bullies would still try
and get me, they would open the door and shout we want Lee Bacon. In
the end I was driven home by a teacher and another school official,
they told my mum it was unsafe for me to return to school, and so at
15 I was taken out of school and left to it.
At
18 I passed my driving test first time and managed to land myself a
job as a mobile windscreen technician which I still do to this day. I
wanted to learn to read, so when I wasn’t working, I enrolled on an
adult education course for English. And a big surprise to me I
passed. Filled with confidence I wanted more than to be a windscreen
tech, and so I started my own windscreen company (1st Choice
Windscreen) which was doing very well until the insurance companies
decided to use the major companies only, which put hundreds of us
smaller companies out of business almost overnight.
It
was when I lost my business that I started to have this story coming
to the fore of my mind, the story was about a parallel existence, it
was like a film in my head, I would try and write what I was seeing
but due to losing my business I had to return to one of the major
companies as a mobile tech, I was working 12 hours or more a day and
sometimes 6 days a week which left me exhausted.
As
for my dyslexia, I can now read any word put in front of me, but my
dyslexia doesn’t allow me to remember them, so I struggle with
spelling, but I find ways around this by using dictionaries and now
thank god spell check, thank God for iPad, it checks my spelling as I
write, and this is how I have managed to get the pictures from my
head to a now published book, oh and this was also helped by an
injury I suffered at work which put me out of work but enabled me to
write PARALLEL, I see this as an act of God, meant to be, I was meant
to wright this story and the next which I am working on now.
I
find it incredible this boy that couldn’t even sound out the
letters of the alphabet whilst at school and many years after, has
suddenly been given the gift to write a book, and this is just the
first.
I
have now recovered from my injury and have now returned to working as
a mobile windscreen technician, but continue to write the second book
of Parallel.
I
hope you enjoy my book.
Tour
Schedule
Monday
25th
November
Tuesday
26th
November
Wednesday
27th
November
Thursday
28th
November
Friday
29th
November
Saturday
30th
November
Monday
2nd
December
Tuesday
3rd
December
Wednesday
4th
December
Thursday
5th
December
Friday
6th
December
Saturday
7th
December
MY THOUGHTS:
The Cover:
This is a really cool cover, almost abstract-ish. I think it is designed to show the Parallel universes, but it is a very distinct cover.
The Plot:
This is a great story filled with fantastic concepts. The author has created an amazing universe, the perfect utopia. I would love to live in Engypt! A beautiful place, with amazing creatures and magic. Then the cataclysmic event that inevitably changes life forever. This book kept me reading late into the night. The dramatic flow of events, the adventure, and the mind-blowing magic and creatures make for an awesome story!
The Characters:
Our characters were very interesting. At first, I didn’t like any of them as I thought no one could be this nice or kind or understanding all the time. Then I thought about the world in which they were living. Maybe in a world untouched by evil and so beautiful, the people would be good to each other and the birds, plants, animals, and aquatic life that inhabit it. Just maybe.
King Stephen and little May were my favourite characters. May was smart and brave and King Stephen (whose name reminded me of Stephen King every time I saw it) was a great king, kind and caring and compassionate for his people. He was very real in that he was unsure of what was happening to and scared for his people.
Was It Worth Reading:
Yes,
it
was a little hard to read at times as there were a lot of spelling
and grammatical errors, but I was quickly too intrigued by the story
to let them get to me. I highly recommend Parallel to readers of
sci-fi and fantasy and give it 4 out of 5 crossbows.
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