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 I am so excited to share my review of Waking Up Lost – A Mystical Fantasy Adventure (The Adirondack Spirit Series) by David Fitz-Gerald. Thank you to The Coffee Pot Book Club for your invite to take part in this tour.

 

Waking Up Lost – A Mystical Fantasy Adventure

(The Adirondack Spirit Series)

By David Fitz-Gerald

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?

David Fitz-Gerald is the kind of author that you have to read everything that they have written, for his books are entrancing, and almost spellbinding. You might only start with one, but some supernatural element will secretly entrap you and you will be forced to read his other books, for you absolutely cannot not read them. I have now read three books by this author, and I think this one is my absolute favourite, although I have a couple left to obtain and read, so we will see which holds the top spot when I have read them all!

In this book, we return to Mehitable’s family, with her youngest son, Noah, in the spotlight. Unlike Mehitable, Noah can’t see ghosts, and he doesn’t have his brother’s ability to appear and disappear at will, although he would find it incredibly helpful with his tendency to find himself in tricky situations. Instead, Noah has grown up without a gift, the odd one out in his family, but all of that changes when he wakes up at his father’s old house in the woods, despite having gone to bed like normal. But, how is waking up lost a gift? (Notice how I worked the title in there? This review is like a James Bond movie.)

I loved She Sees Ghosts, and moving on to this book was incredibly welcomed. Do you ever read a book and think “I could live like that. Put me in that time, in those circumstances, and I could survive. In fact, I’d thrive.” At one point in this book, Noah goes to live by himself at his father’s old house, and I managed to convince myself that I would absolutely be able to live by myself, in the woods, and live off the land, hunting for food, and gathering enough supplies to last all winter. Unfortunately, my husband does not agree with me, his argument being that I drink far too much tea to be able to live without it, and as he pointed out, I was caught eating biscuits while I read, which also, apparently, do not grow in the woods. Who knew?

It is not all tea and biscuits, though, for Noah does not live happily ever after in the house in the woods. Instead, he finds himself learning to live in increasingly difficult situations. His wonderfully inconvenient ability to go to sleep and wake up somewhere totally different provides him with a long list of problems, especially so when he wakes up in the company of a boat captain, who takes him on as a hoggee to lead the mules along Champlain Canal. But his position is less than secure, and his life seems to be in near-constant danger since he opened his eyes and realised he was on a boat. 

Noah certainly has his fair share of plight in this novel, although he also has the prospect of love. The issue is, the girl he is in love with, Arminda, only looks down her nose at him, and Dorcas, who is overly friendly towards Noah, has Erastus for a brother. And Erastus will do anything to keep Noah away from both Arminda, whom he considers his girl, and his sister. So, on top of trying to figure out who he is, what his gift means for his life, and how to stay safe, Noah also has girl troubles. Does it never end!

There was something that made me clap with joy, when I found out about this book – there is a trailer! Unfortunately, there is no singing like there was in the She Sees Ghosts one (which I still find myself singing around the house sometimes. My husband doesn’t like it, because it gets stuck in his head and stays there for days upon end.) but it is still great, and you should watch both trailers, and buy both books. If there is any series of books that you buy this year, start off with this one, because there are so many different characters to fall in love with, and there is certainly plenty to keep you hooked as you read.

 I received my copy from The Coffee Pot Book Club but you can grab your from Amazon. And check this out, if you subscripts to #KindleUnlimited you can grab your copy for free.

David Fitz-Gerald 

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.

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