Through Fire & Sea
Release Date: 05/05/15
Entangled Teen
Summary from Goodreads:
Mirror mirror, hear my call…
In the Fire world, seventeen-year-old Leah is the illegitimate daughter of one of the realm's most powerful lords. She's hot-blooded—able to communicate with the tempestuous volcano gods that either bless a civilization or destroy it. But then Leah discovers she's a Caller, gifted with the unique—and dangerous—ability to “call” her Otherselves in mirror worlds. And her father will do anything to use her powers for his own purposes.
In the Water world, Holly nearly drowns when she sees—and interacts with—Leah, a mirror image of herself. She’s rescued by Ryan, a boy from school with a secret he’d die to protect. Little do they know, his Otherself is the son of a powerful volcano god at war in the Fire world…and he’s about to fall.
As Leah and Holly's lives intersect, the Fire and Water worlds descend into darkness. The only way to protect the mirror worlds is to break every rule they've ever known. If they don’t, the evil seeping through the mirrors will destroy everything—and everyone—they love…
In the Fire world, seventeen-year-old Leah is the illegitimate daughter of one of the realm's most powerful lords. She's hot-blooded—able to communicate with the tempestuous volcano gods that either bless a civilization or destroy it. But then Leah discovers she's a Caller, gifted with the unique—and dangerous—ability to “call” her Otherselves in mirror worlds. And her father will do anything to use her powers for his own purposes.
In the Water world, Holly nearly drowns when she sees—and interacts with—Leah, a mirror image of herself. She’s rescued by Ryan, a boy from school with a secret he’d die to protect. Little do they know, his Otherself is the son of a powerful volcano god at war in the Fire world…and he’s about to fall.
As Leah and Holly's lives intersect, the Fire and Water worlds descend into darkness. The only way to protect the mirror worlds is to break every rule they've ever known. If they don’t, the evil seeping through the mirrors will destroy everything—and everyone—they love…
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Parallel
Worlds
Guest
blog by Nicole Luiken
My fantasy novel
Through Fire & Sea features a number of parallel worlds. There’s the True
World from which the four other worlds were copied and the Mirror Worlds
themselves: Fire, Water, Air and Stone.
Parallel worlds
are a favorite trope of mine. Here are some other fictional parallel worlds
that I really enjoyed:
- Sliders This ‘90s TV show dealt with a
group of students and their prof who ended up "sliding" between
various parallel Earths in an attempt to find their way back to their own
universe. Each universe looked mostly like ours but proved to have a
subtle difference. The physics prof was played by Rhys-Davies, who is
actually rather tall when not shrunk down to dwarf size for his role as
Gimli in LOTR
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer featured a
parallel universe, in which most of the regular cast were either dead or
vampires in the episodes “The Wish” and “Doppelgangland”. My husband and I
are rewatching this series with our fifteen-year-old son.
- Fringe. This popular SF TV show followed FBI agent Olivia Dunn as she
investigated strange paranormal and fringe science phenomena with the help
of Walter Bishop and his son Peter. In later seasons, it featured several
different versions of Earth. In the main Earth Walter Bishop was a crazed
genius, his so-called ‘Walternate’ was the Secretary of Defense. Big
difference.
- Once Upon a Time TV show. The Evil Queen’s curse removed all the fairy tale
characters from their magic lands, gave them amnesia and placed them in an
ordinary American town of Storybrook. I loved how each episode featured a
flashback retold fairytale storyline as well as the main Storybrook plot.
- Awake TV show. This one’s a little more obscure and only lasted a
season, but I really liked it. Jason Isaacs (otherwise known as Lucius
Malfoy) played a cop who’d been in a car accident with his family several
months before. In one world, his son had died, but every time he went to
sleep he would wake in a subtly-gray world in which his son had survived but
his wife had died instead.
What are some parallel
world stories in books, TV or movies that you’ve enjoyed?
About the Author
Nicole Luiken wrote her first book at age 13 and
never stopped.
She is the author of nine published books for
young adults, including Violet Eyes and its sequels Silver Eyes and Angels
Eyes, Frost, Unlocking the Doors, The Catalyst, Escape to the Overworld,
Dreamfire and the sequel Dreamline. She also has an adult thriller, Running on
Instinct, under the name N.M. Luiken and a fantasy romance series, Gate to
Kandrith and Soul of Kandrith.
Nicole lives with her family in Edmonton,
AB. It is physically impossible for her to go more than three days in a
row without writing.
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