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?
Waking Up Lost is the immersive fourth book in the Adirondack Spirit Series of historical fic-tion. If you like coming-of-age adventures, magical realism, and stories of life on the American frontier, then you’ll love David Fitz-Gerald’s compelling chronicle.
Review
Waking up after a restful night’s sleep, ready to start the day, is a feeling everyone wants to feel. But, for Noah, waking up can be a little bit different. He can go to bed in the evening, and wake up miles away, with no knowledge of how he got there. And, while this new gift of sleepwalking means he isn’t so unlike his family, with a mother who can talk to ghosts, and a brother who has the speed to be a hero, it is inconvenient for him, and it scares him. How can he go to bed peacefully when he doesn’t know if he will wake up in the same place?
Noah is a character who is very likeable, and it is easy to get behind him, and want the best for him. But, in a village where he is an outcast, and living a life he doesn’t particularly enjoy, Noah struggles to figure out who he really is. He is hidden in his older brother’s shadow, and Moses takes the spotlight with joy. But, Noah is not like Moses, and has to figure out what he wants his life to be. Not that his ‘gift’ doesn’t give him the opportunities, taking him far from home to places he would not have otherwise traveled to.
The elements of supernatural are added to this story perfectly. Noah’s family are used to the gifts, as Noah’s mother has always spoken to ghosts, helping them on their way from this world, and into the world of the spirits, but the rest of the village are not, and any suggestion of the existence of the supernatural brings conflict and danger towards those with abilities. This book has a little bit of everything, and certainly captured my attention from beginning to end.
I have just learnt that there is another book by this author, about Noah’s mother, and one about a character mentioned briefly, Wanders Far, so I might just have to grab those two books and read them as well!
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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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