Title: Atlas
Author: Becca C Smith
Series: The Atlas Series Book #1
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Publisher: Red Frog Publishing
Release Date: Nov 2013
Edition/Formats Available In: eBook &
Print
Blurb/Synopsis:
Kala Hicks never imagined she’d be fighting
demons, angels and gods when she joined the Navy. But when her elite covert
military team is on a mission aboard Air Force One and Kala is forced to shoot
the President her life changes forever.
The moment the President is killed the
Titan god, Atlas, speaks to Kala, telling her that she has to do his job by
committing one act of atrocity every four days… or the world will end. Kala
faces off against creatures of legend; from demons determined to make her fail
and plunge the Earth into chaos, to angels who don’t trust her to do the job
and are willing to kill her to claim it for themselves.
Pitted against the forces of good and evil,
Kala must choose whether to save the world by doing the unthinkable, or sit
back and let it burn.
Four days later, she’ll have to do it
again.
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Author Information
Becca C. Smith received her Film degree
from Full Sail University and has worked in the Film and Television industry
for most of her adult life. In 2010 Becca published her first novel, Riser
followed by the sequel, Reaper, in 2011, and the finale, Ripper in 2013. In
2012 Becca wrote the children’s novel Alexis Tappendorf and the Search for
Beale’s Treasure. She is also the co-author of the teen graphic novel Ghost
Whisperer: The Haunted. Becca currently lives in Los Angeles, CA with her
husband, Stephan and their two cats Jack and Duke.
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Excerpt
End of Chapter 3:
Very carefully, Jack opened the door that
led to the President’s office.
What awaited them was terrifying.
President Jareth Wilton stood behind his
desk. He was wearing a vest that held five grey bars of C-4 wired into a bomb. Wilton
was a tall man, well over six feet with stark black hair and a long face. He
was a young President, only fifty years old, but he looked like he’d aged
twenty years since the last time Kala had seen him at a press conference, with
dark rings under his eyes and worry lines on his forehead.
But his smile was what made the scene
surreal and horrific. His thin lips were grinning as if he’d just climbed Mt.
Everest.
President Wilton stared directly at Jack as
the door swung open the rest of the way. “I figured it out! I figured out how
to break it! No one will ever have to do what I’ve had to do again! Do you
realize what this means?”
Kala knew then and there that the man was
cracked. Figured what out? Break what? He was rambling like a mad man.
But the more frightening moment came when
Jack responded back to Wilton. “Killing yourself is impossible. People have
tried that in the past.”
Not only was President Wilton talking
crazy, but apparently Jack knew his language and was responding accordingly.
Kala noticed that Wilton’s eyes lit up when
Jack spoke. “You’re the one they sent to replace me.”
Jack nodded.
What? Kala was seriously confused.
Kala spoke up, “What’s going on Jack?”
Replace him for what?
Jack didn’t acknowledge Kala or the rest of
the team, which was shifting uncomfortably behind him.
Wilton shook his head, serious. “You can’t
do it. You have to let me detonate this bomb. We have to crash the plane! It’s
the only way to stop it!”
“You can’t stop it!” Jack yelled back.
“I can and I will!” Wilton talked into an
earpiece. “NOW!”
The plane nose-dived.
Everyone jolted forward and stumbled from
the force of it.
Jack barked orders, “Lali get up to the
Flight Deck and by any means necessary take over this plane!”
Lali paused for a second, she looked more
confused than Kala felt, but after a moment to gain her bearings as the plane
was falling fast, she managed to high-tail it out of the room and up to the
Flight Deck.
Kala was sure they’d hit ground at any
moment.
Jack aimed his gun at the President’s head.
Wilton was frantic. He ducked behind his
large oak desk that was bolted to the ground.
“You can’t kill me! You’ll ruin
everything!” Wilton yelled.
Jack turned to Kala and Derek. “No one
shoots him but me!”
Kala kind of nodded, but she was in shock
at the fact that they were about to flatten a part of the capital with Air
Force One. She really didn’t care what Jack was saying. She couldn’t let
President Wilton set off that bomb and kill thousands.
Jack shot at the desk, trying to hit the
president, but he didn’t come close.
Only Kala could make a shot like that and
not get them all killed from shooting a hole through the plane.
Kala and Derek made eye contact. Kala could
tell Derek was thinking the same thing. He whispered so only Kala could hear,
“Do it.”
Kala’s nod was barely perceptible.
Jack saw her and his eyes went wide. “Kala
STOP!”
Kala shrugged. “I can’t let him do this,
Jack. I’m sorry.”
Only the top of Wilton’s head was showing.
It was enough.
Kala took her shot.
I've done a spotlight for Becca with Atlas on one of my other blogs so when I got the chance to do a review I really wanted to know what this story was about. I love Greek mythology and I absolutely loved the feeling of Atlas.
Everyone knows who the god Atlas is. He's the dude carrying the world on his shoulders. Now what Becca C. Smith did was something super amazing. She made the god Atlas tricked a human in carrying the world's burdens. And it's not as easy as everyone thinks. The world is literally coming to an end every four days and the Atlas has to prevent it from happening. If not, we all live in hell.
I'm opening with that as it's the main theme of this novel but it's so much more.
It follows Kala Hicks. An orphan girl who got adopted and her family loved her very much, but still....she didn't feel as if she belonged. Then she became really good with guns, and become part of a special unit ops. How special, well that part Kala didn't know or maybe she wasn't present when they told her.
She took a shot, one that she wasn't supose to and killed the current Atlas. Now Kala has to take his place as Atlas. Everything gets turned upside down cause if she can't stop the end of the world all humans will pay the price and it's not easy as Angels try to help her but with a secret agenda and sexy ass demons are trying to stop her with succeeding with her mission.
It's a refreshing plot with twists and turns you didn't foresee. Loved it! Loved it! Loved it!
Can I relate to Kala, yes, she is human with human feelings and situations I would probably act the same way in if it was me that has to carry the world on my shoulders or save the world.
Am I good with guns.
Heck no! But I would give anything for some of the gadgets inside this novel.
Well done Becca C. Smith for this wonderful story. I really enjoyed it. It was fast pace and really hard to put down.
I advice that all of you go and get Atlas right now!!!!
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