The Angel & the Brown-eyed Boy
The Angel & the Brown-eyed Boy is available! What are readers saying?
“The most splendid part of the day just happened… and I am sad and happy… I just finished reading your novel. It was such a wild ride… so clever and perfectly timed. I am astonished by your imagination. It worked so well… and it was so out there!
“When can I get my hands on the sequel?”
A reader from California
Sandy Nathan is a talented writer with a gift for creating multi-layered characters and putting them in do-or-die situations. In The Angel & The Brown-Eyed Boy, Ms. Nathan introduces us to a dark Earth of the future where humans have surrendered all freedoms to total government control in order to live in peace. Now a secret from the past threatens to annihilate all life on the planet. Survival–of a sort–can come only from an extraterrestrial “angel” and the boy she has loves. But only if they can act in time. Captivating from the first page onward, this entertaining tale will draw readers in and keep them riveted. Highly recommended.
L.C. Evans, author of Talented Horsewoman
A good book elicits an emotional response while being read; Nathan’s book haunts the reader long after the final page is turned. In The Angel & The Brown-Eyed Boy, two dying worlds fight for survival, their futures dependent on a revolutionary and an angelic otherworldly dancer. Nathan shows us a future Earth whose indifferent citizens and uneducated politicians have allowed their fears to rule them believing everything they are told even in the face of the reality around them. It is world not that many heartbeats away from our own, making the premise chilling.
Hope lies in the few who stand and fight for their beliefs, but they must do so in secrecy. Clandestine operatives in the government are ever watchful of the citizenry, quashing dissension immediately; people literally disappear in the middle of the night never to be heard from again.
The Angel explores a number of themes crossing political and cultural boundaries. Should one put their faith solely in their leadership? What about following orders—are there lines that should never be crossed even in support of one’s country? When does one stop trying to change the system from within and instead become a revolutionary? And what of family—what does one do when one’s own family members believe in something diametrically opposed to one’s own beliefs? How far does a person go to save themselves, their friends, their family, and their world?
This future world is dark and disturbing a pre apocalyptic malaise covering the Earth similar to the movie Children of Men. Is there hope? Yes, Jeremy and Eliana are the key. But to what end? Future volumes of the tale will tell.
TODD A. FONSECA, award winning author of The Time Cavern
Sandy Nathan is an outstanding story teller! She uses her many loves, such as architecture, horses, magic, and science fiction to enrich a story that is already rich with the conduct of world-wide war, skullduggery, extreme separation of classes, and even human extinction.
Set in an unkind future, The Angel & The Brown-Eyed Boy, is the most engaging story of an intergalactic traveler and an angry young man, both of whom have surprising hidden aspects that are not fully revealed until the very end of this enticing saga. If you like science fiction, you’re going to love The Angel & The Brown-Eyed Boy,!
Ilene Dillon MSW, host Full Power Living
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