A Dream Within A Dream: America Blog Tour: Review + Giveaway

America

Author: Mike Bond

Release Date: May 4, 2021
Publisher: Mike Bond Books
Language: English

Description:

A decade that transformed America

The Sixties shook America to its foundation – the assassination of an idealistic young president, a tragic and unpopular war, a battle for civil rights, a cosmic clash of riots and burning cities, and an explosion of sex, drugs and rock’n roll.

For four young people, the Sixties is a decade of promise and freedom. For orphaned Troy, it’s the joy of living with his new family and exploring the world of flight and outer space. For Tara, the girl he loves, the power of song as she evolves into a rock’n roll star. For his new brother, Mick, a football hero and rebel, a time to question everything, including the fast-growing war in Vietnam. And for Daisy, the girl Mick loves, a chance to fight for equality, join the Peace Corps, and expand her study of the human mind.

America is the first of Mike Bond’s seven-volume historical novel series, capturing the victories and heartbreaks of the last 70 years and of our nation’s most profound upheavals since the Civil War – a time that defined the end of the 20th Century and where we are today.

Through the wild, joyous, heartbroken and visionary lives of four young people and many others, the Sixties come alive again, as do its questions: what is life? What is freedom? What was lost, what was won?

Praise for MIKE BOND:

"Master of the existential thriller" —BBC

“One of the 21st Century’s most exciting authors … spellbinding readers with a writing style that pits hard-boiled, force of nature-like characters against politically adept, staccato-paced plots.” —Washington Times

“One of America’s best thriller writers.” —Culture Buzz

“A master of the storytelling craft.” —Midwest Book Review

“Bond never loses the reader’s attention … working that fatalistic margin where life and death are one and the existential reality leaves one caring only to survive.” —Sunday Oregonian

“One of the best thriller writers, in the same league as Gerald Seymour and Frederick Forsyth.” —NetGalley

“Mike Bond is not only an acclaimed novelist… His intellect and creativity dance together on the pages, braiding fiction into deeper truths about ourselves, our nature, our government, our history and our future.” —Where Truth Meets Fiction

“Bond touches on the vast and eerie depths that lie under the thin crust of civilization and the base instinct within man to survive.” —Nottingham Observer (UK)

“Mike Bond’s books are a national treasure.” —Art Zuckerman, WVOX

“Bond uses his gift for fiction to teach us hard truths about religion, human nature, and warfare.” —Masterful Book Reviews

“A highly distinctive writer.” —Liverpool Daily Post (UK)

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America is the first book in a new historical fiction series that aims to capture the "victories and heartbreaks of the last 70 years and of our nation's most profound upheavals since the Civil War." The author starts the series off with a coming of age novel set in the 1960s. The main characters - Troy, Tara, Mick, and Daisy - are dealing with all of the obstacles, dreams, and possibilities that are happening around them. We see them each grow, mature, and change as their horizons are expanded to the larger world around them. Each of the four main characters were complex and realistic and it was easy to slip inside their lives and experience things alongside them. The author wrote the novel in the third person point of view, which is personally my least favorite writing style. I always prefer the first person because I feel it allows the reader to connect on a deeper level with the narrators and this immersion into their worlds can't be achieved by any other writing style. I obviously wish the book had been written in the first person, but that a personal preference and one that other readers won't have. The author did a great job bringing the 1960s to life throughout the story with lots of vivid imagery and detailed descriptions. I recommend this book to fans of historical fiction, coming of age stories, and readers who enjoy reading about the 1960s in America.

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Bestselling novelist MIKE BOND has worked in many dangerous and war-torn regions of the world. His critically acclaimed novels portray the innate hunger of the human heart for good, the intense joys of love, the terror and fury of battle, the sinister conspiracies of dictators, corporations and politicians, and the beauty of the vanishing natural world.

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