I need a book reviewer for Rise of the Wanderers.
Budget: $10 – $30 CAD
The Wanderlands Chronicles universe is a frozen wasteland, taking place after climate change froze over Earth and the citizens cowered into the tallest volcano known as the Pyre for warmth. Slowly they would rediscover technology and attempt to conquer the frozen world with the invention of the trackless train.
Rise of the Wanderers is a speculative fiction that follows Ruby ‘the Ruthless’ who has been forced by the Authority Government to kill the last Wanderer, John Bergensen, in return for her children’s freedom.
The only problem? John is her ex-husband and the last representation of the only thing that matters to the citizens of the Wanderlands: hope, survival, and freedom in the otherwise tyrannically controlled world of the Authority. Torn between saving her children and freeing herself and the Wanderlands from the Authority’s control, Ruby leans on her current lover, as well as the crew on her trackless train, The Old Betty. And together, full steam ahead, she decides to launch an assault on John Bergensen and his crew.
What follows is a classic tale of love and betrayal, spine-tingling action, and eventual gut-wrenching defeat. In the end, Ruby will make the ultimate sacrifice by losing her lover, her crew, and even her children, to free the citizens of the Wanderlands once and for all.
The story begins with the childhood of Ruby ‘the Ruthless’ and her brother, who was taken away by the Authority government to fight Charles Davidson, King of the Wanderers.
Flashing forward in time, Ruby is an Authority Captain of the trackless train The Old Betty, traveling with her crew from Port City, the capital of the Wanderlands, to Coalsprings. Things go awry when they discover the wreckage of another trackless train, The Bombardier, with one survivor.
The survivor brings a message. John Bergensen, Ruby’s ex-husband, and the last Wanderer has returned with a single purpose: to cut out the beating heart of the Authority government and restore the Wanderers’ reign. She must join the Wanderers or die.
Ruby is torn. She is a Wanderer in spirit, and yet the Authority has her four children imprisoned, and will only release them on the condition she brings the Authority John Bergensen’s head.
Ruby decides to meet John in battle. During the battle, The Old Betty takes significant damage and Ruby is injured, losing her leg and lapses into a coma. The Old Betty limps towards the protection of Coalsprings.
In Coalsprings, Clay Davidson, bastard son of Charles Davidson, knows that a revolution is coming and makes plans to escape before it happens.
As The Old Betty approaches Coalsprings, the revolution breaks, and brings her under attack. A messenger is quickly dispatched back to the Authority, telling the rise of the Wanderers and the collapse of Coalsprings. Unable to turn around in time The Old Betty holds up with a single aim, to buy enough time for The Authority government to save them. When Ruby awakes, she orders her crew to surrender with hopes to negotiate with John for their survival.
John arrives and negotiations quickly break down. He wants Ruby’s head. Unable to have that, he kills her lover. Her crew, in a last-ditch effort to delay their executions, pulls a mutiny and imprisons Ruby, praying that the Authority will arrive to save them.
That night, Ruby’s brother, Admiral Whittle of the Authority, arrives with three hundred trackless trains at his back to save them.
Ruby realizes that her brother is in league with John Bergensen. The next morning the Authority launches their assault to retake Coalsprings. High above Coalsprings, John Bergensen raises the Wanderers Banner signaling the turncoats inside the Authority army to strike.
Under the guise of chaotic battle, Ruby escapes, gathers her loyal crew, and commandeers John Bergensen’s trackless train. A bittersweet victory for John. He claims Coalsprings and becomes King of the Wanderers but loses his soul—his trackless train. And Ruby keeps her head.
Rise of the Wanderers is a speculative fiction that follows Ruby ‘the Ruthless’ who has been forced by the Authority Government to kill the last Wanderer, John Bergensen, in return for her children’s freedom.
The only problem? John is her ex-husband and the last representation of the only thing that matters to the citizens of the Wanderlands: hope, survival, and freedom in the otherwise tyrannically controlled world of the Authority. Torn between saving her children and freeing herself and the Wanderlands from the Authority’s control, Ruby leans on her current lover, as well as the crew on her trackless train, The Old Betty. And together, full steam ahead, she decides to launch an assault on John Bergensen and his crew.
What follows is a classic tale of love and betrayal, spine-tingling action, and eventual gut-wrenching defeat. In the end, Ruby will make the ultimate sacrifice by losing her lover, her crew, and even her children, to free the citizens of the Wanderlands once and for all.
The story begins with the childhood of Ruby ‘the Ruthless’ and her brother, who was taken away by the Authority government to fight Charles Davidson, King of the Wanderers.
Flashing forward in time, Ruby is an Authority Captain of the trackless train The Old Betty, traveling with her crew from Port City, the capital of the Wanderlands, to Coalsprings. Things go awry when they discover the wreckage of another trackless train, The Bombardier, with one survivor.
The survivor brings a message. John Bergensen, Ruby’s ex-husband, and the last Wanderer has returned with a single purpose: to cut out the beating heart of the Authority government and restore the Wanderers’ reign. She must join the Wanderers or die.
Ruby is torn. She is a Wanderer in spirit, and yet the Authority has her four children imprisoned, and will only release them on the condition she brings the Authority John Bergensen’s head.
Ruby decides to meet John in battle. During the battle, The Old Betty takes significant damage and Ruby is injured, losing her leg and lapses into a coma. The Old Betty limps towards the protection of Coalsprings.
In Coalsprings, Clay Davidson, bastard son of Charles Davidson, knows that a revolution is coming and makes plans to escape before it happens.
As The Old Betty approaches Coalsprings, the revolution breaks, and brings her under attack. A messenger is quickly dispatched back to the Authority, telling the rise of the Wanderers and the collapse of Coalsprings. Unable to turn around in time The Old Betty holds up with a single aim, to buy enough time for The Authority government to save them. When Ruby awakes, she orders her crew to surrender with hopes to negotiate with John for their survival.
John arrives and negotiations quickly break down. He wants Ruby’s head. Unable to have that, he kills her lover. Her crew, in a last-ditch effort to delay their executions, pulls a mutiny and imprisons Ruby, praying that the Authority will arrive to save them.
That night, Ruby’s brother, Admiral Whittle of the Authority, arrives with three hundred trackless trains at his back to save them.
Ruby realizes that her brother is in league with John Bergensen. The next morning the Authority launches their assault to retake Coalsprings. High above Coalsprings, John Bergensen raises the Wanderers Banner signaling the turncoats inside the Authority army to strike.
Under the guise of chaotic battle, Ruby escapes, gathers her loyal crew, and commandeers John Bergensen’s trackless train. A bittersweet victory for John. He claims Coalsprings and becomes King of the Wanderers but loses his soul—his trackless train. And Ruby keeps her head.