{"id":410,"date":"2024-02-08T14:23:33","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T14:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/?p=410"},"modified":"2025-02-04T14:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T14:28:08","slug":"the-unbanished-the-unrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/2024\/02\/08\/the-unbanished-the-unrested\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unbanished\u2014 The Unrested"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>THE UNRESTED<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By T. Aaron Cisco<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When it comes to science fiction, Afrofuturism, and fantasy, the exciting aspects of them are worldbuilding. The ability to take a reader to a world that is a product of the writer\u2019s vivid imagination and keep them invested is a gift. Such is the work of T. Aaron Cisco, and it is my good pleasure to bring to you the sequel to his novel The Unbanished\u2014The Unrested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The story begins after the Grand Revolution on the Javari continent, one intended to end the conflicts between the Javari and the Klnovos people. Introduced in The Unbanished, our central character is Marie Lapierre, a Shellskin known as the One Woman Plague. She has been given a mission: to find and rescue Severine Chalande, a courtisane and cousin of Marie\u2019s former partner Kyrian Le Rasoir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Through various shady and duplicitous characters such as Chanaz and later Emiliana Isbin-Lavigne, Marie learns that Severine is being held on the island of Aproenia, a hostile and treacherous place perpetually surrounded by storms both natural and supernatural. Marie\u2019s reputation as a hitwoman is now illegal in the new regime, yet her skills are put to the test by forces and Magyc far greater than she imagined. It is a mission that will cost her her friends, question herself and her place in this new normal, and put her on a collision course with Orianne Duchamp, who is now the Puissant Grand Liberateur of Javari and Conseillor de Haleine\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cisco puts the reader smack dab in the action from the beginning, painting a grisly picture of the aftermath of the Grand Revolution. Though the goal was peace and the unification of the Javari and Klnovos (thus the new name Haleine), mistrust and suspicion are yet below the surface, and evil is waiting to strike, disrupt, and destroy it. With the use of Magyc, one is left wondering what is real and what isn\u2019t, and there are no easy answers in this tale, by which our gifted storyteller keeps us engaged. In addition, we are introduced to some new creatures like the alatuphant and Leviathan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Unrested is available through Amazon and the Minnesota Black Authors Expo website (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnblackauthorsexpo.com\/\">www.mnblackauthorsexpo.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the words of your characters, \u201cSo as you have said, so let it be so.\u201d Thank you, T., for another of your gifts as a wordsmith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE UNRESTED By T. Aaron Cisco When it comes to science fiction, Afrofuturism, and fantasy, the exciting aspects of them are worldbuilding. The ability to take a reader to a world that is a product of the writer\u2019s vivid imagination and keep them invested is a gift. Such is the work of T. 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