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Body Holiday: The Adventures of Milla Carter Kindle Edition

by Derek E. Pearson (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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"IT'S DAMN NEAR IMPOSSIBLE TO PUT DOWN"

The young couple's holiday to die for, Milla Carter's and Franklyn's, looks in danger of becoming just that. The future depicted is dysfunctional, cold and frighteningly voyeuristic. Corporate power presides, with no respect for privacy. Saturated with hard core pornography this world has lost the power to even be offended.

TV Presenter JULIETTE FOSTER: "Imaginative and sexually explicit. Yet the edgy “in your face” writing and tightly structured plot are damn near impossible to put down."

An older couple, ex-glamour model Ruth and her rich husband Pearce, had engaged Milla and Franklyn to swap bodies, in a process called ‘Transition’. The lure of such a 'Body Holiday', reacquainting intimately in younger bodies, was simply irresistible to them.

Unfortunately the dream vacation descends into a brutal game of survival. The couples are pitched against a malevolent force that's always one step ahead. Can they escape the nightmare, or are they destined to spend the rest of their lives on the run trapped in each other’s bodies?

TV Presenter JULIETTE FOSTER: Chilling amounts of gore and explosions of Armageddon proportions give the story the adrenalin-coated rush of a Grand Theft Auto game. Yet there’s also a quasi gallows humour running through the narrative. It’s Milla who really stands out. She’s a woman of action, the shining light in the darkness, which is why her anger is palpable when a shocking plot twist exposes a terrible betrayal. Yet Milla’s integrity is a contradiction. By rights, it shouldn’t exist in a world that disparages decency, yet somehow it stays intact.
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"This dystopian series, with people swapping bodies, will challenge your preconceptions, shock you, scare you and when you reach the final page, you will want to start it all again." --THE BOAR. -- "Imaginative and sexually explicit. Yet its edgy, 'in your face' writing and tightly structured plot are so addictive that it’s damn near impossible to put down." --SURREY LIFE

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Foreword Indies BOOK AWARD Finalist: 2018 GODS' Warrior (Fantasy) 2017 GODS' Fool (Fantasy) 2016 GODS' Enemy (Fantasy) 2016 Star Weaver (Science Fiction) Derek E Pearson is a UK-based author and illustrator with more than a dozen published novels in the sci-fi and fantasy genres. Since gaining his bachelor's degree from Norwich School of Art in the late 1970s, Pearson has mainly worked as a children's book illustrator, including titles such as Tulsi the Tiger. Since the late 1980s, Pearson has also worked in publishing and journalism, specialising in the dental industry with his online magazine Dental Review. Celluloid Peach, Pearson's latest novel, is a grand, romantic and adventuresome departure from his usual writings, but brings with it the dark twist familiar to fans of fantasy and sci-fi. Pearson says, "When someone dies it has to matter. You have to believe a life has been lost. An author learns to love the people he lives with in his mind. They become real."

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00NWYGIZC
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ GB Publishing.org (24 September 2014)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1065 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 281 pages
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Derek E Pearson lives on the London/Surrey borders where he spends most of his time at his keyboard imagineering new worlds or twisting existing worlds through the dark prism he uses instead of a brain.

His prolific work has been widely reviewed by prestigious media including Surrey Life and The Sun newspaper which rated his novel 'Soul's Asylum' with four stars for its 'originality and top writing'. Two of his novels, 'Soul's Asylum: Star Weaver' and 'GODS' Enemy' were finalists for Book of the Year in Chicago's IndieFab Awards in the science fiction and fantasy catagory.

To date Pearson has completed two science fiction trilogies for his Miller Carter character, the 'Body Holiday' series and the 'Soul's Asylum' novels. Carter is a sexy, feisty telepath at odds with the worst a dystopian future can throw at her.

He has also launched his Preacher Spindrift series with 'GODS' Enemy' and 'GODS' Fool'. He is currently working on 'GODS' Warrior', the third and perhaps last book in the series.

Spindrift is a fallen angel with attitude, an angel who was one of those 'husbands' who long-ago impregnated Earth's most evolved apes with alien seed from which we evolved, the Eden born. His adventures take him and his companions from 1883 Texas to the Flanders trenches of 1917. Warrior takes him to an ancient Chinese city, Lijiang, in 1918. He fights the Sha-aneer, a beast that pre-dates all other life on Earth, and devours the Eden born, body and soul.

Pearson's other works include 'Slave Skin' a standalone science fiction/fantasy story that the author describes as 'Narnia for adults' and boasts the line, 'Do all your right-angles turn left?'

'The Gathering of Gods: Anubis' is the first of the incredible Detective Prentiss series, set in present day New York. Supercharged and layered with myth and dark magic the Prentiss series introduces a new type of heroine to the fantasy genre. Black, beautiful and six-foot tall, Prentiss confronts the impossible information that ancient Egyptian gods have come to her city to judge wrongdoers and punish them in terrible ways. She also visits the city at the end of the world, eight billion years in the future.

'The Stone Gospel' is a ghost story set in a cathedral town in Sussex. The local planners have allowed a bypass to bisect an ancient ley line. Bad mistake, we look at what happens in modern Sussex and what befell a group of Romans who made the same mistake in 43AD. The Stone Gospel will be released very soon in 2018.

Finally, 'Pink Biscuit Zoo' is a charming illustrated tale for children about what happens when a little girl and her 'grandy' set out to make biscuits... of course it all ends in tears.

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Anthony James Pearson
5.0 out of 5 stars FAST PACED EROTIC SCI-FI ACTION!!!!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 September 2015
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What I gained from this book is the ability to follow the lurid games and fantasises as one of the future rich.

It is dark and gritty and unashamedly 'real'. This is often a tough feat for a SCI-FI book due to the fantastical subject matter, however this book brings you back to earth and rubs your face in it.
For me this makes a more relatable future - rather than the polished utopia usually proffered up for digestion. This also means you won't find yourself choking on any science fallacies that you often forced to 'eat'.

This realness also translates to characters of Ruth, Pearce, Milla and Franklyn. Believable normal people Swept up in the promise of the perfect dream holiday only to become playthings of the rich and powerful always pushing for themselves, and by proxy you the reader, to be entertained.

It touches on both the subjects of body swapping, and all the ramifications that entails, along with the fact that youth can only really be appreciated by the old. Both subjects I find fascinating.

One of the greatest achievements of this book is to entertain and excite you, all the while luring you into a false sense of comfort.

Then it pulls you from your seat and slams you into a non stop adventure while never taking it's foot off the accelerator, or letting up on the aphrodisiacs.

The bad guys in this book are sadistically bad, where only profit matters and human life costs nothing. What results in some of the most epic scenes of callous, cold hearted destruction and death that I have ever read - making them some of the most memorable.

Finally I think it is a crime that the highest ranking this book gets is in humorous erotica.

Thoroughly enjoyed it and will be reading the sequel.
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kphil
4.0 out of 5 stars What a book!
Reviewed in the United States on 29 June 2018
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I couldn't read fast enough to keep up and find out what the heck was going to happen. This was my kind of book. Kept me on the edge of my seat and had me guessing the whole time :) I received this ARC for an honest review.
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RS - Bordeaux
4.0 out of 5 stars Success Deserved
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 February 2015
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Body Holiday rattles along at a good pace and is full of original ideas. Already highly praised by TV presenter Juliette Foster it deserves to bring success to its author Derek Pearson.
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Alpha Whiskey
5.0 out of 5 stars Original and enjoyable sci-fi! A terrific read.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 October 2014
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Fantastic premise and such an intriguing story! The writing is just terrific. Pacy but descriptive, explicit and enticing, sophisticated but easy to follow. Such engaging sci-fi writing with an original concept and exhilarating execution. The characters are fleshed out nicely and are interesting, quirky and compelling. Hard to find good science fiction these days which can make grand themes and ideas accessible and enjoyable at the same time.
Really enjoyed reading this and would definitely recommend it! :)
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