Spirits
in the Water
is an anthology of eleven magical tales by Untethered Realms, masters
of fantasy & sci-fi. Take a haunted journey on a riverboat, meet
water sprites borne of pennies, preternatural creatures, ancient
serpents, and the Lady of the Lake who lurks in dark waters.
Experience raging storms and magical rainbow fountains. Water is
spectacularly beautiful but also treacherous. This is the last in the
Elements series. Get them all!
Gwen
Gardner gives
us Shake,
Rattle and Row.
Harlow
Grayson has the chance to rid herself of a pesky ghost but she must
first brave a haunted riverboat and recover a family heirloom. What
she finds might be more than she can handle.
Jeff
Chapman offers The
Water Wight.
When
a drowned girl changes her mind about suicide, Merliss and her
associates face a fearsome, preternatural creature.
M.
Pax presents The
Wallows.
Evernee
Weems wants to escape this world in the worst way. Her daughter needs
everything, the rent is being raised, Evernee's job barely pays
minimum wage, and she has little hope for better. Inside a puddle is
a different reality. She jumps in, happy to trade her problems for a
life in which worries don't exist. Or do they?
Angela
Brown gives
us Extraordinary.
Puberty
hits Angelique like a gut punch and brings about a change, forcing an
unexpected revelation about her past. All seems well until a vicious
storm tears through her Texas community, and Angelique learns there
are worse things than a little change.
River
Fairchild presents You
Can't Go Home Again.
A
young woman, filled with regret about the past, goes on a journey and
discovers more than she bargained for.
Simon
Kewin offers
us The
Waters, Dividing the Land.
Hyrn
the horned god of the woodlands is learning the meaning of fear.
Death magic blights the land, threatening everyone and everything. To
save what he can from spreading corruption, he turns to the ancient
river serpents, but they've grown old and distant and may not hear
his call at all.
Christine
Rains gives
us Frozen.
A
necromancer is on the frozen moon of Saturn where the dead do
scream.
Meradeth
Houston presents The
Flood.
Sometimes
a flooded kitchen isn't the unluckiest thing to happen to
you.
Catherine
Stine offers Maizy
of Bellagio.
April
still searches for her mother who vanished nineteen years ago from
the fountain at Hotel Bellagio in Vegas. Can Maizy, a water sprite
who works the fountain's pink colors, begin to help the three
generations of eccentric women tortured by this tragedy?
M.
Gerrick gives
us The
One Who Would Wield the Sword.
Nikka
is supposed to be nothing more than dragon bait so a real dragon
hunter can do his job, but the Lady in the Lake has other plans for
her.
Cherie
Reich presents The
Folding Point.
Aimee's
fight against those who banned paper magics has begun.
From
USA Today, Amazon bestselling, and popular science fiction and
fantasy authors comes Spirits
in the Water,
a supernatural anthology of eleven thrilling tales. Spirits
in the Water is
the fourth, long-awaited Elements story
collection from the dynamic and inventive Untethered Realms group.
My Review:
This was a pretty cool book. I enjoyed the different stories. Some took a whole lot of imigination to come up with. Some needed more to the story and some should be turned into full books.
I really enjoyed the story Extraordinary by Angela Brown. I would love to read a full book on this story. In the story Angelique's whole life about to changing. She just hit puberty and begins to "Phase". This means she is able to merge through doors, she can turn into a puddle of water and more. She also learns about her birth and the mother who died when she was born. When a tornado takes her house and her father figure she phases in front of a person she though of as a brother, he does not understand and tells her to leave. Now she is on her own after loosing everything and learning the secrets of her life.
Another story that was pretty good but really need a bit more background was The Folding Point by Cherie
Reich. In the story Aimee and her brother Xavier are Pager Magic's. They can fold paper into birds then write some magic words on the paper and it will fly like a real bird. They can also form other things like weapons. In the story Aimee's mom has been arrested for being a Paper Magic. Paper Magic has been banned. A group of other paper magic's are going to try and break all the arrested paper magic's out of jail.
I did not find one bad story in the book. Each is about a different subject. This book is really not ghosts and goblins but it was a great Halloween read.
Elements
of Untethered Realms series
Twisted
Earths -
October 2014
Mayhem
in the Air -
October 2015
Ghosts
of Fire -
October 2016
Spirits
in the Water -
October 2017
Untethered Realms is
celebrating the release of Spirits in the Water, book 4 and the last
in their Elements series! As part of this celebration, book 1,
Twisted Earths goes FREE!
Angela Brown is a lover of Wild Cherry Pepsi
and chocolate/chocolate covered deliciousness. Steampunk, fantasy,
and paranormal to contemporary fill her growing library of books.
Mother to a rambunctious darling girl aptly nicknamed Chipmunk, life
stays busy. Angela’s favorite quote keeps her moving: “You may
never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing,
there will be no result.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi. Find out more at
publishness.blogspot.com.
Jeff Chapman writes software by day and
speculative fiction when he should be sleeping. Many cups of dark hot
chocolate power his nighttime imagination. His tales range from
fantasy to horror, and they don’t all end badly. He lives with his
wife, children, and cats in a house with more books than bookshelf
space. Learn more at
www.jeffchapmanbooks.com.
River Fairchild is somewhat odd, brandishes a
dry sense of humor, and is owned by several cats. Lives in a fantasy
world. A fabricator of magic. Makes stuff up and spins tales about
it. Believes in Faerie crossings and never staying in one place for
very long. Speculative Fiction wordsmith. The secret to her stories?
Spread lies, blend in truths, add a pinch of snark and a dash of
tears. Escape into her world. She left the porch light on so you can
find your way down the rabbit hole.
Gwen Gardner writes clean, cozy and quirky
mysteries and don’t be surprised if you meet a few ghosties along
the way.
Since ghosts feature prominently in her books, she
has a secret desire to meet one face to face—but will run screaming
for the hills if she ever does. Gwen adores travel and experiencing
the cultures and foods of different countries. She is always up for
an adventure and anything involving chocolate, not necessarily in
that order. For more about her books go to
www.gwengardner.com.
M. Gerrick is the author of
The War of Six
Crowns and a variety of other stories (as Misha Gerrick). She was
born and raised in South Africa, and currently lives on an apple farm
with a small menagerie of animals. You can find her at
www.youtube.com/channel/UCFRZK0eX_vgzbF7jM91N8DA.
Meradeth Houston likes to write about the
real world, just with a big twist—maybe people can time travel or
fly or aliens are real. It makes things a little more interesting.
She is an anthropology professor by day, spending hours in a lab
studying dead people’s DNA. Currently, she resides in Montana,
where she wishes a beach were just a little closer. You can find more
about her recent adventures here:
meradethhouston.com.
Simon Kewin was born and raised on the misty
Isle of Man in the middle of the Irish Sea, but he now lives in the
English countryside with his wife and their daughters. He is the
author of over a hundred published short stories, and his works have
appeared in Analog, Nature, Daily Science Fiction, Abyss & Apex,
and many more. His cyberpunk novel
The Genehunter and his
Cloven Land fantasy trilogy were published not so long ago,
and his clockpunky novel
Engn is to be published by Curiosity
Quills Press in 2018. Find him at
simonkewin.co.uk.
M. Pax is author of the space opera adventure
series,
The Backworlds, and the urban fantasy series,
The
Rifters. Fantasy, science fiction, and the weird beckons to her.
She blames Oregon, a source of endless inspiration. She docents at
Pine Mountain Observatory in the summers as a star guide and enjoys
exploring the quirky corners of Oregon with her husband. Find out
more at
mpaxauthor.com.
Christine Rains is a writer, blogger, and
geek mom. She has four degrees, which help nothing with motherhood,
but make her a great
Jeopardy player. When she’s not reading
or writing, she’s playing games with friends or watching cheesy
movies on Syfy Channel. She has one novel and several novellas and
short stories published. Find out more at
christinerains.net.
Cherie Reich owns more books than she can
ever read and thinks up more ideas than she can ever write, but that
doesn’t stop this bookworm from trying to complete her goals, even
if it means curbing her TV addiction. A library assistant living in
Virginia, she writes speculative fiction. Her books include the
paranormal horror collection
Once upon a Nightmare, the
fantasy short story collection
People of Foxwick and Their
Neighbors, and the fantasy series
The Fate Challenges. For
more information about her books, visit
smarturl.it/CReichWebsite.
Catherine Stine is
a
USA Today bestselling author, whose novels span the range
from futuristic to supernatural to contemporary. She thinks of
writing as painting with words and as conjuring magic from the ether.
Catherine hails from Philadelphia and lives in NYC. Find out more at
www.catherinestine.com.
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