By A.C. Wilson
With a focus on immersive world-building that features fully developed fantasy races, deeply religious colonists, and labor riots, My Father’s Land draws as much from JRR Tolkien and Indiana Jones as it does from Charles Dickens. “The Gwambi Tetralogy” borders on magical realism, and is a faith-based and character-driven spin on the fantasy genre.
Book 1: My Father's Land
These pirates who just kidnapped Ella seem to think that she knows the location of the Gwambi’s Lost City of Gold. Sure, her father died looking for the Gwambi city, but that doesn’t mean she knows anything about it. Her mother wouldn’t even let her read the one book they owned on the lost Gwambi city. Mind you, she read every other book in the house-every other book in the parish—so she knows a thing or two. The question is, can she do anything with all that head knowledge? I mean, does it matter if she can positively identify the difference between a gnome, a leprechaun, and a nymph, if she can’t defend herself when they are trying to stab her in the gut? And let’s not even start talking about the sorcerer…
Book 2: My Father's Ghost
Haeli can handle anything. She has to. She has spent her whole life wedged between the inexorable power of the Company and the chaotic politics of the indigenous nymph tribes. Her family’s wisdom and her faith in God guide her. And she loves her life. That was until her Da gave her the Gwambi keys... and told her to run. Is her family’s wisdom and her ancestral faith enough to protect her from two pirate crews, a vengeful griffin, and a sorcerer? Ella can’t help her either: she’s too busy dealing with the fallout of the increasingly violent labor strikes. And that was before she awakened the ghost...
Book 3: My Father's God
But now he must board a highly explosive fire-ship to steer it away from the battery. How hard could that be? I mean, the only time the battery is vulnerable is during the lowest tide of the year. Oh wait, it IS the lowest tide of the year. And if Clerans can’t stop the fire-ship, then Longfinch’s pirates will murder everyone in the village. Perhaps it wouldn't be so bad if the reinforcements weren't tied up trying to prevent the strikers from burning down the National Bank...
Book 4: Coming soon...
All books paperback, 1232 pages total (so far)
