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Happy Friday!\u00a0 I hope everyone is ready for the weekend.\u00a0 I know its gonna be a wet one here but it’s still\u00a0the weekend so that counts.\u00a0 Today I have the opportunity to feature Michael David Matula and his book, Try Not to Burn.\u00a0 This was definitely a unique story.\u00a0 It takes the reader to places they dare not think about.\u00a0 Into a world that most people live their lives to avoid.\u00a0 Be sure to check out my full review after the Book Blurb.\u00a0 I hope everyone has an enjoyable weekend and be sure to check in Monday for two reviews!<\/p>\n

Book Blurb:<\/h2>\n

\"16036270\"<\/a>Officer Brandon Morales remembers the last smile he ever saw.\u00a0 It was the smile of the serial killer who shot him at point blank range.\u00a0 When Brand awakens, it’s into a much darker world than the one he left.<\/p>\n

Purgatory.\u00a0 The inmates call it \u201cHell City.\u201d\u00a0 The demons who populate this nightmare simply know it as the first stage of the Gauntlet, God’s own testing ground for the immortal soul.\u00a0 It’s a grinder; a massive pit that chews up the worst criminals society has to offer.\u00a0 Souls go in, and they rarely come out.<\/p>\n

Traffic violations and little white lies aren’t enough to condemn a soul to this level of purgatory.\u00a0 Only a cardinal sin can seal that fate. Hell City is like a maximum security penitentiary, if the warden left the cells unlocked and waved the guards goodbye.\u00a0 The inmates roam freely, many delighting in the carnage, finding satisfaction in an infinite number of victims.<\/p>\n

Brand doesn’t want to admit that he might have earned his place here.\u00a0 It all seems like a cruel joke to him.\u00a0 The courts acquitted him of his crimes.\u00a0 They deemed it self-defense.\u00a0 He never told anyone what had truly happened that one night, when he gunned down two robbers in cold blood.\u00a0 Even he had started to believe his innocence.<\/p>\n

He has only one chance to make up for what he did.\u00a0 If he can survive the Gauntlet, he can earn a second chance at life.\u00a0 If he fails at any point, flames will engulf him and drag him straight to Hell.<\/p>\n

Trying to make sense of it all, Brand stumbles across two women with sordid pasts: Samantha Reiss, a tough-as-nails bank robber who died from lethal injection, and Jane Calrin, a teenage girl who ate a bullet after committing an unthinkable crime of passion.\u00a0 Despite what they had done, Brand can’t help but see the good hiding within them.\u00a0 They seem worthy of forgiveness, and worthy of redemption.<\/p>\n

However, when a horde of inmates descend upon their doorstep, Brand, Sam and Jane are forced out of their meager hiding place and into the untamed depths of the afterlife.\u00a0 With their souls hanging in the balance, and eternal damnation never more than one wrong turn away, these three strangers will need to put their trust in one another in order to stay one step ahead of the flames of Hell.<\/p>\n

The Gauntlet trials are not for the faint of heart.\u00a0 Purgatory creates another challenge whenever the current one is overcome.\u00a0 The city park, Eden, becomes anything but a paradise, and is prowled by unseen, whispering threats that can tear a man to pieces.\u00a0 The underground sanctuary, the Grotto, becomes home to burrowing monsters and unimaginable behemoths.<\/p>\n

All is not lost, though.\u00a0 There might just be a guardian angel lurking somewhere within purgatory.\u00a0 And if Brand can find him, he and his new friends would gain an ally that could turn the tide in their favor.<\/p>\n

But when enemies pose as trusted friends, when lost loves crumble the will to continue, and when hidden desires threaten to tear allegiances apart, it will take more than faith and determination to pass God’s final test.<\/p>\n

It will take a miracle<\/p>\n

Review:<\/h2>\n

We first meet Officer Brandon Morales at what should have been a routine traffic stop.\u00a0 The only difference is that this traffic stop ends his mortal life and thrusts him into Hell City.\u00a0 Hell City is a purgatory for molesters, killers and any other kind of deviant you can think of.\u00a0 When Brand awakes he meets two women Jane and Sam.\u00a0\u00a0 Both have managed to survive Hell City but the dangers that are occurring daily threaten everyone’s lives.\u00a0 Though they are already dead the threat of getting Burned is imminent and an idea that is a fate worse than death.\u00a0 So, the trio set out to survive together.\u00a0 Unfortunately, they find allies aren’t really allies and trust is wavering and very fragile.\u00a0 When Brand almost gets burned more than once an option to survive and possibly get out is given to him.\u00a0 He must find the soul could help him and his friends survive and get redemption.\u00a0 The only problem is that is not as easy as it sounds and they don’t know who they are looking for.\u00a0 In a place where devils abound they must find a possible angel to guide them to safety and life after death.\u00a0 Can the allies work together to survive or will obstacles and diversions tear them and their chances for surviving apart?<\/p>\n

This was a really enjoyable read.\u00a0 I thought the premise was unique and well written.\u00a0 The story itself is enough to scare people into being a better person.\u00a0 I really enjoyed the back stories of the characters and the opportunities and challenges that are given to the trio.\u00a0 I thought Brand’s character was good, but\u00a0really felt that his back story of his purpose of being thrown into Hell City was a bit strained considering\u00a0Brand became a police officer for reasons other than those of why he was in purgatory.\u00a0 I also thought Jane and Sam were wonderful supporting characters that both helped the story and Brand’s character to grow.\u00a0 Overall, it was a great read and I would recommend this book to anyone looking for a good paranormal suspense book.\u00a0 It gives the reader so much to enjoy and reads very well.<\/p>\n

Author Bio:<\/h2>\n

\"6536141\"<\/a>Michael Matula\u00a0is a novelist from Chicago, IL, and a current member of the Chicago Writers Association and the SCBWI. Michael once dreamed of becoming a comic book artist, sketching pictures and caption bubbles in class when he really should have been studying. Unable to draw fast enough to keep up with all the ideas and storylines he came up with, he wrote out a side story for one of his characters. He ended up falling in love with writing and never really looked back.<\/p>\n

His first book, Try Not to Burn, was released in September 2012 by Post Mortem Press.<\/p>\n

He’s currently working on the sequel, and a sample of one of his novels won the top prize on Authonomy.com after being ranked at #1 overall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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