Title: The Chronicles of the Virago: Book1 The Novus
Author: Michael Bialys
Genre: Young adult
ISBN: 1424133653
Website: http://www.thevirago.com
Purchase URL:
http://www.publishamerica.com/archives/botw/2006/bookoftheweek06
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Amazon link:
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Book description or synopsis:
Makenna Grace Gold is just your average twelve-year-old girl, who just happens to have been
recruited by three faeries to protect the future of the world. Makenna must now battle the forces of Evil
who seek to destroy her baby twin brother and sister. The twins are a gift from above who will
eventually lead our world into its next evolutionary age of hope and enlightenment. Evil will stop at
nothing to destroy the babies.
Makenna, along with three faeries and a wisecracking earthworm named Fluffy, are the only things that
stand between the Earth’s future or its utter destruction. Can Makenna, who admittedly is not even that
good in gym class, follow in the footsteps of her predecessors, King Arthur and David of the Hebrews?
Can a twelve-year-old girl who’s never had a fight in her life succeed as the Defender of Defenders,
the Protector of Protectors, “The Virago”?
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Author Bio:
Michael Bialys was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. He moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career
in the Music Industry. Michael is an attorney who currently resides in Southern California with his wife
and three children. Michael credits his family for being the inspiration behind his writing.
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Read the sample chapter here
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Link to book reviews: http://qualitybookreviews.blogspot.com/2007/04/chronicles-of-virago.html
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Chapter reviews given by members:
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REVIEW
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REVIEWER
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This story gripped me from the start. What is the mysterious ‘gift’?
How can a man be 600 years dead, yet still seem alive? How were
Miss Creante and Miss Chevois unaffected by the extreme heat at
the centre of the earth? I would like to read on to find some
answers to these questions. Michael Bialys has a very vivid
imagination.
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Les Bill Gates
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Any excerpt that gets me smiling in the first lines and laughing out
loud in the first paragraphs clearly has something going for it.
Michael Bialys does both — wittingly and engagingly — with his
excerpt from The Novus, book one of his YA series, The
Chronicles of the Virago. Bialys's characters and their mysterious
"Gift" leave me wondering just what dastardly doings Miss
Creante and Miss Chevious are up to.
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Mark David Gerson
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It was a nice story, but not the genre I would read. It was well
written, had good description, and interesting though.
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Naomi Chapman
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