Like all classic adventure books, The Lost Ones by Carl Lakeland takes the reader right into a quick pace. Richard, the protagonist, lives with his family — his brother Jason, his wife Chloe, and his mother — on the USS John Steinbeck in Antartica. But he wants to leave before all their fuel is consumed and they have to face death in the cold night of the South Pole. The plan to escape is clear, but something goes wrong, and when Richard finally set himself free, he realises that nothing in the north is as he expected. Earth after the Fall Wars faces a dystopian future where humans, kill, steal and even eat each other to survive. And when Richard finds a journal his journey becomes something he did not expect. Love, loss, pain, friendship, death, hunger, war, slavery and faith are the main ingredients of this fantasy story in a dystopian but not so much impossible future.
The Lost Ones is the perfect book for adventure and supernatural fans. Despite the innumerable battles taking place throughout the novel, the sensation that something spiritual is weaving the storyline as one would expect from a plot-driven story is always present, together with the sense of loss for a past that will never come back and for a future that may bring something worst. The divine intervention is at every turn of the tide, but that does not always mean a successful battle against the odds. Carl Lakeland is an artist in keeping the reader with bated breath. However, despite the spiritual nature of the story, it is not for the faint of heart.
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