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Duplicity

By Michael J Allen
Duplicity by Michael J Allen digital book - Fable

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No one can be trusted, not even himself...

 

Winter stalks the city.

 

It isn't alone.

 

A killer hunts Seufert Fells's homeless, Eli dead in his sights.

 

Alone in the barren cold and barely scraping by, the world's first dumpstermancer struggles to survive. Demands from the city's criminal elite drive things from bad to disaster.

 

Friends become enemies.

 

No one can be trusted.

 

And Mom and Dad are in town.

 

Eli pits his evolving dumpstermancy against a serial killer with a thousand faces.

 

Will his magic be enough or will Eli have to protect his worst enemy to stop the murderer?

 

You'll love this gritty and gripping tale of the reluctant hero readers are calling the Alton Brown of Magic and his struggles to survive the people trying to help him.

 

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“While I enjoyed the ending and am fascinated by the magic system, this book irritated me. Eli lives in a world of corruption and betrayal, but it is the constant marginalization of his rights that wears on my soul. No one listens to him, acknowledges his right to make personal decisions, or allows his wishes to influence the conversation much less their actions. It's like he's in an untouchable subclass. I get that he's homeless, but even those who know his skills treat him like a child. It's infuriating. In addition, the nature of the killer was obvious before a third of the book had passed. At points, it seemed like Eli was being deliberately obtuse to support the author's intended mystery. It's okay for a character to suspect the truth... just obscure it with several believable decoy theories. Making a genius act like a clueless dunce is not the answer.”
“With each book the story gets better and better. Michael J. Allen is giving me complete life in Duplicity, the second installment in the Dumpstermancer series. My fellow readers please do yourself a solid one and read the first novel in this series. You cannot, I repeat cannot, start Duplicity without the background story. This fantasy novel brings it all, fey, action, drama, a comedic love story. It is all over the place but in a chaotic organized way. Eli, the rhets and my girl Marisol kick butt, take names, and do their best to meddle. I really enjoyed this book and the new characters that were brought forth in Duplicity. You will get some answers that explain why book 1 happened the way it did, but you will also get new questions especially in regards to Eli and Adam (dun, dun, dunnnnn!!!). I cannot wait until Dumpstermancer 3: Disrupted comes out. Allen you left me on the precipice with questions that need to be answered.”

About Michael J Allen

Originally from Oregon, Michael J. Allen is a pluviophile masquerading as a vampire IT professional in rural Georgia. Warped from youth by the likes of Jerry Lewis, Robin Williams, Gene Wilder and Danny Kay, his sense of humor leads to occasional surrender, communicable insanity, a sweet tooth and periodic launch into nonsensical song. He loves books, movies, the occasional video game, playing with his Labradors - Myth and Magesty. He knows almost nothing about music.

A recovering Game Master, he gave up running RPG's for writing because the players didn't play out the story in his head like book characters would - we know how that worked out.

Suddenly fresh out of teenagers, he spends his days writing in restaurants, people watching and warring over keyboard control with the voices in his head.

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