Among the Cloud Dwellers
(Entrainment Series, #1)
by Giuliana Sica
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Pub Date Feb 22 2012 | Archive Date Sep 06 2016
Gemelli Press | Green Darner Press
Description
The Magician and the Two of Cups. The two cards danced in front of me. My hand reached out. And in the darkness I rolled a set of dice. Two.
Epicurean globetrotter, Porzia Amard, has left her French-Italian roots and her beloved wine-making family in Tuscany behind to pursue a career as a food and wine writer in the U.S., eventually settling in Florida; Pensacola, to be exact, where hurricanes abound. And in 1999—at the end of the millennium and before the rise of digital devices—on the forceful tail end of one particular hurricane her life suddenly takes a mystical turn.
Beside her beloved grandmother’s deathbed, Porzia unexpectedly inherits a legacy of unusual powers, embarking her on an unforgettable journey of self-discovery. After a past life regression introduces a distant soul mate, revealing a love so intense it has resisted the tarnishing of time, Porzia abandons the straightforward path and finds herself embroiled in a world of esoteric secrets.
When she meets famed off-road racer Gabe Miller, Porzia is swept up in a fiery, impassioned affair, and as they experience a love only few of us can imagine, let alone have ever savored, she believes Gabe may be her lost soul mate reincarnated. But Gabe’s elusive past and a private promise which he is unable to reveal complicate matters.
From a hilltop village of Tuscany to the salt-scented beaches of western Florida, from the lush green hills of Oregon’s Willamette Valley to the perilous landscape of South Australia, Porzia’s journey promises freedom from earthly boundaries; it blurs the lines between safety and the unconventional, between love and fear, and between us and the gods.
Advance Praise
“This is one helluva story– it resonates with a magic and mysticism that isn’t normally a feature of books that I opt to read, but even as the mystical parts confused my realism-craving reader’s soul, I still found myself pulled in. Sica clearly has a grip on sensual writing- from the tastes and smells described in deep detail to the tantalizing and passionate scenes of love, this is a most definitely a novel that employs one’s imagination along with all the senses. It calls for a suspension of disbelief, as well as perhaps a small inclination to entertain the previously unbelievable, in order to fully experience the ride. The ending left me wondering many things, so I’m happy to discover that this is simply the first book in a trilogy, and I look forward to finding where the journey leads to next!” –Dawn Mooney, Reviewer for Five Minutes for Books
“Among the Clouds Dwellers is the start of something big. Giuliana Sica writes to the depths and heights of the human heart, and renders its yearnings with a magical, mystical, sophistication.” –Bradd Hopkins, Russell Dean and Company, writer, publisher, editor
Marketing Plan
Giuliana Sica currently resides in the Pacific Northwest on Whidbey Island in Washington State. She teaches Italian at a local college and is also a very popular and highly sought after Italian instructor for Rosetta Stone.
Her love of magical realism, food, wine, the importance of travel and of course, romance, shine through in her debut novel.
Book Two will be released in 2015.
Giuliana loves connecting with readers, book bloggers and media professionals. She has recently been on a radio interview tour, including a recent appearance with Pat Farnack on WCBS Newsradio 880 (April 9):
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/audio-on-demand/health-and-well-being.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9780982102336 |
| PRICE | $9.99 (USD) |
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Jo W, Reviewer
Among the Cloud Dwellers by Guiliana Sica A review Having read the cover summary and studied the reviews already written about it, I began ‘Among the Cloud Dwellers’ by Guiliana Sica with high expectations and great anticipation.
Her descriptive prose is without doubt beautiful; with great attention to details Giuliana Sica strings her words together to create astonishingly vivid scenes and very believable characters and relationships. As the reader follows the main character Porzia around the world in her regular employment of wine tasting, gourmet foods and colourful locals, the dialogue flows easily.
Central to the story however is the very powerful love that grows between Porzia and Gabe, the man she meets on the plane early in the book. Guiliana Sica writes with great emotional depth as the relationship intensifies and I found myself completely absorbed by the strength of their feelings for each other.
The mystical element promised by the book’s summary however, did not deliver what I had expected, but was largely overshadowed by Gabe and Porzia’s love affair. The magnitude of the scene in which Porzia receives her unusual powers at her Grandmother’s deathbed did not make an impact on me and as a result, the later infrequent references to unusual mystical occurrences did not either. Perhaps this is an area that will be developed in later books within the series.
In summary therefore, ‘Among The Cloud Dweller’s’ was an enjoyable read, but did not quite delivery what I had expected of it.
As a result I give this book 3 and half stars out of five.
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