M.D. Waters
Dutton Adult
Idgie Says:
These two novels were different reads from the general "futuristic/dystopian" books that usually come across my desk. They are set in the future, but in one that's rather timeless. There are new techniques and teleporters and such, but there's also dirty dishes, walks in the woods, and messy beds.
The novels contain a fine combination of intrigue, mystery and futuristic science, while at the same time wrapping all of that around a very twisty love story and a lot of hand to hand combat.
These two novels were written very close together and given the way books series are developed these days I enjoyed that fact. No longer are books such as this stand alone - they tend to drop right into the next book, which is fine for a short wait, but frustrating when the books are a year apart. The paperback of Archtype came out only a month before Prototype and the hardback just a few months earlier in February so it was easy to hang onto the story line and not have to struggle to catch up again.
M.D. Waters is an author I can see sticking around a while and continuing to give this genre a new breath of life.
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First Edition Hardcover - February, 2014
Paperback June, 2014
Introducing a breathtakingly inventive futuristic suspense novel about one woman who rebels against everything she is told to believe.
Emma wakes in a hospital, with no memory of what came before. Her husband, Declan, a powerful, seductive man, provides her with new memories, but her dreams contradict his stories, showing her a past life she can’t believe possible: memories of war, of a camp where girls are trained to be wives, of love for another man. Something inside her tells her not to speak of this, but she does not know why. She only knows she is at war with herself.
Suppressing those dreams during daylight hours, Emma lets Declan mold her into a happily married woman and begins to fall in love with him. But the day Noah stands before her, the line between her reality and dreams shatters.
In a future where women are a rare commodity, Emma fights for freedom but is held captive by the love of two men—one her husband, the other her worst enemy. If only she could remember which is which. . . .
________________________________________ Prototype
First Edition Hardcover, July 2014
The stunning debut that began with Archetype— and has readers buzzing—concludes in Prototype, when a woman’s dual pasts lock onto a collision course, threatening her present and future.
Emma looks forward to the day when she can let go of her past—both of them. After more than a year on the run, with clues to her parents’ whereabouts within her grasp, she may finally find a place to settle down. Start a new life. Maybe even create new memories with a new family.
But the past rises to haunt her and to make sure there’s nowhere on the planet she can hide. Declan Burke wants his wife back, and with a little manipulation and a lot of reward money, he’s got the entire world on his side. Except for the one man she dreads confronting the most: Noah Tucker.
Emma returns to face what she’s done but finds that the past isn’t the problem. It’s the present—and the future it represents. Noah has moved on and another woman is raising their daughter.
In the shocking conclusion to M.D. Waters’s spectacular debut, Emma battles for her life and her freedom, tearing down walls and ripping off masks to reveal the truth. She’s decided to play their game and prove she isn’t the woman they thought she was. Even if it means she winds up dead. Or worse, reborn.