The LOOK of Amie Martine

By Laurie Perez

Book Overview

A thriller with cosmic implications, a metaphysical awakening with real-world scaffolding, a love story with wild, speculative scope.
Genre-bending, "luminous," hypnotic and compelling, Amie Martine's story begins in THE LOOK OF AMIE MARTINE, the novel that launched a speculative fiction trilogy with must-read sequels, THE POWER and THE COSMOS.

At its heart, this is the experience of a woman who, seven years before the story begins, survived a kind of death in Iceland and emerged with an extraordinary ability she calls "The LOOK."

She can sneak into people's souls, read the blueprints of their inner lives, and shift what she finds there.

Within twenty pages you realize you've stepped into something that isn't going to leave you the way it found you.

That's The Amie Series trilogy. And the most honest thing I can tell you is that the first book, The LOOK, brazenly defies description - not because it's obscure or difficult, but because it accomplishes something rare: it makes the extraordinary feel absolutely, mundanely real, and then uses that realness to knock the floor out from under you.

Working with a cast of characters that includes A-list actors, filmmakers, assassins, historical warlords, Irish poets, Sufi masters, midwives, UN peacekeepers, mythic legends and real-world thugs all placed in the mind-bending context of spherical time and trespassing souls, the series manages to wrap a love story in the texture of a supernatural thriller that unravels and reinvents the paradigms that compose our philosophies of life, birth, grief and human consequence.

What the series is doing, beneath the plot and the mythology and the gorgeous texture of its locations is quietly revealing that the soul is not a metaphor. That compassion is not a virtue but an up-leveled physics. That what happens when you connect with another person, really look, is an encounter with something that cannot be contained in either of you separately. That grief is real and costly and not sacred. That love is not a pastel feeling, but a structural scaffold of existence.

Perez has done the patient, intricate work of making you care about specific humans in specific rooms eating specific foods and making specific jokes before it asks you to consider what happens when someone who loves those humans is capable of bending matter with intention and has been - all along, from before any of this started - the person who built the workshop where souls learn to be more than they were.

You'll want to read it again. Which is, perhaps, the point. The prologue of the first book tells you as much: "you will instantly and irrevocably forget my hushed invasion of your soul."

The second time through, you won't forget quite as completely. Which is exactly how it works."I had such profound thoughts, I often reread parts to re-experience and meditate on the possibilities." -Samantha"This book has forever engrained simple beautiful truths that I will constantly remind myself so I don't forget." -Cheryll"Every few pages, there's a line that cracks me wide open." -Mark"The story keeps you glued to the pages." -Gurpreet"I recently finished reading Laurie Perez's The COSMOS of Amie Martine. The last book of a trilogy with which I fell in love. No words I can type will make justice to Amie. I encourage you to get to know her." -Pablo

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1523664339
• ISBN13: 9781523664337
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"