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Before We Die Young Kindle Edition

by L.T. Quartermaine (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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‘Completely unique, completely creative, and completely enthralling.’ Readers’ Favorite Book Awards. Jon plans a career in banking and law. Luna expects to teach at her orphan Mission. Different upbringings. Different cultures. Destined never to meet. But when evil sweeps across the African Savanna, throwing them together, they are forced to choose between love or revenge, the real or the magical, and kill or be killed. And the story of their choices still echoes across the Great Plains of Africa today.

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‘From the first words to the last, this is a spellbinding, fascinating, beautiful story. Bravery, love, strength of character, and loyalty to each other. Read and enjoy this amazing story.’
‘A banquet of action. Absolutely read this book!’
‘I simply love the way the story goes around so different points of views. And in one point it just broke my heart.’
‘The story line is simply second to none.’
‘Intense and Riveting. From the first chapter I was hooked, it started out amazing, and didn't slow down.’
‘You will need tissues!’
‘Exceptional blend of action and a type of magic that I haven't encountered in most speculative fiction reads.’
‘Completely unique in its story line, focus, and aim.’
‘Highly creative and like nothing most readers would have read before.’
‘An amazing story of courage, loyalty, compassion, and respect for all living things.’
‘An emotional roller coaster, an incredible experience.’
‘Magical and action-packed. Divinely entertaining.’
‘Some of the most courageous, strong and resourceful characters I've come across in a fiction series, and watching them triumph over the odds they face is inspirational.’
‘The story is so unlike the majority of books I have read! If you are tired of the same tropes over and over, give this a try!’
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    July 16, 2017
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'A unique voice and prodigious talent.'-Readers'Favorite

'It needs to be on the bookshelf of every young reader!!!' -Amazon.comreviewer

'Completely unique in itsstory line, focus and aim.' -Readers' Favorite

'A beautiful book with a superb and gripping storyline.'-InScribe

'Masterful imagery and a truly unique book.' -Amazon.comreviewer

'Exceptional blend of actionand a type of magic that I haven't encountered in most speculative fictionreads.' -Readers' Favorite

'Uniquely heart movingstory. Absolutely bestone of its kind.' -Amazon.com reviewer

'Highly creative and likenothing most readers would have read before.' -Readers' Favorite

'An amazing story of courage,loyalty, compassion, and respect for all living things. -Readers'Favorite

'Exciting and filled withnon-stop action. An emotionalroller coaster, an incredibleexperience.' -Readers' Favorite

'It is magical and action-packed; thewonderfulness of it all coming together in a way that is divinely entertaining.' -Readers'Favorite

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Fourth book in the series, For a Better Place, coming soon!

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B073Z9SKRB
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Before We Die Young Limited (July 16, 2017)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 16, 2017
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1936 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 248 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars 52 ratings

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L.T. travels extensively collecting material for stories of social and environmental importance. Due to the sensitive and potentially dangerous nature of these investigations it is prudent that L.T. is not easily identifiable by the antagonists in the stories. L.T. thus apologizes to readers for the current lack of personal information and photograph and hopes that everyone will understand the reasons why (Meru was quite happy for me to use his picture in the meanwhile).

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C. M. Barrett
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Book!
Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2017
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I couldn't stop reading this book. Like other reviewers, I found the criminal slaughter of wild animals extremely upsetting, but I feel that the author deliberately emphasized this for purposes of awareness.

The story of four young people, all bent on wiping out the gang responsible for the slayings in the book, takes some almost unbelievable turns, but this makes the book no less compelling. The ability of a young African woman to communicate with the baby animals that come into their care and to perform near-miraculous healing are made believable in context.

This is an amazing and colorful saga, and I only wish it had been longer.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good story, if too short for me. I'd definitely recommend it
Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2022
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Great concepts, love the combining of several strong, universal, and very important themes, in an interesting and captivating environment.
story moved well and wonderfully scripted for older young adults and adults.

As usual these days, spelling is poor far too often. Some grammar issues, but none that stopped the flow of the storyline. I blame computers and self editing.

I would keep an eye on this author. More excellent stories certain to come with such abilities.
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Diana McDaniel
5.0 out of 5 stars Just amazing!
Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2018
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Magical, thrilling. Four young people go on the adventure of a lifetime seeking revenge but finding love, hope and redemption along with the orphaned babies they save along the way. A nail biter till the very end. I devoured this delight in one day-long session. Couldn't put it down.
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Home Cook
3.0 out of 5 stars Before we die
Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2017
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I personally had a hard time starting to read this book. It did not flow very easily and seemed to jump from one place to another. I had to go back several times to see who was who. But once you figured it out the story was good
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BobbieMcC
4.0 out of 5 stars Once I got past the first few pages...
Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2017
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In spite of my negative comments to follow, Before We Die Young held my attention and was hard to put down when there was something else I had to do. Sometimes the things the four young people did seemed completely impossible, but having never been in a life or death situation I don't know what I would be able to do. And I had to remind myself that they were in Africa and, I'm sure, grew up learning a whole different set of life skills than what I was raised with. I especially liked the ability of the young woman who could communicate with the animals with her mind, and the deep honor and respect she had for the animals, and they for her. Wouldn't it be amazing to be so in tune with nature that you could know what was in the minds of animals?
Now for the negative; To me, this story emphasized the horror of needless animal slaughter for the horns of rhinos, tusks of elephants, skins of zebras...you get the idea. And this story was especially upsetting to me because each animal that was killed left a baby or two behind to fend for themselves, often before the baby was even weaned. Thankfully, for me at least, the ability of the young woman to communicate with them helped ease their (and mine) heartache of losing their mothers.
So, if you can get past the slaughtering of animals for profit I would definitely recommend this book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A credible read
Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2017
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I thoroughly enjoyed this book and found it a quick and easy read. The characters were colorful and believable. My one objection was to the sex scene. I found it to be clumsy and unnecessary to the story. I will look at others like this, should they come to my notice.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing
Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2017
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From the first words to the last,this is a spellbinding,fascinating,beautiful story. Bravery, love, strength of character, and loyalty to each other. Read and enjoy this amazing story.
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Oregon Rain
4.0 out of 5 stars Very different book but I did enjoy the story
Reviewed in the United States on August 26, 2017
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Very different book but I did enjoy the story. Makes you believe that nature can do unbelievable miracles. If only we could truly communicate with animals and find nature's bounty in healing and lessening pain.
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