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Editorial Reviews for Fallen Spirits
“You’ll get no other book like this one. Unless we count the first. Imagination knows no bounds—or bowels—in this inventive, high-stakes sci-fi thriller.”
– Toni Woodruff, Independent Book Review
“With its seamless blend of satire, absurdism, and dystopian elements, the novel offers a thrilling, high-stakes adventure while delivering incisive commentary on contemporary issues.”
– The International Review of Books
“…an intriguing voyage of self-discovery that involves a thrilling cross country car chase and plenty of mysterious and unexpected occurrences.”
– The BookLife Prize by Publishers Weekly
Book Description
Once you’ve fallen, the only way back is up.
At forty-five, Alex Scott loses her fiancé, her job, her dog, and what’s left of her dignity, all in the same week. She’s unemployed, heartbroken, and drowning in vodka in a Jersey City apartment.
Then a mysterious stranger with no name and no memory appears on her street corner. What starts as a grudging act of charity becomes a cross-country chase and a reckoning with who she thought she was.
Because Crystal isn’t human. She’s a fallen spirit, and something is severing the connection between humans and their spirit guides.
Behind it is billionaire JT Wilson, tech titan, egomaniac, and chronic farter, who’s discovered that people connected to their spirit guides are becoming less materialistic. And that’s bad for business.
As Alex is pulled deeper into a world she never knew existed, she begins to see how much of the life she thought she wanted was built on other people’s ideas of happiness, success, love, and who she was supposed to be.
To save Crystal, Alex will have to survive JT. To save herself, she’ll have to start questioning everything she thought she knew.
Visionary fiction at its strangest and funniest, Fallen Spirits is a genre-bending story about addiction, power, identity, and what happens when the life you worked so hard to build turns out not to be yours.
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“You’ll get no other book like this one. Imagination knows no bounds — or bowels — in this inventive, high-stakes thriller.” — Independent Book Review
“The author’s intended message is clearly one of female empowerment, solidarity, healing, and redemption.” — US Review of Books
“A truly memorable read… its blend of humor, imaginative world-building, and profound social commentary makes it stand apart.” — International Review of Books
The Mind Monsters Series
Follow Alex across all four books as she battles the monsters around and within her, learning how to come home to herself.
Book 1, Rock Gods & Messy Monsters, Hatz’s award-winning debut, introduces Alex in a surreal, alien-owned record company in 1990s New York City.
Book 2: Fallen Spirits
Book 3: The Light of Wounds
Book 4: The Journey Home
Free Prequel: “The Other Side of Normal” – find out how it all began with a free prequel to the Mind Monsters series.