Welcome to my stop on the Scavenger Hunt for Gateway to Reality by Becca Campbell. Please, enjoy the post, enter the giveaway and read on for details about bonus entries in the scavenger hunt!
GATEWAY TO REALITY; A MIND-BENDING URBAN FANTASY TALE BY BECCA J. CAMPBELL
Gateway to Reality, now available at Amazon US and Amazon UK and Barnes and Noble. Keep reading for a chance to win one of three prize packs!
Description
Talented artists shouldn’t be waiting tables, scraping by, and living mediocre lives. But that’s exactly what art school graduate Wes Teague is doing.
Then he wakes from a bizarre dream, haunted by the sense that his life isn’t real. A harrowing truth presents itself–the real world lies in his dreams, not when he’s wide awake.
The dream world he enters each night is rich and vibrant. Chicago appears the same on the surface, but chaos runs rampant as gravity, physics, and other laws of nature become fluid, changing unexpectedly. There, Wes’s parents, brother, and sister are strangers. His girlfriend Emily doesn’t recognize him. Wes longs to return, to unlearn the truth about his dual reality.
Wes would sacrifice almost anything to get back to blissful ignorance in a false world.
But now he has feelings for the real Emily.
My Review
Are our dreams real or are our lives a dream?
That’s what Wes Teague is about to discover.
He’s a struggling artist waiting for his big break.
Then he wakes up one day and everything appears out of focus, like peering through a cloudy lens.
Everything familiar feels out of sync and his life feels ,just, wrong.
He’s about to learn his current life is a dream, and the bizarre dreams he’s been having are real life.
In the world of his dreams, he’s lost his love, Emily. In real life, she doesn’t even know him.
Whew, what a step out of reality.
I felt like Wes. It was overwhelming to contemplate the ‘real’ world. Everything was chaotic and seemed without purpose.
Why would he choose this world? Maybe because he can have a fresh start with the new Emily, and his job is to create worlds. What better task than to imagine other worlds and build them?
But he still yearns for Emily. The Emily he loved and lost in his dreams.
Does he have a choice of which world to live in and which one should he choose?
Gateway to Reality is like peering through a kaleidoscope, dazzling you with its possibilities.
Rebecca gives you a love story and a search for one’s self, with a science fiction flavor. I can honestly say, I’ve never read anything like it.
The author showed me a new reality in a way I could understand without becoming confused. It kind of reminded me of The Matrix as far as the dreaming, but it also made me think of an old Twilight Zone episode where a girl could create different realities.
I enjoyed feeling like I had stepped out of this world to read Gateway to Reality, but I’m glad I’m still here in mine.
It is just a story….. right?
Four Stars for an out of this world story.
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Giveaway
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I’m really excited about the giveaway. For those of you who may not know, the majority of the story takes place in Chicago, and it is heavily intertwined with the Cloud Gate sculpture (aka the Bean). All that comes together in the big prize pack. Here’s a peek at the prizes:
- Grand prize: Chicago theme prize pack (autographed paperback of Gateway to Reality, a journal with an artistic representation of Chicago on the cover, Cloud Gate button, Gateway to Reality button, Gateway to Reality postcard, Cloud Gate postcard, and Crown Fountain postcard. (US only)
- Second prize: autographed paperback of Gateway to Reality and Gateway to Reality postcard. (US only)
- Third prize: entire Becca J. Campbell eBook library (Gateway to Reality, Foreign Identity, Not the Norm, and Unmasked Alloy). (All countries)
Enter the rafflecopter giveaway
Visit all of the stops, collect the clues, and Good Luck
Happy Hunting!
The Scavenger Hunt Blog Tour
You can enter the giveaway now, but to really amp up your odds at snatching one of these prize packs, check out each site along the blog tour.
April 1st Paranormal and Urban Fantasy Reviews
April 2nd The Peasants Revolt
April 3rd Catharsis of the Bogue
April 4th The Pen and Whisk
April 5th Write for Life
April 6th S.M. Boyce
April 8th Paranormal Lounge
April 9th Lisa Is a Bookworm
April 10th Jade Kerrion
April 11th Paper Book Princess
April 12th Now is Gone
April 13th Worlds Away Book Blog
April 15th FU Only Knew
April 17th Sarcasm and Lemons
April 18th Brandon R. Luffman
Your Thirteenth Clue
Wes visits many worlds in the Existence. Here’s your challenge in this scavenger hunt:
Collect the names of the fifteen worlds in Gateway to Reality (one will be revealed each day).
Following the schedule above, collect a world name at each stop, and when you have them all, plug that list of 15 worlds into the giveaway below to win a BONUS TEN ENTRIES.
HERE’S YOUR THIRTEENTH WORLD: Crestview Drive
Continue with your hunt tomorrow at Sarcasm and Lemons. Good luck!
About the author
An avid lover of stories that tiptoe the line between fantasy and reality (even when they plunge off one side or the other), Becca J. Campbell looks for new angles on bridging the gap between the two. She holds a special place in her heart for any story that involves superpowers or time travel. Her passion is defying the limits of her own creativity.
Becca’s journey into writing began as many of her other creative endeavors do – by daring herself to try something new. The question “what if I wrote a novel?” and some hastily scribbled notes on a church handout were the inspirations that jump-started her first book. Since then, she has written three additional novels and several shorter works.
As the wife of a musician and mother of three young boys, Becca’s life is never dull. Whether it is writing, painting or knitting, she enjoys making stuff that wasn’t there before. You can find her blog, Inspiration for Creation, at http://www.beccajcampbell.com.
