Today, I'm very pleased to have author Allie Burke here as my guest. She's sharing some interesting info about the villain, Robert Shea, in her new book Nowhere Train. Be sure to check out her wonderful new adult, paranormal romance release.
I
think what makes Robert Shea—Nowhere
Train’s “villain”—is the fact that he has no idea what he’s fighting for.
In most stories, you find a villain fighting for a very specific purpose and
the hero fighting for who knows what else other than their life. In Nowhere Train’s case, though, it is
Robert Shea who is confused, even if he doesn’t know it.
Nowhere
Train
introduces the post-apocalyptic war between the Holies and the Gunners—in
essence, the hippies and the conservatives. Robert Shea, a father with a
hardcore military background, leads the Gunners. He is ruthless with no
remorse, even to his own son, Devlin. It would seem that he doesn’t care
whether Devlin lives or dies. Well guess what: he doesn’t care.
At
one part of Nowhere Train, it appears to Devlin that his father knows something
about the zombie outbreak that his son does not, but that is only a crack in
the surface. The hard truth is that Robert thinks he knows something based on
stories he may have heard from various family members, but he has never seen
this magical world in action, until it is too late to turn back.
The
war that Robert Shea is so intent on fighting—and winning—shows us that nothing
is ever as it seems. It teaches us to have empathy for those who might be
different from us but not necessarily wrong, and a war is just a war until
those on the battlefield choose to question everything.
Will
Robert Shea realize this in time to save the world? The first book in The Enders series answers this question
and so many more.
About the Book
Title: Nowhere
Train
Author: Allie
Burke
Genre: New
Adult, Paranormal Romance, Dystopian
Two-years post end-of-the-world,
all Jetilyn Fournier wants to do is learn to navigate a world that is no longer
her own. Surviving zombies feels easy, though, compared to dealing with her
rocky relationship with her best friend, the death of her mother, her sister’s
faux happiness, and her father’s sudden desire to speak, after decades of
silence. Saving herself is not even something she can fit in at the moment.
Enter Devlin Shea: for all intents and purposes, a mortal enemy. Though she
should hate him instantly upon contact, she doesn’t, and before she knows it, Jett
has another life to save. Told in the surreal prose that Allie
Burke has come to be known for, Nowhere Train is the first zombie novel of its kind. At two parts hippie and one part magic, it is as
deadly as it is beautiful; as dark as it is hopeful, baring the question in
mind: who–and what–are Jett and her family really fighting for?
Author Bio
A Bestselling Author,
publishing imprint Manager, and Psychology Today Blogger from Burbank,
California, Allie Burke writes books she can’t find in
the bookstore. Having been recognized as writing a “kickass book that defies
the genre it’s in”, Allie writes with a prose that has
been labeled poetic and ethereal.
Her life is a beautiful
disaster, flowered with the harrowing existence of inherited eccentricity, a
murderous family history, a faithful literature addiction, and the intricate
darkness of true love. These are the enchanting experiences that inspire Allie’s fairytales.
From some coffee shop in Los
Angeles, she is working on her next novel.
Visit Allie at http://wordsbyallieburke.com
Links
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