Her virgin birth – science proves true.
Toys speaking messages from Beyond – also true.
People snatched by a sky-portal when she heals others – ditto.
Elena didn’t ask for healing powers, or for a drunken stepfather, or for inanimate objects to channel divine instructions to her since childhood.
But in author Hutchinson’s odd Florida (setting of his At the Edge of the Universe , my pick here) strange things happen regularly.
What is stealing away people? Why? Where do they go?
Maybe it’s a better place than Elena’s high school and now-constant demands that she heal people.
Fiction or science fiction? (or fantasy?)
**kmm
Book info: The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza / Shaun David Hutchinson. Simon Pulse, 2018. [author site] [publisher site] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.
Not sure if it’s science fiction or fantasy? Yes please.This looks right up our alley! Thanks for sharing this for A-Z. Most of your posts are going to get a second look after the obligatory visit to some of the other bloggers.
More SF than fantasy (no dragons, just ‘something’ that speaks to Elena through objects), maybe ‘magical realism’ – glad that it’s your type of book, so go find it!
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