The White City, John Claude Bemis
The White City, John Claude Bemis
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The White City
Book 3 of The Clockwork Dark

Author: John Claude Bemis

Narrator: John H. Mayer

Unabridged: 12 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/23/2011

Synopsis

In The Nine Pound Hammer, John Bemis introduced middle-grade readers to a whole new approach to epic fantasy, founded on characters and themes from American mythology and lore, including the legend of John Henry. Now in the third and final book, the heroes come together at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago for a final confrontation with a businessman and tycoon who is in fact an ageless evil known as the Gog. With his Dark Machine, he intends to bend the world to his ruthless vision of progress and efficiency. It's man versus machine all over again, fighting for the soul of humanity in front of Ferris's Wheel. For fans of adventure fantasy like Percy Jackson and Peter and the Starcatchers.

About The Author

John Claude Bemis grew up in rural eastern North Carolina, where he loved reading the Jack tales and African American trickster stories, as well as fantasy and science fiction classics. A songwriter and musician in an Americana roots band, John found inspiration for his Clockwork Dark trilogy in old-time country and blues music and the Southern folklore at its heart. John is a former elementary school teacher and lives with his family in Hillsborough, North Carolina. Visit John's website at johnclaudebemis.com.John H. Mayer is a character actor whose voice has been heard on numerous commercials, animated programs, audio books and narrations including E! Entertainment’s Celebrity Profiles. John was a five-year member of the Groundlings comedy theater company in Los Angeles. Recent BOT recordings include Cesar Millan’s How to Raise the Perfect Dog, Be a Pack Leader, and Cesar’s Way; A Voyage Long and Strange by Tony Horwitz, and American Lightening by Howard Blum.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Fraser

The theme of human freedom vs. soulless machine goes back a long way but it still works when it's done well. Here, for instance. Following V2, the Gog is setting up his Great Machine at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, after which all of humanity will become obedient cogs in a world-machine. Ray and th......more

Goodreads review by Simon

The trilogy concludes, everything comes to an end and we say goodbye to characters we have known for a span of 3 books. There is great battles, festival adventures, continuity of traditions, technological discoveries, murder, revenge, redemption, shocking secrets revealed, and of course the great Wh......more

Goodreads review by Kathy

I listened to the whole thing but it is not a stand alone book. Some of the characters are interesting but I might listen again after I read the first two.......more

Goodreads review by Felicity

Not a series you can dip in and out of at whim, as with most trilogies The Clockwork Dark books must be read in order. Marketed as being particularly suitable for those aged 8 to 13, as an adult I can testify this is just as worthy a read for those a lot older. And personally I'd regard the series a......more

Goodreads review by Harry

If you can jump into a third book of a series and stay with it and be intrigued, captured, and mesmerized, then heck, it has to be good! Such was the case with John Clause Bemis' book. This mix of the nostalgic, historical, and fantastical combined under one setting takes you back and forth to conte......more

Quotes

Kirkus Reviews, July 15, 2011:
"With The Clockwork Dark series drawing to a close, author Bemis has saved the best for last...With a plot as intricate as the Machine at its center and a page-turning pace, this unique, ambitious American fantasy comes to a satisfying end that would please even John Henry."

VOYA, June 19, 2011:
"This third book focuses the complicated plots of the trilogy into a consistent conclusion that forces the reader to consider nature’s strength and technology’s dangers....The first two volumes’ middle school fans who are now in junior high will find more than enough action and thought for their maturing tastes."

Tom Angleberger, author of The Strange Case of Origami Yoda:
"A rigorous adventure set in our own country’s folkloric past, when the sons of John Henry and Little Bill fought a desperate, fantastical battle for the soul of America. A series which any self-respecting middle school book nerd would wolf down eagerly."

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