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Lenders II: The Time Tribulations                       (The Lenders Saga Book 2)                                     By Travis Borne

1/11/2019

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Multi-volume author, Travis Borne introduces us to his second volume in the Lenders series, Lenders II: The Time Tribulations:
No hot-salsa competitions this time, but there’s more tacos and tequila. And guess who’s in the kitchen! Head back to Old Town, even Club Subterranean, and to the pushing, most pressing limits of existence itself, where there can be no escape. The system has you, it has, your mind. And seemingly forever: The Time Tribulations!

Proofreading for Lenders provided by expert “Word Refiner,” Mark Schultz, who reads more than 60 books a year. Mark said, “This sci-fi story is a sweeping and epic tale! Can we call it sweepic?”
Mark Schultz is not hard to find in the world of books! Read his entire review and interview of author Travis Borne. 

Travis Borne says, “Now, let’s dive back into LENDERS, saga number two!”

A skin-striping, pillory-clamping, mind-twisting dive into the bowels of Hell. There’s Jewel City and the all-new, prismatically colorful, Midtown. And the punishing Underworld, brimming with beasts unimaginable, and little ones, red ones, hairy ones and blobs. Workers, officers, humans and beasts.

And back to Vallecito, Colorado, the bunker, with all-new characters, against-all-odds rescues of some very special old ones, and adrenaline-surging, 90-mph rides in “Esperanza,” across the desert again with ol’ Felix. And glimmering bottles of Mezcal with the little gusanos traveling into throats like fingernails.

Rico, Jim—and I mustn’t spoil the “who else”—again embark on their most tumultuous, skull-splitting, light-speed adventures. If you made it through Lenders I intact, and if you can stomach it, and if you are emotionally and mentally stable enough to endure it, then… No, Lenders II will still send your subconsciousness into perdition. Read only if you dare!

There’s heat. There’re slabs of carne del puerco and blistering desert days. And you’ll never guess who’s servin’ the meat this time! Old Town Mexico and raging transformations that rip at the fabric of reality. An absorbing of souls, and cold steel stabbing hearts. And monumental plumes of dust. Legs burning, pushing, bulging, the enraged one speeding across the desert at sonic speeds!
He’s back…

The terrible machine city, green and purple haze and drones numbering in the billions, more. Surfing music and daring escapes from other dimensions, and otherworldly realms ruled by the mind. Omnipotent spheres in heads, inchoate wizards and mystical, virtual, dragon-like creatures. Plans gone awry and rides into space—and deep dives into the ocean. The Marianas Trench and hidden, secret cities. Arcs and slaughtered elephants, plesiosaurs and megalodons and giant jellyfish. Dinosaurs and old, three-legged sex-bots from Meddlinn, and almighty seaweed-green ones. Hyper-Millennials and reinvigorated minds. heli-jets, hover-jets, space-jets. Crazy old ladies, piloting, soaring, plummeting: Nanny, and Fran, yep, they’re back!

And others hanging on for dear life, or lending in the deepest, darkest, hottest depths of the system—pitfalls of the mind! Lunacy and haunting screams, insanity and no way out! Lenders II has all of this and infinitely more. Buckle in, because if you thought Lenders I was a rush, well, you haven’t experienced anything yet!
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​Travis is right, Lenders II is a phenomenal extension of the story from Lenders I!
This new book has not just blown me out of the water, it sent me over the mountain as well! This is some of the finest sci-fi writing that I have read in a very long time. Everything about this book is so good! Scene setting, dialogue, action, in-depth descriptions; because of the length the level of detail is wonderful!
If you love rock-solid science fiction, with some grit, hair-raising action and great dialogue, then this book is made for you! I do recommend you get and read the newly revised, third edition of Lenders I first, only available in Kindle format at this time.
Lenders II gets a score of 5.1 stars! It’s that good!
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You can buy this book:
https://www.amazon.com/Lenders-II-Time-Tribulations-Saga-ebook
https://www.goodreads.com/-lenders-2-time-tribulations
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lenders-II-Time-Tribulations-Saga-ebook
You can follow Travis Borne:
https://twitter.com/Travis_Borne
http://travisborne.com
https://www.facebook.com/Lenders
https://www.facebook.com/borneworlds

 Here is the link for the review of "Lenders, The Unlicensed Consiousness" also Travis and I had a lengthy conversation in the comments section: www.wordrefiner.com/book-reviews/lenders-the-unlicensed-consciousness-by-travis-borne
Tags: dystopian, drones, killer drones, wormhole, artificial intelligence, lucid dreams
Copyright © 2019 Mark Schultz except for the author's introduction 
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