Until the Beat Stops

By: Stella Mowen

Narrated by: Lillian Rachel

Author Stella Mowen delivers an extraordinary and awe-inspiring contemporary fiction debut novel that people can't stop talking about.

Stella Mowen's critically-acclaimed debut novel, Until the Beat Stops, has received high praise from listeners, dozens of fan letters from around the world, and said to cultivate personal mindful moments - an emotionally gripping, multi-viewpoint narrative that captures the hearts of all ages.

An inspirational Seattle-based startup, The First Hill, originally designed to preserve the legacy of terminally ill cancer patients, winds up becoming the go-to digital platform for preserving all important moments in history - past, present, and the future moments to come. Written in a documentary style, the narrator takes you back in time to mindful moments in each founders' past that inspired them to create, and leave behind, a world-changing legacy.

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Some Beats Last Forever

It has been said many times since this novel's release that it is a celebration of life, and truer words could not be used to describe the journeys of First Hill founders Lilac, Mason, Dorian, Benjamin and Ivy. As they evolve from tight-knit group to diaspora back to tight-knit group again, their personal losses and struggles are juxtaposed against the backdrop of their created entity that is the First Hill. Readers must process the rather beautiful irony that the Founding Five worked tirelessly to create a method for others to cope with uncertainty and loss, but who would emerge to provide the same solution for them? Except that they realize, though not painlessly, that the network was always present inside each of them from the start, but self-activation was null.

No road is traveled by one's self, and UTBS will make you stop and question not only the level to which you are being an active participant in your own life, but also the intensity with which you are embracing those who make your life more fulfilling. A phenomenal read for family, or anyone who has friends upon whom they rely. Which would mean the vast majority of the population...

Moments That Linger

A beautiful meditation on moments in life—brief, vanishing, yet eternal. Stella Mowen reminds us that even in loss, there is meaning, and in imperfection, there is beauty.