Anybody care to tell his/her plot synopsis?

Act 1
In 2003, we meet Joshua Martinez: twelve years old, with more trouble than his hands can hold, but with a fire in his limbs that catches the attention of the newest team of volunteers in the infamous Sitio Crisolita. Joshua's antics become key to him forging strong ties with the volunteers, in particular the charismatic speaker Cedric Estaniel, the mercurial writer Isadora Almario, and the engaging firebrand Marcelina Benitez. For two years, Joshua and his friends Kevin, Ollie, Tonix, Roberto, and their neighbors work alongside the volunteers in many projects to improve the lives of the sitio community. Ida and Cedric encourage Joshua to pursue his passion for dance, but he is already motivated enough by his wish to win Marcelina's affections.

Act 2
A fire in a nearby neighborhood in 2005 sends a new relation, Deana, to the Martinez family. A change in the volunteer group's structure has Cedric taking charge, with Marcelina and Ida as his seconds-in-command. The first project that Cedric proposes for the volunteer group is the building of a youth center in the area. Joshua and his friends are tasked to win the support of the local government and adults in the community. A minor spat ensues between Joshua and Tonix. Soon, the resulting conflict spirals into a series of ugly revelations about various individuals involved in the project. Ida angrily withdraws her support from Cedric's group. Joshua turns to vices, and nearly kills himself with an overdose.

Act 3
2006 has Marcelina stepping up to become Cedric's partner in leading the group. However this arrangement soon turns into an ongoing duel between both leaders, particularly because of ongoing political issues in the area. Joshua observes all of this, as well as the chaos in his own family. At this point, one of the long-standing volunteers in the area, Nicolai Figueroa, puts Joshua and some of the other boys under the mentorship of some of the new volunteers from Saint John the Baptist University (SJBU). Joshua becomes particularly close to Nicolai's young cousin, Mark Lorenz. He starts recovering from his apathy and taking an interest again in dance and academics. Eventually Marcelina and Cedric's bickering leads to both of them stepping down from the youth center project. Ollie, encouraged by Nicolai and Joshua, steps up to take charge. Midway through the year of 2007, Joshua becomes the subject of what seems to be a fool's wager: he has to take the entrance test to SJBU and see if he can win a scholarship.

Act 4
In 2008, Joshua gets accepted to SJBU. He is reunited with Ida, who also happens to be studying there. Ollie, who intends to focus on her own studies, turns over the youth center project to Ida and Mark. With Joshua's help, the new leaders manage to revive some old projects as well as innovate on much needed changes in the area. such as widening educational options in the area. In the meantime, Joshua manages to fit into university life easily enough. He befriends many kids in the volunteer group, particularly Tara Faye Rivera, his unofficial mission partner. However by the summer of 2009, his world gets rocked again as a new wave of activism sweeps the university and politics becomes an issue for the sitio kids again. Marcelina, Cedric, and some of their old friends have taken a renewed interest in the sitio project , but with a more politically-inclined direction in mind for the group. Joshua and Tara however are given the leadership of the sitio youth center. The novel ends with the duo trying to figure out what to do next....

My heart, my life, my praise is all for You

On the island of Lusong, on the shores of the great inland lake, the people of the village of Pinagbayanan live out their days in constant fear. When their ancestors first arrived here five generations ago, they met Mauban, the lake spirit, who had promised to be their benefactor as they settled the new land. But upon settling in, they heard a different description of Mauban from the nomadic Ati they encountered. They said that she was a vengeful, consuming spirit whose greatest desire was to draw people away from their worship of the MayCapal, who alone truly had dominion over all lands, including the shores of the great lake.

Now, many years later, two of the community’s children grow into adulthood, bewildered by their new circumstances: they slowly discover that a prophet of the MayCapal had arrived on the night they were born, and declared that they would lead the people away from the tyranny of Mauban, and back to the exclusive worship of the MayCapal.

Timugan, an orphan brought to the community by the prophet as a newborn, had been raised as an Aliping Sagiliran, the lowest regarded among the members of the community. Not even allowed the honor of being taught wield a sword, he has instead been mentored by Pangil, the Datu’s son. And now he is about to discover why he was treated so differently from what tradition dictated.

Maylaya, a priestess-in-training under Mauban’s high Catalonan, Sigbin, thinks she knows who she is and what kind of life she is destined for. But when she discovers that she is the Datu’s daughter, she begins, for the first time, to question.

In the year of the great floods, these two would receive their calling. And the peoples on the shores of the great inland lake would finally be called to the worship of the MayCapal once more.

RE de Leon is a businessman and first time novelist based in Agoo, La Union, Philippines. Mag-Ahon is the first of a trilogy of mythopoeic novels derived from legends of the shores of Laguna de Bay, circa 800 A.D.

This story is set in beautiful but messy land known as the Philippines and it mainly revolves around three people: Michael Faustino, Isabela Mercado, and Melissa Cruz. Michael and Melissa are the best of friends; however Michael has always loved Melisa ever since they were children. And though his admission didn't really work, it's alright for they remain friends and he now only sees himself as the martyr who loves her from the distance. When Isabela comes in the picture, she immediately becomes instant friends with Melissa, to the great annoyance of Michael as he notices Melissa and Isabel becoming the new best friends. Michael won’t stand for it, if he can’t have her as his girlfriend, he definitely will not lose Melissa as his best-friend. And so starts the war between Michael and Isabel for Melissa’s friendship, with Melissa none the wiser. Who will win? Who will lose? What’s the point again?

HAHAHA

It's kinda lame cause this is seriously my first time...

"I'm the crazy person in this crazy world that makes sense to the crazy mind"

I like what you said, wolfrahm :)

I'm bad at writing synopsis without blurting out everything that's going to happen in the story. It's either I tell too little or tell too much. But anyway, here's mine:

What would you do if the life you knew is washed away?

Faith Alvarez is set for life: she has a job that doesn't feel like a job, awesome friends and a boyfriend that she's wants to spend the rest of her life with. Her family can use a bit more improvement, but she's not the one to complain about that with how her life is going. There's nothing else she could have asked for...until God pulls a Job on her.

When Faith's boyfriend breaks up with her on their second anniversary, she thinks nothing else could get worse, until other things are thrown her way. She gets paired up with one of the most immature people at work and loses her work partner to a newbie who intends to show her up. She hides from her friends who wouldn't understand what she's going through, and her mom starts calling her again insisting she quits her job and get a higher-paying one.

Faith knows she's strong enough and she has God to hold on to in times of crisis, but how much more can she take? And what if God decides that it's not yet enough? Will her she be able to keep her faith and believe it will pull her through?

Tina, ML for the Philippines
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two stories in one:

Odd-Numbered Chapters of the novel tell of a lone chronicler currently in self-imposed exile within the Island of Marete, and his personal interactions amongst the people who currently live and thrive within it; along with key characters who have shaped both the course of the island's history and its currently-peaceful state for five to seven years after its liberation from mercenary invasions, otherworldly entities, and other far-destructive elements. the very setting itself is an inspiration of a 1998 Mac/PC adventure game called Quest For Glory V: Dragon Fire.

Even-Numbered Chapters of the novel illustrate a present-day setting with a story almost synonymous to that of the Odd-Numbered one, in the sense that the main character within is experiencing his own personal self-exile from the outside world; while still living the mundane, sometimes unreal, lush, and of course utter senselessness of real life as we know today, and the surreal image of life in which it is often always portrayed.

being the Chapter Titles written only in English, Odd-Numbered Chapters'll be written in almost old-school, pre-colonial Tagalog, while Even-Numbered Chapters'll be conveyed in present-day contemporary tagalog.

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