DDBook Reviews

“Billions of universes run slightly parallel to our own universe; worlds full of infinite possibilities”                                                                                                                                                                                                 Varun Sayal – Foreword: Time Crawlers                                                                      click on the image to go to amazon In a literary world where it seems that shifter-, paranormal- and regency romance has taken over, is it still possible to find pure science fiction?  Varun Sayal has written six sci-fi short stories that remind of Asimov and his great science fiction feats.  Sayal writes technical and the emphasis of these stories is clearly on the science part of the fiction.  He explains the science behind the stories in highly technical language and through this provides a sense of truth to what he conveys.  The stories vary in structure and theme and

Wolves did not hope. They accepted life as it came and learned to flow with the path of their padding paws. One could not change the past nor predict the future, so to worry or mourn with regret the way things happened was foreign to animals of the wild. Cheree Alsop. Keeper of the Wolves (Kindle Locations 107-109). Kindle Edition.                                                                      click on the image to go to amazon The Keeper of the Wolves is one of the best shifter books I have read.  It is written from the point of view of Victus, a wolf forced to change into a man in the moonlight.  We meet him where he is captive a cruel man who whips him and places him on display as he changes.  Raised by wolves, Victus knows only how to be a wolf. Koya sees him in his cage and buys him from the Cruel One.  Joven her twin brother is not too happy with her but concedes that she may heal him.  Koya befriends Victus and through the crises surrounding their kingdom, Victus

"Magic.  Bright and brilliant and blue, it glowed in her eyes and shimmered beneath her skin.  It rushed through her blood, flickering visibly in her veins.  The same magic that existed in the elements."  In a world where magic has been declared illegal, magic users have gone underground to survive.  Ridley Kayne lost her mother in the magical catastrophe that caused the banning of magic and her father lost his business and now they live above her grandfather's old antique shop. Ridley desperately wants to have a good education so she works hard for a scholarship, but in her spare time, she is a thief who uses her magic to gain entrance and go about unseen.  When she steals a figurine from Archer Davenport's family she unwittingly becomes part of a world she had not known existed.  Together, Ridley and Archer travel to the magical underworld, discover the secrets her father kept from her.  Realise that she does not know everything about her best friend