Aethereal's Children

Villian? Villian? Who is the Villian?

Date of Review: 11, February 2008
Science Fiction / Fantasy: Multiformat Ebook, Softcover

No Illustrations

Twenty years since the last galactic spanning war, and suddenly large flights of exploring Guardians have disappeared. No return word, no warnings, just suddenly gone without a trace. Is it a new weapon or an old foe?

Synopsis:

Who would not want to be enhanced? To increase your senses, loose a lot of weight, be able to talk to computers directly, to grow to seven feet, to be able to manipulate energy and matter directly.... and the only price was you had to look like an elf lord?

But with increased abilities comes increased responsibilities towards the galactic society. Even when you are the son of one of the few Earth Guardians.

David, Inga, Maria, and KP need to be able to solve the mystery of the disappearing Guardian flights or be sent home in disgrace. What a way for four teenagers to find adulthood!

Impression:

Writing sequels should be classified as one of the hardest art forms in existance. Thoughts move and change, when suddenly the story line the author thought they had created, instead has erupted into a totally new creature. No matter how hard the author tries to disguise this, even the first time reader can see, the novel has increased diversity.

Christopher Wilcox creates a wonderful universe full of creatures not yet seen or found, and then casts them into a plot searching for intense drama and conflict. Because it is a sequel, the reader can quickly identify the cause to be the fact that the characters who were the villians are no longer the villians and until the very last page, the real villian does not make his appearance.

Here is a situation where the previous "bad guys" are now "good guys" and some of the "good guys" are now "bad guys". This is somewhat analogous to John Wayne switching from a white hat to a black hat and back again. For long time readers of the AEthereal series, it is may be a stretch to swallow the plot line. For everyone else, its going to be a great read.

The characters are engrossing, the situation feels real, the story moves at a great pace, and you can't put the novel down. For a wonderful afternoon or two of reading, this is a must have book.

RATING: 8 Campfires

Citations:

Link to Whiskey Creek Press, Cover art from Soft Cover

Author / editors / anthologists:

Christopher W. Wilcox, Sr.

Title & length:

Aethereal's Children
340 pages

Publishing House & date:

Whiskey Creek Press; April 2008
Casper, WY 82605
(http://www.whiskeycreekpress.com)

ISBN & LCCC :

ISBN: 978-1-59374-726-8

Comparable publications:

AEthereal
AEthereal Revealed
AEthereal's Clans
AEthereal's Pride

Targeted readership:

Young Adults 16 and all groups older.

0 Flames for sexual content.

Author's credentials:

(curteousy of Whiskey Creek Press)

Christopher W. Wilcox, Sr.
	I am a retired Air Force Senior NCO and presently work as a regional IT Infrastructure Support Manager for a Fortune 500 company covering a dozen locations in North America. I have six children, eight grandchildren, three dogs, and a library of over 1,000 books of almost every genre.

Reviewer & reviewer credentials:

M. D. Johnson

MD Johnson is a mountain northwest regional -- freelance author, living in Payette, Idaho.

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