Review: Fantasy Adventure
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 25, 2012
By a simple device, barely utilized in the book, the author converted his story into a fantasy. Whether he felt it necessary to do so make his story hold together or whether it was an essential device from the beginning, I can't say. Oh, yes, no secret. We learn about it before anything much happens in the book, he can heat or cool tea, and only tea, with his bare hands to the highest and lowest temperatures. What might be a light-hearted adventure romp wherein the 90 pound weakling becomes Charles Atlas with the help of friends, becomes a light-hearted fantasy adventure in which the merely human always has to take a back-seat to the miraculous. This choice vitiates the qualities which the weakling's friends bring to the table, strength, an adventurous spirit, multiple talents in getting together whatever is needed for a particular situation, none can compete with The Gift. The book should be entertaining for most potential readers, although it does have one of those endings which seem to be induced by author weariness. Once again, it is saved by the fact that it is all fantasy so that no illogicalities are out of place.