Review: In Search of the Father
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 29, 2014
One minute Joshua is skateboarding in his city in California.  The next, he is in an unknown wilderness, completely naked.Then come the sweepers, ravenous stalkers whose sole purpose is to sweep across the land and eat everyone.  When there is no food, they will eat themselves.But they do not eat him.  For some reason they take him captive.  He is then rescued by a native warrior, a female about his age, who is everything Joshua is not.  She is beautiful, muscular, an extraordinary fighter, and she seems to hate him.  But she rescued him.Confused, Joshua follows her through the jungle to a place she saw while dreaming.He finds one clue that may or may not lead to the answers to his questions:  the sweepers captured him, and he has a dream where he kills an enemy standing behind him, only to discover that the person behind him is himself.Through many such twists and turns, bits of prophecy and lore, the author takes us on an amazing adventure.  Some questions are answered.  Some seem to wait in the sidelines for a future time, hiding, never quite revealing themselves.Joshua could be any boy’s struggle to find purpose and a destiny, or to become a hero.  We all have the hero inside us, but our insecurities often hamper us from success.  Joshua feels all the same struggles, and in spite of doubts, continues on.Will he fulfill his destiny?  We will need to read the next book in this series to know.  It’s a delightful book and very fun to read.