Review: Finely Detailed, Leisurely Read
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 24, 2013
If you like to savor a book and its story, not rush through a fast read, <b>Eternal Infinite</b> by Pam Kesterson will take you on an intricately detailed journey filled with romance, deceit, discovery and enlightenment in a fantasy setting that feels part contemporary and part historical.A mysterious group of people are said to have the secret to eternal life and fear of their kind leads to their mass round up and imprisonment.  Used as guinea pigs by a twisted doctor, the search to find what makes them different and gives them immortality becomes cruel and vicious.  Meanwhile, a comatose young woman is found by the realm’s king and his advisor/best friend, becoming the king’s ward.  She has no identification, but something about her draws Shenser to her, as he sits vigil day after day at her bedside.  When she awakens Saidi has no recollection of her past, but there is something special about her, almost magical.  Will her awakening also awaken the world to the truth of the horrors of the prison camps?  Are they truly immortal in body or is it their belief that their spirit lives on forever that gives them an almost otherworldy countenance?Pam Kesterson has built a world filled with intense descriptions for each scene as her characters thoughts and actions drive this plot along at a steady pace for leisurely reading.  There is no need to assume anything, as motives are explained and each subplot entwines itself around the main tale.  The biggest mysteries on the road to the final discovery are the “Infinites” and who and what they truly are as the blind fear of the unknown becomes an eye-opening enlightenment.