Review: "Give Anew"
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 22, 2014
I am a fan of Hunter S. Jones’ previous book, September Ends, so I began reading the sequel with much excitement.  After a few chapters I was aware of an internal dialog and realized it was occurring in my mind.  It went like this:  “Changelings!  Hunter S. Jones has stolen her magnificent characters and replaced them with changelings!”  “Now, now, they are her characters to do with as she pleases.”  “But I want the ones from the first book.”  “But you hate cookie cutter sequels.”  “You’re right!  This certainly is NOT a predictable sequel!”  “And…?”  “And, well, what a genius of a writer Hunter S. Jones is to imagine her characters about 8 years later as being so different than we readers expected.  Being post-Jack O. Savage survivors.  Living life without The Poet. I’m still a bit angry about it, but I’ll continue reading this wild imagining…”  I don’t know who the “Anonymous English Poet” is, but Ms. Jones is certainly a poet too.  Her book embodies one of the poems in September Again and I quote:  “Because to give anew’s to live/This joyful dream’s your air borne lift/To give and give and give anew.”  She certainly gave us a new story and I look forward to the promised prequel!