Review: `My time will come. EVIL will return.'
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 27, 2013
British writer Sandra Bernice Knott is a grandmother who has, at the bequest of her grandchildren, published her first book. Inspired by the love of storytelling she has created an illustrated book (the illustrations are apparently her own) and she awaits the response of readers outside her circle of grandchildren. Reading her brief biography we find that she has raised a lot of money for charities acting as an auctioneer. This is a person who seems easy to love. But to the story:Long ago the little planet Lunas was plagued by evil. Most of the people were evil but a few good warriors fought to make the good and evil equal, but the wars left the planet nearly barren. The heads of state met and decided that the good and the bad should be equal, assigning the noon to midnight hours for the good people (who loved light, laughter, birdsongs, and kindness) and the midnight to noon hours for the bad people (who loved darkness, fear, and the sound of silence). Curfews were imposed further separating the two factions. The two most important people on Lunas were the White Witch (good and kind) and the Black Witch (evil and cunning) and they decided that the children should be free of the strict curfew rules until they reached the age of 12.Jump to the present. Anne, the granddaughter of Kia the White Witch, is celebrating her 12th birthday, but her celebration is thwarted by the evils of Gorid the Black Witch who knows that the White Witch has promised Anne that on her 12th birthday she would become the youngest Great White Witch ever. Knowing this the evil Black Witch with the help of Valgrath the devil sets out to destroy Anne and after many terrifying adventures and surprises, of course good overcomes evil...or does it?Knott's book is a bit too long for children's attention span and there is a need for editing and clarification in much of the latter half of the book. Knott would be wise to find a professional illustrator to replace her pencil drawings that actually detract from the story. But it is a first book, the concept is a fine one, and it seems that in time Sandra Bernice Knott's imagination will produce some solid children's stories. Grady Harp, September 13