Review: Keepers of Water by R. G. Porter
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 23, 2012
"Keepers of Water" explores the concept of two different worlds sharing one space. Two worlds interdependent but only one world knowing the other exists.But what happens if the world that is so blindly unaware of the other is beginning to inadvertently destroy the hidden world. How would you make contact across the veil that separates the worlds without bringing a more militarily advanced world civilisation into your own. Would you be able to stop the destruction of both worlds?Ariena is about to cross over into the world of the others. The world that does not know she and her people share a common planet and fate with theirs. People that she and her people are afraid of.Arieana knows that there are those of her kind who have entered the other world. People who have decided the best way to solve the problem is destroy the civilisation that is impeding her own. She must not only stop them, she must find out the plan before it is too late. Just as urgently she must bring the soul of her brother home. Her brother who was chasing the rebels and defending the others. Killed by her own kind. His death ignored by the counsel and unavenged.R. G. Porter has created parallel universes that are familiar and yet shrouded in mystery. A story which speaks to the current questions we have about our environment and how we care for it. A novel that pits radical solutions to problems against those who would take a slower approach. It is an interesting interpretation and worth reading and thinking about.The characters are interesting, well formed with good back stories and the action begins right at the start drawing us into the initial skirmishes in the battle to come. The world of her fantasy is complex and realist with just enough information to draw us in but not so much that we can't suspend our disbelief.Karen Bryant Doering