Review: Pleasantly Surprised!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 3, 2012
I think I was checking out new science fiction authors because I don't know quite how I came across this enjoyable story, but having just finished it I liked it so much that I began readingThawed Fortunes (The Guadel Chronicles Volume 2), apparently the third in a series, which gave the first chapter at the end of this book.  It's a coming of age book, which I suppose is aimed at young people, dare I say young adults?  At any rate, it is the coming of age of a young orphaned boy and girl who live in caves in a world of ice and snow.  They are both sponsored and in training to become what they are chosen for in adulthood.  I never thought I would care to read anything that I deemed to speak to magic but this has done it.  Of course, there are the adult Guadel of differing families who are the sponsors and teachers possessing varying degrees of "magic" and "entering minds, or mind melds if you are a trekkie," of the young ones.  I enjoyed this read and plan to continue on with the newThawed Fortunes (The Guadel Chronicles Volume 2)having just purchased it and will pursue when I retire for the evening.  It's not quite science fiction but entertaining none the less and has me hooked.