Review: AMAZINGLY BRILLIANT!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 20, 2013
Some time ago I bought an Illuminated Verse from a second-hand shop which, to my mind at least, drives home the underlying message of Pieces..."There is so much good in the worst of us,And so much bad in the best of us,That it ill behoves any one of usTo find fault with the rest of us."Published by Alan Tabor Ltd. ManchesterI have to say from the outset that Pieces was unexpected!  For a couple of reasons, the first being Nhys had said in the last book of the New Atlantis series, The Key was the final of the series; but I am very, very pleased that she penned Pieces. My other reason is the storyline itself is challenging and confronting from beginning to end, which does make it different to the other books.  Don't worry, there's still a happy ending, but with this one, that ending is truer to real relationships in that Dirk and Krista will be questioning themselves and their motives that drive them for a long time to come in their lives...The darker side of human nature rears its head in this book; a lot of conflict was felt by many of the various citizens in New Atlantis when a Gestapo agent was brought into their world to save his life - and so saving the life of Krista, who was very unhappy to suddenly find her Key is a member of one of the most terrifying organisations of the Second World War.  Many of the original inhabitants were wary and reluctant to grant this man a place in their Utopian world, but that was nothing when compared to the hatred felt by a handful of the `saved' children of the 1942 death train in book three, Savage.The lengths these now-grown children take would be shocking enough in our own world, but in a world that has lived in peace for four hundred years?  It rocks the foundations of their world!So once again, I say thank you to Nhys for an amazingly brilliant story.  Well done!Janxxxx