Review: High Adventure Blends with Current Crisis
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 12, 2014
"The Seasons": Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring, are four magical siblings of different ages, who are found together in a forest by a nun, each sitting on a patch of ground that reflects their names. Summer sits among flowers, Fall under a tree shedding leaves, Spring under a budding tree, and Winter amid ice and snow. All are taken by the nun to an orphanage where they are living happily as the story begins. That is, until Winter begins to see garbage and trash monsters, snakes made of tossed away cartons, plastic, and tin that are coiled to attack her.She questions her sanity until the lovely employee of the orphanage Miss Plastic reveals that she and the Seasons, are actually children of Mother Nature, without parents in the usual sense, placed on earth, usually in precarious circumstances, with magical powers to help the earth.As the story unfolds, Winter's younger sister and Miss Plastic are kidnapped and Winter finds there are two factions of Mother Nature's children. One group is called Pollution, those who are resentful of being "left" by Mother Nature to fend for themselves and want to even the score by destroying the earth as we know it through pollution and those looking to fight Pollution and keep the earth green. It is Pollution who has captured Miss Plastic and Winter's sister and the three other Season's siblings set out on the adventure of their lives to reunite their family and save Miss Plastic.Highly imaginative and very well written, C.S. Ulyate takes the reader on a phantasmagorical odyssey that weaves our present day pollution crisis with our heroes and a "living" evil broach, the key to the earth's destruction, tossed to Winter by Miss Plastic during her abduction.All Mother Nature's children have magical powers. We have fire balls and fire streams and balls of snow shot from palms and sprayed through fingers and seeds that grow  through sheer will power. Some Mother Nature's kids are living in the sewers, also with special powers, some are animals.Streams are skated upon travel ways, trees change the kids into sap to send them "flying" through an underground root transportation system. And this just touches the tip of this author's awesome imagination.A fantastic YA read, but well enjoyed by this adult. Highly recommended.