Review: A Fantastic Adventure
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 6, 2014
Trish Marie Dawson once again demonstrates her ability to take a genre and make it her own. Having discovered her work with the Find Me series of post pandemic shattered Earth fiction I moved on to her YA flavoured Station series with equal relish. However when I learned she was turning her hand towards what I would normally describe as Science Fiction I wondered whether this would prove to be a step too far.Needless to say me fears were groundless.The Dry Lands is a fantastic page turner of a read which sinks its hooks in from the start and keeps up a breathless pace as we join Hutch and A'ris across the blasted, sun beaten land of Ernoth as a runaway princess with a dreadful burden struggles against the elements, ruthless assassins, an overly talkative parrot and her growing feelings for a rough and ready bodyguard to reach 'The Dome'Krane Hutch just wants enough money to purchase passage off the planet after being dropped off, quite literally, by his former shipmates for a dalliance with the captain's daughter.Ms Dawson expertly blends their frustrations, fears and slowly growing feelings towards each other against a backdrop of dangerous borderland towns where no'one can be trusted and where the elements are as a deadly as an assassins bullet.This is probably her longest book to date weighing in at 115K+ words but you wouldn't know it. The drama and excitement never lets up for a moment and before you realise it you are approaching the end and wishing it was even longer.All in all this is a book to fall in love with: Great characters, fantastic places, good versus evil and the tantalising glimpse of a possible brighter future for everyone on Ernoth at the climax.My one complaint is that I now have to wait for the next book!Bravo Trish Marie Dawson! Bravo!