Review: An enchanting dip into a magical realm
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 2, 2011
Witches is volume II of the Unbridled Boundaries Series.The tale tells of a magical universe, made up for futuristic worlds and long ago magical lands....The Witches, led by a Coven of Elders, populate their numbers by laying with men that they chose. These chosen men then impregnate their wives and they later become mothers to magical witch daughters. The husbands then invariably abuse or beat their wives and children, and the witches step in, removing the wife and daughter, restoring the wives and taking away their memories, while their daughters are trained to be the powerful creatures they were born to be....Tiffany is one of these witches, but she does not agree with the Coven's ways....sexually abused by her father, and having had a childhood of being abused and watching her mother be beaten, she still loves her father and feels that he was trying to be a better man. Tiffany believes that the Witches' interventions into their lives have diverted the men's paths from the men they could have been, and set them onto the path to be the brutes they are.Three of Tiffany's sisters are missing, stolen by a powerful, dark Wizard, a new and unknown danger to the witches, the Coven and their way of live itself....The Coven dispatch Tiffany and 5 of her sisters to destroy the evil sorceror, Lord Gensrow and they set out on their dangerous, cross-world quest. With Tiffany's ghosts of the past haunting her, will she survive and defeat the dark Lord?Lord Gensrow has an axe to grind against the witches, and a dark childhood of his own. His hatred of their way of life has propelled him to his murderous voyage, and he won't stop till he has tracked every young witch by their pulsating Earth Stone and made his own Wizard army......This tale is enchanting, we encounter gnomes, unicorns, horny centaurs, dragon bats to name a few. I really enjoyed this foray into Phil Stern's universe,and I will be checking out his other works. At 86p on Kindle, why not dip your toe into this tingling, mesmerizing escapist tale....This novella is available on Amazon now along with other works by Phil SternFollow him on Twitter at @Philstern100