Review: Theology and Mythology Expanded and Explored In Interesting Writing
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 3, 2014
The story focuses primarily on young adults exploring both the realities of life in a foster care system that appears to have failed its mission as well as the power and possibility of fulfilling wishes through the use of a talisman associated with a 27-year old man, who appears to be aging years by the day.  Charlie is an orphan placed with a foster father, whom Charlie discovers is actually a thief and intends to make Charlie his assistant.  Charlie has become friends with Alex, a girl at his school, and he doesn't want her to know what his foster father does to earn money.  During one of the thieving trips, Charlie encounters a younger boy, Richmond, who is also trying to steal from the same home.  During the ensuing days, they meet Dierick, the young man that ages too quickly--and carries a talisman that Charlie has seen in dreams.  This group eventually seek a place at the center of the earth that Charlie's mother described in a letter to him, a letter he discovers in a hidden compartment of a box he's had since his father died.  As they seek the place described by Charlie's mother, they encounter entities that describe themselves as angels that have stood at the right hand of God--but they do not normally appear at all like angels, and there are other creatures that are definitely not angels, creatures that want the talisman they carry.  But, somehow, Charlie knows more than he realizes--.A good story for young adults, the story touches on subjects of love, family, God, faith, religion, mythology, travel, astronomy and much more.  None of the characters is perfect, yet each has positive qualities that readers will appreciate.  There are definitely grammatical issues, but the author has earned kudos for publishing a complete story in an installment of a series, or trilogy.  One of the few such installments in a trilogy that I have recently read that provides the reader with such a complete story line in the single book while allowing a larger story to be told in the complete trilogy, the author and publisher should be given high praise for such work.  Thank you!