Review: Complex world, gritty and well written
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 18, 2014
This book is long, something I generally won't read only because of its length, but don't let that intimidate you. The Gift of Prophecy is wonderfully and smoothly written. Darla is a woman trying to survive as an outcast in an already messed up post apocalyptic world. She sneaks into junkyards because she has an ability no one else has - she can reverse-engineer in her mind. But that's not without risk. Yardmen, huge creepy men bent on murdering, guard the junkyard. When a young man comes looking for her, she has to save him. She takes him home, and there starts a journey not unlike one Frodo takes. She must travel deep into the Nevermore to fulfill her destiny, quieten the voices in her mind and hopefully restore the poisoned land again.This book has gritty descriptions, and you swear you want to cough reading the parts about the poisoned Nevermore. But it also has romance, one that twists and turns and having read Gardiner's work before, I can only expect one thing from it.A fabulous read that could take me anywhere.