Review: Paranormal Thriller Baddassary!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 31, 2013
I read this book twice over, as a beta ~ critique reader. The thriller intensity sucked me in, hook, line and sinker. My inner scifi/paranormal/horror geek was thoroughly satisfied.This is precisely the kind of book I enjoy reading. It hits all the buttons: Epic battles, epic moments of self-discovery, epic tales of heroes and villains, and of course there's loads of angst ridden teenagers with badass paranormal/psychokinesis abilities, trying to find their way through horrific scenes of violence and callous disregard for human life.Can I get HELL YEAH?Its X-MEN meets CLASH OF THE TITANS directed by Quentin Tarantino. *cue the cheesy surfer music*We begin the story with this enigmatic character named Wisdom. He's just been through a vicious brawl, but he won. Wisdom isn't exactly human, he's something else: a demi-god, so powerful he can move through space-time to restart the battle in an attempt to balk fate. This isn't the first time he's fought this battle.But something has changed. Some other party is mucking about in the timeline, the outcome is no longer certain.As the tale unfolds, we meet a series of gifted people Wisdom has collected over the years, the Anomalies. They are being trained for the showdown.A secret society of sorcerers known as The Council of Peacocks is plotting their return to power. Once a thriving religious group, they are now led by one of Wisdom's mistakes, Propates, a man transformed into an immortal. The Council intends to use humanity as a bartering chip in their deals with demonic entities from other dimensions who want a piece of Earth.With his army of ragtag teenager Anomalies, Wisdom intends to stop the Council, at all costs. But these kids are freaks of nature who don't even know how they came to be, let alone how to harness their wicked powers.And how can a band of kids who have more in common with demons than angels become heroes when they barely understand what the hell Wisdom is asking them to do?In the end, we are securely lined up for the next installment of a very promising series.M. Joseph Murphy raises concepts of faith, religion, an insightful view of human history, and a couple of philosophical questions.Is there really such a thing as fate? And if we could move through time, could we change it?