Review: Immersive Fantasy At Its Best
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 30, 2013
Trey Copeland is a brave new writer who is unafraid of the Taboo placed on exploring religion or its role in society. He gives us two distinct worlds that seemingly are on different spectrums, but as you read you begin to understand that each are actually dealing with a similar crisis of faith.Antium is a world headed toward moral decay and people are moving farther away from belief in God. Stalling sees an opportunity to advance the belief in science as the end all-be all of the universe. The Church of Salvation is not pleased. Thus begins a war between science and religion for dominance and control.Arboreal is a world where magic abounds but underneath it all the events are similar and the central theme of which beliefs will win out is the glue that sticks these two opposites together. Interesting concept, great adventure and nail-biting suspense...for a first foray this is a remarkably mature book.