Review: A timely entertaining read!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 23, 2012
KEEPERS OF WATER is not only a well crafted story rife with characters you care about, a creative original plot, and descriptive scenes, but the novel is almost an allegory of what is going on in our world today. First the story--there are two parallel worlds that are intimately connected. When Arieana's brother is murdured on Earth, Arieana decides she will break her rulers' laws and seek revenge for his killing by entering the Earth world to find his killers. Arieana soon discovers, though, that there are more of her species that wish to kill all humans because Arieana's kind believe humans are responsible for the devastation affecting her world. How? And this is where the allegory comes into play. Humans are slowly destroying their/our world by ransacking Earth's natural resources, polluting the water and air, and destroying the forests. Unbeknownst to humans though, what they do on Earth is affecting Arieana's world--sending devastating storms that threaten to wipe out her world. So now she must not only try to seek justice for her brother's killers, she must also try to save the destruction of mankind because she believes there is a better solution to both Earth's and her worlds problems--especially after she learns her rulers have not been truthful about her kinds past. Along the way she also discovers her brother also had a secret that will profoundly affect her and she meets Sorien an earthling who she teams up with. Arieana is a fun character with magical powers that will leave you cheering when she unleashes them. R G Porter's KEEPERS OF WATER is an entertaining read--part allegory, part fantasy, part mystery and part sci-fi. If you relish good fast reads (and believe we are not doing enough to conserve our resources), pick up a copy of KEEPERS OF WATER. Just don't get on Arieana's bad side!