Review: "Excellent....New ........Concept"..............
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 4, 2013
I usually don't read Y/A novels, but after reading one of this author's short stories, at the end, "Cycles", was a sneek peek, intriguing, and I couldn't pass it up...I was not disappointed, and I believe adults, looking for something different to read, would enjoy this too....Author, Lois D. Brown's, writting is excellent, she knows how to draw you in from page one, and keeps the intensity, all the way to the very end...The most important thing to me is the author's great characterization....That's what I look for in all the books I read...The entire concept to the plot was original, fascinating, and fresh......This story is a woven mix of sci/fi, astronomy, genetics, medicine, ancient, Native American mythology, a little blood, and a corporate conspiracy thriller, that just worked perfectly together......This was a non-stop page turner for me.....Renee Beaumont, is a 13 yr old girl , a tomboy, very mature for her age, like an "old soul"...But she is a rare, genetic anomaly, with an unknown blood type, that is discovered after an almost fatal accident...She doesn't understand all the fuss, by the doctors in the hospital....But she really doesn't know how special, and gifted she is.....Dr Greg Dawson, is a medical research scientist, and a long time neighbor of the Beaumont's...He knows what Renee really is, and has spent 3 life cycles trying to come up with a cure and save her...Renee's condition starts to deteriorate rapidly, the closer a rare solar eclipse is upon the earth, called the,"Saros Cycle", which happens only every 18 years.......