Review: Exciting New Series...Love the Manuscript within the story!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 26, 2012
The Other Covenant- is one of the best modern day physic phenomena themed books I have read. The characters are believable and the battle of "good vs evil" is fresh and very interesting!Elizabeth Mitchell has a very special gift which she has tried to keep secret. She uses her precognitive ability to do good and help in her job as a physiologist for special cases and patients with unusual problems or abilities. One day she receives an unexpected call from a distant cousin she has not met, and had hoped to avoid because of past family problems. He requests a meeting with her and she can not refuse. As she becomes personally acquainted with Richard Bennett, he utters these words, "Elizabeth Conant Mitchell, I request your assistance in the name of the Seven."!The Covenant of the Seven...the existence of the club should not be public knowledge and it's members must be kept secret. Richard asks another question during the course of their meeting, "Have you encountered black magic in your practice?" Now Elizabeth is suspecting there are some hidden problems which could be dangerous for her physically and limit the use of her extrasensory abilities. She has taken a vow and can not refuse the request of help from another person in need of her gift. Richard feels death approaching and asks Elizabeth to protect Althea, his wife from the anger and retribution of The Covenant of Seven.Elizabeth not only has physic abilities but she has been initiated as an enforcer...a physic bodyguard! If Elizabeth has knowledge that a crime has been committed through the use of black magic, and it is related to an operation she has vowed to undertake, then she has to find the criminal, capture and neutralize him or her, pronounce sentence and then carry out the sentence. Quite a huge and dangerous job description!Elizabeth's great-grandfather was ruined financially in 1929 by an occult organization called the Covenant, which used black magic, or negative energies to control economic fluctuations in the stock market for their own advantage.  Now her memory goes back to the days of training with Julian Conant, her mentor. She is forced to remember the private Sword Ceremony as Julian held the hilt and gently tapped her on the right and then the left shoulder with the tip of the bright blade. She treasured the sword and felt chilly anticipation at the thoughts of the coming battle with members of the occult and black magic or possibly the powerful Covenant of the Seven.I enjoyed reading Richard Bennett's Manuscript as it is interspersed through the book. It is like reading a story-within-a-story. The background history of the practices of the adepts and their involvement in major political and economic events not only in the United States, but worldwide. Fictional...but builds the integrity of the powerful Covenant.The explanation of how Elizabeth shifts her consciousness from the normal physic level band, and is able to scan higher physic levels the adepts can reach. There are times when she feels a subsonic vibration beneath her feet, and even the sunlight can appear dimmer.My favorite quote in the book is when Elizabeth is remembering the teaching from Julian, "No one is hopeless, for all human souls hold a spark of the divine. It is to that you must direct your efforts."  A must read to find out the rest of the story!