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In Confrontations by J.L. Walters, a Books We Love Young Adult Fantasy, Ash, Bran, Ky and Jay along with their friends have now mastered their affinities. They now control their ability to use Earth, Air, Fire and Water. The time has come for them to face Dom Senet and He Who Walks with Evil. They have learned a disturbing fact. He Who Walks With Evil is able to exchange an old body for a new one. Dom Senet wishes to obtain the secret and he is willing to sacrifice even his own son to gain this power. The four sets of companions set off to rid the doms and domas of Dom Senet’s bonds and to defeat the two evil men. Can they or will they become pawns to evil?
Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2016
The time has come. Ash bolted upright. Her heart pounded with a beat reminiscent of one created by a mad drummer. Her gaze swept the room. She saw the other young women slept. Had someone spoken on the winds or had the words been part of a dream she couldn’t remember? When her racing heart slowed she cautiously opened her senses to read the winds of the keep. Using her affinity for Air she searched. The only person awake was the doma and the cry hadn’t arisen from the elderly woman.
Fingers of moonlight slid through the shuttered windows. She moved to the edge of the bed and pushed her feet into her house boots. Ash crept to the window to peer outside. She knelt on the stone bench and opened the shutters a crack. A gasp pushed past her lips when she saw the birds, one light and the other dark. The pair circled the keep.
She rubbed her arms to banish the chill of the late winter night. “Mama, Papa,” she whispered. “What does your arrival mean?”
Since the destruction of the Wesren henge the birds had appeared at auspicious moments. Sometimes the pair signaled safety and other times they brought a warning of danger. What was the meaning of this sighting?
“The time has come.” Softly she whispered the words. Like a jolt of lightning a thrill of excitement swept through her. Did that mean her and her halfling companions were ready to leave the safety of the keep and venture forth against their enemies? There were more opponents than she cared to face. She considered the number of doms and domas who followed Dom Senet, the four halflings he’d trained plus Zand’s former step-mother and her two sons. A shudder rolled through her body. There was also the voice of evil she’d heard on the winds.
Two years and a season had passed since the return from the quests for the remaining halflings, the heirs and the talismans. The sixteen companions had worked hard to gain mastery of their affinities of the elements. Four whose element was Air, four Fire, four Earth and four Water united in four mixed quartets. A sliver of fear stabbed. Were they ready? She fought a desire to return to her bed and pull the covers over her head.
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ReplyDeleteI like your premise... but your excerpt shows up as cut-off on the right and unreadable, at least on my browser (Firefox 68.8). There's alot of space on either side of the column with the text, so this isn't a screen resolution problem
You might want to check this out. (It's not true for every post. I'm pretty sure your post last Wednesday was fine.)
Actually one thing that can cause this sort of problem is if you paste in HTML that is set to be "pre-formatted".
Lisabeth, Doesn't show up that way when I open it so I'm not sure what is happening. I'm totally without knowledge about these things.
ReplyDeleteI'm having the same issue. Haven't had it before on your blog.
ReplyDeleteThe snippet read wonderfully. Congrats on the kudos on the review for world-building.
Do you know how to get to your html on your blog??? email me at daryl.devore@yhaoo.ca and maybe I can help.
I had the same issue with the writing being cut off on one side, but what I was able to read was interesting. The excerpt sets an ominous expectation as if something big is going to happen any second.
ReplyDeleteInteresting premise. A bit of Dr Who in the regeneration but it's villain not the hero. I don't know what to advise to correct the cut off text.
ReplyDeleteI agree a very interesting premise.
ReplyDeleteAs far as the words being cut off, it is due to a width constraint. The last line of the DIV class has 680px which is cutting off the wording. It should be set to auto. ( width: 680px; should be width:auto; )
Replace this line:
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I enjoyed the excerpt. This line was wonderfully vivid: Fingers of moonlight slid through the shuttered windows.
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