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Linda David is a single mother of two and currently work as a college lecturer in childcare. She was born in Cyprus in 1967 to parents who both hail from the Caribbean island of Nevis, and has also lived in Germany as well as St Kitts and Nevis in the West Indies.
The idea for the book, The Firestone Crystal, came about 10 years ago when she was on maternity leave, and started off as a short story that she would be able to read to her children when they were older. It continued to grow as she occasionally added a chapter here and there as the years went by, eventually turning into full-length novel.
She has always enjoyed reading and was encouraged to do so from a very early age, and that is partly what inspired her to write. Even today, she can remember the excitement and wonder she used to experience as a child when reading fantasy and adventure stories, and she hopes that through her writing, she will be able to inspire and encourage other children's interest and pleasure in reading as well.
Reviewed by Samantha Dewitt (Rivera) for Readers' Favorite
Thea isn’t quite your average girl. Sure she has the normal teenage girl problems like which clothes to wear and how to make her school uniform more unique and of course there is the fact that her parents just don’t understand her. But there is also the fact that she is the only student from Earth on a faraway planet learning about things no one in her entire world could ever dream of. "The Hidden Realms of Firestone" by Linda David tells the story of a girl who is facing more complicated challenges than she ever expected to face during her high school years. She is making new friends, dealing with classes and of course facing down a couple of mortal enemies while she is at it.
I definitely liked the way David made this story seem very real. Even though it is a very futuristic story and includes a lot of mythical creatures, she was able to make "The Hidden Realms of Firestone" and the characters in it seem very realistic. They act just like people their age would act on our own planet even though they are different in their own ways. (After all you can’t expect a girl who is part cat to act completely normal.) The characters seem to evolve very well throughout the course of the book and you can’t help but be drawn into all the different aspects. It is surprising how everything is so interconnected and you’ll be shocked to find out the culprit, or culprits, behind the entire situation that Thea and her friends find themselves in.
