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I am an author, poet, and classical guitarist with a lifelong addiction to storytelling. Mountain ranges and coastlines fascinate me, I still remain stymied in suburbia. Faith, music, family, friends, and two fur babies help sustain me.
I'm currently writing a planned nine-book series titled "The Immortality Wars". It is a sci-fi, fantasy, and spiritual thriller based upon Christian themes. The second trilogy, "the Pilgrim", is currently being written. The first trilogy, "the Penitent", was published by Stillwater River Publications in August 2019.
Throw in a little bit of Dean Koontz, Stephen King, and Lee Child with J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, and I'm happy to say that these writers are heroes who inspire me to write stories that enchant, terrify, and hopefully entertain my readers.
The Immortality Wars series was created from several questions I asked myself. For example, given the history of humanity's conflict between good and evil, what will we be like 540 years from now in 2562? If we continue our exponential increase in our rate of knowledge, where will this knowledge take us? Will we be at peace, or will we be at war? Will science become a religious force to us, one that we worship?
I wanted to write a series of books that had the power to tell a story in the style of a Tolkien or Lewis, but one containing the sensibilities of our 21st-century experience.
Reviewed by Alex Ndirangu for Readers' Favorite
What would it be like to live in a society without technology, where people had to rely on their innate skills, beliefs, and magic to survive? Could the positive effects of love for one's people truly triumph over the negative forces of destruction in such a world? Through an epic tale of heroes and action, The Penitent transports us to a world that evil threatens to destroy. Pall Warren is one of the brave and exceptionally gifted people who have made it their mission to fight demons and liberate humanity from the tyranny of this all-pervasive evil. Pall travels to Gullswater with a man and his daughter, following the aftermath of a demon. He then sets out on a mission to find John Savage, a master bowman. He finds John engaged in combat in the port city of Seascale, which is under attack by the occult priest Kosem Mungadai. Mungadai uses demons, imps, and even slakes to attack the port city. Pall is a skilled fighter in hand-to-hand combat. However, in order to defeat these evil creatures, he must rely more on his spiritual abilities.
The plot development of the book is comparatively straightforward and simple to follow. In terms of character development, A. Keith Carreiro excelled. Each character is skillfully portrayed and has a unique personality. I resonated with their experiences and felt their joy, happiness, and rage. My favorite character was Pall, who I admired for his kindness to those around him and his determination to find his place in the world. I appreciated how the dialogue aided the plot's progression. The dialogue between the various characters brought the story to life and placed the events in their context. Through these conversations, the author highlighted and foreshadowed events without disrupting the narrative's flow. As a result, I had a solid grasp of each scene and the behaviors that defined it. I liked Carreiro's structural organization in writing this book because it made it easier for me to follow the plot and reference materials I found interesting. The chapters are beautifully reinforced by a prologue and an epilogue. Nothing about this book disappointed me. I thought it was a thrilling adventure novel suitable for any sci-fi or fantasy fan.
