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Belva Rae Staples is a lifelong resident of Swan's Island, Maine where she lives with her husband, Joe along with their Brittany, Magnum. She's also a mother of two and grandmother of seven. She is a full-time lobster fisherman and for twenty-eight years she's worked on the waters around her beloved island with her husband in their lobster boat: The Fifth Day.
The Kriterion Saga:The World Between is the first book in this fanatasy series and is her first attempt.
Reviewed by Kim Anisi for Readers' Favorite
If you have ever dreamed about stepping into another world through a magical gate in our world, then “The World Between: The Kriterion Saga” by Belva Rae Staples might be the right book for you. The book cleverly tells one story within a story. The boy Georgie often visits an older lady who tells him stories. One day, she starts a longer story about a boy called Alex who is a very bad character. No sane reader will find him likeable. After some very bad deeds in the normal world, he finds his way into a world called Kriterion and this is just what he needs: a whole new world just for his taking! After all, Alex thinks that the kind king of the other world is quite a weak and soft character. However, he did not expect a dog from the past and someone else to turn up in the world and work against his dark goals.
“The World Between: The Kriterion Saga” by Belva Rae Staples is a fantasy novel which has some very clear messages and even though one of the main characters is such a mean person, you simply have to keep reading because you hope that he would soon be found out, that people would finally look through his lies and deceptions. Sometimes you are worried that the book might not have a good end, at other times you wonder whether a good end in this book could be really good anyway because... but I should not give too much away – you need to read it yourselves! This book is a lovely tale for all ages even though it is mainly aimed at younger readers and speaks to them in a way that wants to encourage them to be good and not evil. However, everyone needs to hear that message every now and then, so I'd recommend the book to anyone who enjoys fantasy with a bit of fairy tale mixed in.
