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I am a retired restaurant manager currently living in Mackinaw City, Michigan. I’m married and have two sons and one step-daughter. I have a few college degrees, but never found a subject I didn’t like so I decided my time would be better spent writing a novel.
From an early age I fell in love with Fantasy-Fiction stories and I was encouraged by my friends to tell the many stories that have been bouncing around in my head. So after three years of working on my manuscript I put it out there for all to see. Through The Glass darkly: A Dragons Tale is the first in my series. I am currently working on the second installment to the series. I wrote the book to help young people know that even if you fail you can succeed.
Reviewed by Author Anna del C. Dye. for Readers' Favorite
This is a great high fantasy novel with many fantastic creatures, which will please many ages and tastes. There is magic, time traveling, quest, and heroes to make it all happen. In short this book has all the necessary elements to make it a fantastic read.
The story starts when five young adults meet before they start their special training in an elite academy for magic. These four young men and a girl were brought together by chance, or so it seems until the schoolmaster has a dream. They are destined to free all the fantastic creatures and the three Gods that mankind has been trying to dismiss from their lives for the past 300 years. Their first assignment is to rescue a king from an attempted murder, but they fail and now they are being hunted by two kingdoms as possible traitors. Meanwhile they are trying to understand what their part is in this problem and the path that the Gods wants them to travel. By being together they have also learned so much from each other that they can’t return to functioning alone. It doesn’t take them long to figure out that if they don’t learn to work together they will never survive.
This tale will teach friendship, how to work as a team, and how our differences make us stronger when we use them together with those of others. It is a great book for all readers from young adults to adults who enjoy high fantasy. The story needs some editing to clean up all the repetitions, head hopping, and the show and tell sections in it. This will reduce the book to a manageable size and will make the plot flow much faster and smoother and make it look more professional. Still it is a great story.
