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Kristine Victori

Lodestone Book One: The Sea of Storms on Aug. 04, 2012

Once again I am attracted to another author who has brought Science Fiction writing to a higher level. We see many great authors, but Mark Whiteway's writing has shown great accomplishments and you can see this in the many awards he has received. In reading this book, we can easily bring our mind to see these characters as humans. The situations that take place could take place in everyday life, but in reality they are aliens. The human side of these characters are shown by the feelings of Shann were it says, "she watches her retreating form and felt a pang of guilt ," the type of clothing they wore "He was wearing a rustic brown tunic and trousers", or the types of food they would like to eat, "raleketh steak and a cup of narrian wine". It wasn't until the serpent, that I was drawn back into fantasy part of the story. One of the fascinating parts of the book that brought me great understanding was when they were talking about the lodestones, they are naturally occurring deposits in the ground from meteorites which have been falling for millennia. The lodestones perform differently depending on the physics. Lodestone is the first book in its series and I was extremely happy that the book left me wanting to read more and find out were each of these characters go.