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LUCIFER'S ORPHAN Kindle Edition

by ROLAND YEOMANS (Author), LEONORA ROY (Illustrator) Format: Kindle Edition
4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
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Have you heard of Kindle Serials?

Here is the start of the first Serial TRILOGY: an 80,000 word Young Adult Urban Fantasy published each month.

Once upon a time when Harry Potter was beloved in prose alone and on his third adventure, a 14 year old girl became seriously ill. She lingered for weeks in the hospital. She begged her mother to bring her those three Harry Potter books.

Her mother refused for Harry studied magic which ran counter to her beliefs of what was proper. Knowing I wrote, the mother came to me, asking if I would write a tale of myth, monsters, and a young boy contending with magical enemies.

And if I could set it in New Zealand, a country her daughter loved, and write of magic in a way that would enchant her daughter and not offend her, I would be a prince.

‘Sure thing,’ I thought. ‘And after that, I will establish world peace.’
So the adventures of Blake Adamson were born. The 14 year old orphan thought all the monsters in the world wore human faces. Blake discovers just how wrong his thinking was.

Blake contends with a mysterious stranger wanting to adopt him, a fallen angel, a grouch of a spirit guardian, and a macabre skyscraper with more dangers per square foot than the teen thought possible.

Read LUCIFER’S ORPHAN and enter a world of myth, magic, danger, and forbidden young love.
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    September 12, 2013
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00F5M84I8
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ (September 12, 2013)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 12, 2013
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1217 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 244 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

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Roland Yeomans

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Dreamer. Writer.

Believer in the worth of each soul I meet.

It is not so bad a thing to have been born with the gift of laughter and the knowledge that the world is mad.

I have been a teacher, counselor, and a book store owner. I am now a rare blood courier to give myself more time to write. Then, I found out how little free time we couriers have!

I have been everything but a pirate it seems. No, I take that back. In my university days, I worked for a tax preparation firm, so I have even been a pirate!

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Cora P.
5.0 out of 5 stars Couldn't put it down...
Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2013
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This is the story of an orphan who has known no solace in his short, sad life except for the Book that has once belonged to the mother he has never known and the hope in The Father watching over him. When he is adopted by a rich stranger and shipped to New Zealand, it appears that things get a turn for the worse, if that's even possible, or are they?...

The narrator is Blake himself, the 13 year-old orphan. He is an old young soul with a distinct voice, a mixture of perpetual self-irony, compassion, and the encyclopaedic erudition of someone who's had mostly books as friends (although his adverbs are mysteriously absent...) I found him instantly likable, felt for him for his tragic past, and rooted for him as he gradually discovered friendship, meaning, truth, and more challenges than one could imagine...

In a way, the monsters in the story are too farfetched to be truly scary on the immediate level, but they are indeed very frightening on a deeper level, the one we glimpse when we are forced to search inside our souls. For this is, I find, much more than a simple adventure/fantasy.

The prose is effervescent and with a care for detail that brings surprises literally on every page. The author's choice of names, for instance, is particularly intriguing, from Assyrian to Lovecraftian references and beyond. In short, a delight to read. Also, and very importantly, not just once I found myself laughing aloud while reading. But perhaps humour is one of the best ways to diffuse darkness. And there is a lot of darkness in Blake's life...

I highly recommend this volume and I'm very much looking forward to reading the next one.
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Angela L. Brown
4.0 out of 5 stars Good and evil collide in a young man's journey
Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2013
Written in first person POV, fourteen-year-old Blake Adamson takes the reader on a journey of discovery that is anything but your normal fantasy or paranormal trek.

Blake goes from the orphan-hard-knocks-kid to the unexpected heir of riches. That would be so awesome if the very riches he was set to inherit when he came of age weren't already in the hands of evil incarnate. Blake, being "just Blake," is full of more good than even he realizes. With such evil and good, the stage is set for intriguing conflict, acts of beautiful love, and more.

The imagery is vivid, so be prepared for your imagination to be worked in a good way.

It ends in a way that clearly lets you know more is to come. I enjoyed the read a great deal.
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