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Dance of Fireflies
Powerful leaders on Earth destine an apocalyptic world within 30 years. What if you send an SOS and Utopian visionary beings, 1000 years from the future, arrive to save the last humans?
Action, adventure and visionary experiences ensue when Princess Reena from a faraway Utopian galaxy, is dispatched to rescue earthlings, and an evil force traps her brother, the young prince on planet Earth. Can the blissful youngster, coming of age and whose superpowers have not yet matured, survive the corrupt and power-hungry adults desirous to crush goodness? Can the royal teens stop the end of time?
Welcome to Book 1, Dance Of Fireflies, in Taming The Impostor Saga, where the characters dance like fireflies, shining bright, but for how long?
Join the super conscious teenagers in their first action adventure in the heart of Africa. Encounter challenges of ancient languages, and mystic traditions. Discover the emotional ride of these do-gooders. Do they have what it takes to inspire local youth, adults and mountain animals with hope in their quest for survival?
Meet the adult humans, from various races, determined to rescue the goodness in humanity, save the animals and protect environments.
Their pains are your everyday pains, their joys are your joys, their worries are your worries, for they live in a world in which you live, in the near future.
Face the sinister Dragons, adept at genetic modification, cloning and domination, who will stop at nothing to rule planet Earth and beyond.
But what if the adversary is invisible , rides on the waves of time, threatening the extinction of you and other compassionate humans, as it dominates the animal kingdom, and exploits natural resources for selfish needs?
What if the young prince must choose between saving his beloved Grandma and sister or your last human race?
Come on board this original fast-pace action adventure fantasy series, with inspirational plots steeped in mystery, and brightened with compelling characters and heroes, who will tug at your heart strings.
Travel to exotic cultures, and confront themes of injustice, inequality, courage and bravery.
Toy with the possibility of humans living in harmony with animals: cats, squirrels, birds, turtles and more.
Learn about the metaphysical world of ancient magical swords, Third Eye powers, invisibility, and female and male superheroes.
If you are intrigued with mystery, adventure, visionary women and men, mind reading, telepathy, and hints of the psychic paranormal, then do click and revel in Book 1.
The series is structured in short reads novella formats, ideal to stimulate your mind and senses.
Easy reading from ages 12 to YA, and perfect for adults, grandparents and elders.
Unlike most apocalyptic stories steeped in dystopia and depression, this offers you an interesting series for confidence building and inspiring hope.
When you buy my books, you support my free global Super Conscious Humanity Youth program where, since 2005 I mentor youth. See videos online.
Do connect with me and receive your special gifts within each book. Visit my site or email me to join my VIP Advanced Readers Club.
My characters and I look forward to meeting you, and we wish you the choicest of blessings for a healthy, joyful and prosperous future. Click, read and embrace equality, compassion and peace for all beings in your world.
Lots of love and hugs, always, V.
Action, adventure and visionary experiences ensue when Princess Reena from a faraway Utopian galaxy, is dispatched to rescue earthlings, and an evil force traps her brother, the young prince on planet Earth. Can the blissful youngster, coming of age and whose superpowers have not yet matured, survive the corrupt and power-hungry adults desirous to crush goodness? Can the royal teens stop the end of time?
Welcome to Book 1, Dance Of Fireflies, in Taming The Impostor Saga, where the characters dance like fireflies, shining bright, but for how long?
Join the super conscious teenagers in their first action adventure in the heart of Africa. Encounter challenges of ancient languages, and mystic traditions. Discover the emotional ride of these do-gooders. Do they have what it takes to inspire local youth, adults and mountain animals with hope in their quest for survival?
Meet the adult humans, from various races, determined to rescue the goodness in humanity, save the animals and protect environments.
Their pains are your everyday pains, their joys are your joys, their worries are your worries, for they live in a world in which you live, in the near future.
Face the sinister Dragons, adept at genetic modification, cloning and domination, who will stop at nothing to rule planet Earth and beyond.
But what if the adversary is invisible , rides on the waves of time, threatening the extinction of you and other compassionate humans, as it dominates the animal kingdom, and exploits natural resources for selfish needs?
What if the young prince must choose between saving his beloved Grandma and sister or your last human race?
Come on board this original fast-pace action adventure fantasy series, with inspirational plots steeped in mystery, and brightened with compelling characters and heroes, who will tug at your heart strings.
Travel to exotic cultures, and confront themes of injustice, inequality, courage and bravery.
Toy with the possibility of humans living in harmony with animals: cats, squirrels, birds, turtles and more.
Learn about the metaphysical world of ancient magical swords, Third Eye powers, invisibility, and female and male superheroes.
If you are intrigued with mystery, adventure, visionary women and men, mind reading, telepathy, and hints of the psychic paranormal, then do click and revel in Book 1.
The series is structured in short reads novella formats, ideal to stimulate your mind and senses.
Easy reading from ages 12 to YA, and perfect for adults, grandparents and elders.
Unlike most apocalyptic stories steeped in dystopia and depression, this offers you an interesting series for confidence building and inspiring hope.
When you buy my books, you support my free global Super Conscious Humanity Youth program where, since 2005 I mentor youth. See videos online.
Do connect with me and receive your special gifts within each book. Visit my site or email me to join my VIP Advanced Readers Club.
My characters and I look forward to meeting you, and we wish you the choicest of blessings for a healthy, joyful and prosperous future. Click, read and embrace equality, compassion and peace for all beings in your world.
Lots of love and hugs, always, V.
123 pages, Paperback
Published January 30, 2017
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March 22, 2019
I wanted to read this book for a long time, and I am trying to curb as many titles lingering on my TBR as I can. This is one of those cases where the cover is leaps and bounds better than the actual book. And even though I knew from prior reviews about a few issues of the book, I still wanted to give it an unbiased chance.
The book begins where we are in an alien planet called Zookia which is inhabited by a technologically and socially advanced race called Zookians. Reena and Jali are the sibling heirs to the planetary throne, and after the mysterious death of their parents, they were raised by their grandmother, who just happens to be the current queen. Zookians have pointed ears and refined faces just like elves, along with a strange third eye that opens and closes constantly depending on the amount of mental duress the Zookian feels at a given time. It also might explain why Zookians can easily learn foreign languages and communicate with animals.
Jali is frustrated that at the age of 14, he has failed an important test a second time that would have enabled him to take advantage of more advance abilities that are commonplace to his race such as flying and mentally igniting candles. Apparently, Zookians celebrate birthdays much the same way as humans do.
Annoyed that Reema is going on a somewhat unclear mission to help Earthians, he sneaks into the transport spaceship and Reema is forced to bring him at least to overfly the planet within the safe confines of the spaceship while she performs her mission. Right when she and an assistant are standing in the teleporter, something wrong happens, and Jali gets transported to Earth instead!
Yaay! Intrigue! Now, one thing I found really fun about this story is that Jali ends up in the middle of South Africa. I like it how the author encompasses her personal life experiences and mentions little Zulu phrases spoken among the locals and interesting geographic areas. I also liked Jali's somewhat constrained interactions with the group of well-meaning humans who rescued him from heatstroke when he first arrived. His utterly formal speech obviously makes him stand out among teenagers, prompting some nice interactions with the younger humans he befriends such as Siya.
Now, here comes the bad part. We don't really get much of a feel for the Zookian world, and how characters speak to all life forms like it was nothing, or more of a glimpse of Jali's envy as he watches his peers flying in the sky while he is left trailing behind.
The book doesn't really explain much about The Dragons (from what I understand, they are a nasty gang of low life criminals that harass people). The book seems to pull a plothole in the final third when we discover that the Dragons are apparently a group of super powered... uhh... humans? One of the members of Siya's adopted family has superpowers of some sort as well. I guess that could explain why the family didn't seem all that impressed when a magical hologram triggered by Jali's Third Eye activates and everyone has a pleasant chat with Reema who remained on the spaceship. I was scratching my head for quite a while wondering why the seemingly normal family that lived in a rural area accepted to help Jali without freaking out.
I know that this book was not written for adults, but I think it could have benefitted with fleshing out characters a lot more, show the facial expressions of joy that Jali feels as he discovers new things that Earthians take for granted. I would have wanted to feel the wind breezing into everyone's faces, and the frustration that Jali's life was starting to slip away as his body was ravaged in fever due to a glitch in some life supporting system integrated into his body or spacesuit. I wanted to feel urgency as he was passing away. I also didn't understand why the parents and doctor friend Herb decided it was better to leave him in a cave with a 12 year old kid while they go to a PTA meeting. Why not just dump Jali into a tub and toss some ice cubes to cool him down? Why not use the AC on their truck?
The cooling down scene could have been done in several different ways that would have made more sense over driving nearly 5 hours in a dirt road to a cave and just leaving him there to his luck with a little kid and a basket full of food. The book could have explored Jali's awe as he wandered through the house and have an internal fight over his desire to return home, and his yearning for adventure.
The book had a lot of interesting points, and I liked how Jali was capable of giving orders to the family cat with so much ease (so jealous!). However, the writing was simply not up to par, even for middle grade story expectations. It felt like a laborious read, and while there were indeed a lot of things that I found to be a plus that were already mentioned, the fact that I was close to DNFing the book is the reason why I gave it 2 stars.
The book begins where we are in an alien planet called Zookia which is inhabited by a technologically and socially advanced race called Zookians. Reena and Jali are the sibling heirs to the planetary throne, and after the mysterious death of their parents, they were raised by their grandmother, who just happens to be the current queen. Zookians have pointed ears and refined faces just like elves, along with a strange third eye that opens and closes constantly depending on the amount of mental duress the Zookian feels at a given time. It also might explain why Zookians can easily learn foreign languages and communicate with animals.
Jali is frustrated that at the age of 14, he has failed an important test a second time that would have enabled him to take advantage of more advance abilities that are commonplace to his race such as flying and mentally igniting candles. Apparently, Zookians celebrate birthdays much the same way as humans do.
Annoyed that Reema is going on a somewhat unclear mission to help Earthians, he sneaks into the transport spaceship and Reema is forced to bring him at least to overfly the planet within the safe confines of the spaceship while she performs her mission. Right when she and an assistant are standing in the teleporter, something wrong happens, and Jali gets transported to Earth instead!
Yaay! Intrigue! Now, one thing I found really fun about this story is that Jali ends up in the middle of South Africa. I like it how the author encompasses her personal life experiences and mentions little Zulu phrases spoken among the locals and interesting geographic areas. I also liked Jali's somewhat constrained interactions with the group of well-meaning humans who rescued him from heatstroke when he first arrived. His utterly formal speech obviously makes him stand out among teenagers, prompting some nice interactions with the younger humans he befriends such as Siya.
Now, here comes the bad part. We don't really get much of a feel for the Zookian world, and how characters speak to all life forms like it was nothing, or more of a glimpse of Jali's envy as he watches his peers flying in the sky while he is left trailing behind.
The book doesn't really explain much about The Dragons (from what I understand, they are a nasty gang of low life criminals that harass people). The book seems to pull a plothole in the final third when we discover that the Dragons are apparently a group of super powered... uhh... humans? One of the members of Siya's adopted family has superpowers of some sort as well. I guess that could explain why the family didn't seem all that impressed when a magical hologram triggered by Jali's Third Eye activates and everyone has a pleasant chat with Reema who remained on the spaceship. I was scratching my head for quite a while wondering why the seemingly normal family that lived in a rural area accepted to help Jali without freaking out.
I know that this book was not written for adults, but I think it could have benefitted with fleshing out characters a lot more, show the facial expressions of joy that Jali feels as he discovers new things that Earthians take for granted. I would have wanted to feel the wind breezing into everyone's faces, and the frustration that Jali's life was starting to slip away as his body was ravaged in fever due to a glitch in some life supporting system integrated into his body or spacesuit. I wanted to feel urgency as he was passing away. I also didn't understand why the parents and doctor friend Herb decided it was better to leave him in a cave with a 12 year old kid while they go to a PTA meeting. Why not just dump Jali into a tub and toss some ice cubes to cool him down? Why not use the AC on their truck?
The cooling down scene could have been done in several different ways that would have made more sense over driving nearly 5 hours in a dirt road to a cave and just leaving him there to his luck with a little kid and a basket full of food. The book could have explored Jali's awe as he wandered through the house and have an internal fight over his desire to return home, and his yearning for adventure.
The book had a lot of interesting points, and I liked how Jali was capable of giving orders to the family cat with so much ease (so jealous!). However, the writing was simply not up to par, even for middle grade story expectations. It felt like a laborious read, and while there were indeed a lot of things that I found to be a plus that were already mentioned, the fact that I was close to DNFing the book is the reason why I gave it 2 stars.
March 22, 2017
Not Kindle Unlimited, and must have gotten it on a freebie day. It's childlike but childish to me, sci-fi but silly, so overall just couldn't it a higher score, which is not going to help the score of the audio version was supposed to have been sent either.
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