- Over five thousand years ago, a renegade faction of angels abandoned the spiritual realm and began their inhabitation of earth. Worshiped as gods for their wisdom and power, they corrupted the realm of the physical and forever altered the course of history. Amidst the chaos of a dying world, a lone voice foretold the awakening of a warrior who would bring an end to this evil perpetrated against all of creation. But with the cataclysmic destruction of earth and rebirth of humanity, the prophecy went unfulfilled and eventually faded from the memory of our kind, until now! The physical dimension is fractured. What remain now are numerous fragmented worlds moving simultaneously through time, sharing a common history, connected only by a guarded portal.On a parallel earth, in the city of Bastul, Colonel Adair Lorus disappears while investigating the death of an informant, triggering a series of events which will tear his family apart and set in motion the resolution of an ancient struggle. Kael, sentenced to death after rising up against the cruel leadership of his new step-father, is rescued from prison and trained in the arts of war by a mystical order of clerics. Exceling in every aspect of his training, Kael inwardly struggles to give himself fully to the methods of his new family, or the god they worship. Maeryn, bitter over the disappearance of her husband and supposed execution of her son, fears for her life at the hands of her newly appointed husband.
- For me, "The Awakened" was a fully enjoyable, entertaining story. This vividly imagined, epic tale superbly blends the genres of fantasy, sci-fi and military suspense to create a fast-paced, detailed, vast adventure.
I loved the huge scope of time in this book. While the majority of the story takes place in a mythological, medieval-like past, we get glimpses of a parallel world in the future with a common, mysterious villain. As the story of the protagonist, Kael Lorus, unfolds from his boyhood to his twenties, the grand scale of the story becomes accessible and intimate as his journey is central to the major story-arc. The detail and pacing in this novel were expertly balanced in my opinion. I've found in other novels these two traits can fight each other; the detail drags a story's pace down, or the fast pace leaves out story-enriching details. Tesar struck a nice balance to create a suspenseful page-turner with rich detail and quality character development. Yet he also leaves us with enough unknown so the mystery pulls us along in the plot. The action, the characters, the imaginative land and intriguing antagonist(s) made this a truly engaging story that I did not want to end. I'm looking forward to reading more from Jason Tesar in the future!
- For me, "The Awakened" was a fully enjoyable, entertaining story. This vividly imagined, epic tale superbly blends the genres of fantasy, sci-fi and military suspense to create a fast-paced, detailed, vast adventure.
I loved the huge scope of time in this book. While the majority of the story takes place in a mythological, medieval-like past, we get glimpses of a parallel world in the future with a common, mysterious villain. As the story of the protagonist, Kael Lorus, unfolds from his boyhood to his twenties, the grand scale of the story becomes accessible and intimate as his journey is central to the major story-arc. The detail and pacing in this novel were expertly balanced in my opinion. I've found in other novels these two traits can fight each other; the detail drags a story's pace down, or the fast pace leaves out story-enriching details. Tesar struck a nice balance to create a suspenseful page-turner with rich detail and quality character development. Yet he also leaves us with enough unknown so the mystery pulls us along in the plot. The action, the characters, the imaginative land and intriguing antagonist(s) made this a truly engaging story that I did not want to end. I'm looking forward to reading more from Jason Tesar in the future!
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