Blue Dome
by J. G. Gill
Synopsis from Amazon
Blue Dome is the first part of the 'Blue Dome' series.
It's an ordinary Thursday afternoon when sixteen-year old Clare de Milo arrives home from school to find that intruders have broken into her house and everything's been destroyed. Her father and step-mother are missing and, scrawled in blood on a bedroom mirror, is the word 'RUN'. Clare and her brother Bede have suddenly become fugitives, uncertain who they can trust as they try to escape the relentless pursuit of the mysterious and dangerous Demarge. But why is Clare, a mere teenage girl, so important to a man as powerful as Demarge and why is he determined to use her to gain entrance into a secret sanctuary known as the Slipworld? These are the questions that Clare, her brother, and their friends must attempt to answer as they discover that the world they know is not all it seems...
It's an ordinary Thursday afternoon when sixteen-year old Clare de Milo arrives home from school to find that intruders have broken into her house and everything's been destroyed. Her father and step-mother are missing and, scrawled in blood on a bedroom mirror, is the word 'RUN'. Clare and her brother Bede have suddenly become fugitives, uncertain who they can trust as they try to escape the relentless pursuit of the mysterious and dangerous Demarge. But why is Clare, a mere teenage girl, so important to a man as powerful as Demarge and why is he determined to use her to gain entrance into a secret sanctuary known as the Slipworld? These are the questions that Clare, her brother, and their friends must attempt to answer as they discover that the world they know is not all it seems...
My Review:
3 out of 5 stars
When Clare comes home from school one day, she finds her
home ransacked, her dad and step-mom missing and the word ‘RUN’ written in blood
on a mirror. Learning that her brother
Bede is being falsely accused for the murder of their father, they go on the
run in hopes of dodging the police and to clear Bede’s name of murder. At this point, everything just gets really weird
for the two. Clare learns that she is a
Shard and is very important to a man named Demarge. What’s a Shard you ask? Well a Shard is a mortal who has an abundance
of light in them. Because they have this
abundance of light in their bodies, they can literally slip from their own
world into the Slipworld…..and that’s were Demarge needs to be.
The beginning of the book started out slow to me, but it did
eventually pick up and became a very intriguing read. The author has created this very interesting
world with giant eels, ‘tracker’ snakes, blood sucking bats and the Slipworld
that is full of light and beauty. The
character development was done well and the plot, although different, flowed
smoothly.
The one thing I really did not like about the book is that
God is portrayed as this evil, power hungry, greedy entity who wants control of
both Earth and the Slipworld. I would
have liked it better if another explanation was given on who Demarge was. Yes I know this is a work of fiction, but I
felt like this reference was not needed or could have been explained differently.
Overall, this was a very intriguing, action packed novel
that had a very different concept of good vs. evil.
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