Clockwork Heart

by Scott Lovesy

"The child Caleb was born into the world at 3am on December 21st in the year of 2012 and a tremor shook the heart of creation."

Caleb White was born in a secluded Sydney hospital, to a father with a hidden life, and a mother with emotional scars deep inside. In a world that has lost itself, Caleb must wade through the debris of the life he is thrust into, and find the makings of a purpose he could never imagine. With only his constant companion Amber as an anchor, Caleb must discover the truth of his nature in a life spiralling out of his control, before it swallows all of them whole.

Clockwork Heart is Book One of The Nexus Saga.

Genres: Fantasy

435 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 20, 2012

About the author

I am a 27 year old writer, with an Honours degree in English, from Auckland, New Zealand who has been writing on and off ever since the age of five, when the rest of my primary school class used to come to me for spell checking!

I am inspired by all forms of art, literature, music, film and philosophy. In literary terms I am especially inspired by the works of Shakespeare, Milton, and modern authors such as John Marsden and Stephen King. My own writings primarily deal with the hardships of the human condition, alienation and attempting to find strength and truth in dark times.

I am the author of the two part series entitled The Golden Children, and The Nexus Saga (a dark sci-fi saga currently in progress. Books One and Two are available now).

Feel free to drop me a line at daywrecker@hotmail.com or on Facebook.

Reviews

[Alice Bridgwater · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interessante.
Un fantasy (?) molto discreto in cui di fantastico c'è poco: solo verso la fine del romanzo gli elementi fantastici fanno la loro comparsa esplicita.
L'atmosfera è comunque molto weird, e il senso del bizzarro è forte. Immagino questo sia dovuto principalmente al fatto che molto poco è spiegato, e per tutta la durata del romanzo aleggia fitto mistero che non pemette di capire se dietro la cortina c'è una piegazione "banale" e razionale o se davvero si nasconde qualcosa di bizzarro e di fantastico.
Concordo con quanto detto da altri lettori, secondo i quali sarebbe stato necessario svelare qualcosa di più, perchè alla fine del primo libro ancora non abbiamo capito nulla di quello che ci aspetta nelle prossime puntate...

[Dan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Get to the point. I don't mind some suspense, but by the end of the book we still have no idea who anyone is or why they're doing what they do. At best we know that of the main characters, one works for an organization that no one knows about but somehow everyone recognizes and is instantly terrified of their "gold cards", another is " different", one more is "troubled" and has experiences that another can but won't explain, and two are dead. I'm not rushing to read book two.