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Demonic
The world is on fire, and everything and everyone Bill Watson has ever loved is about to be wiped out of existence. A nuclear attack forces him to flee San Diego in the middle of the night. With his two dogs and a new friend, he heads for safety beyond the mountains. Bill is desperate to reach his family, but terrorists are everywhere and seem to be after him specifically, but why?
Doors have been opened from another universe and hideous creatures have come to enslave humanity while slaughtering every Bill Watson and Mary Stewart on the planet. His family has been kidnapped, and now, Bill and Mary must step through one of those doors to rescue them and end the destruction.
They will face ruthless killers and impossible odds over and again, but also learn unbelievable truths about themselves and the families they never knew they were part of. Their beliefs and faith will be tested to the limit as events spin out of control. Let us hope they are up to the challenge.
Doors have been opened from another universe and hideous creatures have come to enslave humanity while slaughtering every Bill Watson and Mary Stewart on the planet. His family has been kidnapped, and now, Bill and Mary must step through one of those doors to rescue them and end the destruction.
They will face ruthless killers and impossible odds over and again, but also learn unbelievable truths about themselves and the families they never knew they were part of. Their beliefs and faith will be tested to the limit as events spin out of control. Let us hope they are up to the challenge.
358 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 12, 2016
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About the author
Karl J. Morgan
24 books36 followersKarl Morgan grew up fascinated by science fiction, beginning with Victor Appleton’s Tom Swift novels that he read as a young boy. Later, he became enthralled with the works of his favorite author, Isaac Asimov, especially his Foundation series.
Those early experiences inspired his life-long love of science fiction and interest in hard science, focusing first on astronomy and later cosmology and quantum mechanics. Karl had the great honor to take his first astronomy course at the University of Iowa from the legendary scientist, Dr. James Van Allen. More recently, the brilliant works of Drs. Stephen Hawking, Brian Greene, and Michio Kaku helped him understand that our physical universe is still a magical and mysterious place.
It is that sense of magic and mystery that brings Karl to write about his alter ego, Dave Brewster, an unemployed accountant who finds himself a thousand years in the future with new friends and adventures far beyond anything he could have imagined. There, he can find answers to questions that befuddle mankind today. The truth he finds is no different from what we know today. Life is always about loving and caring for our family and friends.
Karl lives in San Diego with his wife, Aida and their beloved puppies. Their two grown children have fled the nest and started their own adventures in life.
Those early experiences inspired his life-long love of science fiction and interest in hard science, focusing first on astronomy and later cosmology and quantum mechanics. Karl had the great honor to take his first astronomy course at the University of Iowa from the legendary scientist, Dr. James Van Allen. More recently, the brilliant works of Drs. Stephen Hawking, Brian Greene, and Michio Kaku helped him understand that our physical universe is still a magical and mysterious place.
It is that sense of magic and mystery that brings Karl to write about his alter ego, Dave Brewster, an unemployed accountant who finds himself a thousand years in the future with new friends and adventures far beyond anything he could have imagined. There, he can find answers to questions that befuddle mankind today. The truth he finds is no different from what we know today. Life is always about loving and caring for our family and friends.
Karl lives in San Diego with his wife, Aida and their beloved puppies. Their two grown children have fled the nest and started their own adventures in life.
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November 17, 2020
I have read a few books that are very exhausting, and this book is one of them. It read as if the author started by writing out scenes as it came to him and in no progressive order, and then dropping the scenes here and there in the book in a very disjointed and not chronological order. So much was going on in this story that sometimes I found it difficult to know who was speaking, or in what universe they were.
The author started with a Bill Watson, an accountant, married to Audrey and a daughter, Sandy. Bill was an ordinary family man living his ordinary life. Then we met Mary Stewart who came to work for Bill’s company. After work the same day, Mary’s car broke down, and their boss, Tom White, prevailed on Bill to give her a lift to work the next day. Bill agreed to pick Mary up to work the next morning. From this point on, things started to go hay wire.
Bill and Mary found out that they were related and not humans. They were two people, each of different parts, the devil and an angel with supernatural powers. They came across Dom and Lou, God and his counterpart the Devil, according to the author also a coin of two sides. In other words, they could be God or the Devil depending on the situation they found themselves.
Bill and Mary constantly found themselves fighting off the enforcers used by the devil Molock to seize power and rule the world. Molock, on his part continued to create duplicate illusionary worlds or constructions where everything, people and places looked alike. This way he weakened the original individual through whom he duplicated the others. So now we had hundreds of Bill Watsons and Bill Stewards who looked alike, Marys’ who looked alike and Faith the daughter of Dom Emmanuel who also had duplicates.
The battles raged on at different fronts and at different multiverse. Not to forget Zelda and Chachis Bill’s dogs who also turned monster when their help was needed. With so much happening and at different levels, I found the read quite tedious and exhausting! I also found the author’s view of the battle between heaven and earth to be very anti-Christ. To think that Dom Emmanuel whom he called God could be captured, imprisoned, weakened, and not all-knowing is against my beliefs. This book was a hard read!
The author started with a Bill Watson, an accountant, married to Audrey and a daughter, Sandy. Bill was an ordinary family man living his ordinary life. Then we met Mary Stewart who came to work for Bill’s company. After work the same day, Mary’s car broke down, and their boss, Tom White, prevailed on Bill to give her a lift to work the next day. Bill agreed to pick Mary up to work the next morning. From this point on, things started to go hay wire.
Bill and Mary found out that they were related and not humans. They were two people, each of different parts, the devil and an angel with supernatural powers. They came across Dom and Lou, God and his counterpart the Devil, according to the author also a coin of two sides. In other words, they could be God or the Devil depending on the situation they found themselves.
Bill and Mary constantly found themselves fighting off the enforcers used by the devil Molock to seize power and rule the world. Molock, on his part continued to create duplicate illusionary worlds or constructions where everything, people and places looked alike. This way he weakened the original individual through whom he duplicated the others. So now we had hundreds of Bill Watsons and Bill Stewards who looked alike, Marys’ who looked alike and Faith the daughter of Dom Emmanuel who also had duplicates.
The battles raged on at different fronts and at different multiverse. Not to forget Zelda and Chachis Bill’s dogs who also turned monster when their help was needed. With so much happening and at different levels, I found the read quite tedious and exhausting! I also found the author’s view of the battle between heaven and earth to be very anti-Christ. To think that Dom Emmanuel whom he called God could be captured, imprisoned, weakened, and not all-knowing is against my beliefs. This book was a hard read!
November 14, 2020
CHAOS AND CONFUSION
Not Impressed!
It was a mixture of chaos vs. calm with no understanding of where the author was going. Duplication of spirits ruled the day, multiple realms, two Gods? I didn't feel comfortable having my God transformed into something else. I'm not an over-the-top religious fanatic, but I did feel that things were carried a bit too far and you can't hide behind fantasy to justify it. I do have trouble sometimes with fantasy writing for this reason.
The author did a good job keeping up with the characters because I sure couldn't. When he hopped from one scene to the next, new characters were added with no intro to who they were. I get it, but it took forever to find out more about them. I don't know if that's a good thing because I found myself writing names down just so I could keep up. In the end it was all a futile attempt because there were duplicates of each of them and that makes it difficult to keep track.
The story didn't seem to have an ending and I finished feeling like "Is there more? What was the point?" This is book 4, so maybe I will have to read more to find out. Karl Morgan does have a wild imagination to dream this up. A lot of the scenes and action were downright disgusting, and some of it was beautiful. The book was true to its name.
Not Impressed!
It was a mixture of chaos vs. calm with no understanding of where the author was going. Duplication of spirits ruled the day, multiple realms, two Gods? I didn't feel comfortable having my God transformed into something else. I'm not an over-the-top religious fanatic, but I did feel that things were carried a bit too far and you can't hide behind fantasy to justify it. I do have trouble sometimes with fantasy writing for this reason.
The author did a good job keeping up with the characters because I sure couldn't. When he hopped from one scene to the next, new characters were added with no intro to who they were. I get it, but it took forever to find out more about them. I don't know if that's a good thing because I found myself writing names down just so I could keep up. In the end it was all a futile attempt because there were duplicates of each of them and that makes it difficult to keep track.
The story didn't seem to have an ending and I finished feeling like "Is there more? What was the point?" This is book 4, so maybe I will have to read more to find out. Karl Morgan does have a wild imagination to dream this up. A lot of the scenes and action were downright disgusting, and some of it was beautiful. The book was true to its name.
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