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The Anti-Matter Chronicles #4
Revenge: The Gray-Matter Chronicles: Book 1
Your children kidnapped—a parent’s worst horror! Unless you saw them disappear into the portal—then it becomes a nightmare! You can’t tell the police—as they will never believe you, nobody will. So what do you do? You pray! And that is what Lauren did after her arrest. With insufficient evidence and released from jail, those who would believe her gather to provide her husband Ryan, her brother Logan, and friends Eric and John, who had all returned from the magical lands of Calicon four years earlier. The place she desperately needed to get back to—because that was where her triplets were presently located. Just as the abduction had been unanticipated, so was their exit from this world, which also caught Steve, the arresting detective, by surprise. Once in the enchanted lands, greeted by Mirtza, a new plague of mysteries waits for them, but so do magic, friends, and allies. Then, in a land filled with surprises so amazing, it will yield the greatest one yet, and the promise of hope. Can they formulate a plan to push back the to find the triplets, to win the day? What happens when the evil unleashed is great, and it has a plan—a better plan? What happens when chaos threatens to birth horrors unimaginable? This fast-paced, suspenseful epic is filled with twists and turns that will both surprise and entertain you like no book before. Re-edited in 2019
- GenresFantasy
324 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 31, 2015
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September 16, 2016
This volume concludes the first of P.G. Thomas' first trilogy. If I try to describe the plot, even if you have read the first two volumes, I will just get twisted up in words.
The best I can say is this is non-stop, a surprise around every corner, blistering page turner. Can I say it is a good final entry to close the trilogy? Yes! It is an excellent conclusion.
I want to take a moment to talk about Peter Thomas as a writer. He is fearless. I caution you, fall in love with no character because he is not afraid to kill someone off whom the reader may have thought untouchable. This happened with Alron in the second book, and another beloved character dies very suddenly and violently in this one (hope that's not a spoiler, not likely since there are just too many characters from whom to choose). Peter is also a master of what I would call fantasy/war/action. He can put you in the middle of a battlefield such that you feel you have to duck as you are reading.
There is much to gratify the readers of the first two books in here. There is also sorrow. Parts of this book, only more toward the first third of this volume, resemble the section of Tolkien't "Return of the King" in the sections near the end entitled, "The scouring of the shire."
But with apparent peace at hand, our intrepid heroes discover problems are much larger than they could possible imagine.
I also applaud Peter's character development, especially that of Lauren. When really bad things happen and she does what she can; she often retreats to into herself and her room. I had to keep reminding myself that these characters, including Lauren, are HIGH SCHOOLERS suddenly thrown into an entirely different world, given powers beyond their imagination and that they don't just collapse is miraculous. That they act like teenagers at times, well I just shouldn't have been as pissed off as I was at times (laughing to myself, here).
My final comment on the story is that the book ends with several surprises, only one that I saw coming.
However, I must add a cautionary note. This book, even more so than its two predecessors, is extremely, graphically violent. It is appropriate to the story and is done as if one is truly in a world with a very violent underbelly, not to mention with a clash of armies.
I have to say that when I finished this book, I wondered (having already bought the next three) how we would find ourselves back in the other world. Leave it to Peter Thomas and his amazing imagination to get us there....
The best I can say is this is non-stop, a surprise around every corner, blistering page turner. Can I say it is a good final entry to close the trilogy? Yes! It is an excellent conclusion.
I want to take a moment to talk about Peter Thomas as a writer. He is fearless. I caution you, fall in love with no character because he is not afraid to kill someone off whom the reader may have thought untouchable. This happened with Alron in the second book, and another beloved character dies very suddenly and violently in this one (hope that's not a spoiler, not likely since there are just too many characters from whom to choose). Peter is also a master of what I would call fantasy/war/action. He can put you in the middle of a battlefield such that you feel you have to duck as you are reading.
There is much to gratify the readers of the first two books in here. There is also sorrow. Parts of this book, only more toward the first third of this volume, resemble the section of Tolkien't "Return of the King" in the sections near the end entitled, "The scouring of the shire."
But with apparent peace at hand, our intrepid heroes discover problems are much larger than they could possible imagine.
I also applaud Peter's character development, especially that of Lauren. When really bad things happen and she does what she can; she often retreats to into herself and her room. I had to keep reminding myself that these characters, including Lauren, are HIGH SCHOOLERS suddenly thrown into an entirely different world, given powers beyond their imagination and that they don't just collapse is miraculous. That they act like teenagers at times, well I just shouldn't have been as pissed off as I was at times (laughing to myself, here).
My final comment on the story is that the book ends with several surprises, only one that I saw coming.
However, I must add a cautionary note. This book, even more so than its two predecessors, is extremely, graphically violent. It is appropriate to the story and is done as if one is truly in a world with a very violent underbelly, not to mention with a clash of armies.
I have to say that when I finished this book, I wondered (having already bought the next three) how we would find ourselves back in the other world. Leave it to Peter Thomas and his amazing imagination to get us there....
August 9, 2019
Love/hate this book!
Don't get me wrong. I love this book. But the author is so good at building hopelessness and despair that I also hated it. I hated watching characters I cared about struggle and ultimately fail. And the end...just when I thought all was lost I'm on the edge of my seat only to be pushed over the cliff and into the next book!
Don't get me wrong. I love this book. But the author is so good at building hopelessness and despair that I also hated it. I hated watching characters I cared about struggle and ultimately fail. And the end...just when I thought all was lost I'm on the edge of my seat only to be pushed over the cliff and into the next book!
September 18, 2019
Wow, quite interesting way to twist the tale... Though I think you overly complicate the series name(s) as all of the works fit together wonderfully as the matter chronicals... Thoroughly enjoyed the read, and the endings big surprise... On to the next one...
November 10, 2019
Only my opinion
What an imagination! The twists and turns! I also like the authors making the hero's ordinary in making mistakes and suffering for them as we ourselves would.Keep writing.
What an imagination! The twists and turns! I also like the authors making the hero's ordinary in making mistakes and suffering for them as we ourselves would.Keep writing.
July 16, 2019
Wow what a trip!
More magic, more adventure. Oh and let's not forget all the torture ! Can't wait for book 2. I'm lost in Calicon everyday.
More magic, more adventure. Oh and let's not forget all the torture ! Can't wait for book 2. I'm lost in Calicon everyday.
January 27, 2020
What can I say?
The fact that I have read 4 books of the series in a row and am going to start the 5th as soon as I finish this review says it all.
The fact that I have read 4 books of the series in a row and am going to start the 5th as soon as I finish this review says it all.
July 30, 2021
Great follow-up
Wow that's a follow-up that exceeded my expectations. Hard to describe so you'll just have to read it for yourselves
Wow that's a follow-up that exceeded my expectations. Hard to describe so you'll just have to read it for yourselves
July 28, 2016
Much like the differences tween the first two Thomas Covanent trilogies by Stephen R Donaldson, P. G. Thomas returns us to the Tri Solar world of Caligon with a bang. The five returning adventurers are drawn back by Lauren and Ryan's triplets being kidnapped. Lauren is arrested for doing the deed. During an intense thunderstorm John (now a lawyer), Logan, Eric and Lauren's arresting officer Steve (a former SEAL) follow the triplets back to Calicon to find more than 40 years have passed and that Mother has disappeared and the peace Lauren instituted has been perverted as the triplets (now in their late teens) have been subverted and are Earth Mothers, themselves and stronger than Lauren, under direcctions of the evil leader of the Darkpaye Empire have limited means to try and change that which as happened.
Thomas is a joy to read, his style flows along a twisty road with the ease of a sports car and has you hanging on by your fingernails and still holds back just enough at the conclusion' cliffhanger ending to be slavering for. This book does not disappoint!
Thomas is a joy to read, his style flows along a twisty road with the ease of a sports car and has you hanging on by your fingernails and still holds back just enough at the conclusion' cliffhanger ending to be slavering for. This book does not disappoint!
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