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Kings of One Color
Sometimes hardships are a necessary when Moshe’s family is taken away to serve their king and their God, he finds himself on a ship being sent off to be sold to another king. It’s not just his family who are making something more with their lives. Moshe learns that he is the subject of an ancient prophecy who is meant to lead the people of Earth to freedom from their oppressors, the kings of one color. Richard W. Kelly’s The Kings of One Color was inspired by the Bible itself. After writing My Journey Into Christianity, he found himself wanting to put the inspirational tone of biblical stories into a novel. Readers who need a bit of inspiration from a higher power and are looking for a fast paced epic fantasy have found it.
- GenresFiction
230 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 30, 2017
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About the author
Richard W. Kelly
19 books27 followersRichard William Kelly was born in Arlington, Texas in October of 1980. The second born and first son of Stephen James and Carolyn Ann Ferguson Kelly. He and his older sister Kerry spent their childhood in the suburbs between Dallas and Fort Worth. From an early age he had wild aspirations to become either a professional wrestler or a writer and imitated both.
Richard graduated from Martin High School in 1999. Throughout school he wrote as a hobby with a dream to one day become a writer, but not enough bravery to attempt it. While his sister moved out of state and his parents relocated to the Houston area, Richard moved to Denton, Texas and attended school at the University of North Texas. He worked various retail jobs while he studied. Always at a loss for a dream that seemed rational he majored in History, Political Science, Anthropology, Mathematics... He eventually graduated with B.A. in Economics in May of 2005.
He married his wife in July of 2005 and bounced back and forth between Houston and Denton. They had met in high school at a coffee shop in Arlington called Scared Grounds.
Unfortunately, college degrees lacked the guaranteed employment both were expecting, and they spent two years moving around and looking for work. Richard finally landed a job as an analyst in Katy, Texas in February of 2007, a career that is still growing today.
In 2009 at Richard’s twenty-ninth birthday he set a goal to write a novel. On July 14, 2010 he released Testament. This, just like the college degree was not a guarantee of a career. Writing remained a hobby as he released books slowly as the years went on as he changed analytics jobs and Texas towns.
In 2017 he relocated his family to Broomfield, Colorado. Although he loved the atmosphere and slowed down pace of Colorado, he was no match for the high cost of living or the altitude. He and his wife now reside back in Texas.
Richard graduated from Martin High School in 1999. Throughout school he wrote as a hobby with a dream to one day become a writer, but not enough bravery to attempt it. While his sister moved out of state and his parents relocated to the Houston area, Richard moved to Denton, Texas and attended school at the University of North Texas. He worked various retail jobs while he studied. Always at a loss for a dream that seemed rational he majored in History, Political Science, Anthropology, Mathematics... He eventually graduated with B.A. in Economics in May of 2005.
He married his wife in July of 2005 and bounced back and forth between Houston and Denton. They had met in high school at a coffee shop in Arlington called Scared Grounds.
Unfortunately, college degrees lacked the guaranteed employment both were expecting, and they spent two years moving around and looking for work. Richard finally landed a job as an analyst in Katy, Texas in February of 2007, a career that is still growing today.
In 2009 at Richard’s twenty-ninth birthday he set a goal to write a novel. On July 14, 2010 he released Testament. This, just like the college degree was not a guarantee of a career. Writing remained a hobby as he released books slowly as the years went on as he changed analytics jobs and Texas towns.
In 2017 he relocated his family to Broomfield, Colorado. Although he loved the atmosphere and slowed down pace of Colorado, he was no match for the high cost of living or the altitude. He and his wife now reside back in Texas.
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June 2, 2017
The book starts with you questioning what's going on. It took a while to figure out why certain things were happening, which kept the suspense up. Like all of Richard W. Kellys books I couldn't put it down, he's great at keeping you hooked.
June 20, 2018
Heavy handed adventure story of faith
Story of faith and revolution, set in a dystopian future where the world is ruled by four Kings and a false King, each stucturing their kingdom for their personal benefit, exchanging the populace of their kingdoms as a form of currency to buy goods and services from one another.
NOT young adult, with graphic events including sexual situations and some gore. In the main, it's not particularly descriptive, largely relying on telling rather than showing. Much of the more significant moments of the book were simply incredible, revealing an apparent ignorance on the part of the Author of the very experiences he was trying to convey. Not just swordplay, which many modern authors fail at, but also the experience of long travel by boat or otherwise, and also of starvation/dehydration. Time, praticularly, seemed compressed, with events happening much more rapidly than persons could plausibly travel between locations - unless the kingdoms at issue all occupy a land not much bigger than a largish US state.
No doubt, this was an important story for the Author to tell, but I can't recommend this work.
It's readable, yes, unlike a number of other books I've reviewed in the past twelve months, but given the number of authors out there to read, and the limited time we readers have to enjoy their works, I have to recommend looking elsewhere.
Final disclosure - I won this book in a Goodreads giveaway. Ill be deleting it from my Kindle after submitting this review.
Story of faith and revolution, set in a dystopian future where the world is ruled by four Kings and a false King, each stucturing their kingdom for their personal benefit, exchanging the populace of their kingdoms as a form of currency to buy goods and services from one another.
NOT young adult, with graphic events including sexual situations and some gore. In the main, it's not particularly descriptive, largely relying on telling rather than showing. Much of the more significant moments of the book were simply incredible, revealing an apparent ignorance on the part of the Author of the very experiences he was trying to convey. Not just swordplay, which many modern authors fail at, but also the experience of long travel by boat or otherwise, and also of starvation/dehydration. Time, praticularly, seemed compressed, with events happening much more rapidly than persons could plausibly travel between locations - unless the kingdoms at issue all occupy a land not much bigger than a largish US state.
No doubt, this was an important story for the Author to tell, but I can't recommend this work.
It's readable, yes, unlike a number of other books I've reviewed in the past twelve months, but given the number of authors out there to read, and the limited time we readers have to enjoy their works, I have to recommend looking elsewhere.
Final disclosure - I won this book in a Goodreads giveaway. Ill be deleting it from my Kindle after submitting this review.
May 26, 2023
This book is, unfortunately, one that I won't be finishing. I read almost 20% of it, and I'm sorry to say I haven't found anything enjoyable about it yet. It definitely feels like a heavily religious cult story, but not any of the fascinating details you might hear about in stories or the media. Just the sort of boring, sort of vague details that make you wonder why you're here. Definitely a story that would make me fall asleep in class. I did try to read it despite not being interested to see if it got better, but the book isn't written in a way that flows naturally, so it's also just awkward to read. So, I'd really rather spend my time doing something else and will not be finishing it.
Note: I received this book for free through Goodreads Giveaways.
Note: I received this book for free through Goodreads Giveaways.
July 14, 2018
I received this Kindle edition through a Goodreads giveaway. I really, really wanted to like this book. The premise was interesting. Unfortunately, I found it trying and hard to get through. I wanted to care about the characters, but all of them annoyed me at some point and I found them difficult to support. Probably what detracted from the story most was the numerous errors in grammar and mechanics. This book needs a good editor. There were also major gaps in the plot line that were hurriedly solved or left unexplained. With more development this story could really be something. Lastly, the writing itself was not polished; syntax and diction were underdeveloped.
March 9, 2019
4 kings and a false king try to skew their world to their advantage in this dystopian story .Moshe is phrophecys only hope to save the earth from the kings of one color.I didn't feel the author had alot of experience with this form of storytelling but he does have potential I was given this free for an honest review
August 13, 2018
The plot was interesting, in the future of the earth, man with his weapons of war, sent us back thousands of years.
The earth was ruled by the 4 Kings of one color and they used people as money. The son, daughter and wife of Moshe's were sent to the city. Moshe was put on a boat to be sold to another king. This is there it get's off track. A prophesy was that the forgotten would take over. The kings were fearful of this and was killing the forgotten, Moshe was the forgotten. I lost track of what was happening, first they were here then there. It was an epic fantasy so I guess that was why it did not make any scent to me.
I did finish the book, not sure what I read at times, but it did have an interesting idea.
The earth was ruled by the 4 Kings of one color and they used people as money. The son, daughter and wife of Moshe's were sent to the city. Moshe was put on a boat to be sold to another king. This is there it get's off track. A prophesy was that the forgotten would take over. The kings were fearful of this and was killing the forgotten, Moshe was the forgotten. I lost track of what was happening, first they were here then there. It was an epic fantasy so I guess that was why it did not make any scent to me.
I did finish the book, not sure what I read at times, but it did have an interesting idea.
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