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Providence
The world is changing. Rain floods the entire globe, hurricane winds blow throughout every country, and earth-shattering quakes have destroyed the land. Millions have perished. Three of the four elements have been found, but the emptiness has begun to invoke the destructive end of this world.
Nora now has her toughest battle to face, and she has to face it without her soul mate. Can she find the fire before it’s too late? Is there a way to save Darcy from the darkness? Can the curse be broken and the balance restored? In the final battle against the evil of the emptiness – let there be light.
Nora now has her toughest battle to face, and she has to face it without her soul mate. Can she find the fire before it’s too late? Is there a way to save Darcy from the darkness? Can the curse be broken and the balance restored? In the final battle against the evil of the emptiness – let there be light.
270 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 29, 2018
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Amy Marie
7 books31 followersAmy Marie is a Children's/YA/Fantasy author. She's lived all over the United States, but has finally settled in Michigan. She's worked several years for a major book retailer, and now enjoys a career in aviation as an air traffic controller. She finds respite from the stresses of her job in writing stories, reading fiction, and time with family and friends.
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July 19, 2019
Reminiscence: knowledge from before birth of essential truths of existence.
Quintessence: the Reminiscence, protected by the four elements of existence.
Providence: the hope that the Quintessence is destined to succeed in preserving the Reminiscence.
Nora: a girl with Reminiscence. She is the spirit of light. Which explains why she was not popular in high school.
Darcy: – a guy with Reminiscence and lots, lots more years. The spirit of darkness; but not of evil. Just your usual dark brooding immortal. He would have so ruled high school.
Add four elemental souls, two fallen spirits (one dark, one light, both null and void), three personifications of virtue, a couple of magic items. Finally: the Statera itself: not just an old book but an old fashioned balance scale. Because the items listed above are the very weights that balance the world. We hope. And they are the key players in the Statera epic.
And that epic is: a love story. Sure, it will go boom with magical explosions and delve into metaphysical puzzles. Presenting characters nearly out of Pilgrim’s Progress. But first and last, it’s a love story. A cute, tragic-dramatic romance between a guy and girl. Granted, if you are of poetical mind you can shout that love IS the highest form of magic, the deepest metaphysical puzzle. A truth easier to see in a book than in our own lives.
Nora and Darcy: meant by the universe to be together. And what is wrong with the universe is that they aren’t together. Sounds a familiar plot. Hell, I’ve been in that story myself. It’s been a popular story arc since self-publishing on clay tablets. Two souls struggle to find each other, while absolutely everything that most sucks in reality is given a chance to keep them apart.
Granted, the Statera is also a metaphysical tale. Nora is the Light; Darcy is the Dark. Note they are the improved versions of these offices; their predecessors screwed up. Corrupted by the lust for power, so the police reports say. Or just perhaps… they failed in their love? Simply math: if a soul has a soul-mate, their truest purpose is to make the love work. Turn aside for good and ill, and your soul will empty. Null and void.
Bah; you see the challenge the reader faces? Magic and metaphysics are strings of definitions and rules. They soon tangle like Christmas lights. Recall the incomprehensibility of the last Harry Potter books. The reader needed a four-dimensional spreadsheet to follow the tangle of Deathly Hallows. horcruxes and prophecy.
Amy Marie never falls into that pit. ‘Providence’ skirts the pit edge, in the desire to explain all riddles, tie all lose ends. Still, it keeps to the point. And the point is: Nora, Darcy and their friends. Because there are more souls involved in any tale of lovers than just the lovers. See the boy and girl walking hand in hand down the high school hall? Took a village to get them together. For Nora and Darcy, it takes a damn universe to get them together. Takes Providence.
We believe in ‘Providence’; in stories at least. We trust that as empty as the night seems, dawn is in the Plan. The lovers will unite. What we readers fear is what sacrifices will be required? What will be the cost of restoring the balance? Amy Marie pulls no punches in her third book. Puts no providential thumb on the scales of the Statera. Which is proper story telling.
5 stars.
Quintessence: the Reminiscence, protected by the four elements of existence.
Providence: the hope that the Quintessence is destined to succeed in preserving the Reminiscence.
Nora: a girl with Reminiscence. She is the spirit of light. Which explains why she was not popular in high school.
Darcy: – a guy with Reminiscence and lots, lots more years. The spirit of darkness; but not of evil. Just your usual dark brooding immortal. He would have so ruled high school.
Add four elemental souls, two fallen spirits (one dark, one light, both null and void), three personifications of virtue, a couple of magic items. Finally: the Statera itself: not just an old book but an old fashioned balance scale. Because the items listed above are the very weights that balance the world. We hope. And they are the key players in the Statera epic.
And that epic is: a love story. Sure, it will go boom with magical explosions and delve into metaphysical puzzles. Presenting characters nearly out of Pilgrim’s Progress. But first and last, it’s a love story. A cute, tragic-dramatic romance between a guy and girl. Granted, if you are of poetical mind you can shout that love IS the highest form of magic, the deepest metaphysical puzzle. A truth easier to see in a book than in our own lives.
Nora and Darcy: meant by the universe to be together. And what is wrong with the universe is that they aren’t together. Sounds a familiar plot. Hell, I’ve been in that story myself. It’s been a popular story arc since self-publishing on clay tablets. Two souls struggle to find each other, while absolutely everything that most sucks in reality is given a chance to keep them apart.
Granted, the Statera is also a metaphysical tale. Nora is the Light; Darcy is the Dark. Note they are the improved versions of these offices; their predecessors screwed up. Corrupted by the lust for power, so the police reports say. Or just perhaps… they failed in their love? Simply math: if a soul has a soul-mate, their truest purpose is to make the love work. Turn aside for good and ill, and your soul will empty. Null and void.
Bah; you see the challenge the reader faces? Magic and metaphysics are strings of definitions and rules. They soon tangle like Christmas lights. Recall the incomprehensibility of the last Harry Potter books. The reader needed a four-dimensional spreadsheet to follow the tangle of Deathly Hallows. horcruxes and prophecy.
Amy Marie never falls into that pit. ‘Providence’ skirts the pit edge, in the desire to explain all riddles, tie all lose ends. Still, it keeps to the point. And the point is: Nora, Darcy and their friends. Because there are more souls involved in any tale of lovers than just the lovers. See the boy and girl walking hand in hand down the high school hall? Took a village to get them together. For Nora and Darcy, it takes a damn universe to get them together. Takes Providence.
We believe in ‘Providence’; in stories at least. We trust that as empty as the night seems, dawn is in the Plan. The lovers will unite. What we readers fear is what sacrifices will be required? What will be the cost of restoring the balance? Amy Marie pulls no punches in her third book. Puts no providential thumb on the scales of the Statera. Which is proper story telling.
5 stars.
August 31, 2019
A great ending to a great series. I really enjoyed the way the author brought in Egyptian mythology, equating Nora and her light powers to the sun god Ra and equating the destructor to the previous sun god that had fallen. It's interesting to think about the similarities between each religion's take on the origin story. As with the other books, I loved the elemental souls and the light/dark love story between Nora and Darcy.
January 7, 2019
A series that will hook you
Amy i loved this. From the first book to the last, i was mesmerized by the characters and story. Great job. Look forward to reading more of your work. A BIG Fan.
Amy i loved this. From the first book to the last, i was mesmerized by the characters and story. Great job. Look forward to reading more of your work. A BIG Fan.
August 6, 2019
Excellent
This trilogy kept me engaged and wanting to read more. A never ending tale that crosses and combines the beliefs of world religions told in an entertaining manner
This trilogy kept me engaged and wanting to read more. A never ending tale that crosses and combines the beliefs of world religions told in an entertaining manner
April 15, 2019
Such a bittersweet ending to a magnificent series!
July 24, 2019
The world is being destroyed, and Nora and her companions must battle through the destruction to find the fourth element before it's too late. And the search is far from easy without Darcy, whose darkness consumed him, making him an unfortunate enemy to face. Nora watches as millions of people--her friends and allies included--perish around her. She must hope to win in the final battle to save the world.
Though I thought this was a good ending to Marie's trilogy, it fell short for me in a couple ways. It felt rushed in places, and I would have liked to have seen a bit more from the characters. Overall an entertaining read nonetheless.
Though I thought this was a good ending to Marie's trilogy, it fell short for me in a couple ways. It felt rushed in places, and I would have liked to have seen a bit more from the characters. Overall an entertaining read nonetheless.
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