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A Hero's Path
Eleven-year-old Alice didn't know that she was about to become a hero. How could she know that she would be called upon to change the course of history? How could she stand up to that kind of pressure and how could she ever make the right choices to succeed? She was, after all, only eleven and small for her age at that. Was she really this brave? If you were to ask her, she would say no, but isn't that true of most heroes.Like Alice in "Alice in Wonderland" and Dorothy in the "Wizard of Oz," Alice is on a strange journey as her world is turned upside down when she stumbles upon an odd diary in an old dusty attic, but this wasn't like any other book that she had ever read and it sends her into a world where everything isn't the way it should be.As she reads the pages of the diary, it begins to interact with her in ways that, at first, are subtle but doesn't remain so. Soon, she seems to be living the things happening between those strange pages. The diary is about a young girl, Alice's age and Alice soon finds that she and the girl in the book seem to be on the same strange path...
361 pages, Paperback
Published April 23, 2018
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April 26, 2018
Unrequited Heroism
Brilliantly developed storyline of an eleven year old girl who goes through a series of life changing decisions all of them leading to the ultimate salvation of the human race. D R Swan spun two closely tied stories where the heroine must unlock with the mysterious "volume two" to undergo a series of challenges while at the same time trying to answer the proverbial question , "Why me?"
The storyline is an easy read, easy to follow, but don't be fooled by it. D R Swan has these twist and unforeseen unexpected turns in the story that will surprise a reader at more than several places in the story. I think this is the attractive feature of the book, that one is never stagnant always anticipating the next hurdle, the next surprise that the author has so carefully planned. I am especially taken by the conclusion - even though there's a likely hint of a continuing story - after saving the human race, she is alone in this knowledge and contentedly so. Anyone can read and very much enjoy this book, but there will always be those who will understand it's deeper message that being good doesn't always have its reward other than your own awareness of what you have done.
Brilliantly developed storyline of an eleven year old girl who goes through a series of life changing decisions all of them leading to the ultimate salvation of the human race. D R Swan spun two closely tied stories where the heroine must unlock with the mysterious "volume two" to undergo a series of challenges while at the same time trying to answer the proverbial question , "Why me?"
The storyline is an easy read, easy to follow, but don't be fooled by it. D R Swan has these twist and unforeseen unexpected turns in the story that will surprise a reader at more than several places in the story. I think this is the attractive feature of the book, that one is never stagnant always anticipating the next hurdle, the next surprise that the author has so carefully planned. I am especially taken by the conclusion - even though there's a likely hint of a continuing story - after saving the human race, she is alone in this knowledge and contentedly so. Anyone can read and very much enjoy this book, but there will always be those who will understand it's deeper message that being good doesn't always have its reward other than your own awareness of what you have done.
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