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Balance Keeper #0.5
Hints of Darkness
Focused on the recital she's been dreaming about for a year, Evie is blindsided when the doctor says her brother has leukemia. She’s worried about her brother, but it’s like her parents don't even see her anymore.
Her problems multiply when the shadows in her bedroom attack. She tries to survive over the days and weeks she’s left alone, but each night the shadows intensify, morphing into a demon who stands over her bed, sniffing her.
Is she losing her mind? What is really in the shadows? Who is safe to tell her secret? And how can she continue fighting the shadow demon at night while becoming no better than an invisible shadow to her family by day?
She knows she needs to do right by her brother, but she doesn't know how to be the person he needs in this new upside-down, inside-out world of terminal illness.
Will she be able to find her new place in her family, overcome the shadow demon tormenting her, and help her brother beat cancer before it's too late?
Her problems multiply when the shadows in her bedroom attack. She tries to survive over the days and weeks she’s left alone, but each night the shadows intensify, morphing into a demon who stands over her bed, sniffing her.
Is she losing her mind? What is really in the shadows? Who is safe to tell her secret? And how can she continue fighting the shadow demon at night while becoming no better than an invisible shadow to her family by day?
She knows she needs to do right by her brother, but she doesn't know how to be the person he needs in this new upside-down, inside-out world of terminal illness.
Will she be able to find her new place in her family, overcome the shadow demon tormenting her, and help her brother beat cancer before it's too late?
70 pages, Paperback
First published July 23, 2021
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September 18, 2021
Our protagonist is fighting for her own emotional survival when her brother is diagnosed with leukemia. At nights she see shadows in her room and now the shadows have moved to a demon. Who can she tell? Will they think she is crazy? She has always tended to be the invisible child with her parents, now she is no longer exists. She knows she needs to be there for her brother. Having had a terminal child, I can really attune to the dilemma of this child. If there was just someway they can talk. She may not realize that at the same time the she is feeling all alone, her parents may also be feeling judged but those around them. And making it all the more difficult for them to be open with her. Will she survive? J. L. Burrows has a way of crafting his story, masterfully interwoven with progressive world building, action, and delving deeply into his characters persona without overdoing one thing or another. I highly recommend this novel. I gave this honest, voluntary review after being given a free copy of the book.
July 24, 2022
I didn't want to put this one down! I'm excited to read the next in the series.
August 27, 2021
Strange how someone gets a terminal disease and everyone’s focus is on that person. In the meantime, others in the story are rather invisible. And that is the problem
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