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The Hesaurun Rings Book 2 the Ring Bearer
The Ring Bearer , book 2 in The Rings of Hesaurun series, continues the story of Valerie Dunne, better known as The Ring Bearer, master of the Five Rings of Hesaurun, on a journey through time and a destiny greater than she could ever have imagined.
Forced to sacrifice herself by disappearing into Earth's distant past to preserve humanity's future and escape a galactic menace even she cannot resist, Valerie begins a new life seven thousand years in the past. She feels safe in this realm until confronted by an alien resource seeker drone determined to reveal the secret of Earth's riches to those that would covet them. The vile thing is quickly destroyed by the awesome power of the Five Rings, but not soon enough...
Now her greatest fear has been realized. The Boecki are coming centuries sooner than expected, set to strip Earth of its assets, consume everything and everyone, and nothing can be done about it because Valerie Dunne is dead, and the Hesaurun Rings are lost to the past! However, hope remains, providing the Ring Bearer reoccurs in the twenty-first century as promised.
Forced to sacrifice herself by disappearing into Earth's distant past to preserve humanity's future and escape a galactic menace even she cannot resist, Valerie begins a new life seven thousand years in the past. She feels safe in this realm until confronted by an alien resource seeker drone determined to reveal the secret of Earth's riches to those that would covet them. The vile thing is quickly destroyed by the awesome power of the Five Rings, but not soon enough...
Now her greatest fear has been realized. The Boecki are coming centuries sooner than expected, set to strip Earth of its assets, consume everything and everyone, and nothing can be done about it because Valerie Dunne is dead, and the Hesaurun Rings are lost to the past! However, hope remains, providing the Ring Bearer reoccurs in the twenty-first century as promised.
360 pages, Paperback
Published April 11, 2022
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About the author
Peter Harrett
3 books645 followersEvents and experiences that fascinate and impress become part of us, make us who we are, and for many become the engine of creativity. Like many youngsters of my generation, I was drawn to fantasy and science fiction at an early age. I have always had a vivid imagination. Space Angel, Earth vs. The Flying Saucers, The Day the Earth Stood Still, and Star Trek all seemed so real to me. Those television shows and movies fired my imagination. I identified with them. They were real to me.
I remember my first experience with fantasy came when The Wizard of Oz was shown on television and in color, which was a big deal at the time. I was about six years old then, around 1960. My grandparents had a color television set, we didn’t, so arrangements were made to watch with them. It was wonderful, but I thought the witch’s marching soldiers were scary. My brother Paul, 2 yrs older, was horrified by the flying monkeys. In the day, The Wizard of Oz frightened a lot of little kids.
Our folks often went to the drive-in movies and took us with them. There was a children’s playground under the big screen; we would play there in our pajamas before the movie started. Paul and I got to watch cartoons that came on before the feature, but when the movie began, we were expected to go to sleep on the back seat. We watched anyway, covertly peeking over the seats.
I remember seeing Ben-Hur, which was a spectacle, with its great chariot race. On another occasion, a double feature of Vincent Price’s Fall Of The House Of Usher followed by The Pit and The Pendulum scared the tar out of us! Fall of The House of Usher ends with the house sinking into the swamp with people still inside! I can still hear their haunting cries. That one gave us nightmares! I never saw it again, but The Fall of The House of Usher left its mark on me.
Space Angel, with Commander Scott McCloud aboard the spaceship Starduster, was an animated science fiction television series produced from 1962 through 1964 using the Synchro-Vox lip technique. In English, that means it was still-action; the only thing moving on the characters were their lips. After school, we would run home so we didn’t miss Space Angel—that and the Three Stooges. We loved Space Angel! By today’s standards, the animation seems hokey, but at the time Space Angel had us glued to the TV screen.
One day, I was in the school library with one of my schoolmates, Rick, who recommended reading Robert Heinlein’s book Have Space Suit Will Travel. Then he asked me if I planned to watch the new science fiction show on TV. He said it was called Star Trek. I hadn’t heard about it, and the word trek was new to me. Rick explained trek means to journey. Star Trek was a TV show about traveling among the stars. That’s all I needed to hear, so I made sure not to miss it. From then on, nothing was ever the same for me.
Looking back on that day, that conversation in the library with Rick was a defining moment. I began reading science fiction books, comics and watching Star Trek on television. Now take all that science fiction and throw in the Three Stooges, and you have your author of The Rings of Hesaurun, Peter Harrett.
I remember my first experience with fantasy came when The Wizard of Oz was shown on television and in color, which was a big deal at the time. I was about six years old then, around 1960. My grandparents had a color television set, we didn’t, so arrangements were made to watch with them. It was wonderful, but I thought the witch’s marching soldiers were scary. My brother Paul, 2 yrs older, was horrified by the flying monkeys. In the day, The Wizard of Oz frightened a lot of little kids.
Our folks often went to the drive-in movies and took us with them. There was a children’s playground under the big screen; we would play there in our pajamas before the movie started. Paul and I got to watch cartoons that came on before the feature, but when the movie began, we were expected to go to sleep on the back seat. We watched anyway, covertly peeking over the seats.
I remember seeing Ben-Hur, which was a spectacle, with its great chariot race. On another occasion, a double feature of Vincent Price’s Fall Of The House Of Usher followed by The Pit and The Pendulum scared the tar out of us! Fall of The House of Usher ends with the house sinking into the swamp with people still inside! I can still hear their haunting cries. That one gave us nightmares! I never saw it again, but The Fall of The House of Usher left its mark on me.
Space Angel, with Commander Scott McCloud aboard the spaceship Starduster, was an animated science fiction television series produced from 1962 through 1964 using the Synchro-Vox lip technique. In English, that means it was still-action; the only thing moving on the characters were their lips. After school, we would run home so we didn’t miss Space Angel—that and the Three Stooges. We loved Space Angel! By today’s standards, the animation seems hokey, but at the time Space Angel had us glued to the TV screen.
One day, I was in the school library with one of my schoolmates, Rick, who recommended reading Robert Heinlein’s book Have Space Suit Will Travel. Then he asked me if I planned to watch the new science fiction show on TV. He said it was called Star Trek. I hadn’t heard about it, and the word trek was new to me. Rick explained trek means to journey. Star Trek was a TV show about traveling among the stars. That’s all I needed to hear, so I made sure not to miss it. From then on, nothing was ever the same for me.
Looking back on that day, that conversation in the library with Rick was a defining moment. I began reading science fiction books, comics and watching Star Trek on television. Now take all that science fiction and throw in the Three Stooges, and you have your author of The Rings of Hesaurun, Peter Harrett.
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August 5, 2022
I loved the first book, but the second one, The Ring Bearer was even better! I liked the way it flowed, and it was funny! The character development was great and relatable. The Rings of Hesaurun was right up there with the best books I have read. Super stuff! I can't wait for the next book to come out!!
January 29, 2023
4/5 - shorter than the first book, offers some great character development and world building but doesn’t feel like it advances the overall narrative too far. I’m hopeful it’s setting the stage for an adventurous sequel.
August 5, 2022
A perfect sequel to the first book.
May 25, 2023
Still unsure where the story is going, I hate the use of cliffhanger endings.
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