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PAUL LITTLE EBOOK REVIEWS
LIFE II: (to see "Seeking Dr. Magic" review scroll further below)
http://littleebookreviews.com/2013/05/07/e-book-review-life-ii-by-scott-spotson/
Time travel is an enigmatic subject and one that has been used and abused in many contexts. Clearly there are a lot of possibilities with time travel from an author’s perspective but all too often the events become confusing, doubtful or bogged down in the mundane discussion of paradoxes. In “Life II” Scott Spotson has made a refreshing break from these issues and we focus instead more on the effect of the protagonists’ choices and the ramifications of those all too swiftly taken decisions. What we get is a tale of self-inflicted challenge, excitement, despair, renewal and grief.
Surely we have all thought or considered at one time what it might be like to go back and change that one thing in our past that bugs us still. Or perhaps we think that we can go back and live an altogether better life the second time around having already life experiences in the bag. This subject also fascinates ‘main stream’ science and there are numerous physics journal papers written on the very subject of closed causal loops, their possibility or impossibility and the debate has not stopped.
What Spotson delivers is a very neatly balanced discussion of time travel wrapped inside an emotionally gripping story. This is not the neat time travel, it is no holds barred, raw and turns out not to be an easy journey. There are many twists and surprises in “Life II”. I was deeply impressed by the story line and found it difficult to drag myself away from this book when other duties called.
SEEKING DR. MAGIC
http://littleebookreviews.com/2013/05/01/e-book-review-seeking-dr-magic-by-scott-spotson/
This is a book that will appeal to the younger audience and lovers of low-fantasy of any age. When thinking about this book the word romp strikes a chord. In this book magic is both a gift and a curse which leads to disaster as well as tremendous acheivements. There is a fine interplay between the characters and the development of them and their history gives the book a backbone that holds the story. There is a lot of action and there are quite a few surprises along the way.
I find it difficult to write anything more substantial in review because it would be too easy to spoil the plot. What I can say is that some of the essential moral / developmental elements are quite powerful but it took me quite some time to identify the deeper strand to the plot because I was not expecting them during the early stages of this romp.
http://littleebookreviews.com/2013/05/07/e-book-review-life-ii-by-scott-spotson/
Time travel is an enigmatic subject and one that has been used and abused in many contexts. Clearly there are a lot of possibilities with time travel from an author’s perspective but all too often the events become confusing, doubtful or bogged down in the mundane discussion of paradoxes. In “Life II” Scott Spotson has made a refreshing break from these issues and we focus instead more on the effect of the protagonists’ choices and the ramifications of those all too swiftly taken decisions. What we get is a tale of self-inflicted challenge, excitement, despair, renewal and grief.
Surely we have all thought or considered at one time what it might be like to go back and change that one thing in our past that bugs us still. Or perhaps we think that we can go back and live an altogether better life the second time around having already life experiences in the bag. This subject also fascinates ‘main stream’ science and there are numerous physics journal papers written on the very subject of closed causal loops, their possibility or impossibility and the debate has not stopped.
What Spotson delivers is a very neatly balanced discussion of time travel wrapped inside an emotionally gripping story. This is not the neat time travel, it is no holds barred, raw and turns out not to be an easy journey. There are many twists and surprises in “Life II”. I was deeply impressed by the story line and found it difficult to drag myself away from this book when other duties called.
SEEKING DR. MAGIC
http://littleebookreviews.com/2013/05/01/e-book-review-seeking-dr-magic-by-scott-spotson/
This is a book that will appeal to the younger audience and lovers of low-fantasy of any age. When thinking about this book the word romp strikes a chord. In this book magic is both a gift and a curse which leads to disaster as well as tremendous acheivements. There is a fine interplay between the characters and the development of them and their history gives the book a backbone that holds the story. There is a lot of action and there are quite a few surprises along the way.
I find it difficult to write anything more substantial in review because it would be too easy to spoil the plot. What I can say is that some of the essential moral / developmental elements are quite powerful but it took me quite some time to identify the deeper strand to the plot because I was not expecting them during the early stages of this romp.
