Pat Bertram's Light Bringer Reviewed By Sandra Shwayder Sanchez of Bookpleasures.com
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Sandra Shwayder Sanchez
Reviewer Sandra Shwayder Sanchez: Sandra is
a retired attorney and co-founder of a small non-profit publishing
collective: The Wessex Collective with whom she has published two short fiction collections
(A Mile in These Shoes and Three Novellas) and one
novel, Stillbird.
Her most recent novel, The Secret of A Long Journey is soon to be released by Floricanto Press in April 2012 and her first novel, The Nun, originally published by Plain View Press in 1992 is being reissued in a 2nd Edition with additional material by PVP in March 2012.
By Sandra Shwayder Sanchez
Published on April 17, 2011
Pat Bertram is clearly very well read in the areas of astronomy, physics, ancient history and universal mythology and she brings her broad knowledge and brilliant imagination to this X files style story set in the present day Colorado Mountains . That knowledge lends credibility to this persuasive work of speculative fiction. That is to say, by the time it is all explained, it all makes perfect sense. The primary characters are believable and likeable, the villains suitably obnoxious, and the supporting characters are authentic, based, more than likely, on some of the eccentric individuals you can usually find living in these small mountain towns.
Scenes of a group of crotchety old folks who get together to eat curried oatmeal, quote Shakespeare and play Chinese checkers are wonderfully funny discussing current catastrophes from economic depression to planet wide natural disasters each with his or her own conspiracy theory to cover all of it. The plot replete with secret sinister underground corporate experiments, extra terrestrial creatures, a couple of budding romances, could have been the stuff of trendy comic books or yet another television series but the author’s excellent characterizations make it real, original, the stuff of literary fiction. Stylistically the author is adept at moving between lyrical poetic descriptions of nature, wryly funny dialogue and perfectly paced suspenseful writing.
I found this book to be not only entertaining but educational and it inspired me to want to study more fully those ancient mythologies, reading between the lines to guess at cryptic messages and try to trace current connections. It was a fun read that left me wanting more about these characters and more characters by this author.
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Author: Pat Bertram
Publisher: Second Wind Publishing
ISBN: 9781935171416
Author: Pat Bertram
Publisher: Second Wind Publishing
ISBN: 9781935171416
Click Here To Purchase Light Bringer
Pat Bertram is clearly very well read in the areas of astronomy, physics, ancient history and universal mythology and she brings her broad knowledge and brilliant imagination to this X files style story set in the present day Colorado Mountains . That knowledge lends credibility to this persuasive work of speculative fiction. That is to say, by the time it is all explained, it all makes perfect sense. The primary characters are believable and likeable, the villains suitably obnoxious, and the supporting characters are authentic, based, more than likely, on some of the eccentric individuals you can usually find living in these small mountain towns.
Scenes of a group of crotchety old folks who get together to eat curried oatmeal, quote Shakespeare and play Chinese checkers are wonderfully funny discussing current catastrophes from economic depression to planet wide natural disasters each with his or her own conspiracy theory to cover all of it. The plot replete with secret sinister underground corporate experiments, extra terrestrial creatures, a couple of budding romances, could have been the stuff of trendy comic books or yet another television series but the author’s excellent characterizations make it real, original, the stuff of literary fiction. Stylistically the author is adept at moving between lyrical poetic descriptions of nature, wryly funny dialogue and perfectly paced suspenseful writing.
I found this book to be not only entertaining but educational and it inspired me to want to study more fully those ancient mythologies, reading between the lines to guess at cryptic messages and try to trace current connections. It was a fun read that left me wanting more about these characters and more characters by this author.
Click Here To Purchase Light Bringer