Tuesday, November 27, 2018

A powerful new book by a wonderful author--

Shirley Meier’s Shadow of a Soul on Fire is not an easy book to read, but it is a good one and an important one. 
Not that it is not well written; for it is.  The prose are solid, at times touching on the poetic, but it is a story that goes from the horror of a an evil emperor’s existence to his literal cleansing of his soul and the eventual expiation of his guilt and pain.
It is the confronting of that guilt in the beginning of the book that makes it hard to get into, but I can tell you as one who pushed on, it like the pain it lines gets better; much better.
It is ultimately a book about triumphing over evil both internally and externally. It is about love conquering hate and is a book for all who have suffered to reaffirm that they can be healed.
Not that it is not delightful in parts—most notably the arrival of the uplifted, intelligent elephants- called delightfully Rummummalos- and their interactions with the humans ‘strange’ customs.
This is a world so completely created that it is an immersive trip into not only a nightmare, but a dream- for the world the scarred and suffering Emperor Ahmiraz falls into is one we all aspire to end up.
I heartily recommend this book to any one who has suffered or who needs hope that it all gets better. Because it does.
Kudos to Ms. Meier.


Teel James Glenn

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