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Showing posts with label Under Shattered Skies Trilogy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Under Shattered Skies Trilogy. Show all posts

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Mourning Sky by PD Allen (Review)

Mourning Sky
Review



I couldn't wait to read this, the final book in the trilogy Under Shattered Skies. Murderer’s Sky set us on a path to destruction, while Daemon Sky opened our eyes to the unseen forces that lurk around. And now it is time for the showdown in Mourning Sky…and it is quite the showdown!

I really don’t want to give it away (go forth and read it!), but will reveal the Reverend Chassey and his army of the ‘faithful’ is sufficient to give one the shivers…but he isn’t alone in his dark intent. As the atmosphere explodes and the stars bleed blood, the townspeople of Heater rise up and surrender to the darkness within. Heater burns and everywhere terrible death and suffering manifests, at the behest of Martin Ross and the archetype possessing him. And a boy paints the future, every curl and line he makes upon paper creating it in reality, spurring on the spread of evil.

But there is also hope. Good people step forward, among them young Kevin, who hopes to rescue his friend, and the sheriff, who hopes to rescue his town. A woman and her newborn hold the key to reviving the earth, while Father Albert Hayne steps into his true destiny, playing his fiddle to haunting results.

The earth mourns as the sky weeps. Is this the end of humankind? And that is as much as I’ll say about the story, but I must add this: loved it, brilliant, a fantastic read, a fitting end! Your turn- read it!



Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Mourning Sky (the links!)


 As promised, here are the links:


Tomorrow I'll post my review. Yep, I've read it!!!!!




Releasing today: murder and mayhem!

Under Shattered Skies by PD Allen


Volume I


Volume II


And now Volume III! Due for release today!!!!!
Will post the relevant links when I have them!


Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Daemon Sky = Fantastic!

Review:


Daemon Sky is akin to a modern parable. The problems of our civilisation are condensed into the small town of Heater in Arizona where good folk have to battle for survival against not only the greed of evil men, but a shattering sky that could end all life. In Heater there is racial tension, religious fanaticism, crime and prejudice, but Daemon Sky isn’t a political statement, a religious treatise or shake-up about crime, greed and uncaring. It’s far more interesting than that! Not only does the reader fall in love with some characters (especially Father Hayne), but the reader is transported into a space of archetypes, demonic forces, the terrible science that destroys and, above all, the beauty and power of pure music.

And yet, given the great concepts, I have to tell you there is something very ‘normal’ about Daemon Sky. Perhaps it’s the well-rounded characters and what makes them tick (so to speak), or perhaps it’s the fact that one can identify with one or more of them…and perhaps it’s PD Allen’s remarkable ability to keep a story flowing ever onward…

Loved Murderers Sky (vol 1), loved Daemon Sky as much, and can’t wait to read the final instalment of the trilogy, Mourning Sky!

5 stars all the way!

Available for Kindle here
and in paperback here



Saturday, September 29, 2012

PD Allen's Daemon Sky - now available!



Now you know I have posted PD's work before; Daemon Sky is the latest...and I cannot wait to read it! Grab your copy here (Kindle)


Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Review: Murderers Sky - PD Allen

5 Stars!



Murderers Sky begins innocuously enough- a priest summoned to a mother’s home, the local sheriff giving him a ride- but all is not as it seems. Overhead the sky is sickly and ominous and there are rumours of a terrible massacre out in the desert.

We come to know this priest with the soul of a musician and we travel with the sheriff into the jaws of hell. We meet a mother trying to help her challenged son- a boy who paints prophetic images of doom. We follow two boys who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, witnesses to terrible atrocity. We meet a woman about to give birth, the only survivor of a holocaust.

And then there are those with ulterior motives. Drug smugglers and people peddlers, soldiers without conscience, and their leader, a creature from the darkness. And the first inkling of what and who caused the changes to the atmosphere comes to the fore; this is long-term manipulation. And what, pray, is up at that church raising a safe house?

Every character is well-rounded and the tale flows with ease, holding the intense interest of this reader.  Woven into and throughout is the ages-old struggle between what is good and what is evil- an enlightening experience in this silent, hot and dry context.  A well-structure tale; PD Allen is a born storyteller.

I recommend Murderers Sky to anyone who enjoys depth in characters, a strange adventure, science and the supernatural- these factors are cleverly woven to form a tapestry that appears normal…yet isn’t. My only gripe is that Murderers Sky ended too soon! But the stage is set, and we know our characters now…and I cannot wait to read the next volume:  Dæmon Sky. May it be soon.

Murderers Sky by PD Allen available here


Sunday, July 8, 2012

Under Shattered Skies: IMAGES

                             Descriptive images for Murderers Sky (Volume I Under Shattered Skies):



COMING 15 JULY!


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Thursday, July 5, 2012

Murderers Sky (a teaser for you)


It was not without reason that Lucinda was worried about me venturing out into the open air. The sky overhead was disquieting to say the least, and a good many people were worried about exposing themselves to it, though news reports assured the public nobody had been struck ill because of the sky. Yet, as an overcast sky can leave a person brooding and depressed, so this sky left everyone who saw it feeling ill inside, as though there was something terribly wrong in you and in the world around you, and everyone would soon suffer for it.
Had someone sliced open the heavens and spilled their blood into the sky overhead, the result would have been no less grotesque. Yet the discoloration was murkier than blood could ever be, giving it the appearance of infection. If adjectives such as sore and inflamed could apply to the air, they fit this sky.
The firmament was imbued with a most horrific shade of scarlet from horizon to horizon, punctuated here and there with a trace of orange, yellow and even green. Nowhere was there a hint of blue. What few clouds formed in a summer Arizona sky looked like bloated pockets of reddened pus. A red sun glared down by day, and by night the stars bled mournfully while the moon glowered.
The sky was like this the entire world round. Everyone had seen the images on television — the sky over the Eiffel Tower, over Moscow, over the Forbidden City, over the Himalayas, over Antarctica, over Machu Pichu. There were massive protests around the globe, verging on riots. Environmentalists converged with religious fanatics to proclaim the end was at hand. There was no disputing that humans had made a mess of things. Even the President of Exxon-Mobile had to admit some responsibility for the phenomenon.
While I did not agree with Reverend Chassey over at the Holy Redeemer Church that the end-times were here, it was quite clear we were heading for trouble. One look at the sky was enough to assure you that a storm was forming, and humanity would be very lucky if it survived once this tempest passed. It was a time of fearful waiting, punctuated by outbreaks of panic and self-recrimination.



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