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- The Demon Plague
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- Author: Joreid McFate
- Reviewer: Rita Porter
- Publisher: Zumaya Publications
- Format: Adult, Fiction, Paperback, 42 Pages, 2001, $17.95
- ISBN: 0970486863
- Rating: * * * Quills
- www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/0970486863/scriquil
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- Reporter Crystal Donovan hears a loud boom and heads out to explore the cause, hoping to beat all the other reporters with being the first to report the story. Unknown to her, she is swept up into a situation that crosses timelines and bounds of believability. Rescuing a man she believes to be a witness from the explosion, Baron Kane, she takes him to the emergency room and then home with her, hoping to get the scoop from him. Crystal’s life is set on a path of total confusion and life-threatening circumstances, when Kane asks her to help him locate his lost wrist ornament that seems to be a scuba watch.
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- With the loss of an old family friend, Ba Tuti shows up on Crystal’s doorstep, saying that her aunt sent her. She claims to know things that her family had taught her since her birth to ready her to help Crystal, such as how she is the moon and Crystal is the star. Both must stay together, help fight the evil and safely keep the crystal that Crystal’s grandmother left to her. Both have a certain style of birthmark marking them as the ones to inherit the responsibilities.
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- Being chased by a demon of sorts and cops, and not knowing whom to trust, leaves Crystal and Ba Tuti pretty much on their own, with only the aid of Crystal’s Doberman Max. They soon find themselves time traveling back in time to the beginning of Crystal's ancestral line and the beginning of when her ancestors started protecting the crystal, before they head off to the future to try and save mankind.
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- With a small cast of main characters and very few minor ones, the characters are overall well-scripted. Crystal’s character is well-written, with believable traits for one with a mystical side. Ba Tuti was all together different, and with a lot left unsaid about this character, the reader is somewhat left thinking that at times she is not all together there. Kane confuses the reader at first, which is a basic ploy of some writers keep the reader guessing as to which is which.
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- While Joreid McFate has written a science fiction story here, it is a very quick paced and not overly descriptive to drown out the whole theme of the story. With a twist near the end of the book that could confuse readers, McFate has done a good job with the switch up. Simple wording makes for an easy read, with an easy plot to follow.
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