THE KALEIDOSCOPE
by B.K. Nault
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BLURB:
Harold
Donaldson unwillingly becomes the custodian of a beautiful, handcrafted
kaleidoscope that changes the viewer’s future and becomes the focus of evil
operatives intent on capturing the kaleidoscope for nefarious purposes.
Brilliant but socially inept, Harold has distanced himself from any connection
to his dysfunctional childhood. Abandoned by a father accused of his mother’s
death, Harold trusts no one until the ’scope forces him to accept a circle of
friends he must rely on. To protect all their lives from imminent danger,
Harold must discover the source of the ’scope’s mysterious powers. Just as he
is on the verge of learning how it works and why his past connects to his
future, he must face disturbing truths he’s run from all his life.
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My Review:
It was a fascinating reading, exciting, intense, engaging, I was completely glued to the pages. It's a complete novel: it has elements of fantasy and sci-fi, has so much adventure, action and twists, a great mystery to solve and even a little romance.
Harold Donaldson is a grumpy man, cold, withdrawn into himself, with no passion and no desire to live. His wife can not stand him anymore, leaves him and wants to marry another. He drowns his sorrows in work and looking for a promotion to show everyone that he is not a loser, especially his wife. Finally he has a chance to redeem himself when he becomes the only guardian of the Kaleidoscope: a tool charming but lethal if it falls into the hands of some evil. Only Harold can find ways to make the most of the capabilities of this instrument.
It 's written with a simple style but very effective, with a fast and addictive pace thanks to very short sentences. The characters very different each other enrich the story: they are well-developed and well characterized.
Highly recommended!
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EXCERPT:
One more piece of the puzzle, and the technology anticipated,
even feared, would be born. If he’d calculated correctly, and Walter was
meticulous about calculations, the day’s mail should contain the gem he’d saved
and scraped for. Every tip, handout, or penny literally scraped from the gutter
had gone into a jar, and last week he’d exchanged the sum for a cashier’s check
and placed the order. If this final trial didn’t work, he’d lose everything
he’d slaved over. His ideas were running out, his home was about to be razed,
and what made the urgency even more crucial, he sensed “they” were about to
discover his hiding place.
Flipping the wall calendar over his workbench, Walter
circled a date two weeks hence. That would give him sufficient time to install
the final part, to test, and make note of his achievement. Perhaps even enjoy
it himself before he turned it over to the one who would carry it to the world,
who could safely deliver the technology where it would do the most good. It was
time to plan the handoff.
The sun’s rays pouring from a high window warmed and
loosened Walter’s back muscles. The glint on the shaft of metal, as thick as a
Cuban cigar, the length of a number two pencil, gave him more than a few
moments of pride he’d not felt since the birth of his long-lost son.
He held the eyepiece up and sighted, spinning the dial. It
caught and stuck in place. He wrapped it once again in the cloth, gently rested
the device between the jaws of the vise and slowly cranked it shut, stopping at
precisely the point where the Kaleidoscope would be held firmly in place, but
not harmed by the firm grip. He filed and sprayed, working over the delicate
prize until the dial spun like butter and the magnificent colors fell into
place.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Website: http://www.beverlynault.com/
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