First in a series
AmErica House - 2001
ISBN: 1588515621 - Paperback
Science Fiction -
for language
& violence / Moderately explicit sexual content
Reviewed by Jo
Rogers, MyShelf.com
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What would we do if the world as we know it was struck simultaneously by two incurable plagues - a computer virus that crashed every known system in the world, and a mutated smallpox virus that killed everyone but those between the ages of fifteen and twenty-two? That is the premise of K. C. Miller's VISIONS: BOOK ONE.
Daniel is half white and half Native American from a small Indian village in Alaska. Daniel's mother died when he was born, and, since his father has been banished from the village, Daniel was adopted by the childless village shaman, Uppa, and his wife. Uppa taught Daniel all the old ways of survival in the wilderness, and how to interpret the visions he would have when he became Shaman.
At first, the elders rejected Daniel as Shaman because he was half white. They were as bigoted toward him as any of the whites were toward them. But when the twin plagues are unleashed on the entire world by the Middle East, Daniel is made Shaman. George Spark, his rival, runs him and his supporters out of the village, leaving Daniel and his small band to survive on their own.
VISIONS is not for the weak stomached, as the hardships of disease, deprivation and depravity are graphically described here. The reader will face the same fear, the same horror when they encounter cannibalism and insanity that Daniel and his band of survivors go through. It is also unnerving in that the events described are all too possible. But it is still a gripping story, with lessons to survive such a catastrophe. And its cliffhanger ending left me begging for Book Two. Mr. Miller, when may we expect the rest of the story?