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| Publisher:
Port Town Publisher |
| Release
Date: Aug. 2003 |
| ISBN:
0974083380 |
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| Format
Reviewed: Trade paperback |
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| Genre:
Fantasy |
| Reviewed:
2004 |
| Reviewer:
Janet Elaine Smith |
| Reviewer
Notes: Janet Elaine Smith is the author of 11 published
novels, including Par for the Course, a “best time
travel of 2003” from Affaire de Couer magazine. Coming
in Feb. 2004 are non-fiction book, The Flood of the Millennium:
The Real Heroes, the Survivors and new inspirational historical
romance, Dakota Printer. She also writes regularly for
10 print magazines and numerous online sites. |
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The
Guardian
By Denise Fleischer
Denise
Fleischer plunges into new water with her debut novel, The Guardian.
She will hook the reader from the very beginning as Crusader Lea
Netera, from Elezian Universe, travels back in time to the Revolutionary
War era when she puts in a most unexpected appearance at a meeting
in Paris, France, where the likes of John Paul Jones and Benjamin
Franklin are in attendance. She is hard-pressed to try to explain
her presence.
“Netera,”
as she is known, moves around in history like a ghost flits back
and forth from one of its favorite haunts to another. She travels
to the Civil War and then to a delightful episode in Texas, at the
Alamo. She notes a need for a wagon train, so she quickly moves
ahead to today to get the wagon wheels she needs to take back with
her. I found this to be one of the best parts of the book.
Netera
interacts very effectively with Holians, demons and a talking dragon,
but to me the most endearing of her relationships was that which
she experienced with her father. I found it delightfully refreshing
that a father from the future was as concerned about his daughter
and her outrageous adventures as a father of today—or one
of yesterday—would have been.
A
very good read. Highly recommended.
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