The Dark River
A shattering vision of a society where both hope and freedom are about to disappear.Two brothers born into a race of Travelers—prophets able to journey to different realms of consciousness—have just discovered that their long lost father may still be alive. Gabriel, who could be humanity's...
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A shattering vision of a society where both hope and freedom are about to disappear.Two brothers born into a race of Travelers—prophets able to journey to different realms of consciousness—have just discovered that their long lost father may still be alive. Gabriel, who could be humanity's savior, wants to protect him. Michael, however, wants to destroy his father and humanity's hope for freedom. As they race across the globe, their frantic search puts them on a collision course, and the fate of the world hangs in the balance.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780307389237 (0307389235)
Publish date: June 24th 2008
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 414
Edition language: English
Series: Fourth Realm (#2)
The Dark River (Fourth Realm #2) by John Twelve Hawks My first encounter with Twelve Hawks was through Spark, which I found pretty darned awesome, enough so that I decided to try another of his works. My library doesn't have the first in the Fourth Realm trilogy, so I decided to try my luck with the...
The Dark River opens following Maya and Gabriel’s narrow escape from his brother, Michael, and the group of powerful men who have been pursuing them. The landscape has shifted: Michael has become part of the group that wants to capture Gabriel, and thanks to advanced surveillance technology there ar...
Readable, no really, that's probably as good as this review is going to get. It's an interesting concept with such a lot of potential and it's mostly blown by the listing of places that the characters go. Places that really show no definitive personality of their own and instead end up feeling lik...
Ugh, an interesting premise falls flat on it's face.Lots of descriptions of black leather, weapons & automobiles, but stiff wooden characters, the author has a painfully obvious agenda.Spiritualism = good Materialism = badTechnology is evil because it's being used by the soulless evil Illuminati, I ...
Ugh, an interesting premise falls flat on it's face.Lots of descriptions of black leather, weapons & automobiles, but stiff wooden characters, the author has a painfully obvious agenda.Spiritualism = good Materialism = badTechnology is evil because it's being used by the soulless evil Illuminati, I ...