Mary-Jean Harris

Time travel has always fascinated me. What would it be like to travel to the past? To the future? Or how about visiting different worlds. It would be even more exciting, I think, to know that you were to be one of the founders of a new world. If you can’t do this in real life, how about reading a book that takes you to places you can only imagine.
SHADOWS OF AIZAI, By Mary-Jean Harris, will do just that. In addition to countries and worlds you’ve only imagined, you’ll find yourself caught up in the magic of unusual lands and people. You’ll meet characters that are good and that are bad. Two ingredients that make for an exciting novel.
Our heroes are eighteen-year-old lads, Wolfdon and Toulouse, who live in 17th century Spain. They will become founders of a future paradise called Aizai. It’s not going to be easy. Magicians known as the Magi threaten them, along with other troubles they run into. Different chapters are told from the different characters’ points of view.
Mary-Jean Harris has created a lot of characters in her novel to keep track of, and I sometimes got lost. But each character has a role to play in the events of the story. If you love adventure, magic, and men and women that make a world, whether it is present, past, or future a good place to live, SHADOWS OF AIZAI has it all. I was cheering for Wolfdon and Toulouse to succeed in founding a new city. Did they, or was it all a dream?
What do you think?… (mais)

Have you ever wanted to travel back in time, or maybe ahead to the future? Are you curious to learn about the past and how it relates to the present and future? If so, you’ll enjoy meeting Wolfdon Pellegrin, the seventeen-year-old hero of Author Mary Jean Harris’ novel, AIZAI THE FORGOTTEN. Wolfdon lives in seventeenth-century France. His dream is to find the forgotten realm of Aizai. So he starts off on his quest, with his beautiful horse Sagittarius and discovers much more than he imagined. Danger lurks almost everywhere, and he must use his wits and magic Wert to defend himself.

The author paints a lovely picture of unusual characters such as stone statues and knights, magi and cats. Yes cats. Not to mention the coffins. That’s all I’m saying about them. The imagery makes the reader feel like a part of the story. Sometimes scary, sometimes beautiful. The writing style is different and it seemed to fit the times in which the story took place.

AIZAI THE FORGOTTEN is a story about following one’s dreams, no matter where they lead. And who doesn’t dream of doing just that?

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