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The Hands of Ruin
by Dylan Lee Peters
Series: Hands of Ruin #1
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Published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform on July 19th 2017
Genres: YA Fantasy
Pages: 208
Format: Kindle
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In a lakeside village amid the forests of Ferren, a young girl has been disfigured by a dark and mysterious presence. Only zul masters—those who use a mystical red dust called zulis—have the skill to vanquish such nightmares, and so now a master must be chosen.
On Earth, fourteen-year-old twins, Zigmund and Zerah, are sent to live with their uncle, Rainart, after their parents’ untimely deaths. Rainart is an abrasive drunk with a limp, and a secretive past. Yet, his secrets quickly come to light with astounding tension as the twins learn of his time in a land far away, and his possession of a mysterious and powerful red dust.
Book one of The Hands of Ruin begins a saga of two worlds and the individuals who bind those worlds together. It is a story both visionary and deeply emotional, rife with action, mystery, and vivid imagination. Blending fantasy and science fiction with passion, morality, and drama, The Hands of Ruin has all the makings of a true epic.
My take on this book:
The Hands of Ruin by Dylan Lee Peters is definitely a book that I thought I would love. But sadly it never really happened. The plot was interesting with having two different worlds be connected by one character. The plot seemed believable. The charcters were good. Yet, once you got into the book it was going all over the place. There didn’t seem to be the drive I was hoping for. I don’t really know how I thought it was going like. It was good but also really weird at the same time. I love fantasy books and I kind of like science fiction books, that mostly depends on how good the book is, but this one not so much.
We jump between the two worlds a lot which is completely fine. As it helps to understand the second world’s reality and to see with what is happening on Earth between Rainart, Zigmund, and Zerah. I am mostly sad as I really wanted this book to be great, but it didn’t hold up to my expectations. At the story’s end there are a lot of questions not answered, some of the information was presented but not on all. The author will answer these in the next book, I believe.
Mr. Peters introduced a lot of characters in this book which is pretty good but I think it also made it seem like there was too much going on all at once. Especially when it came to Rainart and his work on Earth. Then once you add in the people from the second world it seemed like he was overloading the reader with a lot of characters.
3 Star Rating
The Hands of Ruin by Dylan Lee Peters is a book that I loved at some points but was unsure about in different places. This is especially true when I tried to think of the many characters, and the two worlds. I am giving this book three stars since it was good and it held my attention. I just got confused on somethings and I believe there were too many characters to keep track of.
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Reading this book contributed to these challenges:
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