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This book is great very easy read. Lots of colorful details and great usage of a polethera of different fantasy creatures. I would recommend it o anyone, especially young readers that want to see delve into the fantasy realm.


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OtherWorlds The Lost Volume 1 Katherine L Walker 9781494977993 Books Reviews

Action,suspense and vivid character development will not let you put this book down !
A creative fantasy with characters you will care about. You want to know - who will survive.
Each world is vividly brought to life.
I can't wait for Book 2 !
This is a debut novel for an author that I hope is going to write many more. A fast read in the fantasy genre, with short chapters that leave you hanging, which makes it hard to put down. The illustrations are a special treat from a talented author and illustrator.
From the first page to the last page I was drawn into the story, loving the characters and the interaction between them. It was a very enjoyable read, taking you on an imagination filled journey where it could be possible. The character development was striking and compelling to take you from chapter to chapter. I can't wait until book two. I want to know how my new friends solve the mystery ahead of them.
This book is first-class, full of magic and danger. The Lost tells what it means to be a family. Katherine Walker does a great job at making this book action-packed, intriguing and mesmerizing. In this suspenseful book, there are many new and interesting creatures of light and darkness. The Lost shows the amazing struggle to survive and free their captured family members. Nathan Johnson 8th Grade
Disclaimer I was asked to do this review by a friend of a friend, who requested I be totally honest and not pull any punches. And so I did.

It’s been some time since I’ve written a book review, and that was for a work of science. This is, in fact, my first review of a fiction title. Still, you know what they say about art … I may not be able to tell you why, but I know what I like.

Truth be told, I had intended to read only the first few chapters and skim the rest. Just enough to provide some constructive feedback. My magazine subscriptions provide more than enough reading material, and it seems I’m always behind. If, and when, I do get ahead, I rarely read fiction. That said …

My original intent to skim notwithstanding, Walker’s story line drew me in, and I found myself reading it cover to cover over the next week. Otherworlds was also illustrated by the author. She includes several line-art grayscale images, mostly in the Prologue. Both imaginative and detailed, they conveyed necessary imagery useful throughout the book. I found myself wishing there were more drawings, perhaps at least one per chapter. Walker is talented as an artist and a writer.

Regarding the artwork, Walker begins the book much like Tolkien, with maps of her fictional world, and a Guide to the Creatures of Otherworlds (a taxonomy of life forms). As I read through the story, I frequently leafed back to the maps to get a perspective of where the characters were located. The maps are reasonably detailed, but the text size on the labels sent me scurrying for my magnifying glass.

Speaking of Otherworlds … I wanted to cite the title properly, but wasn’t sure if I should use “Otherworlds,” “OtherWorlds,” “OTHERWORLDS,” or “Other Worlds” (depending on the kerning used on the book’s cover text). I decided to use “Otherworlds” based on a preponderance of Google hits for Walker’s book title.

Character development was solid, with perhaps ten central to the story line. By the time I was up to Chapter 10 (of 55) I felt I knew the characters, and was comfortable with each of their styles and interactions. I soon forgot I was reading conversations between humans and magical mythical creatures. Sure … animals can talk … it works.

Walker chose to use a style of “non-attributive conversation” throughout most of the book. With few exceptions, the reader is left wondering exactly who is speaking. That’s easier to pull off when the conversation is between only two characters, or if it’s being portrayed in cinema, but can get confusing (in text) when more than two characters are involved. There were several places in the story where I had to re-read a conversation from its start in order to extract the speakers’ identities.

See this link for an interesting discussion about non-attributive dialogue

http//absolutewrite.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-162134.html

I found myself wondering what other works of literature might have influenced Walker as she developed her story. I saw elements of many classics. The Emerald City from Oz, Gollum (Saffo?) from Jackson’s Rings Trilogy, and maybe a few characters from Star Wars. The mental image of the “city of glass” was painted by Walker using strokes of the pen (metaphorically speaking in this digital age), but it was as effective as the strokes of a brush on a canvas. Was this the Emerald City post-apocalypse, as if the Wicked Witch of the West had prevailed?

And now I tread into foreign waters, speaking of magic, but magic is an essential part of the story line. I’ve never liked things like “holo-decks” or “fantasy flashbacks” or “false premonitions” or “time travel” … there’s way too many ways to get yourself in trouble with internal contradictions. But during magic-intensive scenes, like the fire fight in the underground cave, I never found myself asking “Wait … what? If he can do that, then why didn’t X happen earlier?” Magic is incorporated into Otherworlds seamlessly and without any internal contradictions. Especially so with Mandy’s gradual development and discovery of the extent (and limitations) of her powers. That’s good, tight writing.

Most of the plot involves the main characters’ journey through Dorcha (the “dark side”) and Magia (the “light side”), in a quest to find the power to re-open the portal that swept them in from Earth. Again reminiscent of Dorothy’s (et al.) quest to get to the Emerald City, or maybe Skywalker’s quest to learn the Force, the protagonists encounter some wonderful things along the way, and some downright evil. Still, they persevere.

When I turned the last page, I realized I was left hanging. There’s all the protagonists (or what’s left of them … no spoilers here) standing on the shore of the Caustic Sea staring toward The Island. Sure, there’s a teaser for Book 2, two pages, but I really wanted more closure at the end of Book 1 (trilogy notwithstanding). These “cliffhanger” endings are a matter of some discussion among writers (and readers). For example, James Patterson’s recent Cross My Heart suffered negative reviews (over 25% on ) for leaving his readers hanging with a kidnapped family still missing. And see the link below for even more discussion about cliffhangers as “marketing tactics” vs. “literary device.”

http//www.absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=242399

Will I buy Book 2 when it comes out? Of course I will. The fact that Walker’s father is a good friend of mine has nothing to do with that [disclaimer]. I want to know the rest of the story. If Books 2&3 of the Otherworlds trilogy are already in Walker’s head, I hope I won’t have to wait too long. If they’ve yet to be conceptualized … bummer.

And finally, some book-keeping. In these days of spell- and grammar-checking word processing apps, one expects fewer errors to slip through. And there were only a few in Otherworlds that I noticed, noted below

Typo page 333 “titled” should be “tilted” [I’m pretty sure that makes more sense]
Typo (page unknown) “here” vs. “hear” [search for it in your text editor]
Back cover “existance” should be “existence”
Back cover the last sentence may be a rhetorical question, but it needs a question mark

My congratulations to Katherine Walker on her first venture into the rewarding, and often challenging, world of writing. As I said up front, this is my first review of any work other than pure science. But I know what I like, and I liked Otherworlds.

Reviewed by Dan Heim, Heimhenge Enterprises, 2014
this book is very engaging! anyone that loves fantasy will love this book! the artwork is very nice as well.
This book is great very easy read. Lots of colorful details and great usage of a polethera of different fantasy creatures. I would recommend it o anyone, especially young readers that want to see delve into the fantasy realm.