{"id":8850,"date":"2015-03-13T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/?p=8850"},"modified":"2015-03-23T11:09:20","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T15:09:20","slug":"book-review-the-branches-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/book-review-the-branches-of-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: The Branches of Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In the words of Billy Idol, \u201cIt\u2019s a nice day to start again.\u00a0 It\u2019s a nice day for a white wedding.\u201d\u00a0 Beautiful snow.\u00a0 Crisp hope.\u00a0 New beginnings.\u00a0 Innocent love.\u00a0 All to be obliterated by rocks falling from heaven, and all that white now crimson.<\/p>\n

Three lives are shattered.\u00a0 Sanctuary obliterated.\u00a0 Questions unanswered.\u00a0 The enemy remains unseen, a shadow of doubt, and the dead disappear under a veil of mystery.\u00a0 Dark magic is at hand.<\/p>\n

Betrayal begins to twist and burn.\u00a0 Love\u2019s loss now becomes Love\u2019s lust.\u00a0 Forbidden Fruit is the deadly apple of poison with nothing more than a dagger to heart.\u00a0 Innocence is blinded by temptation.\u00a0 Truth falls deep beneath lies and illusion.\u00a0 Who\u2019s telling fables, and who\u2019s telling the truth?<\/p>\n

All roads lead past the mad king and back, back to where the story really begins.\u00a0 All those lives lost.\u00a0 All those lives known.\u00a0 Gone without a trace.\u00a0 Erased by one man\u2019s hand for nothing more than freedom, but as he bends and breaks the branches of time, what has he left in its wake?\u00a0 What fate awaits him along the new branch awaiting his return?\u00a0 Freedom or Death?<\/p>\n

Like a delicate spider, The Branches of Time<\/em> unfolds as harsh tragedy, a gaping hole begging to be filled.\u00a0 Intricate lines dance across oblivion, tortured souls struggle to exist and arecaught in a web of fate.\u00a0 As we tangle across characters forever changed, are we ensnared in a series of events, events that have erased the past and haunt the future, a future waiting?\u00a0 We cannot escape for we are pulled in further and further by magic and mystery written so very brilliantly by Luca Rossi.\u00a0 And we hunger for more, immersing ourselves in worlds such as Game of Thrones<\/em>, The Librarians<\/em>, and now, a series that begins with The Branches of Time<\/em> available on Amazon.<\/p>\n

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Melissa R. Mendelson has been working for the State of New York for the last five years. \u00a0She is also a published short story author and poet. \u00a0Her poetry has been included in Names in a Jar: A Collection of Poetry by 100 American Poets (Amazon, 2007). \u00a0Her short story, Whispers in the Night, has been included in Espresso Fiction: A Collection of Flash Fiction for the Average Joe (Amazon, 2012).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the words of Billy Idol, \u201cIt\u2019s a nice day to start again. It\u2019s a nice day for a white wedding.\u201d Beautiful snow. Crisp hope. New beginnings. Innocent love. All to be obliterated by rocks falling from heaven, and all that white now crimson.<\/p>\n

Three lives are shattered. Sanctuary obliterated. Questions unanswered. The enemy remains unseen, a shadow of doubt, and the dead disappear under a veil of mystery. Dark magic is at hand.<\/p>\n

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