Now living amid life forms that don’t understand these extraordinary individuals, or what they can contribute to this world, their lives could be changed forever. What will it take to return to their world, and what impact has this unanticipated earthly experience had on their future?
Moreover what if the blueprint of your future was embedded in your dreams? As the 5th edition in the Children of Sophista series, THE OWL FROM OBLIVION illustrates the fluidity of our destiny as past and future interchange, often with dark, imposing results.
Stefan is the most powerful life form in existence. When his son Syon makes a major blunder that tears a hole in time, our characters, including mates, Tova2 and Sophistan1, his mother Anashivalia among others, are transported to another timeline and different life forms. Unfortunately, their new existence consists of mortal, limiting and mediocre characteristics.
Stefan is now a child with extraordinary mature mental abilities that make him unrelatable and misunderstood. Syon suffers within a toxic family home life, cowering under the irrational hand of a violent, alcoholic father figure. Fortunately, our characters have found a way to communicate with each other and additional members of their family and fall back on the knowledge they share of their previous strengths from another world. But that world could be in jeopardy if Syon’s dangerous father takes things too far. Losing Syon would mean the end for all of them.
Throughout the book, the reader hovers between the intersecting reality timeline and supernatural timeline. As the book reveals more of the life our characters once knew, the characters’ feelings of loss and the frustration of feeling that we are capable of more and want more, but are unable to tap the source of those desires are evident. Trapped in a challenging, hostile world, our characters must discover a place in this chaotic world, but at what cost? This new world doesn’t understand these gifts. Rather than emulate they seek to destroy those they do not understand.
For those new to the Children of Sophista, sneaking in halfway by picking up the 5th edition will present a challenge. The author begins this story with a dizzying amount of details and presents an atmosphere and tone that feels unfamiliar and doesn’t fit well on the initial reading. In this case, starting at the beginning of the series is a must in order to appreciate the conditions of this fantastical world. In spite of that, the premise is thought provoking. Few in life have placed much value or pursued a clearer understanding of dreams, much less viewed them as a gateway to another time.
Much like Stefan’s struggles, the mainstream world isn’t quite ready to acknowledge that such a world could exist. In that respect, the tone is harmonious with those who are drawn to this realm for inspiration on destiny.
An expansive, speculative, mind-numbing literary experience, THE OWL FROM OBLIVION sets off on an unpredictable, jarring path to another realm and another time that parallels time as we know it.
~ IndieReader.