Book review: A Keeper's Destiny
The world of A Keeper’s Destiny is filled with characters that possess all sorts of special gifts. Some people have healing skills, others can read minds, and yet some others can glimpse into the future, among many other psychic abilities that start to develop when the characters are in their mid-teens.
Although the Council, the ruling class of this world, has made certain that not all people are aware of their own abilities. The Council is also aware of a threat that might destroy not only their rule but their entire world, in a universe filled with parallel worlds or dimensions kept safe by an order of guards bestowed with magical traits, operating under the Council’s rule.
Caught in the middle of it all is Willow, our protagonist. Willow is a young girl who sells her wares at her town’s marketplace, from where she has a great view of the Council’s castle. And it is through her eyes that the reader gets to experience the differences between the townsfolk and their rulers.
Little does Willow know what lies in store for her, the same as the reader the deeper you delve into the world of the Portal Prophecies. Although the voices she hears in her head from the very beginning offer some guidance, oft times in quizzical manner. Like when the vast book collection of the town’s regular storyteller is burned under orders from the Council…right before Willow is cruelly stood up for a ball taking place at the Castle one evening.
This book is a tale that grows in the telling. What appears to be a story set in a small town at first expands and grows alongside our protagonist and her quest.
Most characters are well fleshed out, Willow especially, and the author does a good job at presenting us with the challenges that coming of age in her magical world pose for Willow and other young characters that play a key role throughout the book,(and one assumes, the entire series, though I think it’s safe to believe that not all characters will make it to the end of the series).
Conclusion:
The book is rich in the description of details, and it also ends in a cliffhanger. But if you love to immerse yourself in a world filled with rich descriptions, and an intriguing “magic system”, you’ll love what author C.A. King has done with A Keeper’s Destiny, the promising start to the Portal Prophecies series.
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