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Sins of the Father by R. J. Palmer
Sins of the Father by R. J. Palmer
Description
A minister losing
touch with his faith…
A severely autistic
child with no past, no present and no real future…
An evil older than
time itself…
When the boy Lucian
is thrown into Aaron’s life with nowhere else to go all hell breaks loose and
Aaron confronts things he never actually imagined could really exist in an
effort to save one small, tortured child.
Review
By Athanasios
I was a beta reader for this and RJ is a friend. Full disclosure aside Sins was a well written and touching story.
I was a beta reader for this and RJ is a friend. Full disclosure aside Sins was a well written and touching story.
The great parts of
the story were that the author doesn't spoon feed the plot to the reader, one
has to connect the dots on one's own. Bowen is an unfortunate innocent who is
the plaything of an ancient power seeking to return to this world. As the title
suggests it is due to wrongs and transgressions Bowen was never a part of.
RJ makes you feel
and ache for this child and Bowen is the best part of Sins, yet the other main
character of Aaron is less sympathetic and didn't take hold of my interest as
much as the boy did.
The detractions in Sins are hardly worth mentioning but I
wished it could've had a more direct plot. By that I mean there wasn't as much
conflict between the two main characters and the ancient evil until the final
parts where the story ends.
This by no means
makes Sins of the Father a lesser
tale it just doesn't quite reach the point I would've had it go as an armchair
auteur. Yet the obvious must be stated, I'm not RJ and this isn't my tale, but
this is my review, and RJ told the story she wanted to tell the way she wanted
to.
In closing RJ writes
with a confidence and self assuredness of what she wants to say and how she
wants to say it you rarely see.
About the Author
In the author's words:
Hi there.
I'm R.J. Palmer and I'm told that I should write a little something about
myself at which point I should probably tell you that if you slog through this
I give you kudos, you've done very well.
You see, there is nothing the least bit interesting about me and in truth
sometimes I believe that I live vicariously through characters of my own
creation in which case I should probably seek professional help straightaway. I
could bore you with dry facts recited by rote but that would be
contra-indicative of my personality type which demands that I at least make
this somewhat interesting regardless of the enormity of the task involved.
Easier said than done I can assure you.
I started writing Birthright
because I was bored half insane and I've always had an overactive imagination
that will go off on the most silly little tangents about anything at all really
so it seemed only natural that when I found myself so completely and helplessly
at loose ends one winter day that I began to write. Before then I had felt for
many a year that I had what I could only describe as a completely useless
talent for words though when I opened myself up to the story for the first time
it spawned in me an enduring love affair with the written word which has
profoundly changed my life. I can now spot a typo from across the room and I
fairly consistently offer to rewrite anything that doesn't have the exact
wording that I believe it should and I probably drive my husband completely
batty but what can I say, it's compulsive. But I digress.
I had wondered at the possibility for years that something man made and
frequently used could alter our very existence. I wondered if it could
theoretically happen and what the circumstances surrounding an oversight of
this magnitude would have to be and I became so enamored of the idea that I
eventually began to become more obsessive than anything. When it came to the
point that I could no longer put up with myself I finally set about writing a
story that embodied the more dramatic aspects of my creative imagination gone
hopelessly awry the result of which was Birthright.
I've been sitting on Birthright for
about eight years and have just discovered the courage thanks to the undying
support and strength of the love of my life to actually post my writing though
now I leave it to you, the reader, to judge the worth of my work.
I released Sins of the Father a few months back (in April).
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