“Four Stars …. reminding me a little of the Mortal Instrument series…” – Actual Review!
The Echo World
An Echo of our world, it is a place of danger, subject to the whims of the Slyph, a powerful magical creature who wants only one thing, control over all magic, even the magic of our world. Wild creatures, drawn from the deepest fears of the human mind serve her with a fanatical devotion.
fanatical devotion.
Cendan Key
A man who makes his living being logical and rational, and doesn’t believe in magic. He turns his mind to the cold world of making everything efficient and structured. A near missed encounter with the Slyph’s prime hunter turns his world upside down, as he is drawn into a world he doesn’t understand, but only he can save.
Grellnot
The Slyph’s prime hunter of those Humans who can use magic, it lives to feast and eat. Growing in power with every successful hunt, it chafes under the control of the Slyph. Increasingly it desires to feed on all magic, even the magic of the Slyph herself.
The Bridgefinders
An ancient order, dying out but still tasked with protecting this world from the powers of the Slyph, they need a miracle to turn the tide of the eon long war with the Slyph. Cendan Key could be that miracle, if anyone can tell him how.
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I received a free Audible book.Story is well done and interesting. The narrative is reminiscent of a kid giving a book report and the attempt at a female voice is so bad I cringed. I strongly advise READ the book don’t listen to it.
This review is for the audio book.
I enjoyed this book and look forward to book two because it has been set up nicely to continue. The plot was interesting the way magic can only be found in an alternative world but the hero’s still need to protect against it and the creatures it produces without really understanding it. The cast of characters was like able and the bad guys bad enough to be hated. The author has a way of drawing you into the story that keeps you hooked and wanting to know what happens next and I liked the way we learnt about the bridge finders and the history along with the main character and his special connection to the key. Off to start the next book.
When his young neighbour is bitten by a creature, Cendan is thrust into a whole new world of magic and world that he is supposed to protect. He is a bridgefinder. Someone who is charged with sending demons and creatures created by the Slyph back to there own world before they can create havoc in his world. He is one in a small group of people with the capability to do this and with the Slyph growing in power time is running out. He will have to learn as he goes along but he is not just any old bridgefinder and the Slyph knows it, so she will do everything in her power to catch him or destroy him like she did the last maker.
The narrator was okay but did seem to hesitate or take long pauses that weren’t necessary. Otherwise he was a good reader with different voices for the characters.
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
Cendan is a System Analyst very set in his ways. He can’t even keep a relationship for long, I think he feel it has too much give and take and he really wants to be in charge all the time. He doesn’t want to order anything new on the restaurants he goes to and is not going to go to a new one.
His world is basically turned upside down when he finds his latest ex-Jasmine, a man named Marcus and a man named Sal are all Bridgefinders and as he is about to go into a restaurant, they think he is one also.. They all have what they call focuses. Marcos’s is a ring, Jasmine has a Wooden flower in lacquered red, Sal’s is like a small globe that appears to have a flame in it and Cendan’s is I huge old black key that he found at a thrift shop. He just liked it since his last name was Key.
For Cendan who thinks in a straight line and doesn’t really believe wat they are telling him, he agrees to spend one night in the Headquarters. He learns there is an Echo World of our World and a being that wants to take control of both which would kill all humans on our world. Sylph is her name and she I’d described as white and old by Sal who is the only one who has seen her. The archon world has an awful creature that Sylph created that is half-gremlin, half-globulin and maybe a little bit human. It’s name is Grellnot and he is about knee high, stinks, his skin is shiny green, has serrated teeth, his nose and face are droopy and he has large eyes with blood red iris’s. He likes to eat humans but doesn’t get to come to our world very often. There are all kinds of creatures on Echo World, besides goblins, gremlins, elves, fairies, pixies, elves and lots more. What Sylph does is build bridges by magic and sends all kinds of creatures to earth to try and destroy what they can. The Bridgefinders jib is to find those bridges, send the creatures back and close the bridge. Cendan finds out he is also a maker and their hasn’t been one in over fifteen hundred years.
Bridgefinders is a great fun read that allow your imagination go with the words that the author Joshua C. Cook has written. When I get a chance I am going to read the next book in the series. I think Mr. cook does a great job with this book and could be read by the same people that can go to PG13 movies.