{"id":32895,"date":"2024-09-17T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=32895"},"modified":"2024-08-08T15:28:24","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T20:28:24","slug":"twinsiefortheday-looking-for-dei-by-david-a-willson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=32895","title":{"rendered":"#twinsiefortheday – Looking for Dei by David A. Willson"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fifteen-year-old Nara Dall has never liked secrets. Yet it seems that her life is filled with them, from the ugly scar on her back to the strange powers she possesses. Her adoptive father refuses to say anything about her origins and when Nara is invited to the town\u2019s announcement ceremony, which tests youths for magical gifts, he forbids her from revealing her powers.<\/p>\n

The poor village of Dimmitt has not announced a gifted youth for decades. But when Nara discovers that the town priest has been keeping secrets of his own, she draws upon her hidden magic to correct the injustice. Her rash decision sets her on a path of danger, discovery, and a quest for the divine. But will the truth she reveals set her people free? Or unlock a curse that could spell her doom?<\/p>\n

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Review by Brandy<\/p>\n

I received this book for an honest review.<\/p>\n

They say that your life experiences are what make you who you are, and Nora has to learn a very painful<\/div>\n
lesson and her friends along with her. Betrayal is a bitter pill, but sometimes the hardest lessons are the<\/div>\n
necessary ones.<\/div>\n
The magic in this story is a bit unusual, and Nora is different from anyone else. Nora’s magic is helped by<\/div>\n
runes, but runes are not common knowledge, so she has to struggle to learn. She lives in a village with<\/div>\n
the poorest of the poor, and only wants to help them. However, her good intentions backfire in a major<\/div>\n
way, and the fall out is deadly. A very bad man is willing to do anything to find Nora and use her for his<\/div>\n
own dark purposes, and he weaves plots within plots to gain more power.<\/div>\n
There is violence, kind of a lot of violence towards the end. Nora\u2019s friend has some special magic of his<\/div>\n
own and some people come up with some not nice, creative ways to test him to see what he can do. As<\/div>\n
well as a couple of battles. It\u2019s not graphic, but it\u2019s there. There is no adult content, and very little romance<\/div>\n
of any kind. It\u2019s a magical world of those who are gifted and have special abilities, and Nora who is<\/div>\n
something more. The world building and character development are decent, but really it\u2019s the unique way<\/div>\n
the story unfolds that kept my attention.<\/div>\n

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David A. Willson is a father, husband, pancreatic cancer survivor and a retired Alaska State Trooper. Taught by his mother to love books at a young age, he spent his childhood exploring magic, spaceships, and other dimensions. In his writing, he strives to bring those worlds to his readers.<\/p>\n

Much of his material is inspired by the ‘Great Land’ of Alaska, which he has called home for over 40 years. He is passionate about technology, faith, and fiction\u2014not necessarily in that order.<\/p>\n

When not writing, he enjoys traveling, woodworking, brewing beer and wine, and playing acoustic guitar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fifteen-year-old Nara Dall has never liked secrets. Yet it seems that her life is filled with them, from the ugly scar on her back to the strange powers she possesses. Her adoptive father refuses to say anything about her origins and when Nara is invited to the town\u2019s announcement ceremony, which tests youths for magical … Continue reading #twinsiefortheday – Looking for Dei by David A. Willson<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSW8H-8yz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32897,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32895\/revisions\/32897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}