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Manacle
Some bonds can't be broken
by Chris Aslan
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Pub Date
17 Nov 2017
| Archive Date
12 Jun 2018
Description
'Imaginative, authentic, and evocative.'- Gerard Kelly, author
There is a dark presence in Phin's life. His step-father is a drunk and his malevolence poisons their home.
One evening the violence gets out of control and as Phin's mother drags his broken body away, she can only think of one place to take him: to the local healer. But this healer deals in more than medicinal remedies and at her insistence he calls on the spirits to ensure Phin is never harmed again.
However, his words are more than a call, they are invitation - one that the spirits welcome as a legion descend and take root within Phin. Phin awakens to discover he is no longer in control of his mind or his body, and something is certainly inhabiting his soul. He possesses super-human strength and immediately takes revenge on his step-father. This would have sated Phin, but the spirits have other ideas - they drive him into the wilderness and all who go to him quickly rue the day.
As he terrorises the village, soldiers come to remove him - but how do you restrain a man who can break the strongest of manacles. And is there any hope for one who has been overcome by darkness?
'Imaginative, authentic, and evocative.'- Gerard Kelly, author There is a dark presence in Phin's life. His step-father is a drunk and his malevolence poisons their home. One evening the violence...
Description
'Imaginative, authentic, and evocative.'- Gerard Kelly, author
There is a dark presence in Phin's life. His step-father is a drunk and his malevolence poisons their home.
One evening the violence gets out of control and as Phin's mother drags his broken body away, she can only think of one place to take him: to the local healer. But this healer deals in more than medicinal remedies and at her insistence he calls on the spirits to ensure Phin is never harmed again.
However, his words are more than a call, they are invitation - one that the spirits welcome as a legion descend and take root within Phin. Phin awakens to discover he is no longer in control of his mind or his body, and something is certainly inhabiting his soul. He possesses super-human strength and immediately takes revenge on his step-father. This would have sated Phin, but the spirits have other ideas - they drive him into the wilderness and all who go to him quickly rue the day.
As he terrorises the village, soldiers come to remove him - but how do you restrain a man who can break the strongest of manacles. And is there any hope for one who has been overcome by darkness?
A Note From the Publisher
Chris Aslan has spent many years living in Central Asia. Chris wrote a part memoir, part travelogue called, A Carpet Ride to Khiva: Seven years on the Silk Road, about life in Uzbekistan and is currently lecturing on textiles, tour-guiding around Central Asia and studying in Oxford for Anglican ordination.
Chris Aslan has spent many years living in Central Asia. Chris wrote a part memoir, part travelogue called, A Carpet Ride to Khiva: Seven years on the Silk Road, about life in Uzbekistan and is...
A Note From the Publisher
Chris Aslan has spent many years living in Central Asia. Chris wrote a part memoir, part travelogue called, A Carpet Ride to Khiva: Seven years on the Silk Road, about life in Uzbekistan and is currently lecturing on textiles, tour-guiding around Central Asia and studying in Oxford for Anglican ordination.
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9781782642558 |
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Additional Information
Available Editions
| EDITION |
Other Format |
| ISBN |
9781782642558 |
| PRICE |
US$11.99 (USD)
|
Average rating from 2 members
Featured Reviews
Heather K, Reviewer
This book was not what I was expecting. I expected a book that would be a mild horror but I got a novel with Christian religiousness tones in the story line. Though Chris Aslan never mentions them by the names most people know them by you have no problems figuring out who they are. By what happens to "the master" tells you exactly who and what they are.
The characters are all well written and well designed. Though to be honest, I wasn't sure if Phin was a boy or a girl at first. The distinction between the two religions is well defined so that you knew who followed "the master" and the others. Chris Aslan made it very clear the division and dislike that each group had for the other.
Chris Aslan made it very clear what would happen in the end for Phin, which is a bit surprising for an author in my opinion. While at the same time not surprising due to the differences between the two religious groups. Phin did what "the master" wanted him to do so in that wan it worked out.
The book is very good and I do recommend reading it. If I had realized the "religious" aspect of it then I do not know if I would have read it. I was expecting a bit more of a book with a man possessed with spirits and eventually fights them out of him and having people try to use him for bad or good. In a way this is what the book is about, but I just was not expecting it to go the way it did. The book just did not go the way the description leads you to think it would. Though the book is well written and engaging I just was not happy with it.
Featured Reviews
Heather K, Reviewer
This book was not what I was expecting. I expected a book that would be a mild horror but I got a novel with Christian religiousness tones in the story line. Though Chris Aslan never mentions them by the names most people know them by you have no problems figuring out who they are. By what happens to "the master" tells you exactly who and what they are.
The characters are all well written and well designed. Though to be honest, I wasn't sure if Phin was a boy or a girl at first. The distinction between the two religions is well defined so that you knew who followed "the master" and the others. Chris Aslan made it very clear the division and dislike that each group had for the other.
Chris Aslan made it very clear what would happen in the end for Phin, which is a bit surprising for an author in my opinion. While at the same time not surprising due to the differences between the two religious groups. Phin did what "the master" wanted him to do so in that wan it worked out.
The book is very good and I do recommend reading it. If I had realized the "religious" aspect of it then I do not know if I would have read it. I was expecting a bit more of a book with a man possessed with spirits and eventually fights them out of him and having people try to use him for bad or good. In a way this is what the book is about, but I just was not expecting it to go the way it did. The book just did not go the way the description leads you to think it would. Though the book is well written and engaging I just was not happy with it.
