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Released: 28/06/2018

ISBN: 9781789010121
eISBN: 9781789011159

Format: Paperback/eBook

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Children of The Earth

The Last Gathering

by E. J. Jackson

Fantasy characters are set in the real world and deal with mental health issues.

Illustrates how different people deal with the challenges and choices they face every day.

The story begins with the five families. Each of these families were tasked with watching over the earth and all its inhabitants. To aid them in their task each family were given unique gifts and abilities that made them stand out, but before long the people of the world soon began to get extremely jealous of the families and started to see them as a threat.

It was from thoughts such as these that violence soon erupted amongst the people. They attacked and killed everyone to do with these special people and destroyed everything they stood for, and they nearly succeeded. But what the people did not know, was that the last of the five families knew their own end was near and took it upon themselves to perform a ritual which would give two chosen members the ability to live nine lifetimes on this earth.

Their names were Kin and Aoibhinn and they were now alone in a world they did not know or understand. With all the traumas of their past still fresh in their mind, they must somehow find a way to make it.

But one thing was for certain, they were by no means going to live an ordinary life...

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I have been reading this book and enjoying it. The premise is fresh, the characters are interesting and I was always interested in what was happening next to them.

I read it on Kindle, and found it to be an easy read in most cases, The story moved pretty fast in some areas, and slow in others, but it seemed appropriate to the plot.

I also found the book to end quite abruptly. I am assuming it is a stylistic technique, but I honestly thought the book was malfunctioning on me. I wanted more. I would actually like a sequel of "more" since i like the book so much.

A good first effort from this author, and I want to see more of these main characters and their special powers.

by Michelle Ellashek

About the Author

E. J. Jackson

I always had exciting stories of other worlds or fictional characters to tell growing up, but it was not until I was older that I decided to put pen to paper and make one of them into a novel. I soon learnt as the story progressed that I could not help influencing my characters with my own autistic ways and various mental health conditions that I have experienced throughout my life. Which I believe that for good or bad, makes the fictional story being told much more real and relatable to many people.