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Reviewed by Annette Gisby, author of Silent Screams

The writers have created a science fiction novel which deals with cryogenics, religion and a metaphysical war taking place in the near future. Brad Harris never knew his grandfather. James Harris died of a brain tumour when Brad was young and so he is very surprised to learn that James Harris has been revived from cryonic suspension.

Brad doesn't know what to think, it goes against his beliefs that anyone other than God can raise the dead and he is wary about meeting his new found grandfather. James was the black sheep of the family and he begins to act very strangely once he's home. Is it still the result of the brain tumour or is something else going on?

Soon murders at the facility where James was a patient, point to something happening to all of the returned patients. James must put aside his fear of the unknown and combine forces with a mage and adept, using complex rituals from ancient pagan religions in order to stop the world plunging into chaos.

His grandfather was dead, but something else has taken over his body and the other returned people. Can James and his new found friends stop it before it's too late?

The blend of science fiction and mysticism works well, although it was jarring sometimes to have one character's point of view and then suddenly it was someone else's point of view in the same chapter, sometimes even the same paragraph.

The story is good, very imaginative and the characters are well drawn so that you get to care about them. I don't know a lot about cryonics myself, but the authors seem to have done their research in the sections explaining how the bodies were prepared for freezing.

It's an interesting tale and an excellent moral fable on what can happen when science goes wrong.

A good read.

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