By Julian Rasado-Machan
A glimpse into a multinational company that is in reality
the oldest of secret societies, one that spans close to seven thousand years of
existence, weaving in and out of history, guiding and protecting humanity from
creatures and forces that most of us believe are only mythology and fairy
tales.
The other is the story of Thomas Byrne, a young man thrust
into secrets he shouldn’t be aware of and dangers he shouldn’t face but, that
he ultimately will, for he is a cypher. The only one who can steer humanity’s
future.
The ultimate conspiracy theory is that Magic is real. Kept
in check by technology but, every five hundred years the balance can shift and,
if it does, technology will fail and those creatures we’ve driven into myth
will come back with a vengeance.
To protect the present, Guardians Incorporated needs to know
the future.
This was really hard to get into, and I had to force myself
to read it. This just wasn’t my cup of tea when I read it. Perhaps if I had
been in a different mood? Who knows? It was well written and the story was
interesting. It’s your basic plot where a kid finds out he’s more than average,
he has a certain power. He loses his parent/guardian and must make a decision
about who to trust to get them back. The rest is a lot of magic and
introduction to an outlier society of mystics and magicians. I think that this
would be well received by middle school aged kids, but it’s not a great read for
adults who like YA/kids books that can entertain a ‘kid at heart’.
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