Review for "The Herald of Autumn"

"The Herald of Autumn" is a book by author J.M. Guillen and the publishing group Irrational Worlds.
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As you look at the cover another looks back at you. A bright intelligent golden eye stares back at you, through you. The longer you look the more you feel yourself being pulled into the book. Swirls of golden color and branches of leafy amber mark the magical pull of the creature hiding within the pages.
Tommy Maple is a creature of the fae. He is the herald of autumn. Every year he wakes as the sun sets on the last summer day. Where he walks autumn follows. It has been this way for a thousand years. This year when he awakens something is different, something is threatening in the wood, something that could still the very magick of his soul.

What I liked:

• In short everything. I liked the swing and swirl of every word in every phrase. The book was beautiful from start to finish
• The mixture of old world fae and native american mythology was great. I loved seeing both forms.
• The dialects sounded real and not forced at all.
• Tommy Maple is a perfect character. He's bright, beautiful, magical with a deep an abiding sense of sorrow.

What I disliked:

• I finished it in two very short late night reading sessions. I wish it had been longer. 
• The darkness of the evil in its snapshots of telling is almost a bit much 

I cannot say enough good things about "The Herald of Autumn". This is what the written word should be. Fluid, beautiful, lyrical, imaginative, original.  Reading it brought a sense of joy and excitement I haven't experienced in a book for a very long time. The swing and sway of the words as they swirled around in my head was intoxicating. This is the kind of book that awakened the love of writing inside me. It is an amazing book and worth much more than its current price of .99 I can hardly believe I got this gem for free. You can find out more about 'The Herald of Autumn' and the Irrational Worlds publishing group at www.irrationalworlds.com

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I'm inclined to recommend this book to everyone, but there are a few scenes that just aren't suitable for the younger crowd, namely the time Tommy spends with Molly and the sometimes very distubing tellings of the darkness. For everyone else, this is a must read!

Synopsis: "Stories live.
They breathe.
They walk the land.
Tommy Maple is the Herald of Autumn, one of the last of his kind. Every year, with the dawn of fall, he awakens, to again wander the land. Wherever he goes, red leaves and cold wind follows him, and wherever he goes- he hunts. There are things unseen in the world of men, strange things that live in the cracks between places. It is Tommy's place to hunt them, protecting us from the darkness that we cannot see.
As the Untold Age dawns, he is one of the few faeling creatures that remains in our world. Creatures borne and breathing stories and magic, and now their age is at an end.
This Autumn , however, is different from those in the past. Tommy awakens to the taunting of an age-old enemy, and is powerless before him. Soon, a sinister tale unfolds- a story that spans centuries and the entire continent, and ends with one bone chilling point.
The Untold Age isn't coming- it's already here.
It's harbingers walk the land.
Now Tommy faces a foe unlike anything he has ever faced before. But soon it is obvious that even one of the last talebourne cannot stand against the cold that comes, and Tommy learns that perhaps, the end is in fact inevitable.
The Untold Age comes."