Lord of the Storm 2 – LightningMaster
by S.G.Miles
Paperback £8.99; ISBN 978-1-909551-38-1; April 2014; SGM Publishing
At last the first sequel to S G Miles’ enthralling fantasy adventure is here! After the successful relaunch of Thunderchild last year, we are proud and pleased to offer the second book of the trilogy for your enjoyment. Although written for a teenage audience, we are finding that the majority of readers for Thunderchild are past their teenage years! What we might describe as the Harry Potter effect…
Be that as it may, LightningMaster sees our young hero and his companions on the trail of unspeakable evil once again:
In the depths of winter, a young boy wanders lonely and disconsolate through the woods. Six months after his spectacular defeat of Yorva the Black Queen in her Jade Tower, Gabriel finds himself scorned and teased by his contemporaries, his magic now seemingly redundant, until one of them upsets him enough to feel its power…
Instructed by his teacher, Rafael, he tries to understand and control his gifts; and then a message comes from the far north of the land, where daemon incursions are harrying the flocks of the local hill-farmers. So begins Gabriel’s new adventure, where he will face an evil greater and more powerful than he can imagine, his companions once more his elderly teacher and a friend his own age – but along the way, much of the party which accompanied him before is reunited.
Like the first book, LightningMaster will stand alone as an absorbing story of good against evil, set in that postulated world of the distant future when man has relapsed into a simpler level of civilisation, and magic is once more abroad in the land – if you enjoyed Thunderchild, this new adventure will keep you glued to the page once again. And the third and final part is on the way…