{"id":372,"date":"2014-04-02T06:23:01","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T22:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.haguepublishing.com\/?p=372"},"modified":"2014-04-02T06:25:26","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T22:25:26","slug":"lights-over-emerald-creek-has-appeared-in-the-april-edition-of-the-san-francisco-book-review-4-5-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/lights-over-emerald-creek-has-appeared-in-the-april-edition-of-the-san-francisco-book-review-4-5-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Lights Over Emerald Creek has appeared in the April edition of the San Francisco Book Review – 4.5 stars"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SFBR<\/a><\/p>\n

I couldn’t help including the full review – it pretty much sums up the book. And if you want to check a sample of the book, its available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lights Over Emerald Creek
\nBy Shelley Davidow
\nHague Publishing, $4.49 US, 195 pages,
\nFormat: eBook
\n4.5 stars<\/span><\/p>\n

by Gretchen Wagner<\/p>\n

Sixteen-year-old Lucy has been struggling with depression ever\u00a0since the car accident several months ago, which took her mother\u2019s\u00a0life and left her paraplegic. But one night she sees something\u00a0to bring her back to living, something inexplicable: strange glowing\u00a0balls of light hovering over the creek on her remote Australian ranch.\u00a0Lucy, an accomplished cellist with perfect pitch, finds the strange\u00a0lights hum in different tones and leave unusual geometric patterns\u00a0in the sand on the edge of the creek. Internet research connects\u00a0her with Jonathan, a young music student in Scotland, who is interested\u00a0in cymatics, the geometric forms created by sound waves\u00a0moving through semisolid matter. Jonathan tells Lucy about unusual\u00a0carvings in the Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland which match certain\u00a0note forms, and about an unexplained hexagonal storm on Saturn\u2019s\u00a0north pole that baffles scientists but also mimics one of those notes.\u00a0Lucy\u2019s online relationship with Jonathan develops while she continues\u00a0her investigations linking these mysteries. But one day her research\u00a0takes her much farther than she could have imagined, and\u00a0she disappears. Jonathan, learning of her disappearance, travels to\u00a0Australia to find her, which he eventually does. Together they learn\u00a0that Lucy has exceptional powers that she will need to harness to\u00a0allow the formation of a new world and to protect it from evil forces\u00a0that want to enslave it before it has a chance to be born.
\nThe amazing science mysteries in this book drew me in from the\u00a0start; I found myself pausing to search the internet frequently. The\u00a0mysteries \u2013 the Rosslyn Chapel carvings, Saturn\u2019s storm, the glowing\u00a0lights, cymatics \u2013 are well-documented and factual. This book\u00a0weaves them all together in a fascinating way, within a highly entertaining\u00a0story. Lucy is a sympathetic character, and although she is\u00a0depressed about her mother\u2019s death and her new disability, even\u00a0angry, she isn\u2019t whiny or bitter and is certainly likeable and believable.\u00a0Her love story with Jonathan is sweet and sensitive, and Jonathan\u00a0is also a likeable character with depth. I enjoyed the main story\u00a0arc of Lucy finding something to overcome her new limitations, and\u00a0to give her (as she felt) a real reason to live; I enjoyed the romance\u00a0development for this YA novel. The science fiction aspects were\u00a0fun and definitely intriguing. The only frustration was near the end\u00a0of the book, where I felt that a new, completely different conflict\u00a0and resolution was crammed in too short a space. However, there\u00a0is another book in the series that will develop this conflict further. I\u00a0couldn\u2019t put this book down, and I can hardly wait to see where the\u00a0author will take us next. This is a great new YA novel with an intriguing\u00a0premise you won\u2019t want to miss!<\/p>\n

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I couldn’t help including the full review – it pretty much sums up the book. And if you want to check a sample of the book, its available here. Lights Over Emerald Creek By Shelley Davidow Hague Publishing, $4.49 US, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-readers"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":382,"href":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions\/382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}