Book
Review
Basic Details:
Book Title: Thomas
Subtitle:
Author:
Michael G. Manning
Genre: Fantasy
Part of a series? No
Order in series:
Best read after earlier
books in series?
Available: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34546023-thomas
Overall
score:
I
scored this book 5/5
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Short
Summary of the book:
Meet Thomas, an extraordinary young orphan,
living on the streets but still retaining compassion with others. Within the
first chapters, he saves a kitten and strikes up a friendship with an orphan
girl, Sarah. Thomas meets a priest in a tavern and saves him when he is
attacked in an alley. From thereon Thomas’ life changes as he is taken in at
the temple. As he grows up, his responsibilities change and he becomes important
within the temple. But with responsibilities comes sacrifice too. An
interesting twist towards the end of the book leaves you wishing to know more.
What
I liked about the book:
I loved the book and was sorry to have finished
it. What is happening next?
What
I didn’t like about the book:
There
wasn’t anything to dislike about the book.
My
favourite bits in the book:
Where
Thomas stood up for the rights of others.
My
least favourite bits in the book:
I
loved the book in its entirety.
Any
further books in the series? Any more planned by this author?
The author has written several other books
but Thomas is a stand-alone novel.
What
books could this be compared to and why?
I’m not sure what book to compare Thomas to.
Thomas fits in well with many other books in the fantasy range, containing
magic, love, compassion, theology, mystique.
Recommendation:
In
summary, I would recommend this book for the following readers:
|
Children
|
No
|
|
Young
Adult
|
Probably
|
|
Adult
|
Yes
|
If
you like Fantasy, this book may be the
book for you.
I
look forward to reading more books by this author.
Book
Description by Author:
Thomas was no one, an orphan with no past and no memories of
his early life. The only clue lies in the strange birthmark on his chest, a
mark that may or may not reveal his origin, but will certainly guide him to his
destiny.
Growing to manhood he will become a man of consequence and
influence, yet the greatest gift he has to offer his people lies not in his
power, but in his wisdom. As he strives to reach his potential he will face
obstacles great and small and he will discover that some foes are too strong to
defeat with power alone.
The greatest of evils can only be stopped when those true of
heart are willing to sacrifice blood, tears, and sometimes—their lives.
About
the Author:
Michael Manning was born in Cleveland, Texas and spent his
formative years there, reading fantasy and science fiction, concocting home
grown experiments in his backyard, and generally avoiding schoolwork.
Eventually he went to college, starting at Sam Houston State
University, where his love of beer blossomed and his obsession with playing
role-playing games led him to what he calls 'his best year ever' and what most
of his family calls 'the lost year'.
Several years and a few crappy jobs later, he decided to
pursue college again and was somehow accepted into the University of Houston
Honors program (we won't get into the particulars of that miracle). This led to
a degree in pharmacy and it followed from there that he wound up with a license
to practice said profession.
Unfortunately, Michael was not a very good pharmacist. Being
relatively lawless and free spirited were not particularly good traits to
possess in a career focused on perfection, patient safety, and the
letter-of-the-law. Nevertheless, he persisted and after a stint as a hospital
pharmacy manager wound up as a pharmacist working in correctional managed care
for the State of Texas.
He gave drugs to prisoners.
After a year or two at UTMB he became bored and taught
himself entirely too much about networking, programming, and database design
and administration. At first his supervisors warned him (repeatedly) to do his
assigned tasks and stop designing programs to help his coworkers do theirs, but
eventually they gave up and just let him do whatever he liked since it seemed
to be generally working out well for them.
Ten or eleven years later and he got bored with that too. So
he wrote a book. We won't talk about where he was when he wrote 'The
Blacksmith's Son', but let's just assume he was probably supposed to be doing
something else at the time.
Some people liked the book and told other people. Now they
won't leave him alone.
After another year or two, he decided to just give up and
stop pretending to be a pharmacist/programmer, much to the chagrin of his
mother (who had only ever wanted him to grow up to be a doctor and had finally
become content with the fact that he had settled on pharmacy instead).
Michael's wife supported his decision, even as she
stubbornly refused to believe he would make any money at it. It turned out
later that she was just telling him this because she knew that nothing made
Michael more contrary than his never ending desire to prove her wrong. Once he
was able to prove said fact she promptly admitted her tricky ruse and he has
since given up on trying to win.
Today he lives at home with his stubborn wife, teenage
twins, a giant moose-poodle, two yorkies, a green-cheeked conure, a massive
prehistoric tortoise, and a head full of imaginary people. There are also some
fish, but he refuses to talk about them.
Sign Up for Email Updates!
No comments:
Post a Comment