Dayn Ro’Halan, the name of the young black hero of ‘The Seedbearing Prince’ suggested to me the highest flights of the imagination. And I wasn’t disappointed. The pages of this book are infused with a poetic sense of infinite space and wild beauty. DaVaun Sanders has made his dreams accessible to everyone, and what amazing dreams they are! The author just has to be a star gazer. Circling around the planets that make up his brilliantly manifested alternative universe is the torrent, a swirling stream of rocks, mountains and other mysterious objects. Young Dayn’s ambition is to become a courser, riding the torrent by hooking a wingline to one of the rocks, taking off into the air and literally flying across the cosmos. Brilliant.
There’s always someone who wants to destroy beauty. And so it is here. The voidwalkers use mind control, the thrall, so their presence brings despair, a fading of the light, all hope gone. Then, later in the book, the fleshweeps arrive. Oh the fleshweeps. Gross, all powerful enemies. Dayn finds a mysterious red orb, the seed of the title, and is caught up in a mission to save his world from these fearsome and monstrous beings.
Incredible images remain in my mind. The sight of the midnight sun in the Dreadfall, the chasm that cuts through Dayn’s home planet of Shard. Flying through the torrent. The blindfolded woman with the sword. The Shell dance. Montollos, what a world, what a vision. I would also like to wander around Olende, a vividly imagined city. Plus I’d love to take the children in my life to play on the tangletoys.
Dayn Ro’Halan is black, as are many of the characters, a big bonus as we need lots more diverse books. ‘The Seedbearing Prince’ also illustrates a universal truth. You can’t tell what skin colour any character has from their thoughts and actions, the way they behave in the story. No one’s inner life is ‘black’ ‘mixed race/biracial’ or ‘white’. We all share the same humanity.
The Seedbearing Prince is an amazing story (I’m just about to start part two), heroic and inspiring. Excellently and poetically done, DaVaun Sanders. As Dayn would say: ‘Peace, I loved it.’
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There’s always someone who wants to destroy beauty. And so it is here. The voidwalkers use mind control, the thrall, so their presence brings despair, a fading of the light, all hope gone. Then, later in the book, the fleshweeps arrive. Oh the fleshweeps. Gross, all powerful enemies. Dayn finds a mysterious red orb, the seed of the title, and is caught up in a mission to save his world from these fearsome and monstrous beings.
Incredible images remain in my mind. The sight of the midnight sun in the Dreadfall, the chasm that cuts through Dayn’s home planet of Shard. Flying through the torrent. The blindfolded woman with the sword. The Shell dance. Montollos, what a world, what a vision. I would also like to wander around Olende, a vividly imagined city. Plus I’d love to take the children in my life to play on the tangletoys.
Dayn Ro’Halan is black, as are many of the characters, a big bonus as we need lots more diverse books. ‘The Seedbearing Prince’ also illustrates a universal truth. You can’t tell what skin colour any character has from their thoughts and actions, the way they behave in the story. No one’s inner life is ‘black’ ‘mixed race/biracial’ or ‘white’. We all share the same humanity.
The Seedbearing Prince is an amazing story (I’m just about to start part two), heroic and inspiring. Excellently and poetically done, DaVaun Sanders. As Dayn would say: ‘Peace, I loved it.’
For Amazon.com click on the photo
Amazon UK http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Seedbearing-Prince-Part-I-ebook/dp/B0094PJC0Q
Part two of The Seedbearing Prince. Just love this cover!
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Amazon UK http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Seedbearing-Prince-Part-II-ebook/dp/B00F7HDNEG
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