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The Cain family has many secrets. The only son Elias, an alpha male and former rock star, has the “look” with a set of eyes and smile that will drop a girl’s panties at 10 yards. He is the heir apparent to the wealthiest family in the world and it’s now time for the transition of power. But some things never go as planned - especially for this family.

When Elias' one true love Genevieve returns to his life, they start on a journey to unravel the twisted knot that has been laid before them. They enter the serpentine labyrinth of deceit and despair. Two worlds will collide and meet in the middle. Two men will vie for the love of one woman and to the victor will go her soul. There is no second place, and the very gates of heaven and hell will shake as these two gear up for the ultimate confrontation.

The distant past and the modern world will collide on a rocket ride of twisting emotions and imagery. Every story has a beginning, buckle up for this one.

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Can a book be stunning? Can a book be such a work of art that the words paint a picture that you can see in your minds eye? If it is Cain-Sins of the Father, then the answer is an absolute yes. This book is so sophisticated and multilayered that I just could not get enough. Elias and Genevieve's love story is not your usual romance. Theirs is a love story with twist and turns and unforeseen road blocks. I loved this unique story and can't wait to keep reading about these characters. Mr. Raven can sure put words together to weave a tale of magic.

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I was blown away by this book. It is the story of Elias Cain's family and what they have to deal with from a curse on them dated back in time. Elias reconnects with the love of his life and things get heated from the very beginning of the book, no waiting for that hot erotic scenes I love so much. Then the call comes that changes everything in Elias' life and all hell breaks loose. Family secrets are revealed, evil reveals it's ugly head and Elias is out for revenge. I loved how each chapter begins with a passage that leads you into it. It is a cliffhanger that leaves you on the edge of your seat wanting to know what is in store for Elias and his family when good versus evil will continue.This was such a powerful book that was well written with amazingly well developed characters and has you losing sleep because you can't put it down. Elias Raven is a phenomenal writer and if you haven't read is work before you should, you won't be disappointed. I can't wait to read more from this author. Kudos to you Elias for such amazing debut novel.
Cain Sins of The Father, is an amazing 5 star read!!!! As the story begins, Elias Cain has reconnected with the love of his life, Genevieve, after years apart. Soon after, Jared Cain dies unexpectedly, as his only son, Elias is suddenly thrust into the spot light, faced with the daunting task of taking over his father’s vast empire. Not long after his father’s death, it’s revealed his family is cursed, dating all the way back to the beginning of biblical times. Cain Sins of the Father, is filled with carefully woven characters, all pieces of a much bigger puzzle and pawns in a chess match that can only have one victor. The poetry at the beginning of each chapter correlates perfectly with what’s happening in each scene. You also get the opportunity to experience some of Elias Raven’s masterful poetry for the first time. In today’s world of so many formulaic books, filled with clichés and predictable story lines, this isn’t like any book I’ve ever read before. I can’t wait for book 2 to come out!!
I am not exactly sure what I was expecting when I bought this book. By title I wasn't sure if it was going to lean more towards the Bible story of Cain or something completely different. My friends were discussing how good it was but were giving me little details (I now know why). As I started reading the book, I soon learned I was reading a wonderful story with references to the Bible Story. The story took a bit of time to develop for me but once it did, I was captivated to the point I read into the wee hours of the morning and wouldn't of stopped when; I did except I had to get a little sleep before work.

I don't do spoilers and even sitting to write this review I have stopped and started several times because everything I want to say gives away more than I think is fair to a new reader. So I will say this book does have a good love story to it; both the love of family and that of a man and his lady. The book is a suspenseful thrilling tale as well. You follow the main character, Elias Cain, as he learns not only his families epic secrets but the dark well kept secret that will threaten everything Elias believed to be it the truth. Elias comes to terms with his family duty while trying to keep his family and lady safe. Again that is putting it very mildly but without spoiling this truly magnificent thrilling tale, it's aptly put.

If I had to give one complaint it would be that it ended in a cliffhanger. I do HATE cliffhangers. However, this is one book when it ended, while I wanted to cuss the author for leaving me hanging, I understood his reason for doing so. Lucky for readers, Book 2 is due out soon. If you like suspense and thrilling storylines, this is the book for your. Well Done Mr. Raven and may I add my hat is off to you for an awesome 1st time book.
To be honest, I was a little skeptical about this book, since I have only read romance and erotica, and this book is a thriller.
I purchased this book after reading and thoroughly enjoying this author's poetry book, The Painted Shadows and quite frankly the wonderful cover pulled me in as well. The author's poems are so captivating that I decided to give Cain a chance, and let me tell you, ONE OF THE BEST DECICIONS I HAVE EVER MADE!!!!

How to start this review without any spoilers? Tough! ...
....Let me just say WOW!!! This book is A-mazing!!
What I love most about Cain is that you get to experience everything, all at once from suspense, mystery, love, hate, secrets, envy, rivalry, lies, second chances, love making, affection, family values, sadness, betrayal, revelations and truths. All these emotions collected together, portrayed exquisitely in a piece of art, that is this book, taking you for a journey, transporting you back to the bible times and then fast forwarding you back to the present. The love scenes between Elias and G are very passionate and loving, leaving you reading with only one hand. (Winks)

The author rewards you with literature passages and beautiful illustrations (perfectly chosen, I must add) introducing each chapter in this book, making them more exciting. The author also integrates a fusion of the traditional Cain story and his own version, a phenomenal remix, blowing your mind away and leaving you wanting more and more from Elias and G, Qaylin and the whole Cain empire.

I can't wait to follow up this story with book number two and see how each of the characters develop further, deeper.
I'm ready for this author to take me for a thrilling journey once again.

I will most definitely buy more books from Elias Raven!

I strongly recommend this book!!!
Can a book be stunning? Can a book be such a work of art that the words paint a picture that you can see in your minds eye? If it is Cain-Sins of the Father, then the answer is an absolute yes. This book is so sophisticated and multilayered that I just could not get enough. Elias and Genevieve's love story is not your usual romance. Theirs is a love story with twist and turns and unforeseen road blocks. I loved this unique story and can't wait to keep reading about these characters. Mr. Raven can sure put words together to weave a tale of magic.

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According to Jim Hoopes, the fundamental principles on which business is based-authority, power, control-are increasingly at odds with principles of life in a democratic society-freedom, equality, individualism. False Prophets critically examines the pioneering theories of the early management thinkers, such as Taylor, Follett, Mayo, and Deming, which intended to democratize corporate life yet have proved antithetical to the successful practice of business. Hoopes challenges popular management movements that followed in the wake of these thinkers and accuses today's business theorists of perpetuating bad management in the name of democratic values. He urges executives and managers to recognize the realities of corporate life and learn to apply the principles of power. He also unveils a new management agenda that will be of paramount significance to modern organizations.A rich and lively read, False Prophets provides a refreshingly new and original overview of the history of management in the larger context of the American culture, brilliantly illustrating its evolution-from the ivory tower to the shop floor.

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Hoopes' book presents a gallery of management thinkers and introduce their work through the lenses of a political science perspective. Political scientists who use the concept of power to describe economic or social mechanisms are sometimes prone to its abuse: they see politics everywhere, and they consider all references to general ideals or moral sentiments as stratagems used by rulers to obfuscate the brutal exercise of top-down authority.

Power is indeed a key concept for political scientists, as interest is for economists, and both concepts may help them to build theories or propose models of corporate behavior. But management scholars are practically oriented, and they know that power or interests can sometimes be bad for practice. That is why politics is a bad name in a private business setting, and motivation takes many forms other than paycheck retribution.

According to Hoopes, the simple existence of top-down management power contradicts the democratic political values at the heart of American culture. "Ordinary citizen get their closest exposure to undemocratic government when they go to work for a corporation." The book argues that remembering that contradiction, rather than covering it up, as many management theorists have done, is the best way to manage well. "Top-down power and its potential abuse are here to stay in corporate America. It is foolish to think otherwise." So it is better to admit that we live two lives, one as free citizen and one as submissive employees, and that instead of extending corporate values in our democratic institutions we should build checks and balances in our political system to limit the abuse of management power. Unfortunately this is not the direction that management gurus have taken.

Hoopes begins his tour of portraits with Frederick W. Taylor, the founder of scientific management. Taylor is now considered mostly an embarrassment in the history of management, and he serves as a negative milestone against which later approaches were constructed. But his emphasis on efficiency, low costs, and pay to performance still makes sense today. Better, Taylor can be portrayed as a pioneer of knowledge management, as he saw knowledge as a key resource that had to be properly managed by teams of experts. His success owes much to the state of management education at his time: "new business schools such as Harvard had embarrassingly little systematic knowledge to teach and desperately embraced Taylorism to fill class time (....) Students attention could be concentrated on instruction cards, slide rules, and time study, lending business schools a facade of science and academic rigor."

The other scholar who took Harvard Business School by storm is Elton Mayo, whose human relations movement imposed a new curriculum in management education. The Australian social psychologist is cast as the villain in Hooper's story: he is depicted as lying about his curriculum, and as substituting intellectual aloofness for academic rigor. His dream was to replace democracy with therapy: he treated Bolshevism as a mental illness, and labor grievances as symptoms of deeply-held neuroses. HBS, where his recruitment owed more to his ability to attract money from the Rockefeller foundation than to his scientific credentials, gave him the institutional power to develop and sell his ideas, which reinforced the managerial profession's claim for social status based on its dedication to human service. Although he only supervised the study from afar, he is mostly remembered for the Hawthorne experiment at General Electric, which demonstrated that gentle and caring supervision created better group dynamics. But he is still considered as the founder of Organizational Behavior, a discipline that has become a part of every business school curriculum.

By contrast, Mary Parker Follett gets many praises as a shining personality and a brilliant social theorist. Trained as a political scientist, she contributed original insights to social theory and business management by trying to integrate the opposite interests of bosses and workers. Using her social work experience as a new model of political democracy, Follett eventually came to believe that a corporation at its best is a person. According to her, "the group, because it means a larger life than our single, separate lives, thrills us and raises us to new levels of efficiency and power." She believed that all employees should contribute to management, and she may have erred in her confidence in leadership as a substitute for power, yet her thoughts reflected the better aspects of corporate life.

Finally, Peter Drucker, whose portrait closes the volume, is the only management expert who deserves the title of guru, used generously throughout the book. His mix of social theory and practical business advice attracted a cult following, not only in the United States but also in Japan and in Europe. Fleeing central Europe's descent into chaos in the 1930s, Drucker began his career as a journalist and did some fieldwork at General Motors before moving to academia, where he became the quintessential business guru. In the 1960s, he first called attention to the growing role of knowledge workers; in the 1970s, he pioneered management by objectives and called attention to Japanese companies' distinctive practices; in the 1980s, his increasing disenchantment with corporate America led him to turn his focus to nonprofit organizations, which were in bad need of rigorous management techniques. Drucker also played a role of the ubiquitous social critic for business managers who usually have little time for sociological treatises and philosophical thought.

My impression upon reading this book is mixed. The introductory chapter presents a strong thesis, namely that management gurus obfuscate the anti-democratic nature of corporate power, but this basic insight covers only a limited aspect of the management doctrines that are reviewed in the subsequent chapters. It is not obvious that the author has actually read all the material that he covers--not that the management books of these mostly forgotten authors are worth re-reading anyway. If you need a critical introduction to the thoughts and doctrines of management gurus, I find The Witch Doctors by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge a much more pleasant and informative read.

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I am tired of writing what other knows already, so I am just going to cut and paste this version of exciting comment and review to everyone to read and gets the same boring imagination. Yea! Goog! wove it
The book so far adds insight into buisness leaders from an outside perspective. I think it is well written and thought out.
Well written, photos I had not seen of Follet and Barnard. Overall interesting, similar in some ways to Gabor's text (Capitalist Philosophers).
This is not your average textbook! I read it for a doctorate level course. Considering the state of he post 2008 global economy, this book sheds light on the dark side of management theory. It was truly eye-opening. It provides great fodder for skeptics!
Interesting titbits about management gurus. I could understand the author's viewpoint but there it shows how complicated management and leadership is. There is no one formula. These guys were able to exploit an idea they had.
I had to read this book twice.

First time with my jaw hanging and the second time highlighting, annotating and working up a storm of sticky notes so I could go look up the names & the fames.

The ripple effect has been tremendous, and I'm looking forward to Dr. Hoopes moving his socio-managerial microscope back to the Middle Ages to dissect vassalage and explain the pathology of serfdom and its parallel to today's corporate structures as well as why this phenomenon persists (prequel).

Then, I'd really like to see him turn the scrutiny on managers of the Great Shareholder Abandonment of the 2000's (WorldCom, CSFB, Enron, Global Crossing, etc.) and prescribe some remedies (for example, a vigorous enema would be just the ticket for Quattrone). I'd also like to see him attend to the waves of college graduates whose opportunity has been sold out from under them to the third world countries with the best Washington lobbyists (this book would be the sequel).

As it is, FALSE PROPHETS is a righteous "Perils of Pauline" cliffhanger, ending with Pearl White (who did all her own stunts, btw) tied to the tracks.

Or, to upgrade the reference, FALSE PROPHETS stops at a corporate "Empire Strikes Back" chapter, with dutiful nonexempt employee Han Solo frozen in a block of schmutz while all the jobs are being offshored and the middle class is posing for the picture that will decorate milk cartons.
needed this book for school and it was cheaper to buy it on here than it was in my student store. also had the ebook option over just the paperback option that my school only offered.
Hoopes' book presents a gallery of management thinkers and introduce their work through the lenses of a political science perspective. Political scientists who use the concept of power to describe economic or social mechanisms are sometimes prone to its abuse they see politics everywhere, and they consider all references to general ideals or moral sentiments as stratagems used by rulers to obfuscate the brutal exercise of top-down authority.

Power is indeed a key concept for political scientists, as interest is for economists, and both concepts may help them to build theories or propose models of corporate behavior. But management scholars are practically oriented, and they know that power or interests can sometimes be bad for practice. That is why politics is a bad name in a private business setting, and motivation takes many forms other than paycheck retribution.

According to Hoopes, the simple existence of top-down management power contradicts the democratic political values at the heart of American culture. "Ordinary citizen get their closest exposure to undemocratic government when they go to work for a corporation." The book argues that remembering that contradiction, rather than covering it up, as many management theorists have done, is the best way to manage well. "Top-down power and its potential abuse are here to stay in corporate America. It is foolish to think otherwise." So it is better to admit that we live two lives, one as free citizen and one as submissive employees, and that instead of extending corporate values in our democratic institutions we should build checks and balances in our political system to limit the abuse of management power. Unfortunately this is not the direction that management gurus have taken.

Hoopes begins his tour of portraits with Frederick W. Taylor, the founder of scientific management. Taylor is now considered mostly an embarrassment in the history of management, and he serves as a negative milestone against which later approaches were constructed. But his emphasis on efficiency, low costs, and pay to performance still makes sense today. Better, Taylor can be portrayed as a pioneer of knowledge management, as he saw knowledge as a key resource that had to be properly managed by teams of experts. His success owes much to the state of management education at his time "new business schools such as Harvard had embarrassingly little systematic knowledge to teach and desperately embraced Taylorism to fill class time (....) Students attention could be concentrated on instruction cards, slide rules, and time study, lending business schools a facade of science and academic rigor."

The other scholar who took Harvard Business School by storm is Elton Mayo, whose human relations movement imposed a new curriculum in management education. The Australian social psychologist is cast as the villain in Hooper's story he is depicted as lying about his curriculum, and as substituting intellectual aloofness for academic rigor. His dream was to replace democracy with therapy he treated Bolshevism as a mental illness, and labor grievances as symptoms of deeply-held neuroses. HBS, where his recruitment owed more to his ability to attract money from the Rockefeller foundation than to his scientific credentials, gave him the institutional power to develop and sell his ideas, which reinforced the managerial profession's claim for social status based on its dedication to human service. Although he only supervised the study from afar, he is mostly remembered for the Hawthorne experiment at General Electric, which demonstrated that gentle and caring supervision created better group dynamics. But he is still considered as the founder of Organizational Behavior, a discipline that has become a part of every business school curriculum.

By contrast, Mary Parker Follett gets many praises as a shining personality and a brilliant social theorist. Trained as a political scientist, she contributed original insights to social theory and business management by trying to integrate the opposite interests of bosses and workers. Using her social work experience as a new model of political democracy, Follett eventually came to believe that a corporation at its best is a person. According to her, "the group, because it means a larger life than our single, separate lives, thrills us and raises us to new levels of efficiency and power." She believed that all employees should contribute to management, and she may have erred in her confidence in leadership as a substitute for power, yet her thoughts reflected the better aspects of corporate life.

Finally, Peter Drucker, whose portrait closes the volume, is the only management expert who deserves the title of guru, used generously throughout the book. His mix of social theory and practical business advice attracted a cult following, not only in the United States but also in Japan and in Europe. Fleeing central Europe's descent into chaos in the 1930s, Drucker began his career as a journalist and did some fieldwork at General Motors before moving to academia, where he became the quintessential business guru. In the 1960s, he first called attention to the growing role of knowledge workers; in the 1970s, he pioneered management by objectives and called attention to Japanese companies' distinctive practices; in the 1980s, his increasing disenchantment with corporate America led him to turn his focus to nonprofit organizations, which were in bad need of rigorous management techniques. Drucker also played a role of the ubiquitous social critic for business managers who usually have little time for sociological treatises and philosophical thought.

My impression upon reading this book is mixed. The introductory chapter presents a strong thesis, namely that management gurus obfuscate the anti-democratic nature of corporate power, but this basic insight covers only a limited aspect of the management doctrines that are reviewed in the subsequent chapters. It is not obvious that the author has actually read all the material that he covers--not that the management books of these mostly forgotten authors are worth re-reading anyway. If you need a critical introduction to the thoughts and doctrines of management gurus, I find The Witch Doctors by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge a much more pleasant and informative read.

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A fourteen year old boy.

For nearly a decade, the race of sorcerers known as the Kyrosen lived in seclusion beneath the sands of the Mayahol Desert. After the death of his father during the Vermillion War, Sartan Truce rose to power as the rightful heir to take the reigns of his battered warriors. Although the planet's natives did their best to drive the Kyrosen to extinction, Truce's technological advancements served to both sustain his people and aid them in their fight for survival.

And now his greatest weapon is a fourteen year old boy.

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The Fourth Dimension is a sci-fi/fantasy book series that follows the journeys of a young man named Arus whose tragic disfigurement leads him to discover that even the harshest storms can be weathered by courage of the heart.

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Reader Reviews

5 Star Review "Oh my goodness, this was an incredible series. If you buy this book, buy the second one to go with it. The third book completes the story, but the first two (in my mind) make up one complete story with the third book wrapping up everything in an amazing apocalypse that leaves your wanting to turn the pages faster, but not miss a single word." - Jerry Hanel, Author of Death Has A Name

5 Star Review "The narrative is supremely well structured and carefully balanced so that raw action always raises questions of conscience. Throughout all this our attention is centered on Arus and the appalling trials that face this brave and honorable young warrior as he finds his free will stolen from him. Despite the complexity of the story, the beautiful writing and good characterization carry the reader along smoothly." - bandcandy, reviewed on

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This was a most enjoyable book. Moral, but not preachy. Exciting, innovative, intriguing, but mostly, realistic in the way that events may have happened. The book is set many millennia in the future. I came to care very much what happened to these people. Most of them are humans, but there were a lot of other sentient beings, as well. They weren't silly. The way they were written, they seem almost viable!!
In addition, the book is clean. I mean that the language is suitable for children...but it is not a childish story. Far from it; it makes one think about how to live one's life to its full potential. I appreciate an author who goes the extra mile to exclude profanity from his/her writing. Believe me, a lot of times a cuss word will come to mind much quicker than a more precise, appropriate and descriptive word will.
When finished reading this work, I immediately moved my attentions from my beloved Kindle to my laptop so I could see if there was more from this author. There was! I purchased parts two and three, entitled "Alliance of Serpents" and "Eye of the Tornado".
I have since read both of those books. I was disappointed to find that the story is not yet concluded; I was also thrilled to learn that the story is not concluded...because I will get to read more about Arus, Kitreena, Damien, Kindle, Muert, and many others.
I emailed Mr. Domenic, telling him how much I enjoyed the Fourth Dimension series, and asked him if there would be more in the future. He said, "I'm glad you enjoyed it! Arus' adventures are just beginning!"
I can't wait. Neither should you wait to read this series!

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In "Key to the Stars" Kevin Domenic introduces a many stranded saga, cleverly weaving the story together as we follow such diverse characters as the young warriors, Arus and Vultrel, the driven but morally ambiguous Kindel and the ingenious but amoral Mage, Sartan Truce. The action is centred on Terranias, a futuristic Earth, but there is a wider Galactic story concerning the balance of power against honour and the dilemma of what extremes can be justified in the name of peace. The narrative is supremely well structured and carefully balanced so that raw action always raises questions of conscience. Throughout all this our attention is centred on Arus and the appalling trials that face this brave and honourable young warrior as he finds his free will stolen from him. Despite the complexity of the story, the beautiful writing and good characterisation carry the reader along smoothly. My only complaint is that, just when I was enthralled and wanting to know the conclusion, the book ended abruptly. I guess I'll just have to get Volume Two.
Read and reviewed By Timothy

Imagine a world with planet Earth under a different name with virtually no technology... Where humans have descended to a most primitive level and where the use of Technology is forbidden. Now Imagine a space fleet whose Admiral claims peace but slaughters anyone any race any species that dares to defy the Armada's wishes. You now have the baseline for Key To The Stars. This book is wonderfully put together and is magical and holds its readers captive and refuses to let go. This book has dramatic swordplay mixed with magic and I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who loves fantasy/sci-fi.
This series is probably one of the best series I've read in the past 3 years. Incredibly well-written, I could see and sense every gust of wind and every emotion. Written in Manga style, I felt right at home with all of the characters. (I love manga. =)) The themes of honor, duty, loyalty and respect run deep as in most Manga themes, but the characters are far from cardboard manga repeats.

If you haven't read the entire series, the first book ends in a cliff-hanger so deep I about gave up on it. But trust me when I say... reading all three together is WELL WORTH THE TIME INVESTED. Oh my goodness, this was an incredible series. If you buy this book, buy the second one to go with it. The third book completes the story, but the first two (in my mind) make up one complete story with the third book wrapping up everything in an amazing apocalypse that leaves your wanting to turn the pages faster, but not miss a single word.

To sum it up... seriously good. Amazing. Wow. Worth every penny.
Great
Well, the story line was pretty good; a mix of past and present, tech and non-tech, humans and aliens, good and evil. I like the premise and the part of the story that I was allowed to read -- because all of a sudden, the book just ended! Like someone tore out the last few pages of the book so there is no end to this story. Or this part of the story being told through several books.
And that's why 2 stars. I would've given it 4 or possibly 5 because I feel what I read was quite good and interesting. But I am definitely NOT a fan of books without a story ending properly, with closure. Sure, some call them "cliff hangers" but I like to have that warm fuzzy feeling when I finish a book, not some ' he's up against the wall with all his friends down and his enemy raises his weapon for the final blow and...' END OF BOOK ONE.
N O T !
A history in the future, mankind's hatred of the machines that almost destroyed them, are being used to take control of not just earth, but all people every where. Two brothers vie for control for vastly different reasons. A book that is hard to put down, with a well written story.
The first book to The Fourth Dimension series is something I read as 'I will try this...'. The book is about adventure and action. There was slight affection romantically between two characters but is put in the background.The continuing action in this book kept me on edge. The main young characters are very full to the extent that sometimes I had to put some assuming of their futures aside because I couldn't always guess. That's what marks this book as good. The plot is well put together as are the many side and back stories. *spoiler* If you like cyborg and or transforming, and sword play you could like this book even more. Also, much emotion.
This was a most enjoyable book. Moral, but not preachy. Exciting, innovative, intriguing, but mostly, realistic in the way that events may have happened. The book is set many millennia in the future. I came to care very much what happened to these people. Most of them are humans, but there were a lot of other sentient beings, as well. They weren't silly. The way they were written, they seem almost viable!!
In addition, the book is clean. I mean that the language is suitable for children...but it is not a childish story. Far from it; it makes one think about how to live one's life to its full potential. I appreciate an author who goes the extra mile to exclude profanity from his/her writing. Believe me, a lot of times a cuss word will come to mind much quicker than a more precise, appropriate and descriptive word will.
When finished reading this work, I immediately moved my attentions from my beloved to my laptop so I could see if there was more from this author. There was! I purchased parts two and three, entitled "Alliance of Serpents" and "Eye of the Tornado".
I have since read both of those books. I was disappointed to find that the story is not yet concluded; I was also thrilled to learn that the story is not concluded...because I will get to read more about Arus, Kitreena, Damien, , Muert, and many others.
I emailed Mr. Domenic, telling him how much I enjoyed the Fourth Dimension series, and asked him if there would be more in the future. He said, "I'm glad you enjoyed it! Arus' adventures are just beginning!"
I can't wait. Neither should you wait to read this series!