Book Review: The Blended Lives Chronicles: Sides of the Order
Posted: June 14, 2024 Filed under: Book Review, Books, Fiction, Review, Speculative Fiction, Vampire Romance | Tags: Blended Lives Chronicles, Book Reveiw, Patty L. Fletcher, vampires, Writing to be Read 27 Comments
About the Book
Lady Laya MoonWalker is a well respected journalist and magazine owner and a high priestess in the magickal community. After a drawn-out battle with the forces of dark magik, she has come into her own. She lives and works on Planet Korponious, where she is the owner and creator of an Interplanetary Magazine called “Blended Lives Chronicles.” Her mission is to blend the lines of race, creed, and disability that separate so many and to elevate the recognition of the training and ability of Service Animals of all kinds to a new level. She has just been accepted into the Blended Lives Federation and now hopes to continue her work in a way like nothing known to her before.
Laya has created a lot of wreckage along the way through her dark journey into the light, and now she wishes to set this to right. She has just received her best break ever. Frank Prince, the CEO of The Blended Lives Learning Center, has invited her to the Celtic New Year Convention and Witches Ball as a reporter to write a story on the progress of The Blended Lives Planetary Federation. She will be their guest speaker at the opening ceremonies.
When Laya arrives at the Celtic Convention, she finds herself face to face with an old and dear friend, Blended Lives Learning Center Instructor and member of the Order of the Night, Derrick Gibbous. As they begin to connect, causing old sparks to reignite, they are tossed into a nasty battle from which not everyone will escape. People are not as they seem, and not everyone supports the side for which they appear to work.
As their love for one another grows, so does the battle. Despite everything, Laya and Derrick are determined to see their work to unite beings of all kinds succeed.
Purchase Link: https://www.amazon.com/Blended-Lives-Chronicles-Sides-Order/dp/B0CPWDZHPZ/
My Review
I was blessed with a print copy of this story, which is like Dark Shadows meets V: The Final Battle, where nothing is as it seems – Blended Lives: The Sides of the Order, by Patty L. Fletcher. Fletcher has created a seemingly inclusive world where there is magik for everyone, or so it seems. But there is conflict behind closed doors. Not everyone in this society of secrets wants equality and all is not as it appears.
Magazine owner and high priestess, Laya Moonwalker, begins to uncover the truth and becomes a risk to the order, placing her at risk. There are some members of the order who will stop at nothing to keep their secret from being revealed. But who can she trust? She wants desperately to trust the one she loves, Derrick Gibbeous. She needs to believe that he is not involved with the treachery she finds herself caught up in, and that he will do everything within his considerable powers to keep her safe.
The book does have a few P.O.V. problems which can be confusing and pull the reader out of the story, so I give it four quills.
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Hi, Kay.Thanks for the wonderful review.
I’m currently working on the second book, and I believe you’ll be pleased with the change concerning POV.
I’m happy you enjoyed the book.
I hope to hear from some of your readers.
Thanks and have a super day.
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My pleasure, Patty. ☺️
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Hi, Kaye.
I’ve also incorporated my pottery into my writing.
I’ve created a sculpture of a monster who makes its debut in the second book.
I’m super excited about it.
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Very cool, Patty can’t wait. ☺️
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Years ago, a friend suggested I might try another form of media for my art. When I began in pottery it took all I had just to learn and remember the basics. As time has gone by, I find a grand opportunity has emerged for mixing pottery and writing.
Robbie is a huge inspiration when it comes to mixing the arts.
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She is. Unfortunately, my artistic side is not very good and I usually don’t like the creations that are the end results. I’ve been experimenting some here on the blog with photography though. 🙂
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Photography is good.
What Iâve been able to discern from the descriptions says youâre coming right along well.
Keep up the great work.
Photos are important.
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Yeah, but the descriptions don’t tell you when it’s out of focus. Lol. 😂🤣😂
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Hi, Kaye.
That would depend on how I looked at it.
If for example, I simply let the screen reader do it, no.
If, however, I use an app such as Be My Eyes AI then it would most likely tell me.
Iâm learning how to view photos using various tech apps and devices.
Hereâs a photo in reference to the monster.
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Wow. That’s cool. 😎 I’m glad you have such wonderful technologies and services available to you, Patty. I would take my grandmother shopping at the mall and I often acting as her guide, but you have a wonderful guide dog and companion, and screen readers, which apparently are improving all the time.
I often wonder how my grandmother would have thought of these times. Adaptive technologies are doing so much now to aide the sight impaIred. I think she might have preferred her method of feeling faces to tell how a person looked, but maybe using AI tech would be easier to form a mental picture with? I don’t know.
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Well, I don’t know your grandmother so I can’t say but most blind persons don’t really get much out of touching somebody else’s face.
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That was what she did. Maybe because she had sight before she lost it to diabetes? When I was born, she could see my shadow. But it continued to fail and when I brought my children into her home, that’s what she did to get an idea of what they looked like.
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I suppose for me, it’s only the shapes I feel. Maybe that was different for her since she had sight before.
I know a few people to touch faces. I’ve done it rarely. It’s a very personal thing.
I had someone walk up to me once I didn’t know who said, “Want to touch my face?”
Creeped me out.
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Oh, Kaye, you should go out with me sometime. You’d be amazed. The things people say and do around blind persons is ridiculous, hideous, and sometimes funny as hell.
LOL.
The worst I’ve ever dealt with in 56 years, was when a woman at a bus shelter said, “Are you blind?”
I answered, “Yes.”
She said, “I’d rather be dead.”
I was very glad the bus came and even more glad when the ignorant thing got on a different bus.
My reply to her was simply, “That’s the stupidest thing anyone ever said to me. That’s like cutting your head off to save shaving.”
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Lol. That was a great comeback, Patty. Often when people open their mouths, their ignorance is revealed.
When I was a kid, they laughed at me because clothes didn’t always match and my braid was not centered, but off to the side. This was long before side-ponytails, etc… were in style. The other kids didn’t know that it was off-center because my blind grandmother did my hair each morning and she couldn’t exactly color coordinate me, but I did. That’s when I decided that I liked being different, and I didn’t care what the other kids thought. It probably lost me some friends, as I was never in the ‘in’ crowd growing up, and children can be cruel, but I thought my hair looked cool and I’ve been seen in some outlandish outfits which I liked, whether anyone else did or not, long after my grandmother no longer helped me to get ready each day. I knew that my grandmother cared for me out of love, and that’s all that mattered. ❤
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Iâve had some funny moments with clothing.
Once I was to be interviewed on radio. It was Halloween. After the interview my friend asked if I realized my pants were green and that my sweater was purple.
I exclaimed, âIâm an Easter Egg.â
I then went onto explain that I had a pair of pants which were black that felt exactly like the green ones I was wearing.
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BTW? for those ho like eBooks. All my work will be free for everyone during Smashwords Winter/Sumer sale. Happy Reading.
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Hi Kaye, a lovely review of Patty’s book.
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So glad you enjoyed it, Robbie. Patty has created an intriguing world. ☺️
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Hi, Robbie and Kaye.
I’m having a blast creating this world.
Much spy craft and mystery in the upcoming book.
I hope your readers enjoy.
Maybe they’ll come back here to let us know.
Thanks again.
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Hi, Robbie.
Thanks for reading.
BTW? If anyone out there would like a copy, I’m happy to make that happen in return for an honest review.
Everyone who does is automatically qualified for a free advanced copy of the second in the series.
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Thanks, Patty. I have a copy waiting on my kindle.
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Super. I think I might have known that. LOL.
It’s getting crowded in my brain. LOL.
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