Title: Talisman of El Author: Alecia Stone Publisher: Centrinian Publishing Genre: YA contemporary fantasy Imagine if there was another world in the centre of the earth, one called Arcadia where angels, both the fallen and the guardian kind live. The Garden of Eden is there too and the Tree of Life and the records of the lives of all mankind over the ages. In the Talisman of El, 14-year-old Char­lie Blake and his friends learn that what they’ve come to suspect is true. But something Charlie never suspected is also true. He has a role to play, not only in the war torn country’s healing, but also in mankind’s future. Charlie is an orphan. Though he longs to fit in somewhere, he’s always felt different. The story begins after one of his prophetic dreams just after he has come to live with a new foster parent. He has hopes that this man will become his father and that he will finally have found his home. Not so. Instead he begins a roller coaster ride from one strange occurrence to … [Read more...]