Scott Graham
Wow… This book deserves 6, nay 10 stars. Twelve children are taken from their families to be taught by “father”, a man of unbending standards and draconian methods. There is an immediate sense of something *like* magic in the air as the ultimate “Lord of the Flies” plays out and coincidences accumulate. The fantastic meets the mundane as talented people of the real world act with and against the adult versions of the 12 children who have all been taught special yet differentiated skills in the titular place of higher learning by a “father” whose person, values, and methods are revealed in flashbacks - because “father” is missing. Did he leave? Was he taken? Are his enemies involved? Fantasy meets cosmology meets suspense in the Garrison Oaks development with the Library at Mount Char at its center.
Wow… This book deserves 6, nay 10 stars. Twelve children are taken from their families to be taught by “father”, a man of unbending standards and draconian methods. There is an immediate sense of something *like* magic in the air as the ultimate “Lord of the Flies” plays out and coincidences accumulate. The fantastic meets the mundane as talented people of the real world act with and against the adult versions of the 12 children who have all been taught special yet differentiated skills in the titular place of higher learning by a “father” whose person, values, and methods are revealed in flashbacks - because “father” is missing. Did he leave? Was he taken? Are his enemies involved? Fantasy meets cosmology meets suspense in the Garrison Oaks development with the Library at Mount Char at its center.