COUNCIL OF PEACOCKS (ACTIVATION)
by M. Joseph Murphy
★★★★★
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There is a dark world, hidden in plain sight, filled with vengeful djinn and shadowy demons.
The Council of Peacocks, a group of ruthless wizards, has plans for the human race.
For centuries they have plotted and schemed. Now, the moment of Activation draws near.Wisdom, an immortal sorcerer, has gathered a band of hybrid youths with extraordinary powers. They are trained to stop the Council. But there’s something that Wisdom doesn’t know.
The Council is no longer working alone.
If Wisdom and his students cannot stop The Council, the world as they know it will cease to exist.
This is the first installment of the Activation Series. Grab your copy now.
THE REVIEW ★★★★★:
I read this book twice over, as a beta ~ critique reader. The thriller intensity sucked me in, hook,
line and sinker. My inner scifi/paranormal/horror geek was thoroughly satisfied.
This is precisely the kind of book I enjoy reading. It hits all the buttons: Epic battles, epic moments of self-discovery, epic tales of heroes and villains, and of course there's loads of angst ridden teenagers with badass paranormal/psychokinesis abilities, trying to find their way through horrific scenes of
violence and callous disregard for human life.
Can I get HELL YEAH?
Its X-MEN meets CLASH OF THE TITANS directed by Quentin
Tarantino. *cue the cheesy surfer music*
We begin the story with this enigmatic character named Wisdom. He’s just been through a vicious brawl, but he won. Wisdom isn’t exactly human, he’s something
else: a demi-god, so powerful he can
move through space-time to restart the battle in an attempt to balk fate. This isn’t the first time he’s fought this
battle.
But something has changed.
Some other party is mucking about in the timeline, the outcome is no
longer certain.
As the tale unfolds, we meet a series of gifted people
Wisdom has collected over the years, the Anomalies. They are being trained for the showdown.
A secret society of sorcerers known as The Council of
Peacocks is plotting their return to power.
Once a thriving religious group, they are now led by one of Wisdom’s mistakes,
Propates, a man transformed into an immortal.
The Council intends to use humanity as a bartering chip in
their deals with demonic entities from other dimensions who want a piece of Earth.
With his army of ragtag teenager Anomalies, Wisdom intends to stop the Council, at all
costs. But these kids are freaks of nature who don’t
even know how they came to be, let alone how to harness their wicked powers.
And how can a band of kids who have more in common with
demons than angels become heroes when they barely understand what the hell
Wisdom is asking them to do?
In the end, we are securely lined up for the next
installment of a very promising series.
M.
Joseph Murphy raises concepts of faith, religion, an insightful view of
human history, and a couple of philosophical questions.
Is there really such a thing as fate? And if we could move through time, could we
change it?
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