The Peithosian Gift
by Cristina Archer
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Pub Date Aug 20 2018 | Archive Date Sep 27 2018
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Description
Speculative fantasy fiction at its best
There is an ancient clan war raging all around us.
We don’t know it, but the war is over the control of our minds.
The Peithosian Gift is an intelligent and fast-paced dark fantasy adventure about two warring clans with the power to control the minds of others.
Since ancient times, the Morgans and the Kanes have violently disputed the right to use their gift. The present-day Morgans are outnumbered and persecuted by the Kanes for using their gift; most are in hiding, while others avenge the slaughter of their kin. The Kanes hunt and kill Morgans to prevent a mind-controlled world. While one clan seeks a ‘saviour’ to restore the balance, the other fears the birth of a child whose gifts are too strong.
Radha, born of a third, lost clan, has superior powers that she is scarcely able to control. Events lead to a clash of clan leaders and key players, forcing Radha on the run with both sides hunting her.
About the Author
CRISTINA ARCHER has long been fascinated by philosophy and psychology and has been writing fiction with these themes since she was a teenager. She writes speculative/fantasy fiction as she believes these genres offer the widest scope to explore many "what if" questions that are relevant today. The Peithosian Gift is her fifth novel.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781911569848 |
| PRICE | £10.99 (GBP) |
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The Peithosian Gift is a speculative fiction novel about two warring clans with the power to control the minds of others.
As a whole, this novel is complex, intricate, and simply busy. Being split into 5-parts, (in a time-based split), the novel first helps to outline the actions which set the current affairs in motion, or the chain-of-events as you will. Due to the nature of the novel, there is a vast array of characters, but, it’s easily adaptable – think Game of Thrones, it’s easy to attribute people to a thing, and learn from there.
The Peithosian Gift, is about two-warring clams (families, sharing the same common ancestor), the Morgans and the Kanes, who have violently disputed the right to use their gift. Presently, the Morgans are outnumbered, and subsequently persecuted by the Kanes (for using their gift), most are hiding, while others are on the war-path of revenge. Assassinations, run rampant as the Kanes strive to prevent a mind-controlled world. One clan seeks a ‘saviour’, and the other fears the birth of a child too gifted.
Enter Radha.
A child born to a third clan, lost to time. Powers far superior, to a point where she lacks control. Life progresses, leaders clash, and Radha is forced to run – with both sides on her tale.
It’s an interestingly constructed tale, on what reminds me of modern-day ‘mind-control’ speculation. It may not be a gift, or a power, but it carries an inherent marker, where we (as a people) are controlled by various aspects of the world, and usually at the whim of a minor few. But on a more topical note, mind control, and compulsion raises a moral dilemma of sorts, a play on ethics. Raising questions of phenomena, and senselessness.
Overall, the question worth asking, (with the prompt of the next novel), is it The Peithosian Gift, or the Peithosian Curse? (Count me eager to find out.)
