Walker edition by Jane Alexander Children eBooks
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Hidden temples have always protected the Earth. But now they are dying. Concrete is spreading over the valleys, pollution hangs heavy over the cities greed is consuming the world.
Deep in the heart of England, there is one last hope. Kitnor, a remote Exmoor valley, could be a new place of power. But it is young and vulnerable to attack. The guardians, ancient keepers of the land, have to find the new temple and bring it to its full power. But their mission is failing and time is running out.
One teen, Hunter McKenzie, survivor of the car crash that killed his parents, is a shaman, a walker between worlds. He alone could find Kitnor. But Hunter doesn’t know his power. He doesn’t believe in shamanism. He doesn’t even believe in himself.
Help comes from unexpected quarters. Rowan is another teen shaman with her own ‘power animal’, a black panther called Comer. Rowan, however, has her own problems, her own potentially fatal Achilles’ heel.
Hunter meets many strange beings on his quest – the Ferish (cruel fairies who hate humankind); the punkies (souls of dead babies and young children); ancient warriors, Tibetan lamas and, above all, his own powerful animal spirits. Some will help, some hinder. Some are not what they seem.
Walker is a magical eco-quest. It is based on the ancient practice of shamanism, in which the shaman ‘journeys’ into other realms with the help of power animals and guardian spirits, to find wisdom and power. Shamanism holds the earth and all its creatures as sacred – the shaman’s duty is to protect the earth and honour everything in it.
While the story of Walker is pure fiction, the shamanic practices used in the tale are all based on fact.
Walker edition by Jane Alexander Children eBooks
A YA fantasy adventure to keep the young reader enthralled. Hunter is the main character, apparently just a normal teenage boy, self-centred, and keen on music. Then tragedy strikes, and his different circumstances are the beginning of a new life and a new adventure.And I love the book-cover image. It suits beautifully.
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Walker edition by Jane Alexander Children eBooks Reviews
I like the fact that the author tells you most of this is based on her studies of shamanism. I don't honestly care, though. This is a work of fantasy that I'd got for my 12-year-old daughter and then decided to read while she was off on a school trip. I really like that this is a world of magic that owes nothing to JK Rowling or anyone else. I love the fairie folk and the fact that they'd spit in your eye then punch a hole in the wall right through you. There are a huge list of creatures that fascinate in this. The imagination is excellent. And that's before you get to the characters. Good, strong and very real people populate the book and keep you reading to the end. The settings, though, are really what impress me most. I swear that Neil Gaiman will be jealous of the idea of the plastic hell.
I read an early draft of this book a couple of years ago. The story was so impressive, it has stayed with me all of this time. The characters in this book have beating hearts, their pains and their loves are palpable. And their gifts are truly inspiring. This book is rife with adventure and wonderful fantasy creations, all tied enough to this reality to give them a weight of their own. The peril that embroils the reader is that of the earth itself, and the catharsis achieved in this book works its own magic upon the reader.
Above all, I am enthralled by the shamanism practiced in this book. As the author says, the shamanic practices in this book are based upon actual practices. I can see this book opening a new sense of wonder in its target audience, and awakening them to the world of shamanism. This book is at once a thrilling read, and a potential awakening to a greater reality that underlies this world in which we live. That is quite an achievement.
May this book enjoy great popularity and keep alive the sense of enchantment that fades for too many as they approach adulthood.
Hunter is a normal 15 year old who loves his electric guitars and RPG games. Unfortunately stage fright is destroying his dream of becoming the next big name in the rock world and it's under this cloud of shame that his life changes forever.
You never know what you have until you've lost it, and Hunter has a near death experience because he was more than near death, he was dead, for too long to survive without brain damage, and yet he does. The car crash destroys his life and forces him to live with a grandmother he's never met. (As far as grandmothers go Ruth is an epic FAIL)
Ruth is not your average grandmother and Hunter feels like life couldn't get any worse when Ruth abandons him on his second day living in Exmoor. The strange and the impossible begin to happen as Hunter is poorly prepared for the reality of his new life and the strange realm his home straddles.
Honestly this book was so dark and disturbing in places that I feel it should be labelled Fantasy horror or at the very least DARK urban fantasy. I'm an adult and I found some of Walker to be extremely disturbing. This is not a moonbeams and rainbows fantasy book, it's full of ominous evil and shifting horrors. Another thing I feel I should mention is that Hunter is given a snake as a power animal, a guide, but this snake spits at him in his eyes and I would hate to see any teenager provoking a snake to spit at them just so they can share Hunter's shamanic gifts.
Please folks- don't try this at home!
Walker is very much a new age / spiritual vision quest novel, taking the reader through trials and tribulations while Hunter and his friend Rowan try to rescue their home from the Devil incarnate. It has some great messages for our evolving world, with some memorable scenes and characters. Clicket the punkie reminds me very much of Smeagol.
The pace is excellent, the adventure dangerous and dark. I have to say this is a serious book, it feels heavy. There is menace and despair on almost every page. It's a well written novel, the author did a great job of introducing a novice reader to the world between worlds, and I feel this should have stayed fiction because that's what makes it addictive. If Harry Potter had been dissected at the end it would have ruined the book and the magic, and as such I feel the author's dialogue at the end too adult and an anticlimax at the end of such a powerful fantasy, and it would be better suited as extra reading on her website rather than at the end of the book. Real is subjective and a book ignites imaginations and possibilities, leaving it at that would suffice (I feel).
Walker is a dark / horror / thriller / fantasy for teens, which I feel deserves 5 stars. But be warned, there's no happy here. Even the triumph at the end comes in a parcel of darkness. There is persecution, blood, gore, horrific creatures, no adult helping or guiding, graphic domestic abuse, ethnic hatred, abandonment, death, ghosts, pure evil ... it's a book rife with despair and I found it so dark - Be warned up front. But if you thrive on shamanism and aren't afraid to face the shadows lurking in the periphery of your reptilian brain, then grab this. You won't be disappointed.
My 15-year-old son is reading this on his kindle and really likes it. It is about a teenage boy whose parents are killed in a car crash and he goes to live with his grandmother who literally lives in another world.
Doug Bremner, author of The Goose that Laid the Golden Egg
My biggest (and only) complaint about "Walker" is that the story ended far too soon! *grin* Hunter and Rowan quickly became my friends(well, friends of the perpetual teenager that lives inside my head) and I wanted their adventure to continue on. Totally mesmerizing and authentic - I've done a small amount of "walking" myself, and those scenes in particular gave me goosebumps. I hope this is the start of a series!
A YA fantasy adventure to keep the young reader enthralled. Hunter is the main character, apparently just a normal teenage boy, self-centred, and keen on music. Then tragedy strikes, and his different circumstances are the beginning of a new life and a new adventure.
And I love the book-cover image. It suits beautifully.
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