Harriet Klausner's Review Archive
Seven years later, Riley travels to Kentucky's Mammoth Cave, where another mummy of the malevolence has been found. In New York, an eleven-year-old girl with a damaged visage keeps following Archie, insisting he is her father. Jane has escaped Riley for now, but his thugs are coming to recapture her because she is the critical element in the reanimation. Only if Archie can accept the truth, will she have a champion and may survive the final ordeal.
A SCATTERING OF JADES is an incredible accomplishment that combines a powerfully insightful nineteenth century historical novel with easy to believe paranormal elements. The complex story line works on several levels as Alexander C. Irvine ties his varying subplots back into a prime theme through his key cast members. A strong dose of Dante's Inferno stood upside down is blended with Aztec myths and Americana personage and events into a great historical fantasy tale that announces the arrival of a talent worth following.