Planet of Troy (The Unknown Lands of Magneta Book 1)- DG Bonnie

Book: Planet of Troy (The Unknown Lands of Magneta Book 1)

Author: DG Bonnie

Publisher: BecomeShakespeare.com

Motivation is a factor that can drive you to go places, and do something you would never do, and if that motivation relates to the honor of one’s family, then there’s no force in the world to match that.

Planet of Troy (The Unknown Lands of Magneta, Book 1) chronicles the journey of Amiel Sander, a sixteen-year boy, living on the planet Troy in a universe with its star being Magneta. Amiel’s father, Derek Sander was an Army Prodigy, until the Holo War, when he went missing and aspersions were cast on his character. Amiel takes up the charge to discover the truth about his father, and stumbles upon some designs that his father started, but couldn’t finish, and takes a vow to complete them. On another planet in the same Universe, Cursia, General Henry and Scientist George Watkins have a dream to have an equal society but to achieve that goal, they would have to experience some turbulence and thus they prepare for Extra-Terrestrial Clashes. To achieve this aim, they plan to start with a dialogue with Troy. Would Amiel succeed in his mission and reclaim his father’s lost pride? Would General Henry be successful in uniting the planets around Magneta and have one common society? Travel across the planets as Amiel begins his journey towards his destiny.

The story explores these 2 storylines parallelly and we live through the life on Troy and Cursia, respectively, as things unfold on both the planets. While we journey with Amiel through his personal life, his equations with his mother, Endora, his friends, Ethel, Arlyn, Roger and Daniel and his intelligence and grit as he battles on to uncover the truth about his father, no matter what the price. The storytelling is vivid and imaginative and as a reader you can see yourself on the respective planet while the story moves on and feel as if you are one of the inhabitants of the Universe of Magneta. The descriptions are very detailed, and they help you create a picture of the location that part of the story is based in. Bonnie has also changed the language the way the book is written so that it blends they way the characters speak and reading that as a grammatical error would be a very wrong thing to do. The links between the two plotlines are very subtle, yet perfect. They way the story unfolds, and the two lines intersect is one of the major highlights of the book. The climax of this book, specially the last parts of it, were surprising and helped me close the book with a smile.

Talking about the characters, this being the first book in the series, has set the tone very beautifully. Each of the characters have taken their own arc to develop and they way the author has given each of them their own quirks is commendable. Amiel, for example, has been shown to be sensitive yet he is stubborn but is dedicated towards his goal. Arlyn, on the other hand, is sensitive to a fault, and introverted but caring. Her feelings towards Amiel are evident to everyone, except to him and we see the impact of his actions on her, which is a very good character development method. Endora is created as a typical mother, caring, sensitive, protective, but the character that stands out is her perceptiveness and the way she reads situations, that is evident at multiple points in the book. Coming to the planet of Cursia, while the focus was mainly on General Henry and George Watkins, I would like to commend the way the character of General Henry is treated and the manner in which his development occurs as the story progresses. The development towards the climax was unimaginable and it totally changed my perception of the storyline.

One element of the story that was not very detailed in this book, but I feel will be critical in the upcoming books is the conversation between Monk Narad and Lord Vishnu and I am really interested to read the next book to find out how this third track merges onto the running plot.

I loved this book and I am eager to see the next book come out really soon. For now, Planet of Troy gets 4.13 stars out of 5 from me. 

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