The Zaddack Tales
by Karen Daniels
Dancing Suns, Book One
Mentors Lair, Book Two
MindSpark, Book Three
Review: Karen Daniels background
serves her well with this epic story
painted a living breathing picture
Dancing Suns is a classic read.
Midwest Book Review, Leann Arndt, July 2001
Dancing Suns, Book One of the Zaddack Tales. A girl. A zaddack. A planet with two suns. And a quest forged from duty and challenged by desire. Dancing Suns is a tale of personal struggle and animal-human psychic bonding.
Pursued for generations by the mercenary Bioguards, human descendants have created a final sanctuary on Riatha. When they are discovered and attacked, Serall escapes with Kafa, a highly evolved creature known as a zaddack, with whom she is mentally bonded. An inviolate duty to find the last three remaining humans collides with personal desire when Serall meets Runak, an oreseeker. This legendary being bequeaths to her a medallion, a key to unlocking the power of crysolium the ore that holds the mindsparks of the dead. All the while Serall must keep her heritage hidden from the native Riathans, an uninspired people who live under the shadow of the prophecy
When the time of the two suns is to end, a zaddack will be sent forth, One Who Knows, to lead those who are chosen to the land of the blue sky.
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Review: Dancing Suns is Exotic and vibrant, this alien tale of the far future is a superb taste of danger, adventure, and odyssey. Also very highly recommended is Karen Daniels science fiction opus, Mentors Lair.
Internet Bookwatch, September 2001, Volume 11, Number 9
Mentors Lair, Book two of the Zaddack Tales. A human leader weakened by personal doubt and despair. A Riathan who begins transforming into an oreseeker. An injured zaddack kit suspended in an embryonic sack. And the ice-covered planet on which they must survive.
Forced to flee their home planet, Serall and a group of misfits must rely on their enemy, a Bioguard, to pilot the spaceship as they search for the way to old Earth. The mismatched group is divided by fighting and fear as their lives are haunted by the twin-tailed comet, an omen that prophesies the end of the universe.
The ship becomes lost, and a handful of the warring group find themselves stranded on a frozen planet that emits a strange lustful energy. Forced to live in an icy cavern, Serall struggles to maintain leadership of the hostile group while an ice monster threatens their lives and hope of rescue is gone.
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MindSpark. The third and final book of the Zaddack Tales.
The last humans and a Bioguard. A planet populated by the greatest minds in the Affiliation. A great Dark sweeping through the universe and killing all life that stands in its way. And a soul-damaged oreseeker who must find the strength to try to save them all.
The last remaining human children return to old Earth, now the Affiliations Knowledge Center, home to the knowledge keepers. As the children struggle to adapt to their new life, the Affiliation searches for a way to defeat the coming Darkness
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