The Scavenger by Aidan Lucid

January 28, 2022

The Scavenger

Aidan Lucid

4 Stars

Pages: 148

Genre: YA, Horror, Supernatural

Published: 10 Jan 2021

Publisher: Jongleur Books

Publisher's Blurb

Three Separate Wishes. One Twisted Nightmare!

Just like Hopps Town, their humble home, Jessica Barlow, Jared Duval, and Adrian Cole are fostering dark secrets. Plagued by loss, cruelty, and physical abuse, these friends are kindred spirits, bound by anguish and elusive dreams. They’re soon to find the key to change, but any happy future will demand they face a haunting past and brave a lethal present.

Deep in the forest on the outskirts of town, aging and nearly forgotten, there stands a well from another time. Happening upon this relic, Adrian goads his companions to join him in making a wish. Soon, difficult though it is to admit, their luckless lives do seem to shift. The only problem is, the changes aren’t at all as they’d imagined. Seemingly, they’ve only left the pan to face the fire.

Should they hope to both survive and thrive, they’ll need to pool their wits and draw on mystic inner-power. Solving Hopps Town’s greatest mystery now means life or death.

Review

When three friends use an ancient wishing well to attempt to change their lives for the better it awakens an evil that has lain dormant for many years.

Unknown to Jared, he has inherited psychic powers, which start to manifest themselves with visions and dreams. With the help from Aunt Maybelle he needs to learn to control these powers if they are to escape from the clutches of the denizen of the Well.

Written with an easy flowing style with interesting characters, this seizes your attention and propels you through a tale of spirits and demons as Jared and his friends do battle with the supernatural.

This is a good introduction to Jared as he begins his journey to understand and master his powers. It leads in nicely to the next book in the series 'Unlucky Charm' where a cursed pocket watch causes mayhem in Hopps Town.

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The Author

Born in July 1981 with a very rare syndrome known as Moebius Syndrome, Aidan has never let that stop him achieving his goals in life. Mr. Lucid began writing back in 2002 after a religious experience. In 2004 after plucking up the courage to send out his material, he was published seven times that year. Over the next decade, Aidan's works appeared in various local and international anthologies, magazines and e-zines. From March to December 2007, Aidan wrote film reviews for the award winning Irish newspaper, "The Kerryman".

Aidan is the author of four books: "A Viking's Prayer" (a collection of poetry), "The Lost Son" (YA epic fantasy novel), "The Scavenger" and "Unlucky Charm" (books one and two of The Hopps Town Series)

To view more about Aidan and his works, go to: http://www.aidanlucidauthor.com

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