Trion Rising by Robert Elmer

Brave New World Saved By Teenagersby ChandraLynn

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December 13, 2008: Robert Elmer is a truly talented author, equally comfortable with tender adult fiction and creative youth science fiction. Trion Rising is the first book in The Shadowside Trilogy, his latest youth science fiction. With the same creative flair as The Pilgrim's Progress and Hind's Feet on High Places, Elmer's allegorical world will attract all ages.

Oriannon Hightower lives a comfortable life on the bright side of Corista. She only questions the rules and standards when she and her friend Margus are talking. When her father forbids her to remain friends with the boy because he isn't in their Class, Oriannon begins to question a little more. Then Jesmet comes to the school to teach music. His music, songs, and ideas are strange, beautiful, and dangerous. They go against everything she has ever been taught. But somehow they make sense. When she dares to stand up against the leadership of Corista, she finds herself running for her life and lost on the dark side of the planet. There she meets the people she was always told were animals and discovers a love that dwells in the heart and guides and protects even when disaster threatens. Oriannon must choose between tradition and what she knows is true of the cliff-dwelling people to save an entire nation and maybe her mentor, Jesmet.

Robert Elmer created a new world, new civilizations, new and old situations and brought the age-old battle between tradition and change into the story. Then, he added a special man who knew the heart of people to show them love and life. Sound familiar? This book is a great read. It will captivate youth who long for science fiction, fantasy worlds, and unique characters. And bring truth into the heart of the readers as they travel the journey with Oriannon, Margus, and Jesmet. I highly recommend it and am now eager to start book two in the trilogy, The Owling.

I Also Recommend: The Owling.

Lev-scooters, ear buds, and stun batons!by Anonymous

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August 29, 2008: Trion Rising is the first book in Robert Elmer?s Shadowside trilogy. Oriannon Hightower of the Nyssa Clan is daughter to an elite member of Corista?s ruling assembly. As such, she?s always obeyed her father and the Codex, which is Elmer?s Bible for his fictional world. But when a new music teacher, Master Jesmet, arrives and teaches them a new way to look at things, the assembly panics, banishing the so-called Faithbreaker for his law-breaking ways. Oriannon follows Master Jesmet to Shadowside and meets the Owling people who live there. She?s always been taught nothing but animals live on the dark side of Corista, where the city?s water supply comes from, but now that she knows the Owling people, she must do all she can to stop the assembly from destroying the Owlings. I enjoyed the unique analogies Elmer uses to tell this tale. Corista?s modern conveniences make the story of Jesus easier to relate to for teens growing up in a world closer resembling one with reporters, lev-scooters, ear buds, and stun batons. Oriannon is a relatable character who makes a lot of good choices but is big enough to ask for forgiveness when she makes wrong ones. Recommended.