Healers a Hyllis family story #3 eBook Laurence Dahners
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“Healers” is the third in a series of stories featuring the Hyllis family who tend to inherit “talents.” The stories are set after a plague induced apocalypse which resulted in the collapse of civilization and reduced mankind back to iron and horsepower.
Eva Hyllis and her ancestors became healers because they could feel the insides of their patients with their talents. This helps them diagnose the underlying causes of many illnesses. Having made a diagnosis, sometimes they can do something, but often they cannot. However, Eva’s children inherit telekinetic and teleportation talents. Telekinetic pressure can stop bleeding and teleportation can remove stones and atherosclerotic plaque.
As time goes on they find more and more medical conditions that their talents allow them to treat.
Then they enter a kingdom where practicing the art of healing is forbidden. When patients come to Eva in hopes of a cure, she finds herself unable to refuse them merely because the law demands that she should.
Treating patients brings her into conflict with a powerful king. Imprisoned and enslaved, is there any way she and her family can win her freedom?
Healers a Hyllis family story #3 eBook Laurence Dahners
This is book three of the Hyllis Family:Telekenetic
Teleporter
Healers
The titles are a dead give away that something strange is going on. Dr. Dahners likes to work with "What ifs", but unlike some authors he works small. Instead of making characters who are Superman sans Kryptonite he gives his characters small powers that give them only a slight edge on regular folk. This makes his characters vulnerable and approachable. Yet unlike most books in Powers/Urban Romance section this book is 90action/10romance. Teenage kids think with Libido but I like it that his characters are not trapped in their heads overthinking which way to tie their shoes pulling daisy petals. The story is fast paced and keeps you enthralled all the way through like all of Dr. Dahners books.
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Healers a Hyllis family story #3 eBook Laurence Dahners Reviews
The editing of the authors novels is always of the best quality and the stories are always imaginative and well developed. This was a great read for $3.99. It really makes you wonder how other authors have the chutzpah to charge a lot more for their novels which are not as good. I love Dahners writing because it is fit for all ages, decent enough for youth yet complex enough for the old (me). The Hyllis series has all the charm of the Ell Donsaii series(another Dahners series) yet the excitement of scientific discovery has been replace with wondering what new use the Hyllis family will find for their paranormal talents. If there is a downside to the authors writing, it is that the novels are just not long enough, but then chocolate is always gone too soon and vacation is never long enough either.
I've really enjoyed the Hyllis family from the first book. I thought the exploration of the powers and the stories were well done, interesting and intelligent. I felt like the characters were real and thought out and had their own personalities. I wish there were more books, and will be checking out what else this writer has worked on.
The books aren't very long and there isn't much development past the main character (a little bit for the family in these books but each picks someone to focus on and spends most of the time on them) - the world is painted in broad strokes and the villains are somewhat just 'bad people' - while I may be completely wrong, I feel like the author just wanted to explore ideas in each of these and then put in the bare minimum to make the exploration make sense (everything beyond the main character and their power is done well enough, but is very brief and limited in scope) - I'd really love to see what the author could do if they spent as much time developing all (or at least a few more) aspects of the novel as they did on the core.
All in all - enjoyable, intelligent, and I'll keep reading.
A Laurence Dahners story is what I call a "just 15 more minutes" read. Common sense dictates you eventually need to put down the book because of sleep or work or errands, and yet you tell yourself, "No, man, just 15 more minutes." Next thing you know, you'd read the entire thing, hours had sped by, and your boss is in a mood and calling you from work. Stories by this author are my new jam. I tore thru all three books about the strangely talented Hyllis family - Telekinetic (a Hyllis family story #1),Teleporter (a Hyllis family story #2), HEALERS - and then spent the next ten minutes furiously downloading a batch of Dahners' other works. I can't wait to start on the Ell Donsaii stories. But, first, my two cents on the Hyllis series.
It's a post-apocalyptic tale, just so you'd know. Oh, Dahners does throw us a bone in that he explains how that whole mess came about (basically, it's this guy named Russ' fault). I'd earlier compared Dahners to Glenn Bullion in that their storytelling styles are both accessible and hard to resist. There's something about the way they tell a story that simply rivets you, and it may even be hard to put a finger on why that is. Courtesy of a super-flu pandemic that eradicated most of the global population, somewhen in the future, technology has devolved into a level circa agricultural/early industrial revolution. Scattered here and there are vestiges of our once glorious modern civilization. But them ancient mechanical gadgets don't work no more. Much knowledge has been lost, some retained, but not much. Take the Hyllis family, recipients of that which triggered the end of the world. The Hyllises are healers. They secretly hoard a collection of now-fragile medical books from the time before.
The Hyllises also hide genetically-enhanced abilities. But they're no superheroes. They don't lord their powers over anyone. The fear is being found out and condemned for being witches and such. I think Dahners pulled a genius move by not endowing his characters with overwhelming abilities. Tarc Hyllis is a telekinetic. His younger sister, Daussi, is a teleporter. Thing is, their talents aren't so powerful. Tarc can't move anything too heavy, and same thing for Daussi re teleporting. Their parents share these talents, but at an even weaker level. The genius and the fun, then, is the author's application of these newfound powers in diverse and creative ways. I guess this is as good a spot as any to name-drop another favorite author of mine, Steven Gould. His Jumper novels are rife with inventive exploration into the main character's extraordinary ability. I'll say that if you're looking for deep, insightful character work, Dahners' stuff may not be for you. His protagonists are given certain character traits and, then, Dahners proceeds to throw them in deep water.
Maybe more than anything, what makes Dahners' books such compulsive reads is the constant element of wish-fulfillment he injects. He writes about average folks imbued with a smidge - just a smidge - of extraordinary talent that they then use to overcome a staggering range of obstacles. HEALERS still focuses on Tarc and on Daussi, but their mother, Eva, also takes center stage. Recent members of a caravan, the Hyllises have thrived. Lines of people regularly form for the meals they produce. It's early days yet, but Eva's rep as a healer has begun to spread throughout the caravan. Eva's husband and distiller, Daum, is highly respected for his bowmanship, and he and Tarc are depended upon to help safeguard the caravan from bandits.
Eva finds it distressing to turn away those who require medical attention. This becomes a serious problem when the caravan reaches the wealthy kingdom of Realth. Realth has a law against false healers, for which the punishment for being one is slavery. And there's Eva who just cannot find it in her to reject someone who is injured. Can you guess what happens next?
You can't ever accuse Dahners of neglecting the action bits of the story. There's plenty of wild derring-do in these pages. Another thing that Dahners does exceedingly well is somehow marry a sense of wonder with grounded storytelling. The narrative goes down so matter-of-factly. Listen, the wrongest way to entice me to read a book is to tell me that the writer happens to be an orthopedic surgeon. Boring. But if I finish the book first, AND THEN you let on that the writer was an orthopedic surgeon, I'd be more impressed and intrigued. So far I have loved everything I'd read from this author. It's been, what, more than a year and a half since HEALERS came out? Where's the fourth installment? Dahners needs to publish that quickly... before Russ gets to that mall.
This is book three of the Hyllis Family
Telekenetic
Teleporter
Healers
The titles are a dead give away that something strange is going on. Dr. Dahners likes to work with "What ifs", but unlike some authors he works small. Instead of making characters who are Superman sans Kryptonite he gives his characters small powers that give them only a slight edge on regular folk. This makes his characters vulnerable and approachable. Yet unlike most books in Powers/Urban Romance section this book is 90action/10romance. Teenage kids think with Libido but I like it that his characters are not trapped in their heads overthinking which way to tie their shoes pulling daisy petals. The story is fast paced and keeps you enthralled all the way through like all of Dr. Dahners books.
If you haven't read Dr. Dahners other books
Start with
Quicker
or
Vaz
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