Phoebe Leda and the Time Lockers
By M.G. Hooper
A VERY new and fresh face to fantasy fiction with a young-at-heart slant on time travel. A fast-paced, at times heart-pounding story – one where the writing is such that the visualisation of scenes is easy.
It’s the year 2015. Melbourne girl, Phoebe Leda, is just an ordinary girl. Tomorrow she starts ladies college and there is an air of anticipation. Her mum is there, her father is away at work – again, her internet friend, Mim, chats to her from New York. But as Pheobe is about to shockingly realise – her’s is not an ordinary family. Her mum and dad will be murdered that night.
They are all she has left. Her two older brothers were killed in a car accident two years ago – or were they?
And who or what are the ‘black shadows’ that are trying to break into her room and why must she find a golden mobile’ in her room to save her life?
This is a story about time travel, but with a deadly twist. It seems that no matter the year (even 2850) the human drive for power over all is still a great part of the human psyche.
Pheobe’s parents were involved in a top-secret time travel project that became so potentially-threatening that they tried to shut it down. But a colleague, called Kane, and others wanted that technology and were prepared to kill for it.
Access to the other-world of time was via a series of lockers and time keys. It was Kane’s mission to retrieve all these keys to ultimately take control – of time.
Phoebe and Mim are the main characters who are fighting the good fight to keep this technology out of Kane and his followers’ hands.
This is an innovative and imaginative work that could so easily be breathed life onto the big screens as a TV series similar to Doctor Who (without the Daleks). Author M.G. Hooper’s characters are lively and well-etched and carry the fast-paced adventure very well.
It’s a bit of escapism that works because it is so well written and crafted. The reader hangs on almost every page – and that’s a mean feat for a first-time writer!
- Wendy O’Hanlon
- Acres Australia
By M.G. Hooper
A VERY new and fresh face to fantasy fiction with a young-at-heart slant on time travel. A fast-paced, at times heart-pounding story – one where the writing is such that the visualisation of scenes is easy.
It’s the year 2015. Melbourne girl, Phoebe Leda, is just an ordinary girl. Tomorrow she starts ladies college and there is an air of anticipation. Her mum is there, her father is away at work – again, her internet friend, Mim, chats to her from New York. But as Pheobe is about to shockingly realise – her’s is not an ordinary family. Her mum and dad will be murdered that night.
They are all she has left. Her two older brothers were killed in a car accident two years ago – or were they?
And who or what are the ‘black shadows’ that are trying to break into her room and why must she find a golden mobile’ in her room to save her life?
This is a story about time travel, but with a deadly twist. It seems that no matter the year (even 2850) the human drive for power over all is still a great part of the human psyche.
Pheobe’s parents were involved in a top-secret time travel project that became so potentially-threatening that they tried to shut it down. But a colleague, called Kane, and others wanted that technology and were prepared to kill for it.
Access to the other-world of time was via a series of lockers and time keys. It was Kane’s mission to retrieve all these keys to ultimately take control – of time.
Phoebe and Mim are the main characters who are fighting the good fight to keep this technology out of Kane and his followers’ hands.
This is an innovative and imaginative work that could so easily be breathed life onto the big screens as a TV series similar to Doctor Who (without the Daleks). Author M.G. Hooper’s characters are lively and well-etched and carry the fast-paced adventure very well.
It’s a bit of escapism that works because it is so well written and crafted. The reader hangs on almost every page – and that’s a mean feat for a first-time writer!
- Wendy O’Hanlon
- Acres Australia
