Book Review Blitz: Dream Warriors by D. Robert Pease
We are pleased to be coordinating a Book Review Blitz for the new Young Adult book by D. Robert Pease (author of the Noah Zarc
series) “Dream Warriors: Joey Cola, Book 1″ (ends August 7th). You will
be among the very first to read this newly-released book!
About the Book
Title: Dream Warriors (Joey Cola, Book 1) | Author: D. Robert Pease | Publication Date: July 7, 2014 | Publisher: Evolved Publishing LLC | Pages: 232 | Recommended Ages: 12+
Summary: Joseph Colafranceschi
is a fifteen-year-old, self-described geek, living in the Bronx. The
second youngest of twelve sons of the former U.S. ambassador to Italy,
Joey discovers that a small Egyptian statuette, given to him by his
father, endows him with power to control his dreams.
After his brothers throw him down a manhole, Joey is drawn into a
hidden society of warriors who have been battling a reincarnated
Egyptian Pharaoh for over 3,000 years. In the dream world, everyone is
not what they appear to be, and it’s impossible to tell who to trust. As
Joey slips deeper into a world of gladiator battles and clandestine
missions within other people’s dreams, he catches the eye of a beautiful
Egyptian princess.
The only thing that keeps him grounded in reality is his best friend Alex, but even she may not be who he thought she was.
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My Review
A mix of fantasy, action, mythology and our very own dreams.
Joseph Colafranceschi AKA "Joey Cola is a 15 year old genius about to graduate high school and move on to
MIT. He is the second youngest of twelve sons of the former U.S. ambassador to Italy. His older stepbrothers tend to pick on him, but, His father he looked him very fondly.
It gets so bad that Joey is actually put in the hospital because of their antics.this day his father presents him with a rare, valuable gift, a small Egyptian statuette from pure gold decorated with colorful gems .
He told him of his Italian great-grand father's trip to Egypt in 1912 to participate in an archeological dig.He also told him never to tell anyone about the it.
Joey's
stepbrothers hurt Joey almost everyday. It is during one of the
repercussions of a beating that Joey enters a dream world. The world of dreams.In this world he had been told that he has
special gifts. They taught him to fight, change his shape and more.
The
concept is that there are many who are normal people in real life but
their avatars in To-She can take on disguises and have powers. You can't really knows who has a particular avatar in To-She. It could be anyone. When he wakes up, he is back in the "real" world. Joey
learns fast, especially when he learns his best friend is there.
There is also a small love affair - he really wants to catch the eye of lovely Cleopatra ('Daughter'
of the dream ruler, Pharaoh).
But this dream world may not be as wonderful
as it seems. The line between reality and dreams begin to blur. When the dream world
impacts reality and endangers his family.....Joey Cola must step up as
their defender. There are forces at work that
manifesting themselves in reality as the world food supply is being
destroyed. All sides seem to look to Joey as if he is a tipping
point in the scales and Joey don't know who to trust.
I
liked Alex's Joey's best pal, a normal girl at his high school, which is a very powerful Dream Warrior Boudica (the Celt's warrior queen). She is kind and amiable. Her dress sense is unique and the author
describes it well in many instances. Joey and Alex, are brainiacs and, therefore, are outcasts in school.
I
liked the parallelism to the biblical Joseph. Both of them have 10 jealous older siblings (not from the same mother) Even, their names remind us the names of the biblical brothers. Simon, Remondo = Reuben Danilo = Dahn and ect, Even their characters seem alike. Simeon and Levi are known as the "twins" , even though they are a year apart, and portrayed as violent bullies.
Joseph's father Jacob love him most of all his sons was like Joey's father. Same like Joseph Joey has a smaller real siblings (Benito = Benjamin and Dianora = Dinah....) from the same mother that he love very much.
Joey gets a statue of many colors from his father, Joseph gets a coat of many colors from his father - both would be very
valuable in their time. Joey is thrown into a sewer, and he enters the Egyptian town underground, Joseph discarded into a well and reach Egypt. The President of US meets Joey,same like the biblical Pharaoh; to discuss a dream. And both of them used the dream world to change their statues, and do something about "food shortage".
Any way it was funny how the author dressed this biblical story on a very very patriarchal Italian family (maybe he thought that this kind of family will fit to the same kind of family from old "Canaan").
Both of them couldn't clamp their mouth. when they had to tell their dream The dream about how their 10 brothers worship them - All
nine brothers looked up to me—ten when you count Gabino, who finally
came around and gazed at me through swollen eyelids. Ten brothers,
worshiping the ground I stood on.
I really likes the "feeling" of the "backstage" like: the chasing in te streets of New York City— ...Maybe I’d lost them. It wasn’t like they were hard to put off the scent. All it’d take is some distraction. Heck, even the sound of the ice cream truck would probably be enough to make them forget today was “beat on Joseph day.”....A shadow streaked across the narrow band of blue sky above and in front of me. Maybe my brothers would break their weasely little necks with their parkour nonsense.
I took a quick right into another alley. Brightly colored shirts and underwear hung on ropes between the windows, fluttering in a warm summer breeze that somehow made its way down among the towering apartment buildings that filled this part of the Bronx. I almost laughed at a flowery bra that danced above me as I ran past. Some people had no problem airing even their most private laundry out for the whole world to see. That was not my family at all. We Colafranceschis would rather die than look anything less than perfect......"
About the Author: D. Robert Pease
D. Robert Pease
has been interested in creating worlds since childhood. From building
in the sandbox behind his house, to drawing fantastical worlds with
paper and pencil, there has hardly been a time he hasn’t been off on
some adventure in his mind, to the dismay of parents and teachers alike.
Also, since the moment he could read, books have consumed vast swaths
of his life. From The Mouse and the Motorcycle, to The Lord of the
Rings, worlds just beyond reality have called to him like Homer’s
Sirens. It’s not surprising then he chose to write stories of his own.
Each filled with worlds just beyond reach, but close enough we can all
catch a glimpse of ourselves in the characters he creates.
D. Robert lives in the gray-skied world of Northeast Ohio with his
wife, two kids (a boy and a girl) and two pets (a dog and a cat) and
a pond full of goldfish. When not writing he loves to travel the U.S.
via RV with his trusty Jeep in tow, or ride the hills of Ohio on his
bike..
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