Review: Despite the incredibly boring and WAY too common title, I thoroughly enjoyed this book! Sorry about the confusing genre description. Trapped feels like a fantasy book. The main characters are four average teachers from a second-rate privacy school who go on a quest after finding the ghost of one of their students. One of the teachers is a sorceress, one is a psyonic (meaning telekinetic). Everyone carries swords and cutlasses and other fantasy-ish weapons. Except that the story setting is somewhere in the future where alien beings have invaded, messed around with and then been kicked out of planet Earth by other aliens to "protect" the human population that is left. Yup, that is completely sci-fi. I love Sci-fi. I love fantasy. But I have always been offended that these two get lumped together in book stores. Until now. The author does an excellent job of blending two very distinctly different genres in a very natural and unforced manner. The characters are flawed, yet engaging. The creation of this alternate future reality is amazing. It was wonderful!
Rating **** Four Stars
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