I was really looking forward to this book after reading Bear, Otter and the Kid because of the other book’s warm, funny, and sometimes heartbreaking characters. Klune has created an ambitious Creation saga, complete with a huge cast of characters, a Tree God, and, of course, the Savior figure, the One…known here as the Findo Unum-the Split One-whose “coming has been foretold for generations.” Along with Felix, there is Seven, his Iuratum Cor, or Felix’s heart/mate, and a group of people who make up Findo Unum’s guard of warriors. As in any epic tale, it is time for the One to appear to save his people and that is Felix.īurn is the first volume in the planned Elementally Evolved trilogy. Much like Nazi Germany, the rights of Elementals are being taken away, and they are being rounded up for experimentation and incarceration. But the darkness is rising with intolerance and bigotry are now the ruling forces within the Government. They took new identities and lost themselves in the metropolis of Terra City. Felix and his father have fled underground after Felix killed his mother. There are many of the same historical markers (i.e, WWII but with Elementals having helped win the war against Germany), but just alien enough to throw off familiarity.
With those words, Klune takes us into the mind of another young man seeking out both his identity and his destiny, Felix Paracel.īurn takes place in an alternate universe where Elementals, people who can control the elements of fire, earth, wind, and water, are a minority race on Earth. “My name is Felix Paracel, and when I was nine, I became angry at my mother and killed her with fire that shot from my hands.”
Klune, whose debut novel, Bear, Otter and the Kid was a wonderful story of a young man coming to terms with his sexuality within the confines of family neglect and maternal abuse.
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