SKIN HUNGER

Duey's new fantasy trilogy, A Resurrection of Magic, launches with a bewitching tale that twists time. Andy Paris deftly shifts listeners from one century to another and subtly moves between distinctive casts of characters caught up in acts of forbidden, or potentially fatal, magic. Sadima is a farm girl whose ability to communicate with animals appalls her family, so she moves to the city where two young men are secretly striving to recover lost magic. The harsh, threatening environments of the story are readily imparted in Paris's haunting narration. But it's the terror of the young students in one century and the revelation of Sadima in another that make for a gripping audio experience with a cliff-hanger ending. D.P.D. © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine [Published: NOVEMBER 2008]