Silver Awakening

In this intriguing yet unfulfilling debut, Prado considers themes of destiny through the supernatural story of seemingly normal college student Silver Sanz, who wakes up alone in the forest after a decade in a deep trance. Noah Steffen, a park ranger (the exact setting is never specified), stumbles across Silver as she runs through the woods shortly after regaining consciousness. Silver has no idea what has happened in the last decade, or what she is running from. Through a mystical connection, Noah is able to intuit Silver’s identity after recalling the story of a young lady that had gone missing 10 years earlier. As Silver begins to piece together what happened, she starts to sense strange abilities that she cannot control or explain—abilities that led her to be smuggled out of her home world, Kai. Though she was to remain hidden, her enemy from her birth planet tracks her to Earth. This enemy, Cyril, has chosen to believe that he is as powerful as the one true God. With heavy-handed foreshadowing, Prado connects a devastating event from Noah’s past to the strange arrival and disappearances of Silver. The instant love and borderline obsession between Noah and Silver makes the prophecy that surrounds Silver’s future even heavier to bear. This book is a valiant attempt to tell a love story that crosses planets and attempts to explore the real meaning of faith and destiny. (BookLife)