Chuck Black, Kingdom's Quest

Kingdom's Quest

Chuck Black

Multnomah, May 2007, $8.99, 160 pp.

ISBN 1590527496

Sir Gavin now called Sir Gavinaugh belongs heart and soul to the Son of the King. The Prince wants him to travel the world to tell those he meets about the Son of the King. Gavinaugh goes to a land where the leader is held hostage to the Shadow Warriors and the Knight defeats them winning more soldiers for the Knights of the Prince. As a non-believer he let a peasant be taken by the shadow Warriors to be sold as a slave but in a country that earns its wealth from the slave trade he meets that young girl and frees her.

She follows him as he tells peasants, lords and rulers about the prince and in the realm of Thercia he fights in a tournament and with the Prince's help becomes the champion. He preaches to the people of the prince's love and how he wants their love because he wants them all to come into the King's Kingdom. Keanna, the slave girl he now loves is once again caught by the Shadow Warriors and Gavinaugh rides to free her risking his life.

This is a quest fantasy of a man who unknowingly served the Dark Lord until he understood his evil and the goodness of the Prince. Gavinaugh's accomplishments in the Prince's name and the fervor he brings to his mission will draw the reader into the storyline. Chick Black is a fantastic storyteller who knows how to get his message across in an exhilarating tale without preaching.

Harriet Klausner