A lot of repetition. [The Eclipsed by Dara Kent]

Eighty-nine is just a number …

A nameless immortal tasked with ensuring fixed points in time. Without fail she’s always done her job, protecting reality.

But Eighty-nine’s world is flipped upside down when a jarring discovery, followed by a loss, causes her to question everything.

With the help of an unlikely ally, Eighty-nine will embark on a journey that will end with one simple choice: To save reality or let it be ripped apart forever.

Maybe it isn’t so simple after all.

There are two approaches to approaching the totality of humanity in a story about supernatural beings, with admiration or with indifferent acceptance. Humankind either exists alongside other beings and there is no hierarchy, there just is coexistence. Most of the time however humanity is centered, almost lovingly, with an admiration for those human qualities that make us so special. Our failings are our strengths. Our failings, our childlike qualities, our ability to love, our ability to make art, some one very basic thing justifies our existence or is the difference between us and them that are near perfection in every other way. This was that type of story.

D.T. Dyllin a.k.a Dara Kent's The Eclipsed boils down to the supernatural, the extraordinary focusing itself on human redemption, human salvation. And that's not to say that was the biggest negative I had reading this book, it barely registered. I actually really enjoyed the story, it was very cute. But the approach to what I don't want to refer as time travel felt read like the happy accident of a lot of copy paste. And so I just wonder if this book could have been shorter? The romantic inclinations of the main character felt very generic and unnecessary. Also, is this horror? In any case I liked what I read. 3 stars from me.

The Eclipsed was published May 2020.