Nancy wants to stop a crime she sees in progress, though she’s not sure what it is, the longer she looks. Like the sensation, Stranger Things, it references MKULTRA and other government mind control program history and speculation.Ī magkical child named Emily responds to the Elizabethan spy code, Enochian, and when she plays Enochian chess, it’s an international event. This high octane suspense novel explores the dirty side of the secret agents who are vital to the country’s status. Edgy and fun, dark and disturbing, high octane and low blows-this reader is definitely ready for the next installment down Bensko’s imaginative rabbit hole of creativity! Is that Tim Burton enough for you? The book is probably closer to an experimental spy thriller…if Alice’s Lewis Carrol had written in for modern times. Most of all, Nancy is a character you’ll be rooting for, in a world you don’t’ want to inhabit, in a setting that looks suspiciously like your own neighborhood. This heroine has some major obstacles and gritty noir events to get through that are as uncomfortable for the reader as they are for her. There are, though, a lot of meaty bones thrown in,so don’t think the book is a light-hearted look at life with a quirky heroine. It’s a story that will resonate with the reader, a plotline that yearns for connections in this equally strange world we inhabit, and a far-off yarn that comes a bit too close to home. The book is most certainly entertaining, but it’s also a bit something more. Or, is it all real? You’ll have a fun time trying to puzzle out the who and what and why in this novel. Clearly, Nancy, like this story,is a bit hard to categorize. While she has mostly good intentions at heart, Nancy’s battle against the Agents of Nevermind shows her skill as an action-heroine to the extreme and her surprising skills as a spy/detective/puzzle solver. Put on your seat belts and get ready because the action starts as soon as Nancy roars off in chase. All of this from an unscheduled delivery? Be honest-haven’t you ever wondered about those secretive delivery trucks roaming our streets? She’s swept along in a mystery, largely of her own making, from the very first chapter and what follows is a roaring ride through her own dark mind, and the even darker landscape of CIA secrets and spies. Nancy isn’t easy to like, but is even harder to resist. It is a reader’s compliment, especially if the reader is tired of the same mainstream, ho-hum dramas and mysteries that are popular right now. Nancy, the main character, is just plain weird. While you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, reading Glossolalia most certainly brought to mind those dark and quirky fantasy films, with a dose of snorting laughter thrown in for good measure.You’ll most certainly feel like Alice falling down the rabbit hole after taking in a few paragraphs. One glance at the front cover of author Tantra Bensko’s book brings to mind the stylistic intentions of wickedly clever Tim Burton, the American film director and artist who forays into the gothic world in his works, perhaps most famously the recent Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland with Johnny Depp.
The four players would form pairs of two, with each player having a partner.Title: Glossolalia Author: Tantra Bensko Publisher: Insubordinateīooks ISBN:0692551522 Genre:Psychological Suspense Reviewed by: CC Thomas Rating: 5 Star Review Hollywood Book Reviews The rules of the game were partially derived from shatranj and other historical forms of chess the queen is played like a fers, with a two square diagonal leaping move.
The chess board itself was also varicoloured and divided into four sub-boards in which each of one of the four elemental colors predominated. The main identifications of the pieces were: The four sets of pieces were variously colored and identified with Egyptian deities or “god-forms”. The game was four-handed because each set of pieces corresponded to one of the four classical elements and their several watchtowers and the game was used for divination as well as competition. Meanwhile, the rules of the game were completed by S. It was adapted by Victorian members of the Golden Dawn into “a complete system of training and initiation”.Įnochian Chess was created by William Wynn Westcott, one of the three founders of the Golden Dawn. John Dee (magus and astrologer to Queen Elizabeth I). Its name came from the Enochian system of magic of Dr. Enochian chess is a four-player chess variant that is linked to the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.Įnochian chess is similar to Chaturaji.
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