There are mysteries at the friary, and Brother Jerome does his bit to solve them.... Amid a plethora of reading material that shows man brutally subjugating matter, churning titanic waves in the environment, solving absurdly clever puzzles, and moving mountains to make love ring true, who would have thought such a seraphically smug cat could represent such basic, intelligent change in the interests of spiritual consummation?
Robina Williams has tackled the oldest and most troubling question known to thinking and spiritually concerned humans. JEROME AND THE SERAPH is a charming and deceptively simple story, filled with delightful puns and serenely sly humor. It is a book to cherish.
Reviewed by Pat H. Fredeman, author of Paradise Regained
It was interesting how Robina approached and tackled a question many humans have tried to understand for a long time. The book mixes mythology with quantum physics in a most intriguing fashion. There is a fair share of humor, especially when Brother Jerome takes his first tentative steps at crossing the threshold from the afterlife to the world he's left behind. The cat is a delight--as condescending as only a talking cat could be, knowing all the answers, especially the all important one of how to pass through the dimensional gate which enables Jerome to get back into the friary.
A wonderful mixture of characters, but it was the cat, for me, who was the most interesting. Robina's writing has the power to bring her characters to life, to take us on a journey between both worlds that is believable. I look forward to her next book.
Reviewed by Tricia McGill (Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award winner.)
***
Although in the beginning I felt the main character was Jerome (Jerry), you soon discover that the mystical and mysterious cat, Quant is truly the character that keeps the story intriguing.
Robina expertly weaves her knowledge and love of Pre-Raphaelite art, mythology and quantum physics without one needing prior knowledge of either to realize its impact on the story. I really loved how she brought the understanding of linear time and simultaneous time into layman's terms, which made the story all the more interesting and awe-inspiring.
Robina is working on a sequel to Jerome And The Seraph and I'm already looking forward to its completion. I recommend this story highly and give it a top rating of 10.
Reviewed by Dallas Franklin for Sell Writing Online.
***
The book is a well written story, with a light hearted look at quantum theory that you don't need a degree in physics to understand. The characters are all well drawn and you feel for poor Jerome on his first attempts at inter-dimensional travel, where he gets stuck inside a pillar, a tree and a painting respectively.
Paintings, classical mythology and architecture all play bit parts, but the cat is the star of the show. Ms. Williams has blended every feature together so effortlessly, you wonder why you never saw the connections between them before.
Reviewed by Annette Gisby, author of Writing the Dream and Silent Screams and editor of Twisted Tales webzine.
***
This book was fantastic! Robina Williams has written a humorous story without trying too hard to be funny. Often, when an author tries to write something amusing they make the humour so obvious that it is no longer funny. Robina is different. The humour is subtle, eloquent and beautifully written. I read this book during a (delayed) flight from Geneva and got some very strange looks from other passengers as I kept chuckling to myself (the last time I actually laughed at a book was whilst reading Porterhouse Blue by Tom Sharpe).
Reviewed by Leslie Mazey for The Eternal Night
Angelos by Robina Williams
Reviewed by Dallas Franklin for Sell Writing Online
Quant, the magical cat that leaps through various worlds and dimensions is back again and in action. In Angelos, the sequel to Jerome and the Seraph, Robina Williams weaves her own storytelling magic and Quant rises to the occasion. This is a fantasy book and written so superbly that you become totally engrossed in the tale and forget it's fantasy.
Robina accomplishes this task by not only bringing this world together with the 'dead world' but in Angelos she even incorporates the mythological world. It gives us a whole new perspective on the topic of time and old/new worlds and how they are happening 'now'. Both books give you much to ponder while enjoying a great read.
As Father Aidan lives through his dark night of the soul, he finds redemption and renewed faith in God through a number of well-known paintings that come to summation with Dali's Christ of St John of the Cross. Robina's writing talent connects all the worlds in an astounding tale. She keeps you reading as you learn what makes each character tick and makes the story even more interesting when Brother Jerome, by another fluke accident, takes a quantum leap to the labyrinth of the Minotaur and the Minotaur ends up at the monastery. We meet many mythological creatures, gods of the 'old world' and even get to see some characters in other past lives. Or is it a past life? It's a whole new perspective on 'time' and living in the 'now'. While learning all this you're transported to worlds that come to life in a fascinating way.
I loved Angelos as much as Jerome and the Seraph and if you like reading fantasy I'm sure you'll love it too. I highly recommend this book and give it a top rating of 10!
Quant, the cat, is back!
The Minotaur is a quiet home-loving creature. So he's not too happy when a falling rock in the lower reaches of his labyrinth bounces off his head, giving him a splitting headache and flinging him through time and space. He's relieved to find his horns haven't been broken, but where in Zeus's name has he landed up?
Brother Jerome, pottering around in the friary shed, is suddenly hurled through red-hot air into a maze of corridors, all of which seem to lead him to a room containing human bones. Where is he now? Terrified, and desperate to be rescued before he's eaten by a monster, he yells for Quant.
When the quantum cat turns up, he's short-tempered with Jerome, telling him there's no monster, and anyway what does he mean by 'now'? Time, as he shows the friar, is a somewhat fluid concept.
Meantime, the friary's new Guardian, Aidan, is also journeying-through his dark night of the soul, and wondering if he will ever see the light again.
