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Ken La Salle is a prolific writer, penning stories in several genres, and I have enjoyed a few of them, so to add Max Dedge to the list was a no brainer. Want to take a ride with me…to a distant land? Hop on board.

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MY REVIEW

When I first met Max, he was, literally, up a tree. What was he doing up there you may ask. Well, he’s a private detective and he is detecting some infidelity. A couple of things happen to him while he’s up there, but the main thing is the phone call from Edward Cazwell. He wants to hire him.

Max Dedge is getting divorced, but he talks to his wife frequently. She tells him he is in over his head, when Edward Cazwell hires him to find out who is exploding bombs in San Francisco. There have been three…so far. But they are a bigger mystery than you may think, stranger in more ways than one.

Max always has his trusty Velocity 3200, Sylvester, at his side, and an ear bud to make life easier. Sylvester is a cell phone.Too bad Sylvester doesn’t have hands and feet, though often Max forgets that he doesn’t.

Max, more or less, falls into adventure. His investigation has taken a dangerous yet very interesting turn. As I head down the rabbit hole with him, we visit strange places with strange and interesting people. He bumbles around and puts his life on the line more than once to get the answers he seeks.

While in this strange world, he picks up another helper. One that seems to have claimed him as his owner. The ‘squeaker’ shows him a library and in that library is a Uniborg. It looks something like a unicorn. What does this mean?

Ken La Salle manages to add humor to his writing, making the dire and dangerous situations Max gets into a bit comical.

“You and I both know you know more than you think I know you know.”

Wow. This was one wild ride, through hidden gateways to a world of magic and intrigue. The world building was creatively developed, filled with wizards and lands that made it seem as if Max had stepped back in time. Even the peripheral characters have a part in Max’s story, each important in their own way, whether helping or hindering his investigation. Ken La Salle has a fantastic imagination that takes me places I could never dream of myself, and I loved this fantasy adventure into an alien land, while traveling around the world and back again.

I voluntarily reviewed a free copy of Max Dedge by Ken La Salle.

4 Stars

GOODREADS BLURB

The time of the uniborg was foretold on a distant planet. So, what does it have to do Max Dedge, loose wheel and occasional detective? This is just the start of the galactic event known as The BreakThrough, an event that could erase human existence, an event that could spell doom for planet Earth and possibly for history itself. It’s also an event that Max Dedge is blissfully unaware of at the moment. And that’s a good thing. Because Max Dedge is about to find himself shot at on an alien world, fried by magic in Mexico, investigating corporate underhandedness in New Jersey, following leads on a vanished Rabbi in France, and being chased by certain death from one world to another and in between. At his side, the wizard Jracilla who has trained all her life for this day, thief and nemesis Arturo Delgado who is forever up to no good, and Sylvester… a very special phone. Max Dedge in The Time of The Uniborg combines a unique fantasy experience with a mystery that binds two worlds and beyond, setting the stage for the epic adventure of The BreakThrough. The BreakThrough is set against a dynamically changing universe filled with characters who will helm their own titles. Max Dedge in The Time of The Uniborg is just the first step into a universe of magic and time travel, rogues and wizards, space jalopies and portals to other worlds, taking you to the precipice of what you thought science fiction and fantasy could be and then throwing you over the side.

ABOUT KEN LA SALLE (From Amazon)

Author and Playwright, Ken La Salle grew up in Santa Ana, California and has remained in the surrounding area his entire life. He was raised with strong, blue collar roots, which have given him a progressive and environmentalist view. As a result, you’ll find many of his stories touching those areas both geographically and philosophically. His passion is intense humor, meaningful drama, and finding answers to the questions that define our lives.

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MY KEN LA SALLE REVIEWS

• False Starts
• Cookies: Sluts of the Snack World
• Heaven Enough
• Wormfood Island
• Work of Art
• Climbing Maya

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