Annabella in Bloomington, MN

A provocative read for thinkers and feelers alike, 'Annabella' will both entertain and push you. Like it, love it, hate it, or trash it-just read it, and don't worry about the fact that it's the 7th in a series. The others are merely prequels to this actual story, and their twists are still exciting even if you read this one first. If you read it and you love it, you might've been changed for the better. If you read it and you hate it, you can use it for a fire on your next camping trip. Or you can recycle the paper and help the environment. Either way, just read it. A group of six have emerged from a digital universe after an entrapment that took up most of their lives. A former showman from the 1950s and 60s created this computerized world, in which one could walk through a doorframe he named the Gateway of the Realms and arrive in a digital duplicate of the physical body. Staging as Kazlyr Baine, the man's real name is Han Krampur, and he is an adamant rival of the words of God. He'd held a kind of power within that digital life. Now, in the real world, Han desires to regain that power, and he is willing to do anything for it, even things of a most obscene nature. A biologically unique young man has become the prime target. Abilities like science fiction were made possible in the digital realms, and this one called Lu had been a wielder of bodily flame, capable of producing the fire from flesh with remarkable strength and invincibility. That was his life in the Construct, which he wirelessly accessed in his sleep, that is, until the realms went off-line for good. Now he faces the foe Han Krampur face-to-face in the real world. There's a secret institute exploiting the intellectually gifted, an unexpected pregnancy, carnival fairs, a fake preacher, and a whole lot of provocative discussions. That word-provocative-is not what you think. On that note, even you might not be what you think.