{"id":1430,"date":"2024-07-25T10:23:35","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T10:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenspirit.org.uk\/blog3\/?p=1430"},"modified":"2024-12-15T13:29:12","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:29:12","slug":"book-fiction-any-human-power-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenspirit.org.uk\/blog3\/2024\/07\/25\/book-fiction-any-human-power-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Book (fiction) &#8211; Any Human Power &#8211; Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1431 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenspirit.org.uk\/blog3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/any-human-power-673x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"351\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bolinda Publishing, 2024<br \/>\nISBN: 978-1914613562<br \/>\n<em>Reviewed by Joan Angus<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-411\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenspirit.org.uk\/blog3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/whitedot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alanna Penhaligan made a promise to her grandson Finn on her deathbed, that she would come back to him and play wargames on the internet with him.<\/p>\n<p>In doing so, she bound herself to the \u2018Between\u2019 in the afterlife. I love this way that Manda has used to provide us with a storyteller all through the book, although she is unable to communicate directly with them. Through her observations, \u2019Lan\u2019 tells how her family fights to change the world into a better place; \u201c<em>to a future where all that is good and right and beautiful can flourish<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Having read Manda\u2019s Boudica series, I recognise her techniques mirrored in this book: there are \u2018dreamers\u2019 and \u2018warriors\u2019 among the characters, and although she writes about a different era \u2013 very much now-time, they have the same functions.<\/p>\n<p>I found the story-line compelling, in spite of the fact that I am a slow learner in IT and its jargon. It is a book for the younger generations, or those who work with computers.<\/p>\n<p>This is a fantasy, following Lan through her own experiences in the after-life and the way she supports her family through their dreams. In the land of the living the family has their ups and downs, but the book leaves me with the feeling that anything is possible; that any human power can overcome the evil that is rife in this world.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-411\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenspirit.org.uk\/blog3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/whitedot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alanna Penhaligan made a promise to her grandson Finn on her deathbed, that she would come back to him and play wargames on the internet with him. In doing so, she bound herself to the \u2018Between\u2019 in the afterlife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenspirit.org.uk\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenspirit.org.uk\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenspirit.org.uk\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenspirit.org.uk\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenspirit.org.uk\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1430"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenspirit.org.uk\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1435,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenspirit.org.uk\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions\/1435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenspirit.org.uk\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenspirit.org.uk\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenspirit.org.uk\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}