Sensitive

Sensitive
Dan Donoghue
Writers Exchange E-Publishing
ISBN: 1920741097
Fiction, Science Fiction
Reviewed by Eugen M. Bacon

A rather dramatic opening almost takes away from this futuristic Sci Fi of super-beings. But patience pays. Embedded in 102 pages are the solid bones of a fine intelli-yarn. Endurance and betrayal. In a carefully controlled world of selective survival and competitive advantage, a special breed of genetically enhanced sub-species emerges. They are the Sensitives whose powers so much threaten everyone else that harsher restricting laws must be enforced upon them. Wolf Carthar is one such ‘exceptional’; a Sensitive of strange origin, born in hiding, bred in the heart of a primitive tribe that would rather annihilate itself than be conquered.
Wolf is naïve as he is savage, a hunter with sharp reflexes and extraordinary talents. Unwittingly elusive from ‘listeners’ employed to trap him, he can – heavens forbid – ‘shield’ his mind. He is ostracized. Condemned in a conspiracy greater than himself that sends him as a convict to High America; a planet eons away from Earth. Not only must he survive; there is Leeli Pa’Lar - a female with a mission perhaps greater than her father’s scheming. Or is it really? Wolf is tossed into ensuing space war that shapes his destiny.
Dan Donoghue expresses himself with effortless flourish to weave a compelling yarn.