Peter Shann Ford

Reviewed by Zacc (Class of 2014)

“He had been hunting their quarry for nine days and nights since the theft that threatened the existence of every living man, woman, and child of his people” (Ford 10). The novel, The Keeper of Dreams, by Peter Shann Ford, (an Australian author that has spent most of his life in the U.S. as a news anchor) is a book about the theft of an important aboriginal artifact. The native believe this will bring about the death of all their people if not returned by a man named Owen Bird, a multibillionaire who thinks he can have whatever he wants, without consequence. This however turns out not to be true, and the elders of the aboriginal tribe, from which the artifact had been stolen, have sent a spiritual assassin after him.
The book itself is worth the read as long as you can work your way through the earlier pages of the book, because it is an extremely slow burner. To describe the book in a better way. It is like a pot-roast, takes forever to get done, but once you get that first juicy bite you don’t want to stop. The detail that Ford uses is absolutely amazing, but can often drag on. If you need an idea of how much the author pays attention to detail then get this, halfway through the book there is some backstory being told. However the back story is like a small dry patch of land, in an otherwise lush forest. The backstory isn’t too bad, and in some spots it is even intriguing.
Come for the story, stay for the action.… (meer)

Reviewed by: Mahogany (Class of 2012)

"The Keeper of Dreams" is about a guy named Robert from the Aborigine tribe in Australia. The bad thing is, he doesn't know about his own people until the middle of the book because he was raised by a white couple. They never told him anything about it.

Robert becomes a scientist in interplanetary robotics, which is some form of technology. In the end, Robert eventually goes back to Australia to be there for his people and battles with the enemy, Owen Bird.

You just have to read it to figure it all out. I think that it's an okay book, it's not the best but not the worst either. Definitely not the kind of book I'd usually read though.… (meer)