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C.K Thornehill's Omen Swift Series

The full detailed synopsis of the books are as follows, from the first book to the fourth book in the Omen Swift Series: The series is teenage fiction fantasy that centers around the gypsies of a land called Far From Par Sleeper’s Wood. The gypsies use the ordinary folks of ‘Par’ in their stage acts as part of an illusion that is considered dangerous by the four brother’s who are rulers of the carefully protected land of ‘Far From Par’

The four brother’s have chosen to use the wiccan rituals as part of a supernatural way of protecting themselves using the Pagen rituals and beliefs of wiccan culture. In which consists of the celebrating of changing seasons and equinoxes.

There are ape monks that protect the gypsies from the wiccans. Soon an ongoing contemptuous war goes on between the monks and the four brothers because of their differences which include that the ape monks are protecting the gypsies.

Wiccans become necromancer’s overtime from practices of Wicca and feed on the blood of animals. Gypsies celebrate Halloween and Christmas on the same day.

The ape monks protect the gypsies from the wiccans. Hoodlum Phoenix who is the eldest of the four brothers has his ongoing contempt towards the gypsies {illusionists} for many years but have allowed  three of his brothers  to be used in an illusion on stage by the gypsies. When they are mysteriously killed in an act by the gypsies, Hoodlum is outraged by the fact that the ape monks have still managed  to side with the illusionists of Far From Par.

The wiccan followers are a group of necromancers that hunt animals and feed on their blood. In relation to the mythic beings living in Sleepers Wood, the wiccans followers attack certain humans in Par and in turn they become a part of what the wiccans have hunted. Half mythic beings.

Hoodlum demands the first born child of the illusionists Eleanor Swift be given to him as a form of punishment. Henry Gemini sends an alliance of the illusionist of Par to take away the kid before Hoodlum uses him in a ritual that would end up killing the infant. When Omen Swift is born the ape monks tell him that the curse of the wiccan ritual that has been given to him from Hoodlum will only allow him to live if he does not use Wicca in any form of revenge, defense or punishment unto another person.

If Omen does use Wicca the strands of the wiccan web set up by the wiccan followers will be cut off by the hags of Far From Par. The strands are linked to Omen’s life.

For Omen living the life of someone who has an ability to do things other’s cannot and be banned from it at the same time doesn’t prove to be as simple as he thinks. Omen’s life is followed by chances and possibilities he cannot chose to take.

Throughout the series until  the fourth book entitled Omen Swift The Loch Ness Sea Scrolls, Omen tries to find answers about why the deaths of the brothers seem dodgy, He tries to find  the justice his mother deserves and at the same time tries to cope with a sister that wants to be a wiccan and endanger him, as well as avoid using Wicca.

The content of the Omen Swift Series is aimed at young adults to teenagers. The series is fiction fantasy, the content depicts certain family issues, fantasy, cult beliefs, tradition, human morals, how people feel about revenge and ambition. The series may have a fantasy base, because of the content, the author Chanisse Kara Thornehill has aimed it at an age group between 13 – 21 years of age. The size of the market regarding fiction fantasy may be bigger in countries like U.S.A, U.K China, Japan,  or Germany but I feel South Africans have also got a market for fiction as well because the youth has been exposed to overseas fiction publications. The Omen Swift Websites can be found on the following links below. http://omenswift.wix.com/omenswift

The Star Night Guardians unleash a spirit called Sarah Kate to come after Omen and use his body as a host, In order to get him to use Wicca. Omen gets possessed by the needs of his sister who was killed by Hoodlum. He becomes a self indulged ego centric person the way his sister was, going after strong ambition’s and goals. Omen then enters Temptress God Head, A festival that has Christmas and Halloween on the same day. In Temptress Godhead not only do christmas beings celebrate Halloween and Christmas on the same day, but there are holiday tunnels that have April Fools Day, and Easter Day, Omen being under the nasty and mischievous spirit of his sister Imogen Swift, Enters the tunnel of April Fools Day and lets out the fools, to gatecrash on the occasions. This stunt proves to be a nightmare for the folks as the fools cannot be fooled, if they are fooled, they will cause disruption to who ever let them out. So the fools (Jesters and clowns) reach Temptress Godhead and turn things upside down, ruining the occasions. While the town folks cannot find a reason for Omen’s strange behaviour, they rally against him, disappointed that Omen has done this. While Omen is second guessing his options about his stay at Godhead, Hoodlum has ordered the previous owner of the orphanage Emily Rose Trotter to escort Omen to Edinburgh to get a chance to use Wicca in order to get closer to him.

Emily tricks Omen into believing that there is a Loch Ness Monster inside the lake, that the country is afraid of, Omen having his body used as a host, by his sister, under the influence of the spirit taking over him, acts on Emily’s orders and goes into the town, unbeknownst to him everything that happened was the opposite of good, while he thinks the Loch Ness Monster was real, and that he saved Edinburgh from it, he wakes up in Sleeper’s Wood to find out that everything was in fact a dream, that was created by the spirit Sarah Kate who was using his body as a host. Omen returns to have the spirit drawn out by the ape monks, the spirit as Imogen Swift goes after Puffin Phoenix (the spoilt son of Hoodlum Phoenix who was Imogen’s accomplice in trying to get Omen to use wicca in the first year he spent at Far From Par).