The Visitants

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Summary: The Visitants by William Tevelein
Review: This is the first book in "The Casting of the Golden Dice" series and after reading it you will be left hanging out for the next instalment ...and the next, and the next! It's not hard to see that William Tevelein has quite a lot of experience in both the Wiccan world and the larger New Age phenomena (which he affectionately lampoons). "The Visitants", his first novel, hosts over fifty characters who appear and disappear throughout the 419 pages; we meet Australian Wiccans, a megalomaniacal 'Witch Queen', reserved British 'Fam Trad' witches, an anthropologist studying 'the occult', a journalist investigating Wicca who gets more that she bargained for, a slimey photographer, a grandmotherly Spiritualist, ethereal Elves, a Satyr, Frost Giants, and Old Ones, all whirling through myriad events which range from the rather usual to the extremely supernatural, bending the laws of space and time. The "Visitants" includes a skilfully rendered visual description of the structure of the Norse World Tree, Yggdrasil, as well as several musings upon the nature of other 'worlds'. You will probably even learn something useful from reading this book. Not one to take himself too seriously though, Tevelein's writing is laced throughout with a humour reminiscent of Terry Pratchett which makes "The Visitants" a rather rollicking journey betwixt and between the worlds.

I liked this book, I thought it was clever and funny and you will too!