**Coming Soon**

I have started reading "Dragon Apocalypse The Complete Collection" by James Maxey

 

I must admit the cover art looks pretty awesome! Follow how far I am getting in the book on my goodreads account. Click the link below.

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The Official Review Of Black City Demon

 Black City Demon

Release date: March 14th 2017

  Once again the New York Times Best Selling Author, Mr. Richard A Knaak, does not disappoint. His book, Black City Demon, the sequel to Black City Saint, has enthralled this reader. It’s excitable twists, inner conflict, and action packed adventure is the perfect continuation to Black City Saint. It embodies everything I would expect book two to be.

  Mr. Medea dives head first into murder, madness, and magic. The faithful shape-shifter, fetch, and his ever returning love, Claryce, are there once again to aid him in his efforts to keep the gate separating the two worlds- intact. Unlikely alliances and untrustworthy adversaries surround Nick again as he realizes that the evils of Feirie aren’t the only things Chicago needs protected from anymore.
I personally love sequels and series of books because they really divulge so much more information about the characters and their own personal stories within. You get attached as you realize that even the secondary characters in a story can be just as detailed and profound  as the main characters. I found that very thing in this book.

   I personally hope to see a third book coming out in the future. I have grown attached to this man who was once known as Saint George and everyone else who has been pulled into his world. Whether they wanted to be or not.

To get your copy go to:
amazon.com/Black-City-Demon
To read the first book, Black City Saint head here:
amazon.com/Black-City-Saint
To find out more about Richard A Knaak, go to his website at:
richardaknaak.com/
or follow him on Facebook at:
facebook.com/Richard-A-Knaak

Don't Drink The Water- A Mother Of Summit Elementary School Children

I will never forget the day my child came home with a paper from The Department Of Environmental Protection Bureau. In big bold letters i read "IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT LEAD IN YOUR DRINKING WATER." As a mother, my heart dropped. I continued reading the paper as i quickly hushed my children so i could considerate on what was suddenly put before me. I read the health effects of lead, sources of lead, and the steps you can take to reduce exposure.  Further down the paper i saw that tests were done August 15th, 2016, and August 29th, 2016.

Its the middle of January. My three children have spent roughly six hours a day, five days a week, for almost five months at that school being exposed to lead. I sat down in shock. I called my children's pediatricians' office and said my kids go to Summit, and I was requesting lead tests to be done. I took my 10 year old, 8 year old, and 6 year old to get blood drawn, and waited. Waited. And Waited.

 While i waited, I read what is considered safe levels of lead, and what wasn't. I read about a study that was conducted on young children who had lead levels between 5 and 10, and how learning disabilities, behavior problems, and increased chances of dropping out in high school were shown because the lead effects the Central Nervous System in the brain.

I cursed those who knew about the lead levels as i realized that lead poisoning wasn't the only thing i should of been worrying about.  You wouldn't believe my relief when i got the call with their results and found out my children all had below level one test results. Some lead yes, but nothing that could be deemed harmful in any way.

 I found out the superintendent knew about the lead levels from the news. He put me through that. The worry, the stress, the fear. It was his fault. He said he didn't understand the results of the water tests that shown unsafe levels of lead in the drinking water. I signed the petition for his resignation.

My kids went back to school after being reassured they would have no access to the unsafe water, and that they were working hard to fix the situation for our children. They were setting up lead tests for the kids in the school  nearly a WEEK AFTER I first got my letter, but hey, better late then never, right?  Unfortunately for those parents, that was cancelled the night before. Without notice or explanation, i received a call at 10 p.m on a Monday that school was cancelled for the rest of the week. It wasn't until I checked the news that i found out why. There was E-coli found in the underground levels of the water, but the filtration system kept it from even entering the school at all.

The news also informed me that they were fixing a previously closed down elementary school in town to transfer the children to, by the following Monday. Imagine that shock when the kids go to school and its a place they have never been, where they do not know where their classes are, let alone anything else.  A school that is in a location most perceive as a bad neighborhood. Where most say drug using is right across the street, and overdoses aren't uncommon behind a pizza place in the back of the school.

So lets take a minute to let this really sink in. The superintendent sees there's lead in the water, and ignores it. Only when cornered does he try to rectify the situation by working out a way to keep the kids in school learning, and being able to have safe drinking water again. He then sees E-coli that was filtered OUT of the water that wasn't even reaching our children in the first place, and decides to close school down completely and transfer them to a previously vacant school that he closed down almost two years prior.

Would you trust this man with the safety of your children? Does the above evidence show that what he does is what is in the best interest of the children? Does it sound reliable? Honest? Would you trust his choices? His judgement? Would you?

Should I?