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"the mysteries keep piling up"

Warning, if you have not read book one of this series, The Vision, this review contains spoilers. Fallout is book two in the Green Stone of Healing series. It's the continuing tale of Helen Andros, a half breed and tough minded physician.

As the reader finds out at the end of book one The Vision, The Lord Protector, Lord James Mordecai, is Helen's father. In Fallout, Lord James, Helen and her bodyguard, Colonel Jackson Orlando return to Helen's mother's family farm. Helen learns more about her visions as well as a few things about her father. Will she ever truly solve all the mysteries that surround her life though or has fate already decided it's too late?

In Fallout, C.L. Talmadge keeps the readers involved in Helen's life. She does a good job of bringing the two books together and still leaves the reader wanting for more of the series. The mysteries keep piling up and the reader will be waiting anxiously for the next in the series to find out if the mysteries are solved.

Reviewed by Stacy Link
Posted January 10, 2009

Heroine Suffers Wrath of Theocrats, Father

She can keep her legs shut, but not her lips.

She is Lieutenant Helen Andros, outspoken heroine of Fallout, the second installment of the Green Stone of Healing(R) epic fantasy series.

Helen clashes with Lord James Mordecai, her newfound parent, one of Azgard's highest-ranking Toltec lords and its top military officer. Anger and shame keep Helen from acknowledging him as her father. Restrained by his fears, Lord James cannot tell Helen he loves her.

Helen incurs the painful ire of the powerful Temple of Kronos and suffers a military discipline for an unthinking comment. While recovering, she is visited by Maguari, a member of an otherworldly race called the Mist-Weavers, who appear and dissolve at will. He reveals a past life to Helen and urges her not to allow her anger to divide her from the same father in this life.

Just before Lord James' trial for his relationship with Helen's Turanian mother, the Temple unexpectedly orders Helen to attend the proceeding. Watching her parent plead for her, Helen has a change of heart and summons the courage to express it.