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Title: The Dragon That Guards the Center

Subtitle: The Boarder, Book 2

Author: J D Wallace

Narrator: Tim Danko

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-06-16

Publisher: Jeffrey D Wallace

Genres: Fiction, Horror

Publisher's Summary:

Chris Jenisen returns to fight corruption from the rift. This is the second book in the Boarder series. An ancient evil from another world has crossed over and must be destroyed before it can spread destruction in our world. New friends help him in his ongoing struggle to defend our world.

Members Reviews:

Decent Story at Reasonable Price

This story is about a guy named Chris, who fights sparkly, evil creatures from another world. While heâs in the American Southwest, he teams up with a local family after one of them picks him up while heâs hitchhiking in the desert. It turns out that there have been some strange murders in the area and Chris subsequently gets involved with the investigation. It turns out that a parasitic creature he calls a âbrain spiderâ is the culprit. Readers can guess where this is going.

There were quite a few typos, strange word choices, grammatical problems, and other errors in the text. Reading through the novel isnât that difficult, but there were certainly some places where I had to double back to make sure Iâd read everything right. As I mentioned in my previous review for another novel in this series, these problems could easily be solved by a little more editing. Thereâs also a somewhat out-of-place chapter in which readers get some backstory on Chrisâ earlier adventures near Stone Mountain. It seems to meld okay into the story since he kept mentioning what had happened in Atlanta. However, it would have made more sense as a prologue.

Itâs certainly odd that the people who picked up Chris would trust him right away, rather than think he was a hitchhiker who was either crazy or had simply gone mad in the heat when he starts mentioning his theories on the murder case. Itâs also surprising that the nurse in the group didnât mention heat stroke, which can cause hallucinations, and try to convince him to go to the hospital. Furthermore, the description of a âcool and crispâ day in the âearly summerâ near Atlanta struck me as a bit strange since summers around there tend to be pretty warm.

Overall, it was a decent story at a reasonable (Kindle) price. But it still could have used a bit more work.

An interesting novel that was easy to read and somewhat predictable

An interesting novel that was easy to read and somewhat predictable. It felt like a mix of horror, tremors, slither, and supernatural all rolled up into one. Something normally right up my ally but I wasn't fully engulfed in the world to thoroughly enjoy it.

The novel still needs work and wasn't polished enough at an editorial level. There are numerous typos, grammatical errors, sentence flow issues, and other errors that are glaring and stand out to the reader. There are areas of the novel that are clunky and confusing that pull the reader out of the story and cause one to reread a couple of times to attempt to make sense of the words, leaving the reader frustrated. Like a cool and crisp day in summer in Georgia makes no sense unless some sort of global cooling is going on.

The author attempts to weave in backstory and I give credit for that rather then falling to the lazy prologue. But with some editing and beta readers, the author could've worked the flow of the backstory better to make more sense (another area that pulls the reader out).

Overall, the story was interesting.