Brooks, Karen Michelle: Emily and the Battle of the Veil

Fiction 

South African 

Fantasy 

Young Adult 

Paperback

When a beak-faced monkey aspirates next to Emily, she realizes that she may be as mad as her Gran’s long-time companion, Mamasita, who is terrified of the African Xhosa tokoloshies.When she meets Josh, a spiky-haired street kid who know things, she is given clues to the Shimmers, and the parallel world of Aurana. So begins Emily’s journey into worlds unknown. Emily learns that controlling her thoughts is key with the help of the Shimmer, Pugly, an oddity in his clan, and his jiggly-wiggly sidekick Elvis.But in crossing over, Emily alerts Admonai of the Shadows, shape-shifter, ruler of the beak-faced monkey, and controller of Silenkis (who can access the world of people via his Circles of Influence,) that she has awoken.When Jessica, a newbie, joins them at school, things get more complicated; the beak-faced monkey fails his task, and so Rupert, a sometimes repentant drunkard, disowned father of Jessica and influenced by Silenkis’s Circles of Influence, is called in to assist the Shadows. Someone will die.Crossing worlds, dealing with teenage angst and issues, questing into the unknown, Emily, her best-friend Sam, her odd Gran and companion Mamasita, along with a cast of others, retain a sense of humour, doing the best they can in a world gone awry. Emily and the Battle of the Veil, is based in fictional towns in South Africa, cultural influences inviting the reader to explore a different external world, spiritual concepts inviting the reader to touch on internal worlds.Emily and the Battle of the Veil stand on its own, the 2nd of the series, Emily and the Sprites of Light is published in South Africa and the 3rd in the series, Emily and the Depths of Darkness is currently being written.