{"id":2586,"date":"2025-04-18T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T12:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/?p=2586"},"modified":"2025-04-18T12:55:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T12:55:00","slug":"book-review-the-light-of-wounds-the-mind-monsters-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/?p=2586","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: The Light of Wounds (The Mind Monsters, 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Light of Wounds<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

by Diane Hatz<\/p>\n

Genre:<\/strong> Fantasy \/ Paranormal \/ Thriller<\/p>\n

ISBN: <\/strong>9798986282398<\/p>\n

Print Length:<\/strong> 244 pages<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Reviewed by Toni Woodruff<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>A quirky novel of boundless proportions<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Alex is an alcoholic. We\u2019ll call it that now. After turning to the bottle (or five of them) to start Fallen Spirits<\/em>, the second book in this series, she\u2019s lost and drowning and hurt to start The Light of Wounds<\/em>, book three of this highest-of-stakes fantasy thriller series.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s dealt with abuse nearly her whole life, but the most recent abuse by JT, her incredibly rich and repulsive boss, is of a different stature. He went after her. And now he\u2019s going after the world, creating mini black holes throughout Earth for his own gain and causing widespread panic.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But he\u2019s not the only villain in The Light of Wounds<\/em>. Tech genius Aaron Minor was thought to have died, but he\u2019s just in the internet. He\u2019s got his sights set on JT, but as these two crazed rich guys try to one-up each other, the whole planet is going to get sucked into oblivion.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Alex is deep in her trauma, so we can\u2019t even be sure there is a way out of this. She wonders if she can she make it, as we do. What\u2019s the fate of the universe if all you want to do is shut off your world anyway?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Luckily, Alex has help. Brave, strong friends who lift her up, watch out for her, give her the space she needs, and still propel her toward the only ending they can see possible: the one where they save the world.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Healing your pain from the inside out is the spiritual path. Nothing outside f you can give you answers or make you happy. The light only enters through your wounds.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Light of Wounds<\/em> is the quiet cousin of Fallen Spirits<\/em>, despite being on the verge of apocalyptic demise. The stakes are as high as they come, and the powerful can make anything happen. I don\u2019t know what person is out there who hasn\u2019t dreamt of surfing the inside of the internet, but I also don\u2019t know which reader doesn\u2019t want to read about it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Aaron Minor\u2019s entrance into this novel is such a cool wrinkle into the Mind Monsters series, especially since there\u2019s complexity there. He wants to take down JT; we do too. He was even wrongfully murdered by JT. As a reader, I kept clawing at the possibility of teaming up with this guy, even though his presence as a villain is darn clear. Oh, what big things are coming in book four!<\/p>\n

Despite the super-high stakes, this novel just doesn\u2019t come with the same thrills and intrigue as Fallen Spirits<\/em>. The dialogue can be unnatural and over-expositional, Alex is stuck still for so long, and the ending pulls up short of the full story. I know that\u2019s due in part because I just want to see this whole thing play out so badly, but it\u2019s also because there\u2019s just not much narrative movement from the last book to the next one.<\/p>\n

The Light of Wounds<\/em> still comes with more of Hatz\u2019s signature flare on the sentence level. The author is funny, creative, and spiritual; there\u2019s much to connect with on the internal level of this book, especially in its ongoing conversation with addiction. This series is set up to have one explosive finale.<\/p>\n

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The Light of Wounds by Diane Hatz Genre: Fantasy \/ Paranormal \/ Thriller ISBN: 9798986282398 Print Length: 244 pages Amazon Bookshop Reviewed by Toni Woodruff A quirky novel of boundless proportions Alex is an alcoholic. We\u2019ll call it that now. After turning to the bottle (or five of them) to start Fallen Spirits, the second […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bookreviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}