With breathtaking imagination, this debut novel combines the action of a video game with the vividness of a fantasy movie creating a hero, a world, several dimensions, and a universe that are truly marvelous.
Louis Proof is an ordinary inner city teenager. He loves eating, hip-hop, hanging out with his best friend, Darius, and racing radio-controlled cars. But, Louis Proof is about to become anything but ordinary. He is about to become CLE—a Celestial-Like Entity. He will be strong, difficult to harm, and, with his Alonis vehicle, able to race faster than he ever imagined. He will need all of his new talents because CEs—Celestial Entities—are coming to Earth with a plot that could destroy the familiar world. Louis is the only one who may be able to stop them.
Troy Cle set this fantasy in his hometown of East Orange, New Jersey. It melds hip-hop, video gaming, street lingo, and SAT vocabulary into a complicated frenetic story of good and evil. Malcolm Jamal Warner moves smoothly between the voices of the streetwise preteen Louis Proof and his inner-city friends and Galonious Imperial Evil (a force of evil determined to infiltrate the world of humans) and his minions. Unfortunately, Warner's skills do not rescue this confusing, complicated tale. After discovering a portal to another dimension at a local junkyard, Louis falls into a coma. When he awakens three months later, his world has changed, and it is his destiny to set things right. The dialogue sounds unrealistic and in need of some serious editing. N.E.M. (c) AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine
