Penta Plz K Thnx

Penta is my latest fandom. For those not "In the know", that is the working name of a novel my friend is writing. It is fantastic.

How about a short, mostly spoiler free synopsis?

The book is set in a alternate reality where the civilized world is not run by different governments and countries, but rather one large cult-like religion. The church controls everything, to the point where it is a near death punishment to skip evening prayer without pre-notification. The gods in question the world's population are to worship (which most willingly do) are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and their father and creator, Lopt.

The main character, Mortimer Scott, is a police officer in forensics and a committed man of Lopt. He has the blind, cult-like love for his ever-benevolent creator.

Then one day he gets assigned a rather peculiar case concerning the death of a priest, gets drunk off his sorry ass, and basically kidnapped by the man he thinks dun it.

This man seems to recognize Mortimer, and begins to tell him blasphemous things, informing him of his true identity as Pluto, and the reason behind why he is stuck on earth with no powers.

Mortimer doesn't believe a word of it.

But then he is forced to "Remember"...

And the book just gets better from there.

I am in absolute love with this thing. Taylor has a knack for dialouge and some very good plot pacing going on. Add on top of that a natural talent for an all-absorbing style of writing, and you've got some killer stuff. Of course, there are some kinks. This is a rough draft, and it still has quite a ways to go. However, I'm heavily looking forward to the coming months of watching her write and the story take shape, then being one of the first aloud to take a red pen to her finished draft.

Taylor is planning to publish, so after our first brutal murder - I mean editing - of her book, Penta is getting emailed to a million editors and publishers until one of them says yes. And one will. This book is the type of unpolished gem they would be stupid to refuse.

When Taylor is done, this is going to be awesome.

And I am so, so fucking proud of her.