PALLADIUM'S GATE BY JANET JOYCE HOLDEN (BOOK REVIEW)

PALLADIUM'S GATE BY JANET JOYCE HOLDEN (book review)

12/7/2021

Palladium's Gate by Janet Joyce Holden
(A horror book review by JOE ORTLIEB)

I just finished reading Palladium's Gate by Janet Joyce Holden. A very quick read. Good story. The character of Rogan is likeable. Ok my real thoughts and not blah blah blah. After reading the first few pages I was sucked into it. I knew right away I was going to enjoy it. The story starts off quickly and keeps rolling at a fast past. There was a few slow spots here and there, but over all I couldn't put it down. If you enjoy books about spooks I think this is for you. Yet those aren't the kind I normally read, but I finished this in no time. Once I got to the end of the story I was upset because I wanted more. So now I have to look and see when the next part comes out. So yes go pick this up. Janet did an excellent job with palladium's gate. 4.5 out of 5, or damn near perfect whichever way you'd like to look at it....just give it a read already.

PALLADIUM'S GATE BY JANET JOYCE HOLDEN

Born to protect. He came here to hide.

Clairvoyance isn’t a gift, it’s a curse, or so believes Rogan Moore, a troubled psychic in a desperate search for his sanity. Help arrives when he takes a job as caretaker of a magnificent old Victorian, the Rothe house. For despite its ancient lineage and potential for haunting, the house becomes the perfect sanctuary. It’s a place he can recover and while hiding behind its protective iron gate he can hardly believe his luck.

Except Rogan isn’t the only one under the house’s protection. New guests arrive. Lennox, a precocious and inquisitive young boy, and a tall, mysterious stranger named Jake who carries an inexplicable aura of menace. Rogan’s job becomes decidedly more complicated when the younger guest goes missing and the house shows its true colors. For beneath it lies another world, complex, fragile, sometimes deadly and saturated with myth and monsters—just waiting for those who can see things better than most.

Rogan is tested to the limit as he and Jake attempt a rescue. But will his enhanced perception help him survive? Or will he finally succumb to his nightmares?

A fantasy tale of adventure and dangerous alliances, Palladium’s Gate is the first in a series.

Joe Ortlieb

I love all things horror, movies, books, pictures. My kids have watched all the Elm Street movies starting around 5 or 6. So when they grow up they will have issues too. More of a photographer then a writer. So that's why I read. Love zombies and the end of the world.