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"I hear young people of all ages saying they never really thought they could make any of their dreams come true" says RJ Tolson, an international charity founder, award-winning novelist and Whittier College alumnus...."But I'm here to tell you, where there is inspiration there's a way."
At only 17 years of age and while still attending high school at Cheshire Academy in Cheshire, CT, RJ Tolson began posting chapters to his Chaos Chronicles Book 1: Zephyr The West Wind, an action filled extravaganza of superheroes and paranormal power and creatures, to Wattpad.com, a youtube equivalent for writers. Tolson's Wattpad fan base grew rapidly and unbeknownst to Tolson, London's Universal Kingdom Print Publishing Group was amongst his followers. In less than a year Universal Kingdom Print signed the then 18-year-old to a five book series with Zephyr The West Wind the first in the installment.
Within a year of signing with Universal Kingdom Print, Zephyr The West Wind garnered Tolson a Finalist Award in the 2013 Beverly Hills Book Awards and National Indie Excellence Book Awards and later a 2015 Reader's Favorite Honorable Mention Award. At only 19-yrs-old, Tolson launched a National Literacy Campaign. Traveling from New England to Florida and across the West, he urged students to forge new paths and excel chiefly through the skills of reading and writing. This movement became the impetus for his self-help book, Project Limitless Vol I: The Success Initiative.
Tolson's creative talents don’t stop with literary works. He is a musician, lyricist and composer.
Reviewed by Divine Zape for Readers' Favorite
True Life is the first entry in the Legends of Tye Series by R.J. Tolson, an adventure that will delight young adult readers and fans of comics. The reader is introduced to a magical setting and a clan known as the Astra Clan, comprising people gifted with the ability to see the Aura, the mystical energy. But the Astra has suffered a lot from powerful neighbors who would capture and enslave them to exploit their magical abilities, so they found a small community in a hidden village in which to conceal the stones from which they derive their abilities. Seventeen-year-old Venn isn’t one of the powerful ones in his clan, and is often derided as the weakest link, but things change for him when a dark figure captures his sister and uses an ancient dark power to curse his people. Now Venn must rescue his sister and his clan, and as he goes off on this dangerous mission, he has only one thing that gives him hope; the legendary book of secrets: True Life.
This is a great story, well-written and the perfect length. It feels like the author crafted this story just to have readers teased and longing for what is to come in the next installment in the series. I enjoyed the compelling cast of characters and loved the fact that Venn, the protagonist, isn’t the toughest guy in his clan. It is interesting to see how he grows, thanks to necessity. True Life is fast-paced and engaging, featuring awesome illustrations and intelligently crafted dialogues. R.J. Tolson’s tale is a breezy read for those who enjoy well-crafted and beautifully illustrated work.
