Review of Shaman Healer Heretic by M. Terry Green

Shaman, Healer, Heretic ISBN number 9780983292500 is a fantasy novel about a group of people who have mutated and have psychic powers. The mutants aren’t that welcome to the world, in fact they are locked up if they are detected, but some of them have learned to pass as normal. In this world of the future, if someone begins to shows signs of being psychic early in life they are taken to work centers where their powers are harnessed and used. Most normal people in the future are fearful and avoid shamans, but many hire them to intervene with the spirits in the upper and lower worlds.

The heroine of the book is a techno-shaman. She has special goggles that allow her to journey to other worlds. The story is the classic struggle between good and evil. Someone has opened Pandora’s box letting out evils spirits and our heroine, Olivia, must put them back in the box. It’s also a coming of age novel because Olivia is just discovering all her powers and how to use them.

The story begins with a giant Kachina doll entering Olivia’s apartment to warn her about the evil that has been unleased. I thought the author did a good job of communicating the essence of the future world as well as the upper, middle and lower worlds of the spirits.