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“The Promise of the Void”: A Review of Sharon Heath’s Return of the Butterfly, The Fleur Trilogy, Book 3

(Deltona, FL: Thomas-Jacob Publishing, LLC, 2018), ISBN-13:   978-0-997951783 Before you read another word of this review, be sure you’ve done one of the following two things (or, if you are feeling generous, both): 1.      Read the previous two books in this series 2.      Read my reviews of the first two books in the series Now we can proceed. There is an ancient Chinese curse that says, “May you live in interesting times.” Are we cursed? It certainly seems so. The world is, if not IN chaos, on the brink of it. The United States finds itself at a level of Us and Them and Othering that is probably the greatest since the sixties—and there is every reason to believe that this state of things has been carefully engineered. The past two times I’ve left my writing room to go have dinner with friends, the conversation devolved into line demarcating and political posturing. Even when I politely asked that we talk about something else, they persisted. It was Important to them tha