REVIEW: The Miraculous Life of Rupert Rocket: A Novel of the Fae – Mark Salzwedel

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In 1942, Rupert Rocket’s grandmother was cursed by an Irish fairy, the Pooka, to end her bloodline.

But the Pooka's sister, the Grogoch, blessed the boy to counteract the curse.

As a young gay man, Rupert’s life spins wildly between the competing spells through adventures as a dancer, a model, an actor, and a spy…

But what will happen when the blessing runs out?

It all began during WWII when Zelda was in love with Thomas and Patricia, the girl he dumped planned revenge. Patricia called on a Pooka, an Irish fairy to destroy the Kellerman family, no marriages, no babies the end to the family. Fortunately, another Irish fairy Grogoch was able to bless Zelda giving her twenty-five years of happiness and success.

Zelda and Thomas had a daughter Caroline who in turn gave birth to Rupert and life was good. At Rupert’s birth Grogoch blessed him and it would be the beginning of a long life filled with blessings, some good and some bad. When twenty-five years had gone by Thomas died, Grogoch’s blessing had come to an end.

On Christmas, Rupert’s birthday, he would receive a blessing ranging from dominance, vanity, wealth, fast healing, prophecy and more. Rupert didn’t know how to use these gifts until he was older, he was able to use them for his benefit. When he was fifteen, he revealed to his grandmother and mother that he was gay, and their reactions were negative forcing him to leave and live with his father. He also changed his name from Kellerman to Rocket.

Rupert had successes and failures; he was a dancer but after an injury that was no longer an option. He became a model which worked out for him when that year’s blessing was dominance and all he had to tell the interviewer was that he was perfect for the job, and he was hired. It didn’t hurt that he was perfect and so his success just grew.

He fell in love with Arthur a man younger than him and everything was golden until he reached the age of twenty-five and both his mother and grandmother died within minutes of each other. Now he knows that at the age of fifty he will be the only member of his family left and another twenty-five years will have gone by with no one to die but him.

When the blessing of prophecy came to him it was Christmas 2000 and he began to see airplanes hitting a tall building, smoke, fire and death. He promptly reported it to the FBI who saw him as a terrorist, but it wasn’t until his prophecy came to pass that he was arrested and tried. It would take the right blessing to set him free.

Rupert became an actor and found himself a millionaire able to convince Arthur to quit his job and be with him. Rupert also worked for the CIA since the blessing of languages gave him an advantage to help.

Needless to say, Rupert lived a fascinating life filled to the brim and never boring until it all came crashing down. Rupert knows his life will end when he is fifty and it is only a few years away, the Pooka and Patricia managed to destroy the Kellerman line or did they.