I spend a lot of time, enthralled, while binge watching fantasy series and movies on television. It is, by far, my favorite type of escapism. Reading provides many hours of pure entertainment for me, too but I’ve become so spoiled to the superlative visual effects that can be created these days that most written words just cannot compare to the moving images screen.

As such, I wish Cavern of the Veil Queen was available on to watch on tv. This amazing fantasy romance series would be as much of a feast for the eyes as it has been for my brain.

But fear not – author, Michael Scott Clifton has the incredible ability to make you see visual images as you read because his stories flow so effortlessly and are so imaginatively described. The veil queen’s melds – monstrous creatures who are a fusion of humans and beasts – reminded me of trolls, orcs and balrogs from the Lord of the Rings books and movies.

One of the most memorable characters in the story, for me, was the blue-skinned forest mother. She was a nine foot tall cyclops with a pearl-white horn in the center of her forehead but somehow she evoked memories of Ents, also from Lord of the Rings, sentient tree-like creatures tasked with tending and protecting forests. She was not evil like the melds but she did bring tragedy with every visit.

The romance between Alexandria and Prince Tal is as memorable as that of Edward and Bella of the Twilight Series. The magic wielded by all of the magical characters in the story run the gamut from purely innocent (think Roald Dahl’s Matilda) to uniquely macabre (Lord of Illusions by Clive Barker).

This 4 book series has all of that and more. The author says The Veil Series is now complete but I truly hope he writes at least one more as I really want to know more about the forest mother and a certain little prince. I highly recommend The Veil series to all fantasy lovers.

Multi award-winning author Michael Scott Clifton, a longtime public educator, currently lives in Mount Pleasant, Texas with his wife, Melanie. An avid gardener, reader, and movie junkie, his books contain facets of all the genres he enjoys—action, adventure, magic, fantasy, and romance.

His fantasy novels, The Janus Witch, The Open Portal (Book I in the Conquest of the Veil series), and Escape from Wheel (Book II), all received 5-Star reviews from the prestigious Readers’ Favorite Book Reviews. The Open Portal has also been honored with a Feathered Quill Book Finalist Award. In addition, Edison Jones and the Anti-Grav Elevator earned a 2021 Feathered Quill Book Award Bronze Medal in the Teen Readers category. Two of his short stories have won Gold Medals, with Edges of Gray winning the Texas Authors Contest, and The End Game winning the Northeast Texas Writer’s Organization Contest. Professional credits include articles published in the Texas Study of Secondary Education journal.

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