Publisher's Synopsis
Previously published as Everything's Better with Bacon, and You Can Never Have Enough Butter (but Karma's a bitch...)by S.F Goldsholl. (Note: The title change was made to conform to publisher standards.)
The trilogy is a dark, epic fantasy designed to be an alternate approach to bringing awareness of the plight of animals, at the hands of humans.
The novel is intended to engage lovers of fantasy in a complex story that will awaken them to the concept of speciesism and to human animals' exploitation of other animals.
The first chapter is intentionally unnerving, setting the stage for the story that follows. It is illustrative of the connection some revered animal rights' thinkers have made between the original Holocaust and the ongoing, hidden animal holocaust on which our economy is based.
The characters include a general population oblivious to the plight of animals, lots of evil people (some who seem to be based on modern-day politicians), awesome animals with supernatural aspects, a small human support group, and two brilliant and magical minority children who have the ability to force people to see what they should always have seen.
The non-human animals in the story are, by nature, light-filled, magical creatures, known as "Deor." Early humans were awed by these beautiful beings and begin to worship them. The animals' Mother foresaw that this worship would cause world-wide war; and, in order to prevent this from occurring, asked the animals to assume non-threatening flesh-and-blood bodies and to subjugate themselves to humankind. This purgatory would end when - according to a Deor prophesy - two special Children, who had the ability to make other humans see, were born.
The Living World, which was the creator of all conscious life, implanted a specific genetic code in a few early humans. This code would, one day, cause the two Children to be born. They would be known to the animals by their natural "Scent," which would be a combination of lotuses, oranges, peppermint, fir needles, vanilla, cinnamon, and rain.
There are two factions of Deor: those who follow their Mother's wishes (the "Apalacheela"), and those who have grown to hate humankind for its cruelty (the "Killapaka"). The Apalacheela, or "Cheela," actively seek to find the Children so that they realize their destiny. The Killapaka, or "Kills," also actively seek the Children in order to control their power to their own ends.
A fascist, xenophobic, racist, homophobic, misogynistic group of humans has also found out about the prophesy, and is part of the race to seize the Children. There is a political satire thread throughout the story.
The questions are: What is the Children's power, and how will they make people see? The prophesy does not provide an answer.
Slipped into the story, at intervals, are not-so-fictionalized depictions of factory farming.
