The Dark Knight Series

So this was my very first series quite frankly it shows. The first book I did not have money to buy an editor, I didn't let that stop me. I knew I was not going to win any awards. So I just wanted to have fun, The person who narrated book one (1) and three (3) actually expressed geniune interest stating it had a twist.

I initially wanted to borrow a theme, I did pick star wars. Originally I recieved permission at first from Lucas arts then it was withdrawn when they merged with Disney. So that left me having change basically everything. Although it is pretty easy to tell what the story was originally going to be.

So straight off the bat, I wanted to challenge the readers thinking. "Right and wrong, Is there such a thing or is it just a matter of perspective? "

The Jedi/Republic were seen as the Good side. The Empire/Sith were traditionally seen as the bad side. So from the perspective of a strong female lead character. The introduction explains the initial events, where the Republic which is less strict about the rules than the White Knights. Had hired mercenaries to take a group of children to the planet Rriban, The Dark Knights main base with a training academy. These children were being used as weapons who had explosives on them (horrible right?) however we learned that, because of the fortifications and how complex the council chambers were this plan was the only possible plan that could potentially work. Killing the council members could save potential millions of lives in future conflict(s) - So with that in mind, does that change your mind on sacrificing a small group of young kids to save millions more?

The main character Duplex, does a pretty horrible act, murdering her own baby brother, how horrendous! Leaving no doubt in the readers mind that this story is from the perspective of the "bad side." However we go on to learn why she did it, will that change your perspective, perhaps?

"The Dark Knights use their emotions to get their strength, fear, pain and pleasure. All these emotions the Dark Knights have learned are just tools. They are neither good or bad it is how the Knights either Knights Dark or White use them they believe made them good or bad. No, denying the very best of who you are the privilege to feel to shut out or shut down your emotions it wasn’t normal it wasn’t right. Yet to the Republic the Dark Knights are seen as the evil. However when it comes down to it isn’t good and evil just down to purely perception?" Dark knights of Kaas City, 2015,p5

Book 2 - Tackles head on the question - of "There is no emotion there is peace" line. It actually makes a pretty strong counter debate on the subject in my humble opinion.

However all you really need to understand - by the end of book one, you should have found your self starting to care for the character perhaps even love her. You may have forgotten how she started she was only a kid after all.

This open ups with Duplex telling her apprentice's sister, that she is pregnant from her brother who is Duplex's apprentice. It is a rule they must not be stagnation, stagnation is death, standing still in place is death. Meaning the apprentice has to try to kill their master in order to become a master in order to advance or die trying. If this doesn't happen, they both would be killed.

Duplex being with child believes if her apprentice, her husband would find out, he would not be able to kill her, Duplex tells his sister as she truly adores her husband/apprentice and wouldn't be able to kill him, herself. Also if or when the time comes she (the sister) would be able to tell him. Duplex died in order to save the baby and take care of it etc. - Giving you the choice to think about during the story. Either one lives, and the baby survives or they both die and the child potentially dies.

However, the way of the Dark Knights, the apprentice starts his plans early, still not knowing about her condition. Duplex learning of the betrayal manipulates the sister in becoming her new apprentice replacing her brother, and gets her to believe he had betrayed his own sister. It comes to a head where the Brother/husband/Apprentice faces up with Duplex. With the younger sister knowing about Duplex pregnancy and with her being mad at her brother. Sister turned weapon of Duplex.

However, what was so traumatic about all of that is Duplex secret at the end... (Which you have to find out your self) as a hint it does remind you she is no Disney princess.

Book 3: Liberation of Rriban,

The third book I had a lot fun with, I really wanted to mess with your mind even more than I already have.

Again the emphasis is on perception, also about telling you to make up your own mind and don't let anyone tell you anything. The story covers basically the policy of scorched earth. For those who do not know or who have not heard of it before. It means to destroy in order to prevent an enemy from gaining vital resources.

World war 2 was a heavy factor for this in my planning and research for this. The American's of cause we're the good guys, and the Axis forces (boo, hisss,) yeah you get it. So I took the names of the Japanese commanders who attacked the Philippines and the US Commanders. However I only used first names. So unless you know your history you may have miss it. I.e Douglas as in Douglas MacArthur. If you hear a name your mind already goes to an already perceived reputation and impression you have of them. So because we are on the story of the Dark knights the perspective has been changed on you, I stole their personality and placed it within the book so the officers of the Republic/White were in style of the characters they were based off as far as I could research.

The story from WW2 I borrowed was that of the HMS Centaur Australian hospital ship that was sunk, by a Japanese submarine. I only found one report and it was from the Australians - which automatically I had a problem with. The victim always cries loudest. So there is a number of situations within this story that along those lines. That carry on from the previous two and then gets you to challenge what you think you know.

Experiment:. Is 1,2,4,5,6 correct to you? How do you know? What is your evidence? is it only because you have been told 1.2.3.4.5.6 is correct?

Which is the reason my books do not have a chapter 5.

It goes 1.2.3.4.4.2 For two reasons one, I absolutely hate anything to do with that number I just loath it.

Second, in keeping with my experiment, The first time I did it, I got tones of feedback saying "Where is chapter 5?", "You've made a mistake" I did the same thing again right through to the She Knows series, one of those books has a chapter 5 and guess what happened? "You've made a mistake there is a chapter 5 in this book"

Proving, that What you believe is correct, is only so because you have become used to it and you believe it is correct. 1.2.3.4.5 was correct to them and 1.2.3.4.42 was wrong to them, however by the time I switched it around. They had gotten used to how I've been doing it. There by reversing the previous statement. Which Ultimately proves we are susceptible to any information told to us. That if it keeps getting told to us we start to believe that is correct when we used to believe different.

- Want a real world example? In the era of before the First world war, Women had to wear full body dresses when they went on the beach, it would be considered shameful if they wore bikinis. - Flip today, - If a woman wears a full body suit like they did back then people think she is ashamed of her body, everyone expects you to be half naked. The - only- thing that has changed is people's perception and understanding. The more people got use to it the more they came to accept it.

If you are interested in any of these, I do have some codes you can listen to the audio books for free on audible,Itunes, Amazon.

I'm going to leave you with the authors notes to listen to from book three as I think it sums this up pretty well.