Walkers of the Wind

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Summary: Fabulous!
Review: I have read the entire series. I was hooked by the end of book one and now that I've finished them all I don't know what to do with myself! I have become part of the family. I think the writing is outstanding and the characters extremely intriguing. You can't help but feel their pains and joys right along with them. Mr. Sarabande's books are a delight to get lost in.

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Summary: The book was great
Review: I loved this book,Ihave all of the FIRST americans seris that William wrote. But Walkers of the Wind was better than the rest, I really liked naya and umak.

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Summary: Good, but not the best of the series...
Review: Okay, I liked this book, but not as much as the first three in the "The First American" series. I'll start with the bad first.

What I didn't like was the seeming inability of Manaravak (one of Torka's sons) to come to grips with who and what he actually is. Because of this, he made mistakes that cost his people dearly. I also didn't like the actions of one of the young women in the tribe, and the fact that she was able to get away with things for so long. And while her actions did add to the tension in the story, I had hoped for a different resolution.

Also, a couple of scenes require a stretch of your imagination to believe that such a thing could happen. That I didn't like because it almost transformed the book from an historical adventure to something bordering on fantasy. But since it was a small part, it didn't do much damage.

Now on to what I did like. For one thing, the pace was good. Events moved along at a pretty fast clip that left little room for boredom. And the setting and action was described with sufficient detail to give you a clear picture of what's going on.

The book read like a true adventure story -- there was always something happening that usually involved danger and required a struggle and courage. The plot was also pretty good.

I would recommend this book to all readers, and especially to those who've started on the series. It is a good book and it's still interesting to see how these characters lives are still being shaped.

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Summary: Very disappointing -
Review: Okay, I liked this book, but not as much as the first three in the "The First American" series. I'll start with the bad first.

What I didn't like was the seeming inability of Manaravak (one of Torka's sons) to come to grips with who and what he actually is. Because of this, he made mistakes that cost his people dearly. I also didn't like the actions of one of the young women in the tribe, and the fact that she was able to get away with things for so long. And while her actions did add to the tension in the story, I had hoped for a different resolution.

Also, a couple of scenes require a stretch of your imagination to believe that such a thing could happen. That I didn't like because it almost transformed the book from an historical adventure to something bordering on fantasy. But since it was a small part, it didn't do much damage.

Now on to what I did like. For one thing, the pace was good. Events moved along at a pretty fast clip that left little room for boredom. And the setting and action was described with sufficient detail to give you a clear picture of what's going on.

The book read like a true adventure story -- there was always something happening that usually involved danger and required a struggle and courage. The plot was also pretty good.

I would recommend this book to all readers, and especially to those who've started on the series. It is a good book and it's still interesting to see how these characters lives are still being shaped.

Rating:
Summary: Good, but not the best of the series...
Review: Okay, I liked this book, but not as much as the first three in the "The First American" series. I'll start with the bad first.

What I didn't like was the seeming inability of Manaravak (one of Torka's sons) to come to grips with who and what he actually is. Because of this, he made mistakes that cost his people dearly. I also didn't like the actions of one of the young women in the tribe, and the fact that she was able to get away with things for so long. And while her actions did add to the tension in the story, I had hoped for a different resolution.

Also, a couple of scenes require a stretch of your imagination to believe that such a thing could happen. That I didn't like because it almost transformed the book from an historical adventure to something bordering on fantasy. But since it was a small part, it didn't do much damage.

Now on to what I did like. For one thing, the pace was good. Events moved along at a pretty fast clip that left little room for boredom. And the setting and action was described with sufficient detail to give you a clear picture of what's going on.

The book read like a true adventure story -- there was always something happening that usually involved danger and required a struggle and courage. The plot was also pretty good.

I would recommend this book to all readers, and especially to those who've started on the series. It is a good book and it's still interesting to see how these characters lives are still being shaped.

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Summary: A drug addict in the Ice Age?
Review: This one is a little different that the rest, we are running out of people so how far can this really go? I don't really mind that though, I was getting sick of hearing about the wanawut and the full titles of the first three books anyway.
This is the ending book, we are moving on without our familar friends and the one people have now two bands because of a dispute that our hero Torka is too old to reslove. It is sad to see them go, and watching Torka breaking the symbol of the people, but we must follow the herds to the summer breeding grounds.

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Summary: THE BEST ONE SINCE TORKA!
Review: This was one of the best stories since the very 1st one. She is a master storyteller in this one, a must read!

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Summary: Very disappointing -
Review: While well-written enough in a technical sense, the story was very disappointing. The story lurches from disaster to disaster and from sexual interlude to sexual interlude. These were apparently intended to be titillating (but failed) and included animal sex, rape (forced bestiality and child-rape) and incest. While some of the characters (such as an old hunter) were well-realized, most of the main characters were little more than cardboard stereotypes pushed into predictable conflicts, such as the Girl on Drugs and then the Sassy Woman Who Wants To Be A Hunter. Characters were alternately primitive and disconcertingly sophisticated. There was very little detail in how day to day life was carried out; not that I would want the story to have bogged down, but more detail would have conveyed the sense that the author actually had done more than the most cursory research on what people had to do to survive.

In short, the story was little more than an angsty caveman-style "bodice ripper". Ho-hum.