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Summary: Wish there was a sequel!
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While this book is educating, it is written in a way that is uninteresting, and somewhat frusterating.
Uriah-Tarhund, son of Arnadash the horse breeder is a Hittite. Uriah's mother, sister and father are all killed in the first chapter and staying true to a promise he made to his father on his death bed, Uriah heads to Harosheth to see a man named Sisera. Instead a circle of events leads Uriah to live with a rich family in Tyre. Uriah becomes best friends with a rude member of the household, Jotham, and helps steal the God Moloch's sacrifice, both a kinsman to Jotham and a little boy, named Jabin. Uriah soon finds himself living with the Israelites with Jabin and Jotham. Uriah makes more promises to people and ends up fighting the very people who took him in, the Israelites. One of his fellow warriors is an Egyptian ("one of the evil people"), Ahmoses, who turns out to be the "true king of Egypt".
I felt that the characters in this book were shallow and unreal. People in Uriah's life seemed unimportant and unloved to Uriah. I would not reccomend this book.
~Atalanta
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Summary: I couldn't put it down!
Review: I'm a mom of three home-schooled girls, and I bought the book for them. I decided to read the first few pages to make sure that the reading level was appropriate for my oldest. I couldn't put it down! From the very beginning, the author gets you interested in this Hittite young man. The descriptions of the battles were interesting without being upsetting to children. Besides battles, there are horses, spies, lots of interesting information about what it might have been like to live during this time in history, and some good plot twists.
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Summary: I couldn't put it down!
Review: I'm a mom of three home-schooled girls, and I bought the book for them. I decided to read the first few pages to make sure that the reading level was appropriate for my oldest. I couldn't put it down! From the very beginning, the author gets you interested in this Hittite young man. The descriptions of the battles were interesting without being upsetting to children. Besides battles, there are horses, spies, lots of interesting information about what it might have been like to live during this time in history, and some good plot twists.
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Summary: Nice story, lousy writing
Review: The basic idea and plot of this book is really neat. The story is set in the Biblical time of the Judges before Israel had a king. We are introduced to a Hittite youth living in the Mediterranean about the time that Greeks, particularly those from Crete, were gaining ascendancy. The Hittites as a people are conquered and become fugitives. Our protagonist flees first to the Phoenicians and then into the hills of Judea, where he meets Deborah, the prophetess, and Berek, the Israelite general who is to defeat Sisera. He ends up fighting in the battle on the wrong side, but eventually marries a Israelite woman and settles down in the area. On the way, we are introduced to all kinds of Hittite, Phoenician, Israelite, and Canaanite customs. We learn about their dress, their gods (particularly the dreadful Moloch), their methods of fighting, their habits of enslaving captive peoples, and so on. The book has obviously been carefully researched, and the plot is plausible and interesting. I give the book three stars because the writing is terrible. The fact that the book is for children does not excuse this. Sentences are frequently awkward in construction, and the book reads like a first draft. For instance, the writer will say something like, "The warrior rushed towards me, and I hit him with a stick that I had picked up several moments ago before he attacked me." That's a paraphrase, but you see what I mean. Why on earth weren't we told about the stick BEFORE the warrior rushed towards him? It's as thought the writer just thought of the weapon, and instead of putting the event in it's proper place, she flings it in as an afterthought. This kind of sloppy editing occurs throughout the text. As imaginative fiction, it's great, but this book is NOT a good example for kids to follow in style, editing, or structure.
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Summary: The Storm God Rules!
Review: The book Hittite Warrior is a classic. My son read it and passed on to me. I could not pit down. This is an excellent read for anyone interested in ancient history, Hittite history and life struggles. THank you.
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Summary: The Storm God Rules!
Review: The book Hittite Warrior is a classic. My son read it and passed on to me. I could not pit down. This is an excellent read for anyone interested in ancient history, Hittite history and life struggles. THank you.
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