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Summary: The Sacred Stones
Review: Another good book by Sarabande. You'll enjoy reading this one.
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Summary: The Sacred Stones
Review: Another good book by Sarabande. You'll enjoy reading this one.
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Summary: New land, new people some great storyteller!
Review: I did wonder at the start why they are following the owl, a Native American symbol of death, at the beginning of the story, until I got it. It did put a small sad level of the inevitability of history in the story that we could have done without, but that is all in the future.
I found it interesting how the author had the characters understand their history as a people with all of the gaps and missing and re-invented parts to make up for the loss of the old knowledge kept by the "Blue Faces". When I found out what the "Sacred Stones" were and what there people thought they were and what they could do I was left shaking my head at their lack of knowledge. How could they forget that they are...ah,well, then I realized that the author had drawn me in and I was hooked to the new series. We must learn new ways.
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Summary: It beats being force-fed a coat-hanger, but not by much.
Review: I'm disturbed by the rave reviews this book is getting from the other reviewers on this and other sites; I'm reading this entire series, recommended to me by a trusted friend as something terrifically *bad*, out of something akin to horrified fascination with the idea that this is what sells, this is what people are reading. I worry about the human race; Sarabande's characters are flat and uninteresting, unrealistically motivated, speak and think with identical voices ... the only reason we know their personalities are different from each other's is because the author goes out of the way to *describe* those personalities to us. The author slept through those introductory English classes where the professors beat "show, not tell!" into your head with a two-by-four. The bizarre leap from one set of characters and time period to another, possibly an attempt to start over with a clean slate, didn't bother me after the initial moments of "guh? What just happened here?" but the religious reverence with which Torka and Lonit were held in this book was enough to make me gag (although it *does* remind me a bit of the strange reverenge Sarabande is paid by his fans on these websites). The action proceeds at a good clip, and there are *moments* in the book that approach dramatic or fascinating, but there are so many botched attempts, moments of outright stupidity, and agonizing attempts at character development that fall so short of the mark it's almost comical that this is a book (and a series) I cannot respect. Read the phone book instead! It may not be as engaging, but it will probably broaden your horizons!
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