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Summary: Thunder in the Sky
Review: A good book and an interesting read.
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Summary: This is the first book I read in the series...
Review: and I was so impressed with the story that I immediately tracked down the rest of the series. Sarabande has a gripping writing style, complex characters with several motives as they move across the new land of America.
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Summary: Huh?
Review: It's been said of this book that it's impossible to put down - which confuses the heck out of me, because it was only willpower and a commitment to read the entire series that kept me from flinging it across the room. Sarabande's idea of drama is to kill off characters - usually the only characters that I have any interest in. Of course, there's another way for the author to include "drama" in the narrative - yes! Brutal rape scenes! William Sarabande, serial rapist of fictional teenaged girls! The sequences probably wouldn't bother me if a.) there weren't so many of them b.) their "drama" didn't rely almost entirely on shock value. It's not shock value at the tenth or eleventh rape sequence, campers, it's "oh, this again" ... and after #20, the reaction turns to disbelief - "how long do you expect me to swallow this ...?"There was *one* sequence in this novel that disturbed me; a passage that haunted me as it was actually supposed to. In this sequence, a woman takes a knife - a ceremonial knife used for human sacrifice, no less! - and, because menopause would mean that she's not *young* anymore, stabs herself through her vagina into her uterus. This scene was powerful, I think because it was so disturbing and messed up. But when you have to resort to scenes like this only to make a book memorable, the question I have to ask is why you're writing the dang novel in the first place. Anyway, guidelines say I'm not supposed to be "spiteful", so I suppose I should try and control the vitriol ...
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