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Summary: Not Enough--Too Much
Review: How to explain my reaction to this book. Well, I wasn't hooked until I was well over 250 pages into it. This is not good for a mystery lover and avid reader. I anticipated a tale as fascinating as The Eye of Horus. The similarities were there--modern day archealogists and anthropologists working to solve the mystery of the Anasazi mass burial site while the story is consecutively being revealed. Unfortunately, the story itself is not compelling, nor the characters. The conclusion lacked...let me think...oh, what is the word I'm looking for...A CONCLUSION. Yes, I know this is just a bridge to the next book, but I don't think I'll be reading it anytime soon.
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Summary: Disappointing overall
Review: I am extremely interested in the Anasazi and I love mysteries, so I thought this series would be perfect for me. However, I found the story from the past to be written in a distractingly self-conscious way, so much so that I almost quit reading the book. It did, in the end, make me interested enough to continue, but only just. The names of the Anasazi, in particular, seemed totally unlikely. The story from the present seemed more interesting at first but decreased in importance as the book went on. I felt that the anthropologists and archaologists were unconvincing--it's hard to believe they would be so illiterate and uninformed. I can't imagine someone in that field (and I know several), for example, who would be ignorant about history and basic English vocabulary. In addition, there were some completely unnecessary passages, such as the entire spiel of a flight attendant upon landing of a plane, I assume to convey the temperature, when a sentence phrase would have done the same. The characters were not very well drawn, so it was difficult to care about what happened to them. In general, they had one or two characteristics each. Overall, I found this book to be mediocre.
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Summary: My favorite book of the year! By far . . .
Review: I became interested in southwest culture and history by reading Tony Hillerman's mysteries, and then Thunderhead, but after reading The Visitant, I can't read enough (even non-fiction) on the subject of the Ancient Ones! I thought an author partnership would make for awkward reading, but just the opposite was achieved. I am so very much looking forward to the second in the series. If BookTV asked me on the street for my favorite book, this would be it.
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Summary: The Visitant
Review: I can only say one thing, Wonderful. I could not get enough. I got my book and finished my book in less then one week. I can't wait for book two. The Gears have done it again.
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Summary: Don't buy this book.
Review: I can't believe anyone would give this book five stars! I agree with several other reviewers who feel that this book has too much fluff. The story is so predictable. Force together a man and woman who hate each other and they will end up together. Gag! It appeared to me that the Gears had a word limit on this book, so they repeated physical descriptions of every character in the book (almost) each time they were mentioned in the story. I think this book could have been improved by simply leaving out the contemporary part of the story! I would not recommend this book to anyone.
Unfortunately, I bought this book, so now I'm going to donate it to the public library. Hopefully, they will be able to put it to some good use. They sell old books as a fundraiser each year.
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Summary: People of Fire
Review: I find that any of the Gear books are well worth reading. People of fire is a very interesting book. When they bring the wolf bundle back to life. It makes me very happy to know that the power of the wolf bundle could be reborn with the life of another wolf. Knowing that people in taht time could have problems and yet survive. So if there are people who have not read the gear books they are in for a treat.
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Summary: Got me Hooked
Review: I found the hardcover of this on on a bargain rack, thinking, "If I don't like it, I'm out a cup of coffee." As soon as I began reading, I couldn't put it down, and have also begun reading the Gears' "First Native Americans" series. This book has everything I like in fiction: good research (it has a 6 page bibliography!) archaeology, horror, serial killers, exotic cultures, believable charachters and settings, and spiritual undertones, all in one lovely book! I highly reccommend this book, though I would check out "People of the Silence" first, as it provides background for the ancient storyline.
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Summary: Well done and entertaining
Review: I recommend this series of books. Entertaining to read and enjoyable. =] Well Done!
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Summary: Great!!!
Review: If you don't get this mystery than it is because you don't get the depth of research it took to come up with such a plot. This is a great first book in the continuing saga of the native americans in the southwest. It is refreshing to read about different times and cultures. I look forward to book two, and many more to come. The Gears are one of my favorite writers, I have read ALL their books.
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Summary: Imagine
Review: Imagine, if you will, a book about serial murders in an early Native American culture in the very remote past. About such a culture, our knowledge is necessarily limited so some speculation is in order. Now imagine that you're listening to a wise man of that culture dispensing the wisdom of his many years. O.k. so far. Now imagine that the wise man expresses opinions that might easily have come from the mouth of a dippy, unlicensed, untrained mid-1980's California therapist - the kind who succumbed to and foisted onto their patients an unwavering belief in every goofy fad from alien abductions to crystal therapy to satanic ritual abuse. If that sounds plausible to you, you might like this book. Give it a try. ;)
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