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Summary: Shallow Characters
Review: I really like fantasy and time travel romance, because of the fairy tale quality it has, when it's done well. However, I was disappointed by this book, chiefly because I found the characters so difficult to empathize with. I found the heroine to be shallow, childish, and selfish until the last few scenes. The dialog and her self-talk was adolescent and seemed out of character for a person of her supposed education and abilities. The hero, surprisingly enough, was better drawn, although fairly stereotyped. The story line was creative, and I felt that the author missed a chance to do something really epic by populating it with such flimsy people. Futuristic and time travel romance can easily become foolish if something isn't done to give it depth and at least a semblance of credibility. That has to come from the characters, since the reader already has to suspend reality more than usual in this genre. I wouldn't recommend this book, but I hope the author keeps working on it, because the whole premise of the story showed real creative promise, and I'm sure there's more where it came from.
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Summary: Wow!
Review: Jane Deerfield was a computer tech in the year 2012. On Halloween night the nuclear bomb fell and threw her forward in time two centuries. Jane awoke to find herself a stranger in a strange land. She was in a land where magic was real and technology was unheard of. "Doctors" were referred to as "Kings". So King Daken found her in a meadow and nursed her back to health. She learned that Daken's people were in danger of extinction by a murdering race called Tarveen. He was enroute to the Elven Lord to plea for an army. She traveled with Daken and found herself face-to-face with a dismantled computer. A prophecy stated that someone from the past would someday come and understand what all the parts were. That person would become the "Keeper of Knowledge". Once together, Jane would get answers to all everything. But the knowledge would threaten many who plot and plan, even Daken's plans. Jane only knew she had to keep this new world from making the same mistakes her old world did. ***** Author Katherine Greyle has made a new fan in me! This story was AWESOME! Romance, Fantasy, and Sci-Fi rolled into one. Highly recommended reading for male or female! ***** Reviewed by Detra Fitch.
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Summary: Destined to be a classic; a legendary romance
Review: Jane Deerfield works on the Boston University Computer system in the near future. A cataclysmic event catapults her into a world filled with a particular magic. . . and fueled by legend. She meets King Daken, a powerful handsome man, who is determined to bring peace to his land, a land devastated by the evil Tarveen. When Jane is proclaimed the Oracle, the keeper of knowledge, she struggles between her newly-discovered love for Daken and her duty to prevent this world from destroying itself as hers had. Wizards, Elven Lords, ancient spirits. . . Oracle's fabulous world is vivid, mesmerizing and action-packed. More than a keeper, Oracle's timeless themes, seamlessly rendered, destine it to be a classic. A legendary romance from a brilliant fresh voice, Katherine Greyle.
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Summary: Great Fantasy Romance
Review: Kathy Greyle deals with the aftermath of the nuclear holocaust in her book, The Oracle. I thought she had come up with interesting ideas on radiation, certainly not something I've come across so far. I liked the hero and heroine but I do agree with one of the reviewers here that the story should have been a little longer to better explain the world that Jane found herself in. All in all, a good read for fantasy/romance lovers. She gets 4 1/2 stars from me.
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Summary: Great Fantasy Romance
Review: Kathy Greyle deals with the aftermath of the nuclear holocaust in her book, The Oracle. I thought she had come up with interesting ideas on radiation, certainly not something I've come across so far. I liked the hero and heroine but I do agree with one of the reviewers here that the story should have been a little longer to better explain the world that Jane found herself in. All in all, a good read for fantasy/romance lovers. She gets 4 1/2 stars from me.
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Summary: This is one of the few good futuristic romances around
Review: Oracle is a terrific futuristic story with just enough adventure, humor and romance to make me a very happy reader. Jane is a computer geek in 2012 and is headed for a Halloween party when she is catapulted 200 years into the future. When she comes-to she finds herself in a strange new world with a hunky man leaning over her performing some sort of ritual. King Daken, a healer, was actually performing a communication spell. When she refuses to obey his most simple of commands and injures herself in the process he heals her and creates a bond between them that intensifies their already raging hormones. What follows is an enjoyable fantasy story that deals with a tough issue as well as a sweltering, and often funny, love story. Most futuristic/fantasy romances don't work well for me. They either get so bogged down with futuristic mumbo-jumbo that it sets my head to spinning or the world is so poorly constructed that the book becomes laughable. And, most unfortunate, these books usually forget that a romance, of any kind, needs to always keep the romance development at the forefront. This book doesn't fall into any of those traps. The only flaw, and it's a pretty noticeable one, happens midway through the story when the heroine makes a totally ridiculous decision about another man. When you get to this section do yourself a big favor and skim! It has no place being in this otherwise fantastic book. Fortunately, the book quickly recovers from this misstep and the romance gets back on track and all ends exactly as it should. I highly recommend this to futuristic romance fans who demand a decent plot along with a lovely and entertaining romance.
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Summary: ORACLE is a winner of major paranormal & romance awards
Review: ORACLE won Two Holt Medallion Awards, Best Parnormal and Best First Book; and won Two Prism Awards, Best Paranormal and Best of the Best; and was a RITA Finalist for Best First Book, and a Finalist for the Sapphire Award for Best Futuristic Sci-Fi Romance of the Year.
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Summary: a terrific book, a keeper if ever there was one.
Review: The characters were rich and colorful. The futuristic world was realistic. A book I will keep and reread over and over again.
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Summary: More of a Romance than a Sci-Fi Novel
Review: The year is 2012. The world is not a happy place. Jane Deerfield controlls computer network of a Boston university, looking after it with the intense devotion only computer geeks can truly comprehend. Then, conveniently, she gets thrown 200 years into the future just as the nuclear bombs that will destroy her world hit the Boston area. Jane soon discovers she is someone called the Keeper of Knowledge, the one person proficied to hold the knowledge of the past in the future. Why or how this came about is never explained. But Jane doesn't really care. Like a typical female, all she wants is to cozy up with her hero, Daken, in a peaceful little cul-de-sac and have lots of babies (okay, that's an exaggeration; but not much of one, I promise you). This book is more of a romance than a futuristic or sci-fi novel, which is disappointing if one is expecting to read the latter. The story is slow-going during the first hundred pages, and the first fifty are particularly annoying, filled with extremely sappy scenes. Not that ORACLE doesn't have its good points, of course -- the climax with the Tarveen, Dake's enemy, is exciting and interesting and basically everything a climatic scene should be. Now if only the author had carried that kind of intensity throughout the novel. Steve is the most interesting character, until he opens his mouth and speaks (which, come to think of it, is an accurate representation of reality), and the author doesn't over- or under-do his role in the story. In the end, this book has all the elements of a good sci-fi futuristic, but they aren't cohesive enough and thus the book fails to hold one's interest throughout the story. The romance, meanwhile, is too sappy and text-book to add anything to the story, and there should have been less of it. Essentially, a book I can't recommend.
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Summary: Dream come true!
Review: This book has been a dream come true for me from its beginning as a stay against exhaustion, through publication with wonderful LionHearted Publishing, to its many awards (yeah!), and now it is soon to become a major motion picture! Oracle began as I was struggling to stay awake driving home late one rainy night. Though I had toyed with the concept for many years, suddenly the pieces just fell into place. The entire plot seemed to roll into my mind like a movie (how prophetic!). I started writing the very next day. When LionHearted offered to buy the finished manuscript, I wept for joy. An unusual romance by any standard, Oracle had encountered difficulty getting the established publishers to accept it. But here, suddenly, a maverick amoung publishers thought the story was fabulous! It went through with almost no revisions. Then came the awards. I cannot describe the joy at having greats in the writing community not only tell me they loved my book, but hand me an award. Here was tangible proof that it was indeed true: They liked my book! Oracle has won two HOLT medalions, a PRISM best Futuristic/Fantasy, the 1999 PRISM Best of the Best, and finally, a RITA nomination for Best First Book. And every single award has been an honor and a thrill. Then came the icing on the cake. I learned that an independent producer wants to make Oracle into a feature film. She had read the screenplay I wrote and loved it! Since my education included a masters in screenwriting, this answered a prayer I started many years ago. So now, I look forward to attending the Hollywood Premiere of my movie! Great things for a story that began as a stay against exhaustion. In short, this is more than an honor and a thrill. It's a dream come true!
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