Rating:  Summary: Grabbed my attention and kept it!! Review: What a wonderful novel. Linda Lay Shuler has a firm grasp on pre-Columbian history. The imagry was spectacular. Well worth the read.If you read the first 2 installments to this trilogy, the first thing you will notice when reading this part is that the main character is someone else. It is now the daughter of the original character Kwani. Though this does not make the story any less appealing. I actually read this one first, not knowing about the previous 2, so it was interesting to go back and read them. Kind of like the Star Wars movies or the Star Trek series. I got all the important relavent information after the fact.
Rating:  Summary: Very good, although I think it wasn't neccessary. Review: When I saw this book in my local bookstore, I was suprised. I had just finished Shuler's last book a few months ago and for the first timein my life was actually satisfied when I finished it. I didn't quite know how she would be able to continue on with her saga, with the main character from the last two books dead (she died from old age, just to let you know). The book itself was actually quite good, although it took a while for me to get into it. One does not have to read the first two books to understand whats going on; it is a completely different character with a completely different story. It has many twists in it when it gets going, something I always enjoyed about Shuler's writing. It is the story of Antelope and her blue eyed baby, Skyfeather. She, like the heroine in the book before her, has to choose between a charming trader who is her husband and the handsome to-be leader of the strange village she is staying in. She faces many problems, the village locals and women jealous of her strange powers and beauty. Although it has the basicly same story structure of the procceeding novels, it is a delightful read for anyone who is interested in cultures of the past.
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