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Khe (2012)

by Alexes Razevich(Favorite Author)

3.81 of 5 Votes: 5

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Razor Street Publishing

review 1: Very entertaining story, the author creates a very interesting world, populated with a race where the males and females live separately and once per year they reunite to mate. But that happens as an impulse that you cannot control, and our heroine misses this impulse and is sent for treatment. Initially the treatment seems to work, but then some side effects start to happen and the whole story develops from there. While seeking for a cure to her problem outside her village, she finds others affected by similar problem and she ended up finding the answer for a much more high level question, who are those entities that came to their world and caused the society to behave as they do nowadays. Very well written, characters full developed and environment well described. Nice co... morever. It took me around 10 hours to read the whole book.I recommend this book to the permanent library of all readers that enjoy a very well written science-fiction book. I bought this book from Amazon.com and I was not requested to provide a positive review. Opinion expressed here is my own.
review 2: I read Khe with high expectations. I was not disappointed. This story has that kind of all encompassing cosmology to it that one finds in major Science Fiction works like Dune, but with a directness that is more personal. It doesn't matter how real it is, just how true it is to its own concept, and how well the concept is thought through. This book is not just thought through, it has a heartfelt quality about it. You feel what it is to be Khe and the people around her. We feel her passions, fears, sorrows, and exuberance. This is another world, where life's rolls are assigned to the members of society like a colony. Even the rolls of the sexes themselves are defined and separate. But Khe is something different, she has abilities that make her and stand out from others of her kind. This proves to be a personal liability for her, as her energies, gifts, and life itself are being consumed to serve the interests of the group, instead of her own needs. Soon, this forces her out of her cloistered existence and brings her into the greater world, where she discovers that she, and her place in the world she lives in, have more to them than the standard belief system she was raised on had made her aware of. The real charm of this story is in its telling, and the author does a beautiful job of making this world come to life for us, with all of its creatures, joys, and challenges. An easy, touching read, Khe is a fantasy filled with emotion and the simple pleasures of being alive. A gem of a little book. less

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