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Daughter Of Kura: A Novel (2009)

by Debra Austin(Favorite Author)

3.46 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1439112665 (ISBN13: 9781439112663)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Touchstone

review 1: "Daughter of Kura" by Debra Austin is a book about family, love, war and growing up... 500,000 years ago. Snap lives in a matriarchal society of hunters and gatherers whose lives are governed by the seasons. She is the third most important female in her community. However, when her grandmother dies and her mother takes a mate who has strange, new ideas, Snap feels her way of life threatened. Her own mate nowhere to be found, Snap leaves the relative safety of her village. Will she make it in a dangerous world of lions, scorpions, brutal weather and warring tribes?The novel reads easily and is not filled with overbearing historical details which makes it accessible to most anyone. However, a taste for speculative fiction or a good bit of suspension of disbelief is necessary... more to immerse oneself in the world. Recommended for those who enjoy coming of age stories with a romance you won't find in most other stories.
review 2: DAUGHTER OF KURA - Debra Austin; 2009 NYBookDivas“Daughter of Kura” by Debra Austin was a fabulous book to sit down with, in order to pass time in a winter snow storm. Set in a time period of about a half million years ago, “Daughter of Kura” tells the tale of Snap, a vibrant young woman in line for leadership of her tribe, the Kura. In a culture where leadership is maternally set, Snap is now of age to pick a mate and is expected to do so at the Bonding ceremony in the fall. However, Snap is discovering it hard to pick her mate for the next year, until strange men begin to arrive in the village. One new arrival, Bapoto, makes Snap quite uncomfortable, and even though he believes his ‘god’ medicine cured her of an infection from a wildcat wound - Snap is clear in voicing her disbelief. For whatever unknown reason, Snap believes Bapoto isn’t good for her people, the Kura, and remains wary of Bapoto and his increasing interest in her mother - Whistle. Her instincts will undoubtedly prove true. However, another new arrival is different from the men Snap knows - and soon catches the young woman’s interest - Ash. Though Ash’s many differences leave Snap wondering if he is the man for her, somehow she knows she and Ash are bound for a life together.With great descriptions of the world so long ago, and fabulous scenarios of life in the days of cave peoples, “Daughter of Kura” is easily reminiscent of “The Clan of the Cave Bears” - and just as well written. “Daughter of Kura” relates the story of a time of great change coming to the prehistoric world. As travellers and traders extend their territories farther, new ideas and ways of life are discovered and are bound to be explored.“Daughter of Kura” by Debra Austin will definitely hold a place on my “To Read Again” shelf - and I will be passing on my recommendations to read it to all my friends!!I received this book for free to review from Bookdivas.com. I am a member of Bookdivas, Goodreads, Librarything and the Penguin book club. DBettenson less

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