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The Holy Road (2011)

by Ginn Hale(Favorite Author)

4.5 of 5 Votes: 2

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Blind Eye Books

series

Rifter

review 1: This part is just perfect. The romance, action, and politics come together until I was in tears at the end dreading what's to come next. I can't even take a breath before moving on to the next part, its just that good. Heavy with themes of the corrupting influence of power, as well as religious abuse. The church levying high tithes and priests not paying for everything. A golden beacon among poverty, corruption. Abuse of power, putting the common men in harms way. I loved the philosophical twist.
review 2: 1) TIMEY-WIMEYNESS!!2) OH! I see. John is Harry Potter. See, that actually makes a whole lot more sense.3) I think I'm finally starting to get it:This story is a semi-realistic approximation of what it would be like to actually be thrown into a fantasy world,... more with minimum preparation. That's why I feel uncomfortable about it. That's why I can't say they're good books. That's why I can't say they're bad books. If it actually happened to you (even if you'd read every fantasy book in existence), it wouldn't be exciting. It wouldn't be glorious. It wouldn't be dignified and uplifting and filled with wise elves or whatevs. It would be brutal and confusing and uncomfortable; you'd find out that your RL assets were useless and that you were capable of feats of morally questionable ruthlessness: if somehow you managed to survive, it wouldn't necessarily be a triumph, and if you ever told anyone back in our world about it, it wouldn’t make much sense. If you killed someone, would you know if that made you a hero? A villain? A harmless victim caught in the cross-fire? A person of merit or someone despicable? How well could you lie, if you had to in order to survive? How quickly could you learn an alien language well enough to deceive? How unflinchingly could you eat/drink something abhorrent? How well could you fake abidance by an off-putting religion? How well could you adapt? How well could you murder?In short, yeah, okay. This is actually kind of brill. less

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