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Timshel (2012)

by Lillian Turner(Favorite Author)

4.1 of 5 Votes: 3

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Etopia Press

review 1: Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!!! Refreshingly original, charming language, and endearing characters. The title theme all throughout was perfectly accurate, to the story and in life in general. Timshel is a Hebrew word meaning, "thou mayest", that man has a choice. To quote the Mumford and Sons song of the same name, "And you have your choices/ And these are what make man great/ His ladder to the stars" - it's so very true. You may not choose your upbringing, your station in life, your abilities, or the kind of person you're attracted to, but you *do* have a choice in what you do with your circumstance. You can choose to use your gifts to enrich/help others, you can choose to change your environment, you can choose to live in love rather than in denial and shame. Eiland ... morehimself summed it up perfectly: "This was not an easy choice to make. But, Eiland had begun to realize, the important ones were never easy."Eiland's tale of growth and love in the face of great adversity--illness, prejudice, danger--was inspiring and so delightfully told. I highly recommend this to everyone, and anxiously await new titles from this author.
review 2: A M/M YA romance about a sheltered boy and a kid who is living with a curse. In the beginning, we meet Eiland, the youngest son of a talented healer. He is remarkably naive and unobservant. He runs into a pretty boy named Charon, and it's only later that he realizes that something is different about him.Charon is Cursed, and can pass it on to anyone by just saying so. This makes him a pariah, but a feared and respected one. It's an interesting blackmail dynamic.Charon and Eiland go on the road together, and their relationship changes dramatically over the course of the journey. The power imbalance hovers between them and shifts over time. It's sort of the relationship exploration that I wish had happened in The Eagle. What happens when two boys are dependent on each other for survival, and they both have reasons not to trust each other? What if it's complicated by mutual attraction.I don't know why the book is called Timshel. It doesn't appear in the book anywhere. In the beginning, Eiland seems even younger than 17, and sort of annoyingly childish and optimistic. I liked Charon a lot more as a character, but it was important that Eiland was the viewpoint character.Read if: You are looking for a Y/A romance that explores issues of power exchange and trust. You want to watch a kid come into his calling.Skip if: You don't want to read a (very mild) M/M romance. You prefer more worldly viewpoint characters. less

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