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The Waters Rising (2010)

by Sheri S. Tepper(Favorite Author)

3.54 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0061958875 (ISBN13: 9780061958878)

languge

English

genre

Paranormal Fantasy

publisher

Voyager

series

Plague of Angels

review 1: It took me three weeks to read this. .I never really got interested in the story, just bored. But stubborn compulsive me, I just have to finish what I start...I have read and enjoyed several of Sheri Tepper's books, so am sorry to say this one was a huge disappointment. In brief, this is a post-apocalypse story set in a time long after mankind has reached i very high level of technology then have the technology turn (or turned) on them to almost wipe out human the human. To add to the mix water has started flowing from reservoirs inside the earth and in about a century will cover all land. What to do? A small group of surviving humans have mapped out a generations spanning plan to evolve people to a state where they can live under water. The plan is coming to fruitio... moren, but endangered by a surviving super assassin created before the apocalypse. There are elements of a good tale here but Tepper did not carry it off. There are some exciting stretches in the book but most of it is boring. One such stretch is an early detailed recounting to Abasio of the politics and history of the region wherein the action will take place. Too bad this long confusing history lesson couldn't be integrated with the flow of the story. Then long passages about live in Tinawa, including a drawn out conclusion about the birth of the "new mankind" and the final touches to make a happy ending for everyone. Again, some good exciting chapters in the center, but Tepper seemed to feel that there was lots of information to pass to the reader and loose ends to tie up, and rather than work to do so in the context of the storyline, just decided to get it over with as quickly as possible in what seemed to be little more than a "oh by the way" addendum.
review 2: My thoughts:This book was strange, but wondrous strange. But then all Tepper books I have read have been like that, she takes in things and turns into something utterly amazing and weird.First, yes it is book two, but book 1 does not have to be read to understand this book. The only person from book 1 around is the hero Abasio. But here is he is all new and a bit different. I do not know how much time has gone by, and it takes place in a new land. It is a new book and it was published almost 20 years after book 1. I thought book 1 gave me answers what might have happened to our earth, but here I finally found out what The Big Kill, and the Time when no one moved around was. This our earth, which we destroyed and in its wake technology was no more. Which makes this a futuristic sci-fi book in a fantasy world. She explains it well at one time, how people when they do not understand something makes it into magic. There are a few things left over from the old times, and some do know things. Like when the baddie, Alicia curses someone. Some say it is magic, some know better. She took the pattern of that person and sent a cloud. Yes DNA and virus. The mix works so well, because what would happen if 99% died out? If machines were destroyed? And like that was not enough, now the waters are rising and even the highest mountain will be under water. Can humankind be saved? And do we deserve to be saved?It's a book to read slowly because now and then something new comes along and everything slowly dawns on me. It's a good book, it is a strange story and I can't believe that this used to be earth. There are talking animals, the Kraken, a lovestory, and wicked witches. There is also a child's journey and the question why she is so important?Conclusion:Tepper needs to be read to be understand. I do not think I can make her world justice. But when you step in to her world you will be quite enchanted with it. less

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