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People Of The Morning Star (2014)

by W. Michael Gear(Favorite Author)

4.05 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

076533724X (ISBN13: 9780765337245)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Tor Books

series

North America's Forgotten Past

review 1: 2.5 of 5...In more holistic terms than the rating stars, much about the characters has been recycled from the Gears' numerous (overly?) prior titles. Characters are recognizable types from previous stories regardless of which particular culture was portrayed. There is the Wise Old Shaman, a pair of hot young Lovers, the Thief/Miscreant, the berdache (term used by the Gears for LGBT tendencies), and so forth. Within this novel, descriptive terms get much repetition and overuse. One more muscled thigh (male) or patch of smooth skin (female) would have been the last straw for this reader. Also much lip-biting, eye-rolling, eyebrow lifting. It seems the Big Publisher must really be pressuring quantity output and the H*ll with quality or a fresh approach. Let's give the masses ... morewhat they want! So out comes another one, new cover, same old story. For all the hype about the intelligence of this novel's featured clans at Cahokia, the narrative is dumbed-down to an unacceptable level. For all the hype about the astronomy knowledge at Cahokia there simply isn't any in the narrative. Was the editor afraid the masses would fail to follow some basic science or has the astronomy been left out, or did no one bother to research that? Don't tell us in the Notes and Prologue at front matter how smart these people were and then give a story that could have been done as a comic book. Possibly the most annoying facet of the assembly-line publishing is the annoying frequency of typos and mispellings. In fact that may be the only thing that varies in this title, the idiosyncratic spellings and misused words. E.g., peaking used instead of peeking. The glaring errors are like being poked in the eye with a stick every few pages. I don't usually make public such a sour impression of a title, but fair warning is due to others: read a library copy. Save your money.
review 2: Another entertaining book from the Gears. I love the way they take meticulously researched archaeological theories and weave them into very engaging and entertaining (and EDUCATIONAL) stories!Michael and Kathleen Gear have written many books on the native Americans, all based on their years of real-world archaeological and anthropological experience, yet all of the books are very entertaining and well written and hard to put down. less

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