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Bull Dancer

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The story is of a bull dancer in Crete 1900 years BC. It is a tale that involves you with the various civilizations such as Egypt, Babylon, and even a city in the south Arabian desert. When Kira is injured she can no longer be a bull dancer. She joins her brother on a Minoen trading ship. They travel through the ancient world and experiance adventures everywhere they go. In Egypt she and her brother help uncover the assassin of the king and help Egypt's co-ruler return to his throne in Memphis. Later Kira delivers a message to Abraham who is camped along the Great Salt Sea. With her brother she ventures to a city in southern Arabia where the purest incense in the world is grown. She is able to establish a trade route, in an unusual way, to other parts of the ancient world. By doing this she keeps the promise she made to her dieing father that she would expand the family trade business. I enjoyed going back to a different time and place. I have found very few historical fiction novels that cover this time period and found it very interesting.

Length:: 2:23 Mins

Ancient Fire is the first novel of Barbara Korsness that I had the pleasure to read. The time period is of great interest to me, as it takes the reader to Crete, ca. 1900 B.C. The story revolves around Kira, a plucky female bull dancer but also encompasses Egypt, Babylon, and the South Arabian desert. Kings and prophets make their entry as well.
When Kira is injured she has to forsake being a bull dancer. Together with her brother she goes on a Minoan trading ship. They end up traveling through exotic lands and live through adventures that might cause you to bite your nail as you wonder and worry. Entertaining reading. Enjoy!

Author Korsness must be in tune with the past. With her second book, "Bull Dancer" she amazed me again with her knowledge of ancient history.
Korsness's first book, "Ancient Fire" had me believing she'd visited ancient times in order to write the book, and reading "Bull Dancer" convinced me she is so in tune with the past, she must have lived back then.
Sure, writers do research; but the style these books are written in pulls the reader into the flow of the story and makes them feel as if they are back in time...and I mean, wayyyy back in time.
The message that women were just as eager to do what men do in ancient times rang true in this beautifully written tale of adventure and searching. Excellent!