Daring to choose her own mate despite her tribe's disapproval, beautiful Nisha of the peaceful cave dwellers is horrified when her people are attacked by a murderous band of nomads and plans revenge.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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The obsession of revenge has never been so greatly defined.,
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This review is from: Children of the Sun (Paperback)
This tale of one womans struggle with revenge, hatred, and love is simply breathtaking. Nisha's war with her emotions and the people who destroyed her world is masterfully developed. Each conflict draws the reader deeper into the intricately woven plot until they can identify completely with the main characters. This book simply cannot be put down. The ending leaves things a bit too unsure, yet this only seems too add to the depth of the possibilites.
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Children of the Sun by Charlotte Prentiss,
By Chelsea G. Humphrey (Motta Sans Anastasia, Sicily) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Children of the Sun (Paperback)
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In the American Southwest, ten thousand years after the last Ice Age swept the earth, a peaceful tribe of cave dwellers hunt and till the land. Beautiful, sensuous Nisha, known as the defiant one, dares to choose her own mate despite the tribe's disapproval. And together, the fierce passion between these two gives life to an infant son, destined to become the Great Hunter. But one night, under a sky filled with ominous stars, Nisha's world is viciously destroyed by a pillaging raping tribe of nomads. Watching in helpless horror as her husband and son are murdered, Nisha vows revenge. With relentless wit and wile, she plays her captors against each other, titillating them with a new kind of lovemaking, outsmarting and taming their brutishness. And with the triumphant courage of a resolute risk taker, Nisha escapes into a new life, filled with new adventure, passion-and love. Other books by Charlotte Prentiss: -Children of the Ice -People of the Mesa -The Ocean Tribe -The Island Tribe -Love's Savage Embrace (different style) Review: The story begins with a brief overview of Nisha's life in her lovely little tribe where she loves her husband and newborn baby dearly. The tribe lives happily together as equals. men and women work together with trust and freedoms. Charlotte Prentiss does an amazing job of elaborating their lives so that it leads into a story of justice. In one night, her whole life is changed by one traumatic appearance of Greb and his sexist men. You follow Nisha as her rage and anger consume her as she tries to bring the men responsible for such evil deeds as destroying her tribe and her people. This journey takes you along to see her frustration, her failures, her guilt, her wit and wile, her success and the different cultures and customs of other tribes. The characters are very well built; each has their own personality and their own reasons for doing as they do. I know this story is fiction but the way the story is told I wouldn't be at all surprised if in a far away place and time that something similar could have happened. The author did not flinch about putting blood and gore until the novel as well as sex, which many authors avoid because of fear of conflicting issues that the readers may have which I think could take away from a story. You want your readers to believe and it and how are we to believe it if the author's spare us the realistic truths of our own human savagery? As a survivor of an abusive boyfriend I understand the need for justice, the need for revenge and the need to help others like me. The guilt, blaming myself, the anger and rage and breakdowns was overwhelming for me and the story did a fine job of creating a similar circumstance for Nisha. The archeological aspect of the story from what I know of archeology and cultures of the time and place that the book describes is superb. It during a time when agriculture and other advanced tools and systems were spreading through the many tribes of the American Southwest...irrigation, trading systems, agriculture, bows and arrows - all of some of the many renovations making appearance in that time. The scenery was wonderful as well and she writes vividly. Great story for lovers of adventure, justice, passion, native and pre-historical fictions. Similar authors include Jean M. Auel, Sue Harrison, W. Michael Gear & Kathleen O'Neal Gear, Lynn Armistead McKee, William Sarabande and Linda Lay Shuler.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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It's the best book I ever read!!!!!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Children of the Sun (Paperback)
I read it last year when I was 13, I loved it just as much as I loved her other book People of the Mesa. She is my favorite author, I with to continue reading her books. :-) Thank you.
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