Customer Reviews

Ember From the Sun

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4 star:		(7)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

To Mr. Canter, this being your first novel, I have found it very good. I am a hard reader to please and this novel has kept me interested for the entire book. I have read the reviews after I read the book and tend to agree with some of them. This was too broad a subject to place between the pages of this novel. This subject could have been a trilogy. However, I totally disagree with the review of it being too much new age "voodoo". You have talent and promise. Write a sequel and give use hard pleasers something other to read than Ann Rice!

This was a great book. I am like some of the other reviewers, I like King and Rice, and can be easily let down. This book did not let me down. It was very entertaining, and I liked the blend of history and fiction. Would definitely read more of his novels.

As a scientist and a mystic, I eye both warily when i read novels. I found the anthropology believeable and the mysticism--though slightly unique--enhanced the humanity of this novel about a barely human protagonist. Liking and relating Amber is easy, and understanding her genetic make-up follows logic. Soon I forgot about the science though, and got lost in a story as sweet and gripping as any I have read. I typically read a book slowly, but this one prevented the lawn from getting mowed and the history papewrs from being graded as I read voraciously, engrossed in the people, the places, the anthropology, and the mystery.

This book was a great book that let you experience the emotions that the character was going through. The book was an open book that could be taken from many different angles. The plot was interesting and kept you inside, it differed from other novels I have read in the past. The idea was so original and captivating it will leave you wanting for more.

I first read Ember From the Sun about 6 years ago. Twice more I've reread it with pleasure. I have just finished it once again and it still holds a special place in the treasure section of my heart. Fantacy? Truth? Myth? I don't care. It's a good read.

I won't give away the story line but will say that this is a marvelous blend of adventure, mystery, science, prehistoric peoples and the lives of wonderful characters

Mr. Canter does an excellent job of expressing the feelings of his characters.

This book is about a unique person who was brought to life by a scientist named Yute Nahandeh from an embryo found in a frozen Neanderthal.

Though the Neanderthal had been laying in the ice for a few million or so years, she was not completely frozen. When she was thawed, she decayed like any normal human being.

The child brought to life had a unique skin colour of golden. She had large hands and feet and she had extremely potent physical abilities. She was ambidextrous and was extremely intelligent. She has strange healing powers and has a greatly enhanced sense of smell.

This book is a bit hard to believe and some parts do drag on a bit, but overall, it was well-written. Well done!

For a first Novel, Mark Canter has reached into the depths of the human (and even more miraculously) the female psyche...and created vividly and credibly..a human being born 25,000 years out of time...and made her rich with the gifts of intuition and caring...and subject to all the human emotions.
You care deeply about Ember...and the problems related to *not quite fitting in*. Her sense of caring and responsibility make her journey all the more poignant.
The love of her family comes through loud and clear and with truth.

If you have any question about whether to read this book....I can simply say....READ IT!!
Jud

I couldn't put this book down. For a first novel, Canter was brillant.
I was captivated by the first two lines of the cover description and purchased it immediately.
The tale is one of our own beginnings. It will be compared to Jean Auel's sage except that this Neadrathal has been
brought to our time. Ember is born from a 25,000 year old embroyo that was preserved in her mother's womb to be found and
implanted today. She grows up dealing with the cruelty of youth, being different looking and having strange dreams and visions.
Upon trying to discover her history, she leads us on a wild ride through the Pacific Northwest and up to the tundra lands. I don't want to give anything
away that would take from the pleasure of this book. Read it today!

In many respects, this is a promising first novel. The premise is a tantalizing one, rich with possibilities. It has to be one of the deepest held desires of modern people -- the wish to somehow "redeem" the fallen world we inhabit by bring the world we have lost back to life. Given where the currents of modern culture seem to be taking us, from Hollywood daydreams like Juraissic Park to talk of cloning a woolly mammoth or tasmanian tiger, the idea of bringing back to life archaic humans couldn't be anything less than compelling. And, so long as Canter sticks to this premise, _Ember from the Sun_ is plausible, exciting, and in many places, funny and touching. Ember Ozette is a wonderful literary creation; in the novel's finest moments a reader can identify profoundly with her sense of incommensurable loss and alienation. However, the mystical backstory of the novel -- reincarnation, race memory, etc. -- comes off like semi-digested new age claptrap. For a far, far better integration of the religio-mystical and science fiction in a similar kind story, rent _Ice man_; John Lone's neanderthal stranded in time will bring you to tears. Still, this is worth reading unless you are completely allergic to new agey voodoo. Three and half stars.