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Lovely and complex,
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This review is from: My Sister the Moon (Mass Market Paperback)
My mother's now-deceased school librarian friend recommended this book to my mother, as something she thought I would enjoy. I was 11 or 12 at the time. I loved it, and read it over and over. Until it fell to pieces, and I got a new copy, which also fell to pieces.Knowing my mom and her friends, they probably figured I'd adore Kiin, and were probably trying to inspire some tough/strong/independent female feelings in me. At the time, though, I only knew that this was a fabulous book. I loved the historical detail, the complicated relationships between characters, and how Sue Harrison made the characters and their culture seem close and accessible. The summarized plot can read like a string of deeply depressing traumas -- Kiin is abused since birth, remainds unnamed until she is about 15 or 16, is given a degrading name when she finally is named, is raped, is kidnapped, and so forth. But I was never depressed. I wouldn't say I was uplifted, either, but the book gave me a lot to think about. It's a genuine prize in a genre with so much junk.
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This review is from: My Sister the Moon (Mass Market Paperback)
This trilogy by Sue Harrison kept me glued in my chair for days! Her books move more quickly than Jean Auel's, and each book has a plot. They are more than sagas. What a wonderful way to learn about prehistoric peoples and their culture! I'm so glad to have found this author.
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Applause for Sue,
This review is from: My Sister the Moon (Mass Market Paperback)
This is a book i will probably never get rid of. it's one of those books that leave you so excited, you don't really want the story to end, but you're glad it ends for the characters' sakes.kiin is a beautiful young woman in prehistoric alaska who is hated by her father so much he beats her constantly and gives her a name that means "no one" or "nothing" i forgot which. when kiin is old enough, she prepares to be married to the brother of the young man she really loves. while she aches for her heart's desire, the man she loves is soon to be sent away after her marriage. after she has moved in with her lover's brother and his family and is already a few months pregnant, kiin is kidnapped by her brother, raped by him, and taken to a distant village where she is sold to a man in trade who already has two wives -- all by her own brother. kiin's courage and perseverance is what gets her home again. but her second husband persues her once she has run away and proceeds to fight with her first. this is where the novel ends. the real ending is revealed in the next novel: My Brother the Wind. who lives and who dies? who does kiin go home with? find out.
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