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The Moon Riders

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Myrina is just thirteen years old when she joins the Moon Riders, a band of Amazon women who are both warriors and priestesses. She expects to stay with them a few years, then return to her village to marry and raise a family. Little does she know what lies ahead. When Myrina meets Cassandra, the young princess of Troy, the two girls become friends. But war and tragedy lurk on the horizon. Cassandra sees in her visions the doom that her brother Paris's affair with Helen will bring to Troy. But her father dismisses her warnings as lunacy. Soon, Myrina and the other Moon Riders find themselves drawn into the Trojan War as they try to help the besieged city of Troy defend itself from the Spartans.

This book was very exciting, and the details of life in the ancient word were fascinating. At times, I had a hard time putting this book down! I highly recommend this book to teen readers who are interested in the legend of Troy, or Greek mythology in general. I can't wait to read the upcoming sequel!

Moon Riders is such a great book. Myrina leaves her family and tribe to go and join the honored Moon-maidens. When the Archeans wage war on Troy the Moon Riders turn warrior. Princess Cassandra of Troy, who joins the moon riders when Myrina does, feels it important for her to go to Troy and help them through this dificul time. As Myrina sees terrible things and rushes with the Moon Riders at her back to help, Troy is bearly surviving. I would definately recommend this book to anyone who hjas interest of women proving themselves to be just sas capable in war as men. This book kept me reading all through the night. This book you can read about 5 times and still read it more.

Moon Riders starts by introducing all the charactors so you feel like you've known them all your life. Myrina leaves her family and tribe to go and join the honored Moon-maidens. When the Archeans wage war on Troy the Moon Riders turn warrior. Princess Cassandra of Troy, who joins the moon riders when Myrina does, feels it important for her to go to Troy and help them through this dificul time. As Myrina sees terrible things and rushes with the Moon Riders at her back to help, Troy is bearly surviving. I would definately recommend this book to anyone who hjas interest of women proving themselves to be just sas capable in war as men. This book kept me reading all through the night. This book you can read about 5 times and still read it more. The Moon Riders should definately be required reading!

Although the writing in the book is nowhere near as proficient as 'The Forest Wife', 'Moon Riders' is definately worth the time. At first I thought I was going to love the book, but when I started reading and got bored with it's slowness I was sure that forcing myself to read it would make me hate it. Guess what? It was well worth getting passed the boring stuff, because it all adds up in the end. I was amazed with the story, and utterly fell in love with it. Well worth the effort.

Theresa Tomlinson shows an amazing understanding of how stories and mythes grow and shape. For intance there is the young princess Cassandra who ,in greek mythology, was loved by the sun god Apollo who granted her the gift of prophesy,but she turned away from him. He could not take away his gift so he made sure she would not be believed by makeing everyone think she is insane. In THE MOON RIDERS Cassandra was promised to be a priestess at the temple of Apollo but left to become a moon rider,she did have the gift of prophesy but everyone thought she was just jelouse of her elder brother so she was not believed.
There are a lot of mythes in this book yet the all seem like real events that grew to become mythes.
This is a wonderful book which has a lot of research in it and it may be this which enables her to write so vividly and compellingly or it may just be the fact that she is a very strong writer.
I would recommend this book to anyone, but if you have an interest in greek mythology ,as I do ,then it is a must.

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The Moon Riders is an excellently written story about a young woman warrior, Myrina, and her involvement in the historic Trojan Battle. I thought the plot of the book was exciting as the tragic events from Homer's Iliad slowly unraveled. Cassandra, Paris, Helen and other characters from the Iliad were seamlessly interwoven with the fictional characters of the novel. Myrina and her friends and family felt real in both their behaviors and emotions.

After reading this book I did a little research on Cassandra -- a character from the Iliad I knew almost nothing about. After reading various stories about her, I felt that author Theresa Tomlinson did an excellent job of merging a mythic two-dimensional character into a believable three-dimensional person.

I also appreciated the Cast of Characters listed at the back of the book. Some of them were obviously fiction, some were obviously from the Iliad, but some were from other Greek writings. For example I had never heard of Penthisilea from the heroic poem by Quintus of Smyrna. I'm glad Tomlinson used other ancient Greek sources for her characters. After reading the reading the author's note -- it was very apparent how much she enjoyed the research and writing of this story.

A compelling novel, the Moon Riders will make readers feel like they are getting a glimpse inside the world of the ancient Greeks.

The next book in this two-part series is the Voyage of the Snake Lady.

I loved this book almost as soon as i started it. It starts out when Myrina is just 13 she joins the rank of the warrior prestiess the moon riders. Then as she is leaving she discovers the Trojan princess Cassadra (whom she befrieaned early in the book.) has stolen away in her bag, this is the starting point for the adventure, soon myrina is tangled up in the Trojan war. This Book is very well written, and is the first book that ever made me cry. It is a story of strong female charcters, first love, friendship, war, adventure, heartbreak, and beauty. It is a story that will leave you on the edge of your seat begging for the sequal. I high recommened this book!!!

Another great book by Tomlinson. Emotional and inspiring. She captures femininity and adventure so truthfully. Her characters are honest and real, easily relatable to.