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People of the Sea (The First North Americans Series)

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I liked this one. It's a charming saga of prehistoric peoples somewhere in California. Our heroine gets afoul of her husband for adultery, and decides to run off instead of facing the death penalty allotted to her. Her angry husband and his brothers follow her for weeks with murderous intent. During her escape we read of her many exploits trying to throw them off her trail, the birth of her baby alone in a cave, and how she manages to cross a raging river with the newborn. Always heading west, finally she's taken in by a coastal tribe. Meanwhile the coastal tribe has their own problems. The mammoth migration has declined in recent years and they are forced to look elsewhere for a home. The angry husband eventually shows up and a deadly confrontation results. I found the story readable. The battered wife, angry husband confrontation is a bit overdone. Do we really believe that he would spend a year and risk death to find and kill a adulterous woman who ran off and kept going? I didn't believe it. The disaster that befalls the coastal tribe is a little overboard too, but I guess it's almost believable. With those exceptions it's a good entertaining read for the hot tub on an afternoon.

Pregnant and fleeing from her abusive husband, Kestrel is in grave danger. When Sunchaser, a Dreamer who has lost his way, finds her they unexpectedly fall in love. At a time when mammoths are being driven to extinction, Sunchaser must hold his people's faith steady and save his lover from her husband and enemy. How can he possibly complete these difficult tasks when Power has abandoned him? Set in the Sierra Nevada's of the Ice Age, their world was in a dramatic state of environmental flux which affected the lives of all living things.

I have been reading my way through the People series, and this is the 5 in the series and the 5 that I've read. Of all of them so far this one was my least favourite. I have found the others in the series to be so believable and engrossing. This one was less believable and the characterization was not as finely drawn. I intend to read the rest and I hope that they are more like the other 4 books in the series. So far my favourite has been People of the Earth.

This book is like most of the others in the series. DAMN GOOD. Thanks Mike and Kathleen Gear and all of their staff for doing such a good job researching these books.

As with all of the "North America's Forgotten Past" series, this book is remarkable! We may never be able to repay the wealth of knowledge garnered by many and shared by the Gears in this series. Thanks to the Gears for providing an astonishing glimpse into the past of our great country's true "First Nation Peoples"!

A woman, 17, with a newborn runs from her murdering husband. She has to use her wits and her survival skills to journey with her daughter in 13,000 B.C. She has to live off the land and fend off pre-historic animals on her trip across California.

I was very excited to find this book in hardback. I have the whole series and hadn't been able to find a hardback copy to read and put on my shelf with all the other "People". It seemed it was missing something that some of the other books have, it was still good, and still had lots of information, but I didn't seem to get into the book as quickly as others. Still I would recommend it!

I've loved everything I've read by the Gears and I've read just about everything they have published. Wonderful interposing of fiction onto the facts! They use their expertise as anthropologists and as story tellers to combine what really has been found about North American Indians and interpose a very believable story onto it. They really make the past come alive! The inclusion of what has really been found by anthropologists adds tremendously to the books!

Seeing WolfDreamer again was like hearing from a long lost friend, like a message from the past. I found the scene with him and Sunchaser in the future at the ruins of Chaco Canyon to be some of the most powerfull writing they have done so far. The Spirals crying out for WolfDreamer to save them and now knowing what became of Green Ash's(People of the River) son Born of Water was gutwrenching. You can relate to the panic the people must have been feeling watching their world change before their eyes, having mammoths drown themselves and forgetting what some animals looked like must have been unsettling to them. It also dosen't help that their best Dreamer has lost his way to the One and has fallen for a hunted woman. The only annoying side of the story was Lambkill,he was a bit to inhuman too evil and crazed to care about or even feeling the least bit sorry for him.

Help! I'm hooked! People of the Sea was another one I hated to put down. I love how each book in the series teaches me something new. The story line was excellent and kept me reading into the "wee" hours. On to the next one............