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The Roar of the Huntids: A novel about the empowerment of an empath

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The Roar of the Huntids is a book I will buy dozens of this coming Holiday season, to give as gifts to people I love and care about. I personally know Rose Rosetree to be a talented and gifted "Face & Aura Reader", having offered her professional skills to both my corporate and private clients for many years now (through the Washington Talent Agency, which is where I work as an Agent.) Rose has the unique ability to be able to entertain and teach at the same time, offering amazing insights to all! In the Roar of the Huntids, Rose continues to do the same...entertain and teach, in the form of a fun, fascinating futuristic novel while sharing her knowledge of spirituality, especially empathy as she knows it to be. I had so much fun reading this book that I was sorry when it ended. If you love a good novel yet often prefer non-fiction, especially "self-help" and "spirituality" books, buy the Roar of the Huntids. You will not be sorry! You, too, will want to share this book with friends. I anxiously await her next book and have just purchased Empowered By Empathy.

The Roar of the Huntids is written as a spiritual awakening story. Rachel, a housewife has it all, but still longs for something. In Russian such a longing is called "toska" - pain of the soul that cannot be described by words adequately. And when Rachel's destiny offers a chance to reconnect with the Universe, she accepts it. Awakening comes with the price. It doesn't resolve her problems, rather adds more. In spite of it, it rewards heroine with inner balance and spiritual fulfillment.
It shocks when the ways of a housewife cross with global problems. We all know the feeling of being an outsider. This book gives a bold lnsight into the problem. If you read it, you will find out that Rachel had done some thinking for you. It may encourage you, also, to embark on a journey of soul search and spiritual growth.

It is a sincere book, and it comes from the author's personal experience.

This wonderful book had me hooked as I read page after page, missing my bedtime by hours, and still kept reading. It is about a world in crisis, with a fair amount of satire and wit painting that world. Some of the groups illustrated ring too close to home, even today. Although, the most important point of the book is the spiritual awakening of the heroine as the impending crisis approaches and she learns her true gifts.

This satire is spun around Rachel and her innermost feelings about friends and family. You will find yourself laughing at at the ironies and curious enough to find out how this warped futuristic story unfolds.

I found this book to be quite unique in its ability to reel me in and make me feel good. It dares to take on folks I have been waiting to see taken on for a long time! And it imparts a positive message we all need.

Dedicated to "those who believe there could be higher praise for a woman than to say, 'Did you lose weight?'", The Roar Of The Huntids is a superbly written feminist science fiction saga set in the near future of 2020. When strange insects of suspicious origin threaten the survival of the world, a wife and mother suddenly blessed or cursed with empathic powers must take drastic steps for the future of humanity. A dark yet thought-provoking cautionary tale, extraordinarily fascinating from cover to cover.

The resulting saga is a brilliant hybrid of science fiction, adventure, social satire, political intrigue, and spiritual awakening. A bored, lonely housewife discovers that she has perceptive abilities that lead her to unexpected adventure and love. The battle finale is unlike any you've ever read. Rosetree's experience as an aura reader and empath, plus her incisive wit, make this novel a must-read in this age of awakening.

Because I have not read this book, you have to take my review with a grain of salt. I avoid fiction, generally. I have studied the rest of the books Ms. Rosetree has written with some care.

I just came from a working session with Ms. Rosetree. Her skills are quite unusual indeed (in my experience), but they are objectively verifiable in many convincing ways. She is "for real" and there is no need to invest great faith in her work. It stands up to examination, and her results are remarkable (to me).

Because of her extraordinary personal abilities, I take the view that this is not useless, although perhaps entertaining, fiction (as I regard essentially everything Dickens ever wrote). This author would not have written a book that is not instructive in a much larger sense, and I now feel the need to read this book, too. In this case, I regard it as instruction through storytelling. If I did not think it would necessarily be instructional, I would not read it (you can take that to the bank).

As an empath, I had read "Empowered by Empathy" by Rosetree; it changed my life. But this wonderful novel brought the lifestyle to life. The heroine doesn't start off as a "skilled empath." She begins at least as clueless as I ever was.

The story just grabbed my heart, taking me for a ride through the wildly creative land of America, as satirized by Rosetree. There was just enough romance, suspense, and plot twist. A great read!The Roar of the HuntidsEmpowered by Empathy (The Audiobook)Empowered by Empathy : 25 Ways to Fly in SpiritLet Today Be A Holiday 365 Ways to Co-Create with God

Admittedly, after completing the second chapter, I finished the book by scanning. Although the story was utterly fascinating, I had a terrible time continuing to read. Although I believe Rosetree's focus on physical obsession in the book is satire, I don't believe HOW it is written is satirical.

It felt as though the qualities she was trying to convey in her characters bled through to the narrator's voice. It seems she had trouble separating the narrator from the dialogue of the characters. If the characters speak a certain way, then they do, but I want more depth and insight from the narrator. I don't want to be told what I can imagine myself if the material is well written (the most egregious being the "busty babe" excerpt below). She writes with a smile, with such lightness in her non-fiction, yet clearly professional: plain old good writing.

I've got three of her non-fiction books, and I know she can write relatively well. Whatever her intent with the novel Huntids, it didn't work for me, to my deep chagrin. You decide if it will work for you.

p. 1 "Did the stress of her poky life show? That was the important question. She stared into the rear view mirror and didn't feel reassured by the fact that, of course, she was technically beautiful. What woman in the 20s wasn't? Rachel's best features were her perky angled eyebrows, naturally straight nose and sexy big cheeks."

p. 6. "The women walked faster now, swinging their arms, getting down to business. From a distance they looked like sisters: equal attractiveness, perfectly matched steps. Both were busty babes. Admittedly, that was now standard for American females over the age of 14..."

p. 8. "So now, for Brent's sake, Rachel hid her loneliness. Driving the Honda, she wore a brave mask, though it felt as slickly false as her Revlon 3-D Red Hot Babe lipstick."

p. 10. ...the way his ears tilted back at a rakish angle."

p. 10. ...his nose stuck out way too far. It was the only imperfection in a drop dead gorgeous face. Once she had hinted that he should let a cosmetic surgeon take a whack at that schnozz and bring it to normal size. Jeremy just glared. Her Retro-Techie husband didn't believe in cosmetic surgery. Admittedly Rachel didn't need it herself, but she'd been tempted to send him just once, for that nose."

p. 144. "Marguerite was incredibly smart. Despite her vast intellectual prowess and her gazillion accomplishments, Rache's one-time best buddy was a rotten correspondent.

p. 148. "Her nose was wide; at least in profile it tilted up nicely. Unfortunately, the mirror alcove also revealed how much Rache's chin stuck out. When a chin was as small as hers, and pointy, at least it could have the decency not to stick out so much."

p. 254. At breakfast the next day, a waffle was easing its slow, delightful way through Rachel's mouth when Marguerite almost made her choke."

p.267. "He cleared his throat. 'The purpose of our meeting today is to sort Lightworkwers into study groups.' Somebody grumbled, 'Right, we'll study toxins.' Other smart-alecks babbled in the background."

p. 275. It was a long schlep to John's tent, it turned out, but Rachel didn't mind."