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The Tale of Asha, Volume 1: Death
by
Joseph Robert Lewis (Goodreads Author)
The Tale of Asha series is a collection of fantasy short stories following the strange adventures of the herbalist Asha and the nun Priya as they travel across India.
Volume 1: Death contains three stories.
The Lotus Cave
Asha, a traveling herbalist, investigates a local legend about a demon that drank up a river and the young Buddhist nun who restored the river but never ret...more
Volume 1: Death contains three stories.
The Lotus Cave
Asha, a traveling herbalist, investigates a local legend about a demon that drank up a river and the young Buddhist nun who restored the river but never ret...more
ebook, 83 pages
Published
February 18th 2011
by Joseph Robert Lewis
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This is a book of short stories set in an existing alternate timeline series. For those who don’t know what alternate timeline books are, they are basically books that are written on Earth but in there are different changes to the Earth. The best way to reference this would be the show Sliders. Each time, they slid to another Earth, but there were variances, such as America never became its own country, Space Flight was never discovered, etc.
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I really enjoyed this story. Asha is a smart, considerate and...well the only word I can come up with is calculating. She never does anything without her full wits about her. Asha was bitten by a dragon as a young girl, so she can hear the souls of all living things echoing in her own ear. She refuses to be called a doctor and refers to herself as an herbalist.
Each chapter is it's own adventure, where she first saves the nun Priya, then they help a possess...more
I really enjoyed this story. Asha is a smart, considerate and...well the only word I can come up with is calculating. She never does anything without her full wits about her. Asha was bitten by a dragon as a young girl, so she can hear the souls of all living things echoing in her own ear. She refuses to be called a doctor and refers to herself as an herbalist.
Each chapter is it's own adventure, where she first saves the nun Priya, then they help a possess...more
I Like Asha and her new friend Priya. Asha is a herbalist who goes traveling to find new animals and plant life that can help others. Asha finds people who need to help and gets envolved and helps them. When Asha was small she got bitten by a dragon and poisened and monk took her back to his temple and with a few years was cured mostly. she still has part of the dragon on her ear and can hear plants and animals now. It has ghosts, a mongoose, sunsnakes. Its a new world he has invented. I like jo...more
I enjoyed this book. Though the stories all revolve around some aspect of death, they focus more on ghosts and unnatural events then on characters dying. Asha is an herbalist and part of her story is told through her interactions with other people. The descriptions of nature and plants are fitting given her occupation, and her unique ability gives her an advantage in her field. The stories all blend natural events explainable events with myth and stories to make the problems seem supernatural, w...more
A fascinating and entertaining compilation of short stories set in an exotic locale, allowing the author to stretch his imagination firmly into the fantasy realm. Well written with a light and poignant feel. I will definitely check out this author’s other works.
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Joseph Robert Lewis enjoys creating worlds in which history, mythology, and fantasy collide in unpredictable ways. He also likes writing about heroines that his daughters can respect and admire. Joe was born in Annapolis and went to the University of Maryland to study ancient novels, morality plays, and Viking poetry. He lives in Maryland with his wife and children.
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