A DEADLY MENACE IS BREAKING THROUGH THE GROUND. THE PEOPLE OF ABASCAR MUST ABANDON THEIR STONE REFUGE AND FLEE INTO VULNERABILITY IN THE FOREST....
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May 18, 2010
Phyllis
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Raven’s Ladder by Jeffrey Overstreet, a Review
Published by Waterbrook Press, 2009, 380 pages
Genre: Christian fantasy, suitable for teens and adults
I read the first book in this series, Auralia’s Colors, but didn’t have time to read the acclaimed second one, Cyndere’s Midnight. This is the third in the series of four called The Auralia Thread. As I read Raven’s Ladder, I missed out on various references to previous happenings. I do recommend you read these in order!
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Published by Waterbrook Press, 2009, 380 pages
Genre: Christian fantasy, suitable for teens and adults
I read the first book in this series, Auralia’s Colors, but didn’t have time to read the acclaimed second one, Cyndere’s Midnight. This is the third in the series of four called The Auralia Thread. As I read Raven’s Ladder, I missed out on various references to previous happenings. I do recommend you read these in order!
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Apr 17, 2010
Margaret
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This book kept me on the edge of my set because I kept waiting for certain things to happen. Good points were made in subtle ways, but I was again let down by the amount of threads left undone - and one entire house was left without much more than a passing mention. I can only guess that there is a third book and the author delights in stringing us along from one book to the next without anything being accomplished. It's like a marketing ploy - then we have to buy the next book.
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Mar 12, 2010
Sandra
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Publisher: Multnomah, 2009
Source: This book was provided for review by the WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group.
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This was difficult for me to get my head around at first because this is the third book in the Aurelia books. I have ordered the first two and plan to read them this next week. However we know that after the fall of H More...
Source: This book was provided for review by the WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group.
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This was difficult for me to get my head around at first because this is the third book in the Aurelia books. I have ordered the first two and plan to read them this next week. However we know that after the fall of H More...
Mar 11, 2010
Jennifer
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This one took me a little while to get into it. In the beginning of the story I was lost as to who the characters were and what exactly was going on. (Little did I know when I started this that it was the third in a series, I think I should have read the other two first.) There is a "glossary" of characters in the back, and through the first few chapters I referred to that quite a bit.
The story began to get pretty interesting around chapter 9. Before that there were a few go More...
The story began to get pretty interesting around chapter 9. Before that there were a few go More...
Apr 10, 2010
Becky
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Overstreet continues the Auralia series with perhaps the best story yet. His writing is so rich that it reminds me greatly of Tolkien's poetic prose. For example:
"The midday sun was hot, but the light was drained of health or hue. Each step he took scared ghosts of ash from some slow, invisible burning into anxious southward flight. How could he be sure of a direction north and west? The world around him was disintegrating; he saw nothing he might have recognized." p3 More...
"The midday sun was hot, but the light was drained of health or hue. Each step he took scared ghosts of ash from some slow, invisible burning into anxious southward flight. How could he be sure of a direction north and west? The world around him was disintegrating; he saw nothing he might have recognized." p3 More...
May 03, 2011
Ranting
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Raven’s Ladder is Jeffrey Overstreet’s third installment in The Auralia Thread, a Christian fantasy series that started with Auralia’s Colors and continued with Cyndere’s Midnight. Raven’s Ladder brings us back to familiar characters like King Cal-raven and his fabled mother, Jaralaine, while featuring a supporting cast of characters introduced in Cyndere’s Midnight, including Cyndere, Jordam, Ryllion, and Emerienne. In Raven’s Ladder, Ho More...
Raven’s Ladder is Jeffrey Overstreet’s third installment in The Auralia Thread, a Christian fantasy series that started with Auralia’s Colors and continued with Cyndere’s Midnight. Raven’s Ladder brings us back to familiar characters like King Cal-raven and his fabled mother, Jaralaine, while featuring a supporting cast of characters introduced in Cyndere’s Midnight, including Cyndere, Jordam, Ryllion, and Emerienne. In Raven’s Ladder, Ho More...
Mar 09, 2010
Ellen
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Raven's Ladder is the third book in The Auralia Thread which also includes Auralia's Colors and Cyndere's Midnight. I have not had the chance to read either of those books. In Raven's Ladder, The House of Abascar was destroyed in a huge earthquake and all of its people are now displaced and living in caves. Cal-Raven (the child King) has an encounter with The Keeper (a godlike mythical creature) and is urged to find his now displaced people a new home. Raven's Ladder is a chronicle of their
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Mar 07, 2010
Kathleen
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Raven's Ladder continues the story of Auralia,Cal-raven and Cyndere among others in this third book in this series, Auralia's Thread. Auralia's Colors being the first and followed by Cyndere's Midnight. There is a large cast of characters, with quite a few from the previous books.King Cal-Ravens hope to create a peaceful kingdom is thwarted by all sorts of man and beasts in different forms. His faith will be challenged time after time as he goes about trying to establish New Abascar for his peop
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May 14, 2010
'chris
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Raven's Ladder is the third book in the Auralia Thread series and is not a stand alone book.
The refugees from Albascar seek refuge in the lovely destination kingdom of Bel Amica. Cal Raven's people are physically safe but they are in danger of losing their own culture in the ease and beauty of the host city.
Jeffrey Overstreet weaves several different plots that would be confusing for someone not familiar with the other two books. Raven's Ladder is written a little differe More...
The refugees from Albascar seek refuge in the lovely destination kingdom of Bel Amica. Cal Raven's people are physically safe but they are in danger of losing their own culture in the ease and beauty of the host city.
Jeffrey Overstreet weaves several different plots that would be confusing for someone not familiar with the other two books. Raven's Ladder is written a little differe More...
Mar 19, 2010
Jamie
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This book took longer than most other books I've won through Goodreads to finally arrive. I wasn't really bothered by that, but I was starting to wonder if the book would ever show up.
Now, this is the third book in a series. I didn't notice that tiny detail until...after I'd already won and relooked over the giveaway details. I'm amazed I missed that detail. I don't know...I must have been half asleep or something. But the book itself doesn't help in advertising that. For a book in More...
Now, this is the third book in a series. I didn't notice that tiny detail until...after I'd already won and relooked over the giveaway details. I'm amazed I missed that detail. I don't know...I must have been half asleep or something. But the book itself doesn't help in advertising that. For a book in More...
Mar 26, 2010
Janalyn
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With lyrical prose that sometimes verges on poetry and piercing insights into his character's motivations and desires, Jeffrey Overstreet brings to life a tantalizing world in Raven's Ladder. Glimpses of a ruined culture are made more terrifying by contrast to passages of incredible beauty and the nobility of the book's protagonist, Cal-Raven.
King of a conquered and wandering people, Cal-Raven seeks a place to build a New Abascar. He discovers a legendary city at great cost. Can he w More...
King of a conquered and wandering people, Cal-Raven seeks a place to build a New Abascar. He discovers a legendary city at great cost. Can he w More...
Mar 27, 2011
Amy
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Mar 09, 2010
Mark
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I'm never quite sure what to expect from fiction by an author of Christian faith... for every wonderful reading experience (like Stephen Lawhead's Celtic Crusades or C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia), there are numerous slogs through preachy & cliched schlock. (Insert obligatory reference to the Left Behind books here.) It's a little like Tim Burton films - you never know when an "Edward Scissorhands" is going to bloom amongst a field of weeds like "Batman Returns" and "
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Mar 02, 2010
Rachel
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Raven’s Ladder is the third book in the four-book Auralia Thread, a startlingly poetic, deeply spiritual fantasy series that begins with Auralia’s Colors and Cyndere’s Midnight.
The story dawns on a displaced people: The people of House Abascar, led by the young king Cal-Raven and his faithful guardsman Tabor Jan, have moved into a network of caves after the collapse of their house in a cataclysmic earthquake. Cal-Raven dreams of building New Abascar according to his childlike dreams, More...
The story dawns on a displaced people: The people of House Abascar, led by the young king Cal-Raven and his faithful guardsman Tabor Jan, have moved into a network of caves after the collapse of their house in a cataclysmic earthquake. Cal-Raven dreams of building New Abascar according to his childlike dreams, More...
Jan 03, 2012
Bob
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The best fiction transports the reader into the setting of the book. The adventure written becomes an adventure experienced. Characters aren't just described by the author, they are befriended by the reader. This is when reading becomes an engrossing, consuming experience, and books become a work of art rather than a mere production. Jeffrey Overstreet wields this kind of book magic in his "Auralia Thread" series.
Raven's Ladder (book #3) was my first encounter with the se More...
Raven's Ladder (book #3) was my first encounter with the se More...
Aug 05, 2010
jD
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Okay, I lied about one star. It was the only way to get revenge on Jeffery Overstreet. I plan to change the number of stars to five as soon as the next book comes out.
Bottom line -- I want to scream at Jeffrey Overstreet. I assumed the book was a trilogy or maybe four books to wrap BUT NO. I knew I was going to be screwed out of a conclusion when I was about 25 pages from the end. There was no way it was getting anywhere near the conclusion of the underlying story. So I take bac More...
Bottom line -- I want to scream at Jeffrey Overstreet. I assumed the book was a trilogy or maybe four books to wrap BUT NO. I knew I was going to be screwed out of a conclusion when I was about 25 pages from the end. There was no way it was getting anywhere near the conclusion of the underlying story. So I take bac More...
Feb 19, 2010
Amanda
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I haven't been able to get enough of this series since I first discovered it in 2008. It's phenomenal. Here are a few of my thoughts on Raven's Ladder:
Faith and acceptance have played huge roles in this series and continue to in Raven's Ladder. But another aspect also comes to the front, awakening. I feel each character comes to an awakening, a comprehension of the truth around them. The story/journey isn't over yet for Cal Raven, Jordam, the people of Abascar and Bel Amica, but the More...
Faith and acceptance have played huge roles in this series and continue to in Raven's Ladder. But another aspect also comes to the front, awakening. I feel each character comes to an awakening, a comprehension of the truth around them. The story/journey isn't over yet for Cal Raven, Jordam, the people of Abascar and Bel Amica, but the More...
May 01, 2010
Shannon
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This was a difficult book for me to read. Maybe it was because it is the third book in a series, and I haven't read the first two books. Maybe it's because the writing seemed all over the place at times, difficult to keep up with what characters were who and what was going on where.
That being said, the story line was good. A young king must lead his people to a safe new home after their previous home has been destroyed, and he is lead by visions that most of his followers scoff at. More...
That being said, the story line was good. A young king must lead his people to a safe new home after their previous home has been destroyed, and he is lead by visions that most of his followers scoff at. More...
Jun 30, 2011
Michael
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After the artful genius of Aurelia's Colors and the foundational underpinnings of Cyndere's Midnight, it was a great adventure to see where things progress in Raven't Ladder. These are all brilliant books and The Ale Boy's Feast is riviting. I will be reading all of these again guaranteed. I could see these on the big screen someday if there's any way to maintain the beauty and integrity.
Feb 17, 2010
Sandy
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Fantasy is generally not my genre of books, but I actually enjoyed it and now want to read the first two. This is the third book in the Auralia series. The author opened a door into this beautiful but very dangerous world that I am still thinking of. It was very captivating and inspiring. Even if you don't like fantasy, you should read this book. I think you will be very impressed.
Mar 28, 2010
Jenny
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This is a Goodreads "First Readers winner" book!
I definitely jumped into the middle of this series, so it took some time to get my bearings and figure out the storyline, characters, and mythology. Nonetheless, once I caught up the plot was entertaining. Lots of descriptive passages balanced the bursts of action in the story. I will probably read the 2 previous books in this series at some point.
I definitely jumped into the middle of this series, so it took some time to get my bearings and figure out the storyline, characters, and mythology. Nonetheless, once I caught up the plot was entertaining. Lots of descriptive passages balanced the bursts of action in the story. I will probably read the 2 previous books in this series at some point.
Nov 03, 2009
Esther
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Jeffrey Overstreet thrilled me with the 3 book of the Auralia series. The decriptions of scenes and characters were fantastic, the layers of the story enticed me to read more deeply. I highly recommend this book, and can't wait till it is published next year.
Jul 16, 2011
Cathrine
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"This is my Favorite part," the old man continuly mutters through out the book, "the part where she comes back."
When you finally realise who "She" is this will be your favorite part too.
Like the first two books this strand in the Auralia thread is beautifully written in outstanding prose. The story continues Abascar's search for a new home and the fight against the pagan Seers and their moon cult. Filled with action, adventure, and life's hi More...
When you finally realise who "She" is this will be your favorite part too.
Like the first two books this strand in the Auralia thread is beautifully written in outstanding prose. The story continues Abascar's search for a new home and the fight against the pagan Seers and their moon cult. Filled with action, adventure, and life's hi More...
Jul 08, 2011
Elisabeth
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"Auralia's Colors" will always be my favorite book out of this series, but "Raven's Ladder was a good read with a complex and sometimes confusing storyline.
Apr 23, 2010
Brian
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Read aloud with Shannon. Thoroughly enjoyable. But make sure to read the previous two books in the series first.
Jul 15, 2011
Nicci
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Lots of very important events. I was a bit shocked towards the end when I guessed something and realized int he same breathe how wrong I was. Huge shocker.
I am so pumped for the 4th book, and since there are 4 holds ahead of me ath the library, I think I am just going to buy it. I do not have that kind of patience. I am so stoked for the final book in this series.
I am so pumped for the 4th book, and since there are 4 holds ahead of me ath the library, I think I am just going to buy it. I do not have that kind of patience. I am so stoked for the final book in this series.
