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For someone who is not a fan of sci-fi, this book drew me right in. You feel immediately for certain characters as you watch the caste system between houselords and keepers. The jumps back to the beginning were slightly confusing, but I see that they are necessary to explain how they got to where they are. The original people left the place they were in search of a place to worship the way they believed was right. When their spaceship was tampered with and they ended up in a place they didn't be
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I enjoyed A Gift of Fire: The Last God War. Book One by Stephen B5 Jones. The story is well told with a complexity to some of the characters that I enjoyed. The picture parallel with the dystopian society of Cityscape and many societies of today that have only two castes is drawn well. Jones made an interesting move when separating the ‘middle class’ of the Shanties to a hidden and distant region of Perma The creation of a new yet visual world is well done. The characters were like people I know
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Wow! This was a book that kept me focussed for long periods of time. It took me some time to get used to going back and forth in time and to keep all the characters straight, but once I was drawn in to the unique characters I wanted to discover what would happen next. The character's use of language made the story even more authentic. I applaud Jones for keeping it credible.
This book is very well-written and unique. Right from the moment I met Sharo and her brother I wanted to know the rest of t ...more
This book is very well-written and unique. Right from the moment I met Sharo and her brother I wanted to know the rest of t ...more
This author has done really well drawing you into another world so vividly and the overall feel for me was other worldly it was so different than I expected.
The characters voices are strong and unique and drawn really well you instantly are drawn to them and need to keep reading to see how everything between the time frames worked.It took a bit of effort to keep up and the change in the style of writing both were really good but you get use to the old fashioned wording to a present day feel of ...more
The characters voices are strong and unique and drawn really well you instantly are drawn to them and need to keep reading to see how everything between the time frames worked.It took a bit of effort to keep up and the change in the style of writing both were really good but you get use to the old fashioned wording to a present day feel of ...more
