The Awakeners
ISBN:
9780552132954 (0552132950)
Edition language: English
Series: Awakeners -2 (#1)
(originally published as two novels: Northshore and Southshore.Lately, I've been disappointed in a lot of the Tepper books I've read. She's an excellent, brilliantly original writer, but too often there's a tendency toward over the top climaxes and beat-em-over-the-head politicizing.There definitely...
I've had uneven success with Tepper's work, but all in all I liked this book. It's anthropologically-minded fantasy, and goes in directions one doesn't necessarily expect. For example, I'm not all that terribly interested in the the young-beautiful-archetype on a quest for truth and justice tale. Te...
Be sure you have the second book before you get to the end of the first or you will be left hanging. This book has a quite start with Thrasne a boatman aboard a barge. He trades from town to town and sees much of the odd ways of the people on shore. In a town they pass a woman commited suside by thr...