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Books by Title 11,000 Years Lost
Griffin, Peni R.
Amulet Books, an imprint of Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2004
Review
11 year old girl goes back in time to ice-age America; life of people and her finding a way to get along works fine; ending doesn't quite work -not satisfying
ok
A Breath of Snow and Ashes
Gabaldon, Diana
A Delacorte Press Book, Published by Bantam Dell, A division of Random House, Inc, 2005
Review
Time travelers coping with revolutionary war times; very detailed; portrays how still quite barbaric; how helpless the innocent can be; still too many interludes of sex described; two main women characters swear a lot
reservations – S,V,L
A Handful of Time
Pearson, Kit
Puffin Books, published by the Penguin Group, 1987
Review
Introvert with a talent for cooking deals with parents' divorce and strong-willed cousins; what made it interesting was her witnessing events from her mothers' youth; book shows how girls were put down in those days (50's?).
ok
A Million Open Doors
Barnes, John
A Tor Book, Published by Tom Doherty Associates, Inc., 1992
Review
Technology of instantaneous travel enforces a clash of cultures on distant planets; this book concentrates on 2 -one hedonistic and one strict; the first culture abounds with casual sex, but there is some introspection going both ways; and a committed relationship develops; the strict culture is a wierd off-shoot of christianity, perhaps somewhat puritan-like, enforces hard but meaningless work
Bias Against Christianity
See review column
not bad – S,V,L
A Princess of Roumania
Park, Paul
A Tor Book published by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, 2005
Review
Teenager finds she is being hunted as royal figure to an alternate Europe still at the level of 1800s. It's different -based on some european legends I've run across before, not the usual celtic ones; however, somehow I had a hard time getting through it; too much getting into the mind of bad guys at times
ok – V
 A Shadow in Summer
Abraham, Daniel
A Tor Book, Published by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, 2006
Review
Follows a young man raised in a harsh school that may lead to becoming a sorcerer; an elderly woman with an important position as accountant to a wealthy merchant; the sorcerer who must control a magic being of his own construction that considers himself a slave -and therein lies the motive for the city being put in danger; can these people prevent disaster?; there is a love-triangle, but when it involves noncomittal sex then it is no romance
not bad – S,V
A sorcerer's Treason
Zettel, Sarah
Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book, 2002
Review
A Novel of Isavalta; Character to care about; fine adventure; intrigue; all characters given dimension; Christians are not portrayed nicely as a whole -but judgemental gossipy type problem probably realistic of the times and there is one sympathetic priest for a little balance
not bad – S
Academ's Fury
Butcher, Jim
Ace Books, the Berkley Publishing Group, Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 2005
Review
Different groups of intelligent species interacting; new species causing trouble too one-sidedly evil and cause of everyone else's problem which is always a cheat since humans are more than capable of causing their own problems; setting and magic different enough to be interesting
not bad
Acorna's Rebels
McCaffrey, Anne and Scarbourough, Elizabeth Ann
HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 2003
Review
One of the better ones in this series because it's focused on solving just one problem. Book is not big enough to handle all the characters in depth so I don't really get into them so much. General problem with this series is that you have unicorn people and in this book cute kitties to save, yet the series deals with very serious issues. The past is just lightly referenced in this book but characters have experienced child-slavery, rape, and other nasty experiences. This book focuses more on pure greed. Casual sex is referred to with general acceptance but not illustrated in this book. Anne McCaffrey's later books seem to like this relationship shuffling that annoys me but not so much in this book. For example, "At first I thought maybe it was just me, because she was mad at me and wanted to be with that Fderation soldier, but then she dumped him after a couple of months. And she doesn't mind that I was seeing Andina. She likes her, says she's better for me than she was."
reservations
Acorna's Triumph
McCaffrey, Anne and Scarbourough, Elizabeth Ann
EOS, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2004
Review
Book about affects of an amoral time-traveling being; not bad but too many characters to really feel for them; some of the match-making for adults seems silly
ok
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