A delightfully entertaining story of how one woman’s effort to destroy helps her learn how to save.
A magical tale of fantasy, desire and revenge in medieval times.
In this magnificent debut, LaRose presents the young and beautiful Trilla, a maiden trapped between two desires—her dream to be a part of the Sisterhood of Zerr and serve the Goddess as a chaste priestess and her burning desire to be with Harnn, a handsome blacksmith whose amber skin and toned body fill her thoughts. Trilla is determined to hold firm to her promise of chastity, but Harnn proves to be too tempting; she finds herself running to find him, symbolically removing the ceremonial ribbons that represent her loyalty to the Goddess as if they are binding chains holding her back. At last, swept away by passion and longing, Trilla betrays her vows to the Goddess, and Harnn, as enchanted by Trilla as she is by him, proposes marriage. Despite her indiscretion, Trilla holds firm to her dreams and eventually chooses the ambition that has taken root over her blossoming love for Harnn; she abandons him. But the lonely life of the Sisterhood isn’t for Trilla: Eager for Harnn’s loving embrace, she fakes her death to escape. Trilla hurries to her village, brimming with plans for life in a faraway land, but she’s devastated to learn that Harnn, in her absence, has fallen for another. Trilla plots to destroy her rival, but in her attempt to do so, Trilla transforms and develops her own magical powers of insight and psychic ability. Soon, Trilla must turn to the Sisterhood for help as she begins to understand the evil that lurks in her land. Simply told in a straightforward manner, Trilla’s story is an easy read that romance readers will devour. Her struggle for identity and love is a timeless theme that resonates, and her foolish mistakes help create a likable, relatable heroine.
A delightfully entertaining story of how one woman’s effort to destroy helps her learn how to save.Pub Date: Aug. 22, 2013
ISBN: 978-1480801776
Page Count: 398
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Review Posted Online: March 15, 2014
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
A tasty, if not always tasteful, tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy.
Are we not men? We are—well, ask Bigfoot, as Brooks does in this delightful yarn, following on his bestseller World War Z(2006).
A zombie apocalypse is one thing. A volcanic eruption is quite another, for, as the journalist who does a framing voice-over narration for Brooks’ latest puts it, when Mount Rainier popped its cork, “it was the psychological aspect, the hyperbole-fueled hysteria that had ended up killing the most people.” Maybe, but the sasquatches whom the volcano displaced contributed to the statistics, too, if only out of self-defense. Brooks places the epicenter of the Bigfoot war in a high-tech hideaway populated by the kind of people you might find in a Jurassic Park franchise: the schmo who doesn’t know how to do much of anything but tries anyway, the well-intentioned bleeding heart, the know-it-all intellectual who turns out to know the wrong things, the immigrant with a tough backstory and an instinct for survival. Indeed, the novel does double duty as a survival manual, packed full of good advice—for instance, try not to get wounded, for “injury turns you from a giver to a taker. Taking up our resources, our time to care for you.” Brooks presents a case for making room for Bigfoot in the world while peppering his narrative with timely social criticism about bad behavior on the human side of the conflict: The explosion of Rainier might have been better forecast had the president not slashed the budget of the U.S. Geological Survey, leading to “immediate suspension of the National Volcano Early Warning System,” and there’s always someone around looking to monetize the natural disaster and the sasquatch-y onslaught that follows. Brooks is a pro at building suspense even if it plays out in some rather spectacularly yucky episodes, one involving a short spear that takes its name from “the sucking sound of pulling it out of the dead man’s heart and lungs.” Grossness aside, it puts you right there on the scene.
A tasty, if not always tasteful, tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy.Pub Date: June 16, 2020
ISBN: 978-1-9848-2678-7
Page Count: 304
Publisher: Del Rey/Ballantine
Review Posted Online: Feb. 9, 2020
Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 2020
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BOOK TO SCREEN
A new edition of the by now classic collection of affiliated stories which has already established its deserved longevity.
Pub Date: Aug. 16, 1963
ISBN: 055338256X
Page Count: -
Publisher: Doubleday
Review Posted Online: Sept. 13, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 1, 1963
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