This novel got off to a plesant start. Barbara Wood certainly knows how to take a reader to another time and place and make it real. Her research was obviously very excellent. Her writing style is terrific also. I simply did not care for this particular novel. After a great beginning, I gradually...
I read this book several or more years ago and reread it again just a few days ago; it's still a good book, but it did not improve on rereading, which for me is the hallmark of a great book.I've never read a novel by Barbara Wood that I didn't thoroughly enjoy and devour in one fell swoop of vora...
Once upon a time, in the earliest of time as a matter of fact, a meteor fell to the earth. It contained a beautiful blue stone which was picked up on the African plains by a primitive human girl called Tall One (named for obvious reasons). [return][return]The stone granted her certain power ove...
He aquí una novela histórica compleja y diferente. Cuando el prólogo de un libro ya te semi enamora, es buena señal. En unas pocas páginas ambientadas en la época presente (el presente siendo 1988) se deja entrever que lo que viene va a ser una gran historia.Deborah Treverton, una joven keniata d...