People of the Owl (The First North Americans Series)

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	• People of the Owl (The First North Americans Series) Kathleen O'Neal Gear, W. Michael Gear Forge Books, 2004 - 640 pages average customer review:based on 22 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Captivating

I don't know how accurately this book captured what life might have been like at this site. However, I was amazed and excited about their recreation of what life might have been like in that area of the country at that time. The descriptions of the natural environment were what I found most exciting in the book. I also found the plot and politics interesting. I thought Mud Puppy's actions and thoughts throughout the book were slow moving, and yet I felt that what transpired in the book ought to have taken a longer period of time. The ending was a disappointment; it seemed too abrupt and incomplete.

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Some books better than others...

...but really the whole series is fantastic. Again historical evidence and study went into forming the characters, with great success. The authors do a fabulous job painting a picture of what life was like and what was going on during the setting of the book. Can't wait until the next one.

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People of the Owl

I have only read about 1/4 of the book. So far very interesting. Makes one feel sorry for the young man Mudd Puppy. Looking forward to reading the rest of the book.

a great read!!

I loved this book. I was transported back in time. I could picure my self in the village. my only down side with it was thw ending but it was sill a great read!!

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People of the Owl (The First North Americans Series)

I've loved everything I've read by the Gears and I've read just about everything they have published. Wonderful interposing of fiction onto the facts! They use their expertise as anthropologists and as story tellers to combine what really has been found about North American Indians and interpose a very believable story onto it. They really make the past come alive! The inclusion of what has really been found by anthropologists adds tremendously to the books!

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Michael and Kathleen Gear, bestselling authors and award winning archaeologists are famous for writing novels about prehistoric America that are fast-paced, steeped in cultural detail, and smart. Here, in their most ambitious work to date, they combine their distinctive trademark of high action with a rich psychological drama.

Four thousand years ago, in what centuries later will be the southern part of the United States, a boy is thrust into manhood long before he's ready. Young Salamander would much rather catch crickets and watch blue herons fish than dabble in the politics of his clan. But when his heroic brother is killed, Salamander becomes the leader of America's first city. He inherits his brother's two wives, who despise him, and is forced to marry his mortal enemy's daughter to forge an alliance for the trade goods his people desperately need.

But he's only fifteen winters old! Technically he's not even a man, and most people consider him to be the village idiot! Worse, each of his wives has secretly been ordered by her clan to kill him.

Cast adrift in a stark wilderness of political intrigue where assassins are everywhere, young Salamander has no choice but to become a man-and quickly. For his own greatest enemies are closing in, intent upon destroying him and his clan and taking over Sun Town for themselves.
It would all be a simple matter if he could just run away, but he can't. He has three problems: Their names are Night Rain, Pinedrop and Anhinga. His wives. Despite what their clans have ordered them to do he loves them. And he loves the children they have given him. As the end draws close, he realized he has only one duty he cannot shirk-to protect his family. Salamander will do it. No matter the cost in blood.

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