Rebecca Lochlann
Autore di The Year-god's Daughter (The Child of the Erinyes)
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Opere di Rebecca Lochlann
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Lochlann, Rebecca
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Organizzazioni
- Refiner's Fire, Writer's Write, She Writes, OWFI, HFAC
- Breve biografia
- While growing up, Rebecca Lochlann began envisioning an epic story, a new kind of myth, one built upon the foundation of the Greek classics and continuing through the centuries right up into the present and future.
This has become her life’s work, though she didn't exactly intend it to be that way when she started.
The Child of the Erinyes series is historical mythic fantasy, “Loads of testosterone, slaughter, and crazy magic” (with a love story, of course.)
The Year-god's Daughter is her debut novel: Book One of The Child of the Erinyes series. It has been utilized as a study guide in an American university, named a B.R.A.G. Medallion honoree, and was awarded finalist status in the Chaucer Historical Fiction awards. Book Two, The Thinara King, a First Place winner in the Ancient History category of the Chaucer Historical Fiction awards and a Next Generation Indie Book Awards finalist, continues the saga. Book Three, In the Moon of Asterion, wraps up the Bronze Age segment of the series and leads into the middle trilogy, all set in Scotland: Books Four, The Moon Casts a Spell, Five, The Sixth Labyrinth, and Six, Falcon Blue (not yet available).
Rebecca has always believed that certain rare individuals, either blessed or tortured, voluntarily or involuntarily, are woven by fate or the Immortals into the labyrinth of time, and that deities sometimes speak to us through dreams and visions, gently prompting us to tell their lost stories. Who knows? It could make a difference.
Connect with Rebecca at her website, on Twitter, Facebook, or in a review at your point of purchase.
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Recensioni
The Thinara King: A Saga of Ancient Greece (The… di Rebecca Lochlann
Strange book, but in a good way. I liked the character of the oracle more than the young queen. I read the first book in the series and I liked it better than this one. However, this book is very exciting in parts. Undecided whether or not to buy the remaining books in the series.
Excellent book. I'm not an historian but it seems well researched to me. It's full of mysticism, oracles, bull dancing, ancient gods and death. Loved it.
Review: The Year-God’s Daughter by Rebecca Lochlann.
I love to read about Greece. I have never been there but I have read many interesting things about Greece that keeps me intrigued enough about learning more. Even fiction has plenty of history and truth embedded within the stories that has a mystique feeling about the culture, the ancient civilization, the old architecture buildings and the past eras of time. There is plenty to read to keep the reader fascinated to the very end. Rebecca Lochlann did her research and created a story filled with traditional rituals, blood sacrifices, corruption, dancing with the bulls, in the era of “the Bronze Age” in Crete. The story was well written and the characters were fully developed.
This is a story of a Queen who rules Crete and she is getting ready to hand down her power to her eldest daughter, Iphiboe who is destined to become Queen, she is quiet, shy, having no confidence, afraid of men and no leadership within her. She does not want the position of becoming Queen and having no choice in who she marries. There is a ritual competition that suitable men have to do which includes killing the King that has served his year with the Queen of Crete. A man who wins the right to become King for a year only serves that one year and he will also be killed by the next male who wins the title of King for a year. Strange tradition but there is never a lack of men to compete each year.
She has a lovely spirited younger sister, Aridela who is yearning to live and love beyond the restrictions placed on her by their harsh matriarchal society. Minos Themiste, a priestess, has openly stated that Aridela will stay a virgin and live in the caves to be groomed to become the next spiritual person for life. She is admired by all men for her beauty and open behavior of rebelling and breaking all restrictions she can. She even defied her mother the Queen by secretly getting into the bull ring the first time and participated in performing a dance with the a vicious bull and got speared by its horn. At this time she is still a child under fifteen but ready to challenge the rule of the Queen. Aridela recovered and her second attempted with the bull she prevailed.
Aridela defiance doesn’t stop there and her antics will keep the reader following and loving her character to the end.… (altro)
I love to read about Greece. I have never been there but I have read many interesting things about Greece that keeps me intrigued enough about learning more. Even fiction has plenty of history and truth embedded within the stories that has a mystique feeling about the culture, the ancient civilization, the old architecture buildings and the past eras of time. There is plenty to read to keep the reader fascinated to the very end. Rebecca Lochlann did her research and created a story filled with traditional rituals, blood sacrifices, corruption, dancing with the bulls, in the era of “the Bronze Age” in Crete. The story was well written and the characters were fully developed.
This is a story of a Queen who rules Crete and she is getting ready to hand down her power to her eldest daughter, Iphiboe who is destined to become Queen, she is quiet, shy, having no confidence, afraid of men and no leadership within her. She does not want the position of becoming Queen and having no choice in who she marries. There is a ritual competition that suitable men have to do which includes killing the King that has served his year with the Queen of Crete. A man who wins the right to become King for a year only serves that one year and he will also be killed by the next male who wins the title of King for a year. Strange tradition but there is never a lack of men to compete each year.
She has a lovely spirited younger sister, Aridela who is yearning to live and love beyond the restrictions placed on her by their harsh matriarchal society. Minos Themiste, a priestess, has openly stated that Aridela will stay a virgin and live in the caves to be groomed to become the next spiritual person for life. She is admired by all men for her beauty and open behavior of rebelling and breaking all restrictions she can. She even defied her mother the Queen by secretly getting into the bull ring the first time and participated in performing a dance with the a vicious bull and got speared by its horn. At this time she is still a child under fifteen but ready to challenge the rule of the Queen. Aridela recovered and her second attempted with the bull she prevailed.
Aridela defiance doesn’t stop there and her antics will keep the reader following and loving her character to the end.… (altro)
There was much to like in this book: the research, the politics, some of the characters. This time period fascinates me and I appreciate the amount of research that went into its construction. The setting is fully developed; societal mores/religion well integrated and believable. Most of the main characters grabbed me and I'd like to know what happens next. However, I found the writing a bit overwrought and the story padded--but I prefer more straight forward writing and action. Others who like a more languid pace and lots of description will like the book better. If it had not ended on a cliffhanger, I would have given it four stars. As is, the ending was far too abrupt with nothing--absolutely nothing!--resolved about the plot and character challenges. I understand some books are too long for one volume and, in the past, publishers have broken them up, but more modern epics usually have some resolution within the plot before moving on.… (altro)
Liste
Ancient Crete (3)
Premi e riconoscimenti
Statistiche
- Opere
- 11
- Utenti
- 79
- Popolarità
- #226,897
- Voto
- 4.4
- Recensioni
- 8
- ISBN
- 12
