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Healer's Touch is Deb E. Howell's debut novel, and is an absolute page turner of a read. The setting of a Fantasy book against a Wild West era background provides a novel viewpoint to the quest story...
For Llew to heal, something must die. For Llew, a young pickpocket who lives as a boy on the streets of a Wild-West mining town, the real problems begin when she survives the gallows. Forced to run, she persuades a group of fighters escorting a young girl to her wedding to let her travel with them across the badlands. On the journey Llew faces hostile tribesmen, desperate bandits, and the enmity of her own companions shoud they find out who and what she is: a girl, a fugitive, and a feared Healer. One of the fighters, Jonas, possesses superhuman prowess as a warrior, and carries the knife able to 'kill the unkillable'; the knife that can kill Llew. Despite being of races at war for centuries, they are drawn to one another. During the journey, they encounter Braph the magician, Jonas' half-brother and potential nemesis. He pursues them as they journey across the sea and continent of Phyos and, at the moment Llew finally feels safe, he abducts her. He begins to take what is most precious to him: her blood. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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There's a lot of energy in the book, plenty of surprises: just when it seems it's going one way it twists off into another. The opening is so terrifically done that it draws you into the dark world speedily, and before you know it you're caught up. Occasionally there were passages that seemed to me to be a bit too drawn-out, but the big set pieces are well done. The heroine, Llew, is a great character, full of angst and emotion and guts and determination. She's pretty well matched by Jonas, the man who initially should be killing her because of their backgrounds but who falls, almost unwillingly, in love with her. He's passionate, struggling with his own past, and continually trying to deal with things that aren't going according to plan.
I only had a couple of quibbles about it: my impression from the presence of horses, telegraph, and other 19th century ways of living was that the book takes place at some time in the past, but the characters' language varies quite a bit between modern slang and swear words, and old-fashioned conversation. Maybe I misunderstood the 'time' it takes place in, but for me hearing characters using expletives that have only become common in the last few decades or so was a bit disconcerting.
Secondly, the references - very few - to New Zealand flora and fauna seemed a bit confusing. It plainly doesn't take place in New Zealand geographically and historically (even given that it's a fantasy) so I wasn't sure why bellbirds and totaras, for example, made appearances alongside made up places and trees.
Anyway, it's an achievement for a first time author to make up characters and a world on such a scale. Looking forward to the next episode, in which no doubt Braph continues to cause problems for all and sundry...!