What the future holds

Wednesday 26 November, 2008 at 17:01 (Books, Entertainent, Life)
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Aloha my readers (hey, let me at least pretend I have some).

It’s been a while since the latest post, mostly because I have an uninteresting life, but also because I’ve been waiting for the latest book in The Legend of the Ice People to arrive in my mailbox. Thanks a lot to amazon.co.uk for being 2 weeks late. So much for pre-ordering, eh?

Anyway, I wanted to make a little post about what I’ll write about here soon.
First off, you’ll soon find a review of Mortal Sin, book #5 in The Ice People. I just have to finish reading it. So far though, it looks like it could be one of the best books so far. Very interesting characters and events, not to mention a very “hot” and controversial topic! So stay tuned for that.

Another thing to come soon may be a review of Stephen Kings The Gunslinger, first book in his epic tale of The Dark Tower (Watch out for spoilers in those links). It’s been maybe a year since I read The Gunslinger, so I’m refreshing my memory by listening to it on audio book.

If you’re a first time reader I do have to say that I use the word “review” lightly. I’m i no way a professional at this, so don’t expect anything other than a fan review. Not a die-hard-fan-for-decades review either.

That seems to be it for now, so long – stay tuned – and thanks for all the fish.

- abscondo

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The Legend of the Ice People: #4 Yearning

Monday 10 November, 2008 at 2:07 (Books, Entertainent, Life, Love, Unexplained)
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***Warning – this post contains spoilers***
to read the review of book #1, click here.

 

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In Yearning, the historic evil curse so feared by the dwindling descendants of the Ice People comes to fruition. A terrifying child, Kolgrim, is born to Sunniva, daughter of the unrepentant witch, Sol Angelica, whom Silje rescued from the plague in the first novel Spellbound.

As Kolgrim grows up, the lives of Silje and Tengel are drawing to a close and the focus moves to their children and grandchildren…

 

In Yearning, the focus shifts heavily to the new generation of the Ice People families. The books main character is in fact not of the Ice People at all, but from a small farm in the Gråstensholm parish. We meet Yrja, who is a disfigured little girl, bound to spend her life alone or working for her very large family. Or so we are led to believe.

Other main characters include Sunniva and Tarald, Cecilie, Tarjei and one Alexander Paladin, a nobleman from Denmark who Cecilie meets when she moves down there to take care of the Kings (bastard) children.

The most exiting new character however is Kolgrim, the first (or is he?) afflicted child of the Ice People since Sol. Kolgrim however seem to lack her love for his kin, and his dark side is a lot more dominant than it was with Sol. Exciting times in other words.

The main storyline, as in The Depths of Darkness there are more than one, is that about Yrja and her love of one of the male Ice People members, who only have eyes for someone else.
Nothing revolutionary there in other words, but the novel is remarkably relevant in other ways. Ways I will not reveal here, you’d have to buy it for yourself.

Yearning ends in a very interesting way, now more than ever I can’t wait for the next book to come. Dark clouds are looming over the horizon, and the Ice People are being dragged into the awaiting darkness.

As usual I can’t recommend this if you haven’t read the first few books, but if you have, keep reading!

Score:
7/10

Thanks,

-abscondo

 

 

One more thing, if this book doesn’t make you shed a little tear – you’re a rock.

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The Legend of the Ice People: #3 Depths of Darkness

Saturday 8 November, 2008 at 1:32 (Books, Entertainent, Love, Unexplained)
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***Warning – this post contains spoilers***
to read the review of book #1, click here.

 

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In The Depths of Darkness, Sol Angelica, the beautiful and restless niece of Tengel, becomes the focus of the story…At twenty years of age she is able to give full and free rein to her long-held wish to seek out ancient witches covens in the lowlands and to worship the Powers of Darkness unrestrainedly. At last she feels ready to fulfil all her secret and depraved dreams of power and carnal passion.

Yet like her uncle Tengel, all her impulses are not evil – it is not only the dark powers that guide her. And she finds she is ready to give her life to protect those nearest and dearest to her…

In this third book, the focus shifts mainly unto Sol, the now 20 year old niece of Tengel. She has been behaving relatively well over the last years, keeping her promise to her foster parents to don’t use her powers for harm. As a reward she is given her bag of herbs, mixtures, potions and other (worse) witch-craft remedies.

Sol breaks away from home to “have her own experiences”. She goes to visit Dag, who is now studying in Denmark. Her main goal however is a fabled witches coven, which she remembers the heinous witch Hanna talking about in the first book, in Sweden. While in Denmark it doesn’t take long for her to get in trouble due to her powers and the general paranoia of the witch-hunters of the time-period.

Despite what you may think when reading the text on the back of the book, there’s a lot going on in Depths of Darkness. At least 3 or 4 individual stories take place, most of them being about Sol and her new adventures.

This is in my opinion the best book so far. We get to know a lot more about Sol, what drives her and the conflict within.

It’s difficult to recommend book number 3 in a series of 47, in order to fully enjoy it you should read the first two beforehand, of course. If you have read the first two, get this one as well, there should be no doubt in your mind. Times are slowly changing, new characters steps forward and older ones begin to step back.

You may laugh, you may feel empathy, you may dispair, you may rejoyce.
You may cry.

It’s all part of the Ice People experience.

Score:
8/10

Thanks for reading.
-abscondo

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