The Holy Road: Book Two of The Rifter
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.48 (619 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1935560255 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 488 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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She lives with her wife in the Pacific Northwest. . is a Lambda Literary Award finalist and a Spectrum Award winning author
Once, John Toffler's concerns were limited to wringing rent out of his mysterious roommate, Kyle, and measuring the growth rate of moss for his graduate studies. Among the mystic warrior priests, he witnesses astounding magic and learns that the golden key he lost-the one that can open a Great Gate and allow him and his friends to return home-lies within his reach. Now, having escaped the desolation of Basawar's wastes and a brutal battle between Fai'daum revolutionaries and Guan'im cavalry, John has climbed the Thousand Steps to the heights of Rathal'pesha in search of a way home. Then one morning he opened a letter intended for Kyle and his ordinary, modern life vanished. Soon John is drawn into the heart of a power struggle that will decide who will live and who will die on the Holy Road.. But not even the remote mountain monastery of Rathal'pesha is safe from violent turmoil in an age of rebellion and religious warfare
Rifter is an astonishing story: terrifying and yet romantic. I can't say enough good things about her work. I was bewitched from the first sentence." -- Josh Lanyon"The Rifter is one of the most compelling things I've read in recent memory." -- Dear Author . "The true sorcery here is in Ginn Hale's writing, which is by turns funny, fierce and lyrical
Excellent! The way this book jumps through time is just skillful. It's such an engrossing read that you fall into the world and notice all this detail, and then when it's revealed that that was foreshadowing, you immediately know that you'd been aware, but not registered, the consistency. It's immensely satisfying to be in the hands of such a good author.. "Good Job with the Middle Book in The Rifter Saga" according to Wallace Rinkelhaus. Two caveats.First, I'm a big Ginn Hale fan.Second, I wish had had the chance to reread Book 1 of The Rifter saga, The Shattered Gates, before I read Book 2, as it took me a while to remember what had happened before and who the key players were.Even so, this is one compelling book and it kept me reading and I found myself drawn into Hale's detailed and intricately drawn world of Basawar. Would John, Laurie, and Bi. A more active and satisfying continuation, although the central romance is lacking. Recommended John has created a secure, if uneasy, life for himself in Basawar, but change is coming that will link John's present with Basawar's tumultuous future. These middle arcs have less worldbuilding and more plot than their predecessors, and Basawar feels more vibrant and alive as a result; the revelations of the plot aren't terribly complex, but they're satisfying. The Rifter has forethought without predictability, th