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Daughter of the Sun
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Seventeen-year-old Hoshi'tiwa had a simple life. The daughter of a humble corn grower, she planned to marry a storyteller's apprentice. But her world is turned upside down when she is captured by the powerful and violent ruler of an infamous city with legends of untold wealth and unspeakable acts of violence to its name. Hoshi'tiwa is suddenly thrown into the court of the Dark Lord, and as she struggles for power, she begins an illicit affair with the one man who has the ability to destroy her.
Best-selling author Barbara Wood has crafted a sweeping saga of one woman's struggle to survive within the dangerous and exotic world of the Toltec court. Set against the backdrop of Chaco Canyon and the mysterious Anasazi people, Daughter of the Sun is an unforgettable novel of power, seduction, murder, and betrayal.
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- 07-03-18
This Story Doesn't Blow Smoke
I thoroughly enjoyed this story and actually ended up completing it in 2 days. I felt like I just had to know what would happen to Hosi'tiwa next. I loved her energy and spunk and for standing for what she believes in (I only wish more folks had her cahoonas). I also like the fact that the author, Barbara Wood, weaves in actual facts within her novel, which always makes for a more enjoyable experience. This is my first book by Barbara Wood, however, I will make sure to enjoy more.
The narration was terrific, of which, I would expect nothing less than that from Rebecca Roberts, who doesn't rush as so many other narrators do.....also kudos for all of the pronunciations.....some of these names were a mouthful! Good job Rebecca.
I received this audiobook at no-cost from Audiobookworm Promotions. The gifting of this audiobook did not affect my opinion of it.
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- 10-03-17
Very interesting story, very different
A very interesting story that doesn’t work out like you would think. It isn’t a romance although it does have people who fall in love and the outcome of that love. Mostly it is based on one woman who everyone thinks because she was born under a rain star that she can make it rain through her rain vases she makes. This is her journey of what she goes through losing her love as another man takes over her life. When he falls in love with her things get very sticky when others want her as well.
Rebecca Roberts as always gives me a highly entertaining listen she puts so much into her audios giving you a wonderful clear listen free of background noise. There are no high or low tones just wonderful clear even voices. I love her voice and could listen to it all day. Her male voices are as wonderful as her female ones. It is so wonderful to put a voice to the characters they feel more real to me. I love how she bring the story to life as she puts emotion into her read never leaving you guess as to how the character feels or what they are thinking. She always delivers a high quality audio that is highly entertaining. It is always a delight to see her name on an audio I have decided to listen to. She truly has a lovely voice with wonderful character voices it is really surprising how many different voices she has that sounds so different and truly fits each character. I really hope Ms. Roberts is the narrator of those as well. You are going to love this narrator and what she brings to the listen.
I thought a lot of thought went into this plot it kind of has a happy ending but at the same time very sad. My heart really broke for so many characters as life goes on leaving a big hole in their world. Hoshi'tiwa stole my heart from the first page as she is torn from her family to live a life she is unsure of. Things do not turn out the way she thought they would. She is a very strong brave woman who takes things as they come making it as good as she can. Her life turned from love to a very painful time leaving her guessing to her outcome. I really enjoyed this but have mixed feelings on the ending. The other characters were interesting, some I liked and others I did not. I was torn between who she would love and who got hurt when really they all did. This has a powerful meaning, there is much pain from hate, to love or dreams, needs and wants. I really enjoyed listening to it. It isn’t one of my favorite books but the narration really brings the story to life.
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- 05-20-17
A powerful woman
When I discovered this book on the ‚Up for Adoption‘ page of Audiobookworm Promotion, I absolutely had to listen to it. I remembered having devoured another novel (Virgins of Paradise) by Barbara Wood many years ago, and I remembered how fascinated I had been, even though my memory of the plot is hazy. So, I didn’t even read the summary, hence I didn’t know what to expect.
Let me tell you, this is a great story that made me think. I wondered about the old religions and beliefs, asking myself whether they weren’t preferable to today’s religions. But my first impression of a peaceful religion was soon shattered, because, as is so often the case, those believing in cruel deeds to please their gods oppress all the others.
What puzzled me, was the focus on female virginity before marriage, and the idea that they were makai-yó (outcasts) if they were found out. Somehow, I had always connected this anti-female behaviour with Christendom. However, the book seems extremely well researched, and whether or not this virginity thing is due to poetic licence or actually took place, it doesn’t really matter to me — although it does matter to our main protagonist, Hoshi’tiwa, whose life takes a turn for the worse when she is claimed by the Dark Lord — from then on, she is makai-yó.
This book contains everything you could wish for, especially a lot of information about the religious beliefs, rites, traditions, clothing, food, drink, and daily life of the Toltecs shortly before they perished. All this information isn’t easily found on the www, so much about these people is still shrouded in myth, with few facts known.
Barbara Wood masterfully crafts an engaging story that you won’t want to put down. It is great that this novel is now available as audio book, and the narrator, Rebecca Roberts, does a fantastic job at narrating it. Her voice in my head was never obtrusive, she simply drew me in, and I was there, on center green, seeing it all before me, suffering with the slaves, connecting with Jakál even.
There is only one character who is truly ugly inside and out, all the others have many facets, and though you may not like them, you can understand them.
The combination of a great story and a wonderful narration makes for a very enjoyable 15.5 hours of listening time.
As mentioned above, I received this audiobook at no-cost from Audiobookworm Promotions. The gifting of this audiobook did not affect my opinion of it.
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- Awallens
- 07-23-17
Wonderful narration and great story
This story was wonderful! This is a part of history I don't know a lot about, and it was told with Grace and heart. The narration was spectacular! It is very obvious that the narrator spent a lot of time learning how to pronounce different words with different accents. I was really impressed with her performance, and it really made the book come alive for me. I would definitely recommend this to historical fiction lovers and anyone interested in an epic tale.
I was given this audiobook for free for an honest review.
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- Mary
- 10-13-17
Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican Tale
Historical Fiction is my favorite genre and this novel was a bit different. The novel takes place in the 1100's southern New Mexico and Mexico. There are not many novels from this time era and geographic era.
The story features a strong intelligent heroine, Hoshi'tiwa and her star crossed love with a the ruling and feared "dark lord" Jakal.
As gruesome as Jakal may be he has compassion and a conscious that his rival Xikli, the general of the Jagar military lacks in his quest for power and plans to overthrow Jakal. Jakel worships a peaceful sun god, a god of peace, a bearded white god who will some day return from the Eastern seas. His god does not demand human sacrifices, however Jakal also acknowledges and respects the other gods that do thirst for human blood. So under Jakel there are gruesome human sacrifices, but only as much as Jakal feels that are necessary to satisfy the gods' thirst and to keep the world in balance.
In contrast, Jakel's sadistic rival Xikli's god is the god of war who has an insatiable thirst for human blood. Xikli yearns for ultimate power and does not respect Jakel, whom he sees as week. Xikli, plots and schemes often secretly defying Jakal's order's, such as making unauthorized human sacrifices.
The region is in a severe drought, and Jakal hears of a skilled potter, Hoshi'tiwa, who is the maker of beautiful rain jars. Rain jars collect the rain and they need to be unique and beautiful to entice the gods to send rain to fill the jars. Hoshi'tiwa is kidnapped from her village and brought to the capital city by Xikli on orders from Jakal to make rain jars. Xikli lies to the people of Hoshi'tiwa's village telling the villagers that Hoshi'tiwa is being abducted to be Jakal's mistress. By not telling the truth, Hoshi'tiwa and her village is shamed rather than honored.
Xikli thinks it is foolish to bring Hoshi'tiwa to the capital city to make rain jars to entice the gods to send rain. Xikli insists that Hoshi'tiwa as well as more other humans be sacrificed until the gods' thirst is quenched, and then the rains will come. He thinks Jakal's plans to bring Hoshi'tiwa to the capital city to make rain jars is silly and foolish and shows weakness.
Hoshi'tiwa matures from a naive girl into a strong intelligent heroine and advisor to Jakal.
Jakal is a classical ancient Greek type hero. A noble tragic hero.
If one is in the mood for a somewhat different historical novel, with elements of a ancient tragic Greek drama, then this book is good choice.
The narration is well done, clearly read and intoned.
I received this audiobook at no-cost from Audiobookworm Promotions. The gifting of this audiobook did not affect my opinion of it.
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