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Critically acclaimed author Kai Ashante Wilson makes his commercial debut with this striking, wondrous tale of gods and mortals, magic and steel, and life and death that will reshape how you look at sword and sorcery.
Since leaving his homeland, the earthbound demigod Demane has been labeled a sorcerer. With his ancestors' artifacts in hand, the sorcerer follows the captain, a beautiful man with song for a voice and hair that drinks the sunlight.
The two of them are the descendants of the gods who abandoned the Earth for Heaven, and they will need all the gifts those divine ancestors left to them to keep their caravan brothers alive.
The one safe road between the northern oasis and southern kingdom is stalked by a necromantic terror. Demane may have to master his wild powers and trade humanity for godhood if he is to keep his brothers and his beloved captain alive.
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- A K
- 01-30-17
didnt care 4 it
Seem to be more for gay or bisexual reading. storyline OK I was impressed thou.
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- Seedye
- 04-30-21
Flowery prose obscures a unique world, characters
I’m a fan of writers like Jeanette Winterson and Lorrie Moore, whose prose is highly stylized. I don’t think every writer needs to be a Hemingway. But Wilson’s writing is so bloated with exotic adjectives, it quickly becomes a chore to listen to. Metaphors are often inapt, and confusing, better reframed as similes.
It’s an interesting world populated with interesting characters that get lost in a soup of adjectives. Towards the end, I was finding it hard to pay attention to the plot.
Did the sorcerer kill the big cat, or did the captain? Or were there two and one of them killed the captain? Were the sorcerer and captain lovers before they set out with the caravan or after? Don’t know, don’t care to slog through the morass to find out.
I think Wilson has a great talent, but needs a better editor and maybe a writing coach.
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- Blane
- 08-26-21
a personal surprise
Yes. Yes I did it. I'm embarrassed but I found this story by searching for books narrated by Kevin Free. I figure from an author's point of view this is just ... unspeakable. (But. You know. Go Kevin!) In the long run it gave me a marvelous and heartfelt surprise!
So. I listened to this book without paying the slightest bit of attention to the blurb including the fact that it was a novella. Here's what happened:
Wow. What a great piece of writing. Oh. Wow. Is that not a wonderfully evocative sex scene . (Wait. What?I haven't cared much about a sex scene in years.)
Oh my. This battle description really works.
Oh. Hey! This is a *romance* set in a band of mercenaries. Neither of these things is my first choice genre yet I can't put this down...
I'm chuckling again. The dialogue really is good.
But now it seems to be getting serious. What's happening... OMG. The story is over. I pause, stunned by the perfect words of the ending. Then I react.
It was one of the most moving moments in my 60+ years of reading. Kai Ashante writes beautifully and with a great sense of timing. This story is wonderful.
I highly recommend the story, the author, and yes! *the narrator* who did a fantastic job of bringing it to life.
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- Christina Vlinder
- 10-27-16
What is this story about?
Liked:
-Interesting and charming use of narrative voice and dialogue
-really unique and weird way of using magic: "milking third eye" and then spitting ichor from a forked tongue
-yay for gay and bisexual characters!
Disliked:
-This book is missing elements of a clear narrative structure. I never knew where it was going, what the goal was. It just meandered. This might have been helped if the characters' meeting had taken place in the beginning of the book instead of the end.
-The end was rushed. SPOILERS BELOW
The main character's lover dies. An annoying trope for gay romances, but even worse, the death is purposeless and not explored at all. It literally happens in the last minute of the 5 hour book. As far as I can tell, the main character's goal throughout the story was simply to be with his lover, follow him, maybe convince him to lead a more peaceful life. Well, the lover dies, which I suppose makes this book a tragedy, but there is absolutely no exploration of the death, resulting grief, and how the main character will refocus his life and move on. So as a love story it fails. As a tragedy it fails.
I would love to see this book rewritten with a more logical narrative structure. Set up the problem, work towards solving it, give us the character's darkest hour, then a glorious resolution. The cool setting and unique dialogue/narration combo deserve a better narrative structure.
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- It'sMeAgain
- 02-17-20
Skillfully Written
A beautiful story skillfully written, blending romantic prose and modern day vernacular seamlessly! The symbolism for the concerns and the beauty of the black community is deeply present and felt even more deeply. I love the story and was sad for it to end.
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- Jefferson
- 07-24-16
An Epic of Ebonics, Demigods & Brokeback Mountains
Although the god-blood flowing in the veins of Demane (AKA Mountain Bear) is diluted, as he was born long after the "gods" (mostly) left the world for the stars, he still has enough to be a candidate for divinity and or transcendence. He keeps his potential power and knowledge under wraps as much as possible, for he's working among superstitious and exploited mortal guard-laborers on a caravan as it heads south towards the Wildeeps en route to mighty Olorum. But though he tries to keep a low profile as unofficial healer, his fellow guards find his skills and knowledge uncanny, his bag magical (holding as it does everything from spears and saddles to medicines and pyrotechnics), and he their Sorcerer. At the same time, Demane is winningly naïve, believing at first that prostitution is a kind of marriage and feeling uncomfortable in and ignorant about cities. Why has he come clad as a semi-naked barbarian so far from the sparsely populated green hills of his home? To escape an undesired marriage? To see the world? To test himself and his powers in dangerous situations? To find his soulmate? Demane is an appealing protagonist, patient, loving, brave, dignified, kind, thoughtful, and modest.
About soulmates, as the novel progresses, it becomes increasingly clear that Demane is in love with the mysterious caravan captain (call him Captain), a tall, lean man of preternatural fighting abilities and endurance. Captain also has the blood of heaven flowing through his veins, and Demane knows that to suit their coarse world the man (?) cramps his vox-seraphica, his singing voice that would otherwise evoke wonder, and hides under a tightly wound head scarf his heliophage (starlight feeding) hair. Demane senses that despite his awesome capacity for violence Captain was made for beauty and love, and his frustrated longing for Captain builds the longer they travel together on the caravan. This same-sex relationship between the protagonist and his lover is still quite rare in genre fiction. Wilson depicts this love naturally and humanely: "Some day I shall run my fingers through my lover's hair. 'Some day.' Of all words none more so purely distills the futility of human hope, mortal dreams."
Wilson's epic sf-fantasy genre novel is also remarkable for mostly taking place among people of color. The dark-skinned men working for the caravan speak African American English, calling each other "brothers" and saying things like, "They got a whole big-ass lake." (Demane speaks their language with them, and mainstream English with himself and Captain.) One of the pleasures of reading the novel is hearing the authentic and savory language in a genre context that's usually white and (at least pseudo) British:
“I ain’t crazy, Sorcerer. So don’t be looking at me like that. I seen it. In the middle of the night, I got up to pee. And seen it by the moonlight: right over in some trees. Standing close as that patch of weeds you see right there.”
“Well, how come you didn’t just wake up some--"
“I was scared, is how come. You should of seen that damn thing! Tall as the captain, Sorcerer, I swear it was. Walking around like anybody. Teeth like this!”
Wilson does a concise and convincing job of secondary world creation. To begin each of his seven chapters he includes excerpts from letters, legends, and the like that shed light on the cultures and gods of his world, and he limits the action and history to one continent. The Wildeeps is a neat creation: a chaotic jungle of magical potential and overlapping times and worlds, so that mere mortals had better not step off the protected Road. And the main story involves a formidable antagonist, a man-eating necromantic tiger who messes with the weather, instantly heals its wounds, and generates power from its stash of decomposing kills.
Wilson also writes a tight plot, which extends backwards through flashbacks that reveal Demane's training by his "Auntie" and the early stages of his relationship with Captain and propels events forwards as the caravan travels from the station at Mother of Waters into the Wildeeps. Where most authors of the epic sf/fantasy genre would bloat this kind of story up to 700 plus pages, Wilson follows a less is more precept. Also the book is often quite funny, whether in witty and ironic asides by Demane or in the humorous antics of some of the brothers.
And Wilson's writing is vivid, witty, lean, and poetic:
--Demane comes to himself "like a slapped sleepwalker."
--"Some butcher had not judged them different meats, for with intimate promiscuity cadaver of man and carcass of pig lay strewn together in every attitude and condition of death."
--"Careful. A toad, beetle small and searingly green as pond scum, crept on the path ahead. With the butt of his spear Demane gouged the dirt and slung the virid speck, mud engulfed, off the path where Captain's foot, half-naked in a sandal, would step a moment after his own."
Audiobook reader Kevin R. Free convincingly switches between African American and standard American accents and effectively modifies his voice for different character moods and types. Captain's vox seraphica is impossible for a mortal to read, but Free does it as well as anyone could.
I do wonder about the origin of the "gods," and wonder whether they are beings of advanced technology and genetic modification, or what. I do yearn for a strong female character or two (it's a guy's story). I think Wilson pushes the linguistic things too far by having one of the brothers speak with a French accent and patois. I also think the end of the climax is a little too unclear. But I really liked Sorcerer of the Wildeeps, and imagine anyone wanting a quick, fresh take on the epic sf-fantasy genre would enjoy it.
NOTE: I read two critical audible reviews and would say that the story makes more sense the longer you read it, but that if you don't like rich style in your fantasy, you won't like Wilson's--I find it a pleasure.
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- kameron
- 11-30-16
Amazing
a truly unique and amazing story. there this is one of my favorite science fiction stories. there not spot of black sci-fi out there but this is one of the best.
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- kat m
- 12-28-22
Engrossing
A masterful, engrossing, emotional story written with elegance and depth. Poetic, deeply felt, vividly imagined and expressed, and done great justice in narration by Kevin R. Free. This is the sort of story that’s worth listening to again and again for the layers upon layers to be appreciated.
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- Jordan
- 08-22-16
Way different than anything else
Some of the reviews mentioned lack of character development. I disagree. There was just enough to understand that this is a story of love experienced and then lost. Sometimes the pros made it difficult to understand what was happening but I appreciate how different this writers work is. He definitely has his own unique style and I love that AAVE is legitimized with his work.
Very sad ending but I look forward to Kai's next work.
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- Caroline K
- 09-22-24
New fantasy readers, try something else
I was recommended this book to help me further understand the ideas of gender roles and race in the fantasy genre, to which I felt this book did an outstanding job. The characters are predominantly African American, something not commonly found in fantasy, and the author utilizes AAVE (African American Vernacular English) as the main dialect of communication between characters. Although this story does provide valuable African American representation, as a new fantasy reader, I was left rereading pages at a time due to confusing wording and unclear transitions in time sequence. The fantasy elements in themselves are not difficult to understand and do not require background experience in the genre, but the ambiguous academic wording was incredibly difficult to follow as someone with very little fantasy expertise. Even after speaking with advanced fantasy readers, it was clear that they also struggled to understand every section and page, which tells me that the story is an undertaking to be done by the bravest and most critical of academics with days to kill rereading and unpacking page by page.
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