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Thunder in the Sky by William Sarabande

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challenging slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

Thunder in the Sky by Williams Sarabande

1/5 not sure what’s going to happen to this copy yet but it’s not staying in my house. 

I tried to DNF this book, I started reading it on Dec 1 while I was getting my newest tattoo done and the whole session I hated the main character and didn’t think the story was going any where and so I was going to DNF when I got home. 

I stopped reading the book for two weeks but I kept thinking about Bold Man and how he deserved every bad thing that hadn’t happened yet. So I found myself picking Thunder In the Sky back up. 

But it wasn’t fun to read. 
  • Every character has at least two names so it was hard to keep straight who was doing what 
  • out of three POV characters only one felt like he was doing anything worth watching
  • there is so much misogyny
  • I once spent an entire lunch break reading 1 page of their book and then getting lost in a Wiki rabbit hole about ancient camelids, which fun fact, originated in what is now known as North America, and is a common ancestor for what we call camels, llamas, alpacas, and vicuñas.
  • So. Much. Misogyny. 
  • I have been spoiled by Jean Auel’s Earth’s Children series that is so well researched and uses extant anthropological evidence as basis for her stories, this just feels like glorifying violence and extrapolating savage myths about natives. 
  • In the authors note at the end the author basically says that because we discovered sewing needles and hair pins and burial traditions of ancient humans in North America, he is allowed to extrapolate what ever visions of culture he has and you can fight him about it be writing his publisher a letter. 
Not a fan. No one else should read this book. 

Oh! And keeping with the theme, this is book 6 of a series, I started here because NOWHERE on the cover does it say that. And apparently this year I don’t care and will read whatever, whenever lol.
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