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Midnight Robber
Title | Midnight Robber |
Writer | |
Date | 2024-10-18 10:23:27 |
Type | |
Link | Listen Read |
Desciption
Earphones Award Winner (AudioFile Magazine) It's Carnival time and the Caribbean-colonized planet of Toussaint is celebrating with music, dance, and pageantry. Masked "Midnight Robbers" waylay revelers with brandished weapons and spellbinding words. To young Tan-Tan, the Robber Queen is simply a favorite costume to wear at the festival - until her power-corrupted father commits an unforgiveable crime. Suddenly, both father and daughter are thrust into the brutal world of New Half-Way Tree. Here monstrous creatures from folklore are real, and the humans are violent outcasts in the wilds. Tan-Tan must reach into the heart of myth and become the Robber Queen herself. For only the Robber Queen's legendary powers can save her life...and set her free. Read more
Review
Highly creative, detailed, and original depiction of an alien society and two plausible future human societies, unified with a pleasant exotic spice to its dialog and a poignant human relations story at its core. Some educational insights Caribbean culture; subtly metaphorical in several respects. I'm a devout science fiction fan and this is one of the best novels I've read in the last several years. No reservations: read it!