Michele Poague
Autor de Heir to Power: Book One
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: Photography by Mechelle Lassiter
Obras de Michele Poague
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Poague, Michele
- Nombre legal
- Poague, Michele R.
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1956-12
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Newman Grove, Nebraska, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Aurora, Colorado, USA
- Biografía breve
- My parents lived in Denver in 1956 and often went home for the holidays. My uncle Jim was totally freaked out driving 800 miles, in the dead of winter, through Nebraska farm land, with a woman who could go into labor at any minute, so I was born Michele Rae Jeffryes in Newman Grove, Nebraska. I grew up in southwest Denver with 5 sisters and a brother. Of course in the 1960's, that meant somewhere near 1st and Federal. Now southwest Denver is closer to Chatfield Reservoir. I was fifteen when I was spirited away by my mother and stepfather to the strange land of Sioux Falls, SD, where I wrote my first short story. It was a paranormal romance about the ghost of a man's first wife trying to kill his second wife. Like so many things teenagers write, it was never meant for publication. After college, when I was twenty-one, I moved to Las Vegas for six years where I worked in the Bar & Night Club business, and then returned to Denver in 1984. I like the weather here.
I had read the Dragonriders of Pern, and Anne McCaffrey made writing look easy. It wasn't. In the 80's and 90's I didn't have the time to write because I had a house to remodel, a career I had to invent, and a world to change through politics. As a fundraising director I wrote and designed convention brochures, and while working for Shotgun Willies, I wrote training manuals and ad copy. I'm still employed with Shotgun Willies, but my work leans more toward management and accounting now.
Miembros
Reseñas
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 3
- Miembros
- 13
- Popularidad
- #774,335
- Valoración
- 4.7
- Reseñas
- 5
- ISBNs
- 4
Survin is an idyllic setting for a story such as this. It's removed from the world as we know it allowing it to flourish and thrive for many many annums (years) without the forward motion of progress. Some would say they should be pitied for being left behind, but for these people it's just another day, not another dollar. Perhaps no society is truly perfect, but at the very least this one is pure in their intentions even if those that surround them are not always that way.
Character wise, we've a wide range even in this small culture. Kairma is a delight to see as next in line for the position of Miral. She's uncertain, a bit rough and tumble, different in many senses of the word....in short, not whom you'd expect for such a set group of people, which is exactly why I love the position she's in. It gives readers a chance to see that destiny does not always knock on the door of the most popular, the most beautiful, or the most cunning; sometimes it simply chooses us for who we are and let's the rest take care of itself. Her sister Kinter is one of those characters you want to throttle at times for their infantile behaviour while her brother Zedic is the epitomy of all a brother should be. Her mother Jettena is carrying more emotionally than first meets the eye while her grandmother, Miral Isontra steals the show in her quiet yet commanding ways.
Next we have the villagers with their many talents...and opinions. What? You didn't think everything the Healing family said was met without any disagreements now did you? Ha! Far from it. Though most are settled rather quickly, opposition does show its war face now and then especially with several of the elders and their stiff ideas of what should and shouldn't be done. Progress is the natural way of things...to a degree....even in this remote society. When change is introduced to their long held laws, they are not quick to welcome it; certainly adds for some lively discussions. Let's not forget about the city folk and the mysterious White Ones who round out the extensive cast. Rest assured there are many waiting to make your acquaintance in this book...
Moving on to two things we didn't see (and I know the author was simply holding out on us here)... first, the explanation of what they uncovered out at the God Stones. I don't want to spoil it for anyone so I'll keep the details under wraps but it makes me curious about those that left it behind. Are we talking future civilization or a past ahead of itself? Only time will tell I'm afraid as the trilogy progresses. Second on the list of things not seen....Kairma's Seridar. It's sort of a coming of age party and her formal introduction as Vice Miral (or village healer)....as well as the time when the new Comad will be chosen, who just so happens to be her mating partner (aka husband). Grant it, that's not the entire point of the story (the love interest portion at least) but it does provide for a rather interesting quandary as it flusters the characters involved, pushing them to sort out their feelings and stake their claim as it were before its too late.
All in all, an enjoyable read through and through. You get adventure, a taste of history, a smidge of romance, and danger all in one package making it easy for everyone to find some aspect they'd enjoy. It's a book about the journey and time passing, not about a quick and tidy ending for a fast entertainment fix. Best set some time aside when you start this one...as the people of Survin will invite you in with open arms so you'll never want to leave...even if you could.
Recommended for teen readers through adults as the intimate scenes are demure and violence is sparse on details.… (más)