Saturn Child The Hawkmoon Chronicles Book 2 eBook John Maher
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Sarah is offered a bitter choice.
Surrender her child to a witch or wait for it to die.She has given the child life; she cannot preserve it.
Ireland 1847. The Great Hunger. Millions are dead.
A witch has come across time seeking a baby to replace the one lost by her Mistress .
Sarah understands the ways of the Shee.Is this to be her fate? That her child might live to be the servant of a Witch? The woman makes a promise.
Her child will be a Queen and servant to none.
Ireland, 1921. The Irish War of Independence.
John Ryan is with an I.R.A. Flying Column. On the run from the English he takes refuge in Poulnafulla;The Cave of Blood. In no time he is lost in the labyrinthine passages under the mountain
A goat finds him.
It leads him through a demonic halfworld . When they emerge, it is winter. The world is no longer recognizable.
Years pass and one day they meet in the Forest of Arden. The child taken by the witch, is now a Princess Royal and future Queen. Her family is dead, murdered by a usurper who seduced her father and poisoned her mother. The people know him as Hawkmoon, Assassin and scourge of the Wmpyrhii.
Thus begins an alliance that will oversee the downfall of tyrants and the rise of nations.
Saturn Child The Hawkmoon Chronicles Book 2 eBook John Maher
I have just started reading this book, although I've not finished yet, wanted to comment on my experience with it so far, and can also come back later when I finish.First, I am absolutely fascinated by this book/story, as well as the synchronicity of it in my life; The story feels magical to me, and at the same time, believable.
I am just beginning research into my own roots. I am of the first generation NOT born in the UK. While reading this story, I realized that during this time period, around in which the book is written, I had many family members living there, in Ireland, standing on the very ground he talks about, with possibly with similar attitudes. The characters in the book remind me of some of my relatives, passed on, but now, living in me, he is waking them up. The author seems to be able to capture the characters traits, (although many would think of as fantasy,) and present them as real people.
I know well the deep connection to the earth he writes about, my grandmother spoke of "the wee people," who she left milk out for, and had a connection to plants, folk healing, etc. I know a Mystical connection to the other worlds exists, and written about here, reminds me to remember it.
I am not normally a reader of fantasy novels, but as I read this book, I feel as if I am there, and the author has intuitively imagined a retelling of something I almost could have lived, in some other time. It's really from another world. He has a unique writing style, unique in content, & rhythm. The author has managed to pull me into this tale, full of heart & history, with a story strong & rich as the black dirt of Ireland, as colorful, vibrant, and mystical as her people.
I am grateful, and enjoying this.
Bravo!
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Saturn Child The Hawkmoon Chronicles Book 2 eBook John Maher Reviews
Irish author John Maher was born and reared in Limerick, Ireland. Many of the tropes and motifs that appear in his writing are part of the heritage of his native county. He had his own company for many years (Dark Island) supplying picture postcards of old Ireland to visitor centers in Ireland and gift shops across America. He has walked the length of the Camino De Santiago De Compostela in Spain and beyond, cycled from Perth to Melbourne, Australia, and plans to take a bike from the sea at Darwin to the opposite end of the continent. He completed a Degree in English and a Masters in English Language Teaching at University of Limerick. His PhD dissertation on the educational potential of computer games (‘Towards an Appreciation of the Place and Potential of Computer Games in Education’) is his only other published book.
For all John’s background and adventures he appears to have found his true calling – writing, In the inimitable Irish tradition John has opened his literary career with writing Fantasy and if this first volume of his proposed series NIGHTHAWK CHRONICLES is a taster then be aware that this is an important new voice in the league of Irish Fantasy authors.
This being the initial volume John opens his story in Ireland of 1847, explaining the devastation of The Great Hunger by offering the experience of one Sarah ‘She would not die before her child. When the hour was at hand she would take her to the grotto wrapped in christening robes. She would dig the grave with her bare hands, wide enough for them to lie together. When the child had passed she would pray for her soul. Her father died in the night. Her husband passed at sunrise .He left the world as his daughter had entered it. Lying on a bed of rushes, fingers laced with rosary beads, Nana fought for life. No priest would come to her. The good ones were dead; the others cursed her for a witchy woman… Seated by the door, Sarah watched as darkness covered the valley. Stumbling with Famine Fever people passed on the road below. They had been going by all morning, emaciated creatures in tatters leaving their cabins to die by the wayside. In the years that followed it was said that in their last moments the ground where they fell took their anguish as their souls rose to Heaven. People would say that anyone walking over that place would feel a biting hunger. Reaching home they would devour whatever was put before them. Watching, someone might remark, “surely you walked by the Hungry Grass.” It began with a blemish, no more than a brown spot on the leaves. By the next dawn the crop was dead. They dug the drills to find only corruption. Women cried and held their children. Men looked at it and saw the end of hope. The man from the Big House came for his rent until the stench of death drove him away. Thousands died of typhus; their bodies taken out and stacked in piles. The poorhouses had windows on the second floor overlooking a sloping roof down which the bodies could slide. Nana woke, shouting. “Sarah… Sarah… I can’t see you,” Gathering her baby from the mud of the floor Sarah went to her. The old one was staring sightless at a point in the thatch. “Here I am Nana, Here I am.” Sarah knelt by Nana’s side touching her face. “They are here. Go to Poulnafulla. … Do what she asks of you .The child can live” Sarah reached for her but Nana was delirious’
That is the flavor of his writing skills. The synopsis hints at the remainder of the tale- ‘Ireland. 1847. It is the time of the Great Hunger. Sarah is dying. To save her baby she surrenders her into the care of witches who take her to another land where she will be their Queen. Ireland. 1921. The Black and Tan War. Jack Ryan is fighting with the I.R.A. Hunted by the British he takes refuge in a mountain cave. When he escapes he finds himself in a land ridden with Sorcery Losing all memory of his former life he fights for survival to become the warrior assassin known as Hawkmoon. The Land is in grave peril. Beset with Vampirism, Sorcery, a changing climate and the threat of war, Hawkmoon and the Queen are their only hope.’
Yes, all of that is in the pages of this gripping fantasy, told as only the Irish can. Welcome to the stage, John Meyer! Grady Harp, July 16
John Maher's new book, Hawkmoon, manages to pull you into a rich, visceral and fascinating world from the very first page. The events occur in a fluid time period, floating between 1920s Ireland - there is mention of 'the Tans' - and a seemingly dim and distant but undefined past time inhabited by fantastical creatures, evil beings and the humans who have to live among them. It is fast-moving and episodic, moving swiftly from one group of characters to another in a technique reminiscent of rapidly edited scene shifts in a film. While this technique drives the action on relentlessly - the book recounts a journey after all, a quest - it can also leave the reader behind at times.
Admittedly not an aficionados of the fantasy genre, my only experience of this style would be Kazuo Ishiguro's The Buried Giant, which has a similar dreamlike quality and is also set in a vague distant time haunted by a brooding but unidentifiable sense of dread.
With Hawkmoon, John Maher has envisioned a richly populated fantastic world and created an original genre - one, to coin a phrase, that I suspect is set to run and run.
John Maher has created a very intriguing tale of fantasy. Hawkmoon is the story of a man's journey from one world to another. He does not remember his life before becoming the warrior he is today.
He is now possibly the only one who can protect the future queen.
Maher has a descriptive writing style that places you in the world he has created that is filled with vampires, wolves, and sorcery. I especially liked how included folklore and history into his writing.
Though I tend to be one who enjoys books focused more on romance, I found I really enjoyed this book! Several times I caught myself thinking this story would translate into an exciting video game.
I have just started reading this book, although I've not finished yet, wanted to comment on my experience with it so far, and can also come back later when I finish.
First, I am absolutely fascinated by this book/story, as well as the synchronicity of it in my life; The story feels magical to me, and at the same time, believable.
I am just beginning research into my own roots. I am of the first generation NOT born in the UK. While reading this story, I realized that during this time period, around in which the book is written, I had many family members living there, in Ireland, standing on the very ground he talks about, with possibly with similar attitudes. The characters in the book remind me of some of my relatives, passed on, but now, living in me, he is waking them up. The author seems to be able to capture the characters traits, (although many would think of as fantasy,) and present them as real people.
I know well the deep connection to the earth he writes about, my grandmother spoke of "the wee people," who she left milk out for, and had a connection to plants, folk healing, etc. I know a Mystical connection to the other worlds exists, and written about here, reminds me to remember it.
I am not normally a reader of fantasy novels, but as I read this book, I feel as if I am there, and the author has intuitively imagined a retelling of something I almost could have lived, in some other time. It's really from another world. He has a unique writing style, unique in content, & rhythm. The author has managed to pull me into this tale, full of heart & history, with a story strong & rich as the black dirt of Ireland, as colorful, vibrant, and mystical as her people.
I am grateful, and enjoying this.
Bravo!
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