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Eugene Golovanchuk _he_keeva — I can't stop thinking about this book for all of it's haunting images and the intracacies. It has grown on me so much after reading it multiple times. Amazing stuff.

Murat Böcü murat96cd82 — Think one generation of 100 Years of Solitude, in Cuba during the Revolution. BUT without being derivative; it wasn't until just now that the Garcia-Marquez occurred to me. It follows the daughter of a Spanish-born seargent who marries down. Really good and interesting. Camila noted the straightening of the sergeant's back, his hands coming down to hang, defeated, at his sides. Camila stood then and said, "You were supposed to have died, long ago?" I am alive, nina," he said, and pressed his hand to her cheek. "Alive, as you can see." "No one stays dead anymore," Camila said and she walked over to where Lorenzo was and took her seat by his side once again.

Liz Shen lizshen — I finished this book last night and started the sequel, Zenith, about 2 hours later. Exodus takes place about 100 years in the future. But the future is uncertain unless you are lucky enough to live in one of the sky cities...or unlucky enough, depending on your outlook about what is valuable and important in life. Sky cities have been built above drowned cities to withstand the raging storms and rising seas. Mara grew up on Wing, an island somewhere in the Atlantic. All of the Earth's continents have been flooded by rising ocean waters due to global warming. Only small islands are left, and Wing is being slowly swallowed by the sea. Mara leads her village on a sea journey to find one of the sky cities called New Mungo, which she discovers on the Weave (cyberspace). When the villagers reach New Mungo, they realize that the city has barred entry to all refugees and people lay starving and dying on boats in the ocean outside the city walls. Mara feels responsible for bringing her people to New Mungo to die, and sets out to find a place for them in the world. The story is an amazing one of a strong-willed, courageous, intelligent girl whose sense of what MUST be done overtakes her feelings of fear in the face of a seemingly impossible task. Mara is amazing. Her friend Fox is equally amazing and I can't wait to find out what he does in Zenith. This is a great story that will appeal to all readers - even ones who don't normally read futuristic novels. Get it - read it. You won't be sorry.

Gerry Gerry _err_ea_ — This is the second part to the story that began with Caius Crispus in Sailing to Sarantium. In the first novel a large theme had to do with the political shaping of religion, or perhaps how politics handles the truth of religion. The magical half-world plays a large role in the shaping of the characters. I am extremely glad that I read the first book before reading Lord of Emperors. Lord of Emperors, though it touches on the physical representation of Jad (God), has far less to do with ideas of religion and far more to do with political intrigue, and how that intrigue affects those it touches personally and the citizens whose lives are changed in its aftermath, as if all are pieces to be played in a game. "Sarantium was not a place in which one found refuge, even in pursuit of a vision." (pg. 104) The main players, themselves pieces in the game, maneuver allegiances and plots, keeping a watchful eye on each in expectation of a victorious end. Yet the story is masterfully told through the mosaicist, the cook, the charioteer, the dancer, and the physician. (Though, at times, we are privy to the Empress and the Queen.) A few quotes that I enjoyed, and that hint at larger thematic enterprises: "The great events of an age appear, to those living through them, as backdrops only to the vastly more compelling dramas of their own lives, and how could it be otherwise?" "It is true, undeniably, that the central moments of an age occur on the margins of the lives of most people." (269) "The soul must bend to endure." (352)"We must learn to bend or we break." (359) And several more in succession. And, then there is another story, barely introduced, of a merchant in the far south talking with a boy, Tarif, in a conversation that will be immortal and leaving a life because of a dream. " That day, in the early spring of the year, there were two [places that may be properly seen as lying at the heart of an age] on the earth, far apart. One was in the desert of Soriyya, where a man in a hood, which a cloak drawn over his mouth, preserved a silence among the drifting sands, having remained awake all the night before, fasting, and looking up at the stars."(270) A third book? I certainly hope so. I feel unfinished with Maximus, the Holy Patriarch's privy adviser. And, certainly, Pertennius of Eubulus needs to receive his just dues. Getting knocked out wasn't enough to make him see the error of his ways.

Danielle Whitburn _anielle_hitburn — Well...I've always been under the firm belief that I would love every Jodi Picoult book that I would ever read...I'm not exactly sure how I feel about this one. The ending was just so...random. I think that honestly I am getting a bit fed-up with all her books being nothing but lawsuits. And this lawsuit was absurd, like you want to slap the mother. So not my favorite, but still a good read. I'd say a good beach book.

Brian Marriaga bmarriaga — The only compelling part of this book was the development of the author's relationship with her husband post Eat Pray Love. Felt the rest was generally uninteresting and focused on the sociology of marriage.