Leonide Martin
Författare till The Visionary Mayan Queen, Yohl Ik'Nal of Palenque
Om författaren
Leonide Martin, author of the Mists of Palenque series, draws from academic skills and Maya initiate training to write authentic historical fiction. Leonide conducts extensive research and on-site archeological studies. She lives with her husband and two white cats in the Willamette Valley wine visa mer country, Oregon. visa färre
Serier
Verk av Leonide Martin
Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Andra namn
- 1940
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Yrken
- university professor
nurse practitioner
author - Organisationer
- California State University
Medlemmar
Recensioner
Priser
Statistik
- Verk
- 5
- Medlemmar
- 56
- Popularitet
- #291,557
- Betyg
- 4.1
- Recensioner
- 4
- ISBN
- 12
K'Inuuw Mat of Palenque had desired to become a Priestess of Ix Chel her entire life. She had been eager for her 12th year to go to Cuzamil to live with her aunt and trained to be whatever type of Priestess her talents deemed her worthy of. She had shown promise of becoming a seer.
She only needed to show evidence of "becoming a woman" then request a meeting with the main Oracle to receive permission. Her first cycle in "becoming a woman" was fulfilled, but when she voiced her request to the Oracle, she was, shockingly, refused. She was to serve a different mission.
Soon, K'Inuuw Mat, was entreated by her father to accept a marriage proposal from an ally, in order tot strengthen their countries. The second brother came to negotiate on behalf of his younger brother. If the younger brother was as appealing as this one, she could willingly accept the offer.
On her journey to meet her betrothed, she used her seer skills to discover a view of the brother who she was to create a royal posterity with. He looked nothing like the brother she had met! He was huge and gruff looking!
After arriving, the next day the family met her in the Palace. Her betrothed looked much like his brother. Who was the image she saw through her seer stones?
This was a very interesting interpretation by the author, of what may have happened. The records recovered were extremely "sketchy". The author added much speculation and intrigue in "filling in" the missing events. It definitely added "spark" to the possibilities.
The characters were portrayed in an interesting way. The Book Title and Cover were very-well chosen and appealing to the ?browser".
I did have some issues with quite a lot of repetition and excess "wordiness". However, the factual information the author provides, additionally adding a map, pronunciation, explanation of terms, etc., made up for a lot of the lacking literary technique. i learned a lot about this aspect of the Mayan culture I never knew and am looking forward to reading more of this author's Mayan leader's adventures.
I offer a Four Stars rating.
*This book was gifted me, with no request for a positive review. This is my honest review.… (mer)