gilda_elise

At the Dawn of the Age of the Katsinas...

A woman runs away in search of a Spirit Helper and never returns...

An ancient village is swept into a shattering crime beyond reason, beyond belief...

An old man must learn to walk the dark labyrinth of a murderer's mind to find him before he can strike again...

A young war chief must enter the mesmerizing word of the insane if he to save everything and everyone he loves...

And, a scant moment ahead in geologic time, world-renowned Canadian physical anthropologist Dr. Maureen Coles finds herself excavating a mass grave in New Mexico filled with the brutalized bodies of women and children.

From the internationally bestselling authors of People of the Masks comes a novel of terrifying power about madness and murder eight hundred years ago.

I found the book’s plot to be both complex and intriguing, with well thought out characters. Even the moving back and forth in time didn’t lessen my interest; may even had enhanced it, because the reader has two situations, two sets of people whose lives are being challenged by the deaths of several young women. Who is the killer? The writers keep you guessing.

What I found especially interesting is that the stronger character in both times is the female. There is a serious flaw running through both male protagonists. Not to the point to make them unlikable, but it’s there, nevertheless.

The one thing that kept the book from being totally exceptional, was the writers’ habit of describing what each character was wearing. Every character, every time they came on the scene. Which was puzzling, because it had nothing to do with the plot. It got so that sometime it would detract from the flow of the story. Not to the point where I would stop reading, but I do so wish they hadn’t done it.