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Publisher:
Xlibris |
Release
Date: July 2003 |
ISBN:
1-4134-0710-2 |
Awards:
"Best of 2003" list for Fantasy by: Jean
Peerenboom, Sunday Green Bay Press Gazette |
Format
Reviewed: Trade Paperback |
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it at Amazon |
Read
an Excerpt |
Genre:
Science Fiction/Fantasy |
Reviewed:
2004 |
Reviewer:
Kristin Johnson |
Reviewer
Notes: Kristin Johnson, the founder of PoemsForYou.com,
released her second book, CHRISTMAS COOKIES ARE FOR GIVING,
co-written with Mimi Cummins, in October 2003. Her third book,
ORDINARY MIRACLES: My Incredible Spiritual, Artistic and Scientific
Journey, co-written with Sir Rupert A.L. Perrin, M.D., is now
available from PublishAmerica. |
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MyShelf.com |
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Pledge
of Honor
By Lori L. Anderson
(Lori Foerster)
If
you enjoyed the short-lived, well-acted, well-conceived but botched
by the WB and UPN series “Roswell,” you’ll love
Pledge of Honor, an alien-human Romeo and Juliet fable
that avoids the TV series’ cheesy detours and storytelling
flaws. Unlike “Roswell,” Pledge of Honor, successfully
blends forbidden love and the quest to save an alien race complicated
by the prohibited intermixing with Earthers. The result: a tale
of tolerance, love and courage, intermingled with the bonds of a
family estranged by one man’s quest to learn from aliens,
in this case Earthers.
Why
does everyone hate Earth? Either al-Qa’eda has spread to the
embattled planet Elos, with France and Germany gleefully sticking
up their noses at Earth, or otherwise Earth as a whole is “the
ugly American.” Possibly the Elosians caught this year’s
Super Bowl as well as our steady junk diet of tabloid TV, or else
it’s all those stereotypes of Bubba in the hayfield talking
about little green men. Darn those Confederate redneck white trash…sorry,
I was channeling Howard Dean. Perhaps the Elosians watched Howard
Dean and said, “Beam me up, Scotty, there’s no intelligent
life here.” Or they were just annoyed by the way “Roswell”
ended.
However,
when the Elosians’ version of the Taliban, the Berloff, kidnap
several Earthers to supplant their dwindling population, Locom,
the Saddam-like Berloff leader, finds himself bested by Jamie MacGivens,
an Earth girl who’s not easy and whose boyfriend slept with
her best friend all because Jamie was spending a tad too much time
caring for her sick mother. Fortunately, Tony Stone, a guy crazy
in love with his pregnant wife and possessed of a Sydney Carton-type
bravery, proves to Jamie that not all men are jerks…not all
Earth-men, anyway. The ancient Elosian “The One” Dolan,
who proves that only Nixon could go to China, and his future-king
grandson Keenu (echoes of “The Matrix” and Keanu Reeves
here?), join with the courageous, intelligent, selfless Jamie on
an unforgettable adventure of the will, mind, and heart in a saga
that successfully marries Octavia Butler with “Roswell.”
Stay tuned for Book Two of the trilogy, Obligation. |