People of the Moon by W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear is another book in their "North America's Forgotten Past" series that looks at Native American communities. As mentioned in a previous post, this book has been awaiting its turn to see the light.
Started: 9/1/2014
Completed: 6/18/2015
Recommended: Mildly
Recommended By: Part of a series
Review:
I have enjoyed the "People of" series. The beginning (with some archaeologist facing opposition of some sort to whatever has been found or to the act of archaeology at all) is almost always slow and so it was hard for me to get started on this book (as it has been for the others in the series).
The plot here is decent, although, frankly, gory. I'm sure that this story needed to be told and it is an ugly story. That said, I would prefer to read less gore these days. That is my personal preference and it made this book difficult to read. The Gear's seem to want to focus on that in this book, although they pursued their normal love story in the book as well. The story is good and moves along pretty well. The preachy material is kept to a minimum, but stands on its own as enough to inform about some of the nature of the native peoples who inhabit this novel.
I can mildly recommend this book to anyone who has wondered what it must have been like to climb into your home via a ladder in the roof. I've wondered and this book doesn't go to great lengths to detail that component, but it does come up as a normal part of the lives of the people and that alone was interesting to me.
I have enjoyed the "People of" series. The beginning (with some archaeologist facing opposition of some sort to whatever has been found or to the act of archaeology at all) is almost always slow and so it was hard for me to get started on this book (as it has been for the others in the series).
The plot here is decent, although, frankly, gory. I'm sure that this story needed to be told and it is an ugly story. That said, I would prefer to read less gore these days. That is my personal preference and it made this book difficult to read. The Gear's seem to want to focus on that in this book, although they pursued their normal love story in the book as well. The story is good and moves along pretty well. The preachy material is kept to a minimum, but stands on its own as enough to inform about some of the nature of the native peoples who inhabit this novel.
I can mildly recommend this book to anyone who has wondered what it must have been like to climb into your home via a ladder in the roof. I've wondered and this book doesn't go to great lengths to detail that component, but it does come up as a normal part of the lives of the people and that alone was interesting to me.
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