The Horseman Land of the Morning Book 1 eBook Kristina O'Donnelly
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The Horseman is the award-winning lead novel of the Lands of the Morning Series.
As Ariadne, the American, Burhan, the Turk, and Mehmet Ali, the Kurd, emerge from the mists of 8,000 BC and reunite in 20th Century Turkey, they play out their star-crossed destinies upon an explosive stage of upheavals and changes.
•A fiery love triangle with its roots in Prehistory ...
•Only a strong woman like Ariadne, the American, can tame a powerful firebrand like Burhan, the quintessential Turk!
•... For A Love That Defies Time, Would You Pledge Your Soul to Eternity?
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•Acclaim for THE HORSEMAN 1st Place, Multicultural Fiction, POW! Awards, FL; Grand Prize, Jada Press, FL
•Selected Reviewers' Choice by Angelfire.com/Midnight Enchantment New Age Books.
Romantic Times Magazine Recommended Read Reincarnation genre.
•More Editorial Reviews
•"...There is a lot here, immense detail on Turkish history, culture, and politics merged with a hard-hitting story ... a substantial novel." Piers Anthony, Sci-Fi/Fantasy author, Florida, USA.
The Horseman is the award-winning lead novel of the Lands of the Morning Series.
As Ariadne, the American, Burhan, the Turk, and Mehmet Ali, the Kurd, emerge from the mists of 8,000 BC and reunite in 20th Century Turkey, they play out their star-crossed destinies upon an explosive stage of upheavals and changes.
•A fiery love triangle with its roots in Prehistory ...
•Only a strong woman like Ariadne, the American, can tame a powerful firebrand like Burhan, the quintessential Turk!
•... For A Love That Defies Time, Would You Pledge Your Soul to Eternity?
•
•Acclaim for THE HORSEMAN 1st Place, Multicultural Fiction, POW! Awards, FL; Grand Prize, Jada Press, FL
•Selected Reviewers' Choice by Angelfire.com/Midnight Enchantment New Age Books.
The Horseman is the award-winning lead novel of the Lands of the Morning Series.
As Ariadne, the American, Burhan, the Turk, and Mehmet Ali, the Kurd, emerge from the mists of 8,000 BC and reunite in 20th Century Turkey, they play out their star-crossed destinies upon an explosive stage of upheavals and changes.
A fiery love triangle with its roots in Prehistory ...
•Only a strong woman like Ariadne, the American, can tame a powerful firebrand like Burhan, the quintessential Turk!
•. For A Love That Defies Time, Would You Pledge Your Soul to Eternity?
Romantic Times Magazine Recommended Read Reincarnation genre.
•More Editorial Reviews
•"...There is a lot here, immense detail on Turkish history, culture, and politics merged with a hard-hitting story ... a substantial novel." Piers Anthony, Sci-Fi/Fantasy author, Florida, USA.
•"O'Donnelly writes like Wilbur Smith in a skirt... just so very colorful and descriptive...the characters sprang to life in about three lines. Brilliant!" Mike Subritzky-Kusza, New Zealand War Poet and Author of the Vietnam Scrapbook "The Second Anzac Adventure," New Zealand
•" Poison or dynamite to some and manna to others, THE HORSEMAN elicits deep emotional responses from every reader.Prof. Karen-Claire Voss (Istanbul University) in her Introduction to this novel, writes, "Also interesting and at least as compelling is the brilliant, knowledgeable, and courageous way in which Kristina O Donnelly sheds light on the complex and controversial topic of the difficult relations between Kurds and Turks, an extremely sensitive issue, something which has been rarely discussed openly, still less has been made part of a love story.This book is precious. I do not use this word lightly and say it not only because this is the story of a truly incredible woman and a genuinely fabulous romance. I say it because unlike so many other romances, this one is not meant to allow us to escape the complexities of real life; rather, it is intended to lead us deeper into them. It also enables us to develop an empathetic understanding of the complexities of real life as it is lived i
The Horseman Land of the Morning Book 1 eBook Kristina O'Donnelly
I purchased the paper version of this book last February. I ordered the package from this website and received the book after a few weeks. The package was in excellent conditions. Maybe I should have bought the hard cover, but the paper version is fairly easy to keep in the hands and read. I must admit this is an exceptional book, with an exotic and explosive story rooted around several countries and issues. Set among Turkey, Italy, Ireland and USA, The Horseman is a powerful narration that spans between the past and the present with some prediction for the future. The vicissitudes of a young American girl who is torn between two Turkish men is an extraordinary narration technique that shows the causes of the most serious and awful conflict of our time, the one between Eastern and Western world. Is religion a problem or maybe are prejudices that push people to conflict? These are the questions every reader will wonder during this reading that offers a clever reply in the form of a marvellous and superb novel.Product details
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The Horseman Land of the Morning Book 1 eBook Kristina O'Donnelly Reviews
The beginning of the book, left me feeling a little lost, but the more I read, the more engaged I found myself with the story. The characters felt real and I enjoyed experiencing their lives as they moved through the book. I feel that Kristina O’Donnelly has a strong grasp on the world she worked to present to the reader. Definitely a must read.
Ariadne, a blond American teen living with her parents in Turkey, suffers a prophetic vision while on her way to an archeological dig. Sometimes the vision is of an ancient past, and sometimes of a cruel future. In every case, though, she is caught in a love triangle.
When she's rescued from a kidnapping by a handsome Kurdish nobleman, Ariadne believes she may have found her great love--and certainly Mehmet Ali falls for the beautiful and energetic teenager. Although she does love Mehmet Ali, though, Ariadne is obsessed with the crusading journalist Burhan Kayhanoly--who falls for her the moments she walks into his office to interview for an internship at the newspaper where he writes a regular column.
Burhan exposes Ariadne to the poverty and ignorance that, he believes, are holding his beloved nation down. Ariadne is especially sympathetic with the poor conditions for women--a sympathy made much stronger when Mehmet Ali's sister weds a much older man--and then commits suicide. She dreams of a life with Burhan, together stomping out the corruption that is such a blight on Turkish society and politics.
Award-winning author Kristina O'Donnelly mixes past-life regression, tarot, and traditional Turkish magic with sensual passion and with adventure as Mehmet Ali, Ariadne, and Burhan sometimes cooperate and sometimes battle over the path to be taken by their nation (or even whether there should be a nation of Turkey rather than an independent Kurdistan). O'Donnelly blends in the past-lives over which these three have carried out their eternal triangle of love and dispair.
If you're looking for a sexy romantic thriller with a fascinating setting, plenty of action, and a touch of magic, you won't go wrong with THE HORSEMAN.
This book has dropped into my hands at the appropriate time. Just a few days ago, the world was upset by an unexpected terrorist attack in Paris and never no book was very current like the one I am about to review in this post. Terrorism is the fruit of a hard clash among two different worlds, Western and Eastern, and Christian and Muslim religion and if there is a place where these two worlds meet, this is Turkey, the land of the morning, as it is best known all over the world. Turkey is the home of Christianity and Islam, a glorious and ancient country that witnessed various wars and battles in the past and where this book is set.
This work also arrived just in a moment Turkey is in the limelight because of what happened yesterday, namely the Russian plane shot down in this country. The author of this current book is Kristina O’ Donnelly, an awarded novelist, born in Rome, Italy, and raised in Turkey. She also lived in Ireland and currently in the U.S along with her husband. She is, hence, an eclectic writer who knows about several cultures.
Thanks to this deep knowledge of different countries, the author has developed a gripping book series titled Land of the Morning. What I have reviewed is The Horseman, the first book of the series. The Horseman tells about a wealthy American family who is in Turkey for job purposes. The father is a famous architect, the mother, a skilled academician, passionate about reincarnation and esotericism, the daughter, Ariadne, is a beautiful, blond 17 year girl who dreams to work as a journalist at a Turkish newspaper.
One day, during an archaeological exploration, the girl has been kidnapped by a strange Turkish boy and saved by a likewise strange and alluring man called Mehmet Ali Mesut. The latter turns out to be a Kurd, who has a sister, Leyla, a sixteen year girl who, in turn, is about to marry a man who is older than her. Abruptly, the future bride commits suicide and this event upsets the life of Ariadne definitively, because she realizes today there are women who are still forced to marry older men and be enslaved by their husbands.
Through this chapter of the book, the author faces the burning topic of child brides. In certain places in the world, girls are forced to get married at 15 or less years. The suicide of the young Leyla happens in Turkey, a place where there are also great opportunities for Ariadne, who manages to get hired at the most important Turkish daily paper. Thanks to her new job, she also meets her idol, a hero of the Turkish Journalism, Burhan Bey, a fascinating reporter who is very attracted by Ariadne.
Over the several chapters of the book, the girl becomes torn between the love for the Turkish journalist and the one for Kurd Mehmet Ali. Through this intrigue, the author shows various sides of the culture in Turkey, step by step, indeed, Burhan Bey turns out to be a brave and modern political journalist, while Melmet Ali, even though is a professor of sociology and an idealist who fights to improve the life of his people, shows to be jealous of the job of Ariadne and of her attraction for Burhan Bey, so much to annoy her on the workplace.
This behavior proves that many habits and customs are hard to fight and makes readers ask the following questions the Turkish men are liberal or not? The past can influence the present? Turkey is Christian or Muslim? We don’t have to forget Turkey was the home of the Ottoman Empire, as many ruins confirm. In the book, the father of Ariadne is, indeed, committed to retrieve and explore many important Turkish ruins. He has also many contacts with Turkish politicians and publishers and this other detail proves that Turkey has no prejudice to have relationships with Western people.
The plot of the book, hence, shows many sides and contradictions of this ancient and great country. The Horseman is also a book where the author also manages to insert important accountings about the political issues between Turks and Kurds, in addition to very poetic and lyrical pages where Ariadne’s love story is described. Also the religion topics are very important in this book. These topics go from ancient legends to reincarnation. Moreover, religion intertwined with political issues and with a love story is the right mix to dive into an unusual world where past and present are closely merged toward to the future.
Outstanding writing and imagination!
Just read first one from this writer! I'm waiting for her next.
Wish a good luck!
Fantastic read! In a word, I enjoyed this book even more than my expectation!
Thanks and gratitude to Author! Her imagination is just outstanding! I am waiting for her next book.
I won't say anything more about this book. Just wanna say give it a try!
An altogether different novel. I expected a lot, and the author provided it to me. Loved the characters Ariadne, the American, and Burhan the Turk and his close friendship to Ali, the Kurd. I loved the different locales and the information that came with it. A solid work for those who want a complex read.
I purchased the paper version of this book last February. I ordered the package from this website and received the book after a few weeks. The package was in excellent conditions. Maybe I should have bought the hard cover, but the paper version is fairly easy to keep in the hands and read. I must admit this is an exceptional book, with an exotic and explosive story rooted around several countries and issues. Set among Turkey, Italy, Ireland and USA, The Horseman is a powerful narration that spans between the past and the present with some prediction for the future. The vicissitudes of a young American girl who is torn between two Turkish men is an extraordinary narration technique that shows the causes of the most serious and awful conflict of our time, the one between Eastern and Western world. Is religion a problem or maybe are prejudices that push people to conflict? These are the questions every reader will wonder during this reading that offers a clever reply in the form of a marvellous and superb novel.
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