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The Dreaming #2
Wind Talker
Seasoned police detective Lee Crowley investigates the scene of a partially buried skeleton. A forensic anthropologist determines the remains to be over 200 years old. Reconstruction of the face verifies the skeleton to be Native American--and a mirror image of Lee.
Lee's wife Phoebe is a cunning woman from the seventeenth century. She guides him through the misty world of "the dreaming." She gives him an arrowhead made by his long dead father, and Lee is haunted by his mother's murder. Will the series of strange events connect him with his past? Or will he discover the skeleton was in fact--himself?
Lee's wife Phoebe is a cunning woman from the seventeenth century. She guides him through the misty world of "the dreaming." She gives him an arrowhead made by his long dead father, and Lee is haunted by his mother's murder. Will the series of strange events connect him with his past? Or will he discover the skeleton was in fact--himself?
256 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 6, 2014
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December 16, 2017
Excellent continuation of the storylines from Walks Through Mist. Complex characters and intertwining stories from the seventeenth century and modern day as the couple struggle to reunite across the ages.
October 11, 2021
I liked this book, not loved like the first in the series. Again the ending was predictable, and again that didn’t bother me. This book was drawn out a little too much for me. Where the first book introduced you to the main characters, this one didn’t have that so the plot was stretched out for many pages. The author really never explained how the characters moved through time and what catapulted them to do it. I found that lacking in the story. The one constant in both books is how utterly horrid the settlers were to the native Americans. Makes my stomach churn!
June 5, 2018
Such a beautiful story, sensitively told. I had a feeling about the skeleton, and I was right, but not about the way in which ending came about. However, it didn't detract from the story; if anything, the anticipation of discovery made it sweeter.
January 29, 2020
Loved it!
October 12, 2014
After reading the first book in the series, Walks Through Mist, I HAD to read this one next. And it was as terrible as the first - dragging me in like a tornado that I couldn't leave until it was spent. Or I reached the last page.
The concept was intriguing and horrifying at the same time. What if, knowing time travel was possible, you found your own corpse? Knowing how and where and, to some extent, where you'd die. And knowing that it was a past that you can't change, because it meant that you'd get to travel back in time. Oh, and if that's not enough pressure...knowing that when you die, your people die with you because you're the last survivor of a proud people that was massacred four hundred years before.
Lee doesn't have it easy. As he trudges toward the inevitable, he meets both the living and the dead in his journeys through the dreaming and the seventeenth century, all the while knowing he might never see his wife and child again.
I'm surprised I didn't cry during this book - while I don't cry often, this is definitely a heart-wrenching story. One I read with my heart very much in my mouth through a large chunk of it.
Once again, fiction, fantasy and history is blended together so seamlessly that Ms Murphy has created yet another brilliant masterpiece.
I gather that there will be a third book in this series, which I'll be eagerly awaiting.
Unquestionably, five stars.
The concept was intriguing and horrifying at the same time. What if, knowing time travel was possible, you found your own corpse? Knowing how and where and, to some extent, where you'd die. And knowing that it was a past that you can't change, because it meant that you'd get to travel back in time. Oh, and if that's not enough pressure...knowing that when you die, your people die with you because you're the last survivor of a proud people that was massacred four hundred years before.
Lee doesn't have it easy. As he trudges toward the inevitable, he meets both the living and the dead in his journeys through the dreaming and the seventeenth century, all the while knowing he might never see his wife and child again.
I'm surprised I didn't cry during this book - while I don't cry often, this is definitely a heart-wrenching story. One I read with my heart very much in my mouth through a large chunk of it.
Once again, fiction, fantasy and history is blended together so seamlessly that Ms Murphy has created yet another brilliant masterpiece.
I gather that there will be a third book in this series, which I'll be eagerly awaiting.
Unquestionably, five stars.
March 29, 2015
Totally enthralling! I was hanging, waiting to see what happened. Though there were trials and tests of true love and in a situation that most would never find themselves in, the results were worth waiting for. I hope the story will continue. Kim Murphy has a knack for combining the present with the past. This series is a great read. You won't be disappointed.
March 11, 2016
Elegant and Weaving
Great read! The storyline captivates with rich scenery, historical relevance and interesting characters. Only complaint is wanting Book 3 to appear!
Great read! The storyline captivates with rich scenery, historical relevance and interesting characters. Only complaint is wanting Book 3 to appear!
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