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Bright Star Falling: The time travel saga goes into the West...
Rebel soul. Lost spirit. Indian heart.
When a mysterious redhead plunges from the sky onto the Montana plains in 1874, she is taken in by Sitting Bull’s tribe and named Bright Star Falling.
Torn between dark dreams of the past and bloody visions of the future, might she be the spirit whose re-appearance spells the end of the Lakota people?
From the Battle of the Little Bighorn to Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show, from Wounded Knee to the sidewalks of New York, Bright Star Falling is an epic journey through the West, a sweeping historical fantasy of life on the plains, and one woman's desperate, bloody struggle to find a way home.
When a mysterious redhead plunges from the sky onto the Montana plains in 1874, she is taken in by Sitting Bull’s tribe and named Bright Star Falling.
Torn between dark dreams of the past and bloody visions of the future, might she be the spirit whose re-appearance spells the end of the Lakota people?
From the Battle of the Little Bighorn to Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show, from Wounded Knee to the sidewalks of New York, Bright Star Falling is an epic journey through the West, a sweeping historical fantasy of life on the plains, and one woman's desperate, bloody struggle to find a way home.
300 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 18, 2017
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Andy Conway
41 books18 followersAndy Conway is the novelist, screenwriter and time traveller behind the Touchstone series. He runs a publishing empire from a loft in Birmingham. A keen advocate for authors' rights, he is the founder of the West Midlands Screenwriters Forum, New Street Authors and Punk Publishers.
Read more and join his Touchstone mailing list at www.andyconway.net
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August 30, 2022
Definitely the weakest in the series
I have been looking forward to finding out more about Katherine, since the the first half of the Touchstone series finished. But having read this book and The Ghosts of Paradise Place, I'm a little disappointed with the direction the author has taken.
I did enjoy The Ghosts of Paradise Place, because it was set in Moseley. Because this book has now diverted far away from Moseley, I don't know if it had the same magic as the previous books. I find this book harder to follow, perhaps because of the way it was told, and I struggled with the detailed scenes of fighting. (I find fighting scenes particularly hard to read, but more easier when it's visual, like in a movie for example. That is just me though.)
I felt like this was the slowest in the series as well, and took me longer to read than the earlier ones. It just didn't hold my attention as well and I found Katherine strangely flat. There wasn't much time travelling (there was some, but not as much as we were used to with Danny and Rachel.) I did feel that the author has written her as a particularly unlikeable character - I felt more for her in Ghosts of Paradise Place - and I just didn't warm to her in this.
Much like the previous book in the series, Buried In Time, there are a lot of historical characters featured in this, and the historical notes at the end do go on for pages. I think both books have been really well researched, and perhaps it's a particular interest of the author's to have Katherine feature in such a pivotal point in Native American history.
I hope the next book will be better, as the ending of this book/blurb of the next book does seem to indicate a return to Moseley (as do later books). There are no real appearances from previous characters, apart from brief mentions of their names, due to Katherine's amnesia.
I'm not sure how this will fit into the upcoming books, I do not know whether this book would be skippable yet for readers of the series. I would say for the time being that it is still worth reading, as there may be some characters/references/storylines that will feature heavily in upcoming books. But for me, this is no more than a 2 star book.
I have been looking forward to finding out more about Katherine, since the the first half of the Touchstone series finished. But having read this book and The Ghosts of Paradise Place, I'm a little disappointed with the direction the author has taken.
I did enjoy The Ghosts of Paradise Place, because it was set in Moseley. Because this book has now diverted far away from Moseley, I don't know if it had the same magic as the previous books. I find this book harder to follow, perhaps because of the way it was told, and I struggled with the detailed scenes of fighting. (I find fighting scenes particularly hard to read, but more easier when it's visual, like in a movie for example. That is just me though.)
I felt like this was the slowest in the series as well, and took me longer to read than the earlier ones. It just didn't hold my attention as well and I found Katherine strangely flat. There wasn't much time travelling (there was some, but not as much as we were used to with Danny and Rachel.) I did feel that the author has written her as a particularly unlikeable character - I felt more for her in Ghosts of Paradise Place - and I just didn't warm to her in this.
Much like the previous book in the series, Buried In Time, there are a lot of historical characters featured in this, and the historical notes at the end do go on for pages. I think both books have been really well researched, and perhaps it's a particular interest of the author's to have Katherine feature in such a pivotal point in Native American history.
I hope the next book will be better, as the ending of this book/blurb of the next book does seem to indicate a return to Moseley (as do later books). There are no real appearances from previous characters, apart from brief mentions of their names, due to Katherine's amnesia.
I'm not sure how this will fit into the upcoming books, I do not know whether this book would be skippable yet for readers of the series. I would say for the time being that it is still worth reading, as there may be some characters/references/storylines that will feature heavily in upcoming books. But for me, this is no more than a 2 star book.
June 15, 2017
We had to wait a while for the next installment in the Touchstone series. But it was well worth waiting for. Just like in previous books from the series you felt you were really there and part of the story. In this case being part of a Indian tribe and living on the wild plains of America walking along side Bright Star Falling. Great story especially the links to past story lines and characters. Cant wait for the next installment.
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