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Seven Cuts
The world has drowned.
Dreams can't be drowned, though.
With most of the world that once was now swallowed by water, food is the most precious resource of all. For the folk clinging to life on the tiny islands spread across the face of the Big Water, the most readily available food is the meat of the sea-beast known as the Zothweh. This meat is a deadly poison if not prepared correctly though, and only one group, the Order of the Shif, knows the secret technique for preparing it- the Seven Cuts.
On the Green Mountain, a remote island far from the remains of civilization, a youth named Thomirr embarks on a holy quest to become a Shif. Thomirr must travel far, across strange lands and through deadly perils and trials, to finally stand before the Order of the Shif in the land of Turr- the last great continent left in a storm-tossed sea. Even then the quest might fail- for the elder of the Green Mountain folk said that Thomirr will never learn the Seven Cuts...
Dreams can't be drowned, though.
With most of the world that once was now swallowed by water, food is the most precious resource of all. For the folk clinging to life on the tiny islands spread across the face of the Big Water, the most readily available food is the meat of the sea-beast known as the Zothweh. This meat is a deadly poison if not prepared correctly though, and only one group, the Order of the Shif, knows the secret technique for preparing it- the Seven Cuts.
On the Green Mountain, a remote island far from the remains of civilization, a youth named Thomirr embarks on a holy quest to become a Shif. Thomirr must travel far, across strange lands and through deadly perils and trials, to finally stand before the Order of the Shif in the land of Turr- the last great continent left in a storm-tossed sea. Even then the quest might fail- for the elder of the Green Mountain folk said that Thomirr will never learn the Seven Cuts...
344 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 22, 2018
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November 5, 2018
Of all of Kanuckel's books, this one stands as my favorite. It's hard not to unravel bits of the narrative I want to leave in surprise as I write this because, as anyone who reads my reviews knows, I do tend to go over the plot and some of the major elements in order to express what I love. Let's give it a go anyway, shall we?
Thomirr comes from a place and time where hope is so long gone that it might have a tomb somewhere on the Green Mountain where our hero dwells in a desperate little village so abandoned it has no name. Such desperate living must surely kill all will to seek something more or certainly make it seem so terribly wasteful. It certainly seems so to Thomirr when the time comes to seek life's purpose- a purpose which the wise man of the village told the youth could not possibly be fulfilled regardless of the clear vision Thomirr received of this truth. A shif? The last shif was murdered years before and none had come to live in the village since, leaving them to an even more desperate life-sustaining themselves on the fungus that grows in caves and little else, why would lowly Thomirr be chosen to bring such precious meat to them again? But Thomirr knows the path ahead is destiny, it is Thomirr who will learn the seven cuts that would save her people and it is Thomirr who will bring it home to nourish them all.
By all right, there is no reason to think that Thomirr's journey is anything but doomed to failure, the world drowned long ago and that long ago people left little for those who remained to claim, little enough of it understood when it works in any case. But our hero was raised by a man who hoped, who told stories and sought to give his child this gift- something to keep Thomirr warm in the darkness of their future. It is this hope, this unspoiled thing in Thomirr that carries us along on the journey as battle after battle, setback after setback Thomirr's truth sustains and urges us along. There is more in the world than death, than the devastation of loss and limitation, and it is worth our seeking.
Thomirr comes from a place and time where hope is so long gone that it might have a tomb somewhere on the Green Mountain where our hero dwells in a desperate little village so abandoned it has no name. Such desperate living must surely kill all will to seek something more or certainly make it seem so terribly wasteful. It certainly seems so to Thomirr when the time comes to seek life's purpose- a purpose which the wise man of the village told the youth could not possibly be fulfilled regardless of the clear vision Thomirr received of this truth. A shif? The last shif was murdered years before and none had come to live in the village since, leaving them to an even more desperate life-sustaining themselves on the fungus that grows in caves and little else, why would lowly Thomirr be chosen to bring such precious meat to them again? But Thomirr knows the path ahead is destiny, it is Thomirr who will learn the seven cuts that would save her people and it is Thomirr who will bring it home to nourish them all.
By all right, there is no reason to think that Thomirr's journey is anything but doomed to failure, the world drowned long ago and that long ago people left little for those who remained to claim, little enough of it understood when it works in any case. But our hero was raised by a man who hoped, who told stories and sought to give his child this gift- something to keep Thomirr warm in the darkness of their future. It is this hope, this unspoiled thing in Thomirr that carries us along on the journey as battle after battle, setback after setback Thomirr's truth sustains and urges us along. There is more in the world than death, than the devastation of loss and limitation, and it is worth our seeking.
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