Kergulen The Kergulen Series Book 1 eBook RA White
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A girl with the eyes of a witch escapes her abusive master, but instead of a happy ending she finds Kergulen, a land where the monsters are only slightly more terrifying than the people. As she struggles to stay alive in this new country, Rima must master the capacity for inner freedom and true friendship if she hopes to create a life worth living.
Will uncovering Kergulen’s mysteries give Rima the freedom she dreams of, or will she be condemned because she knows too much?
Kergulen The Kergulen Series Book 1 eBook RA White
Once in a while you stumble across a real gem. Kergulen is one such gem. A powerful and poignant story of a young slave girl, Rima from Banlund, who escapes the captivity of a merciless master that whips her constantly because he can, and because she's a half breed with strange eyes. The only place she knows to go, where she won't be tracked down, is the forbidden forest of Kergulen. No one ever escapes to tell of Kergulen. Little does she know, she's thrust herself into another world of pain, shaming, and struggle to survive. Yet, behind every cloud is a silver lining. Attacked by a vicious pack of Alepay (feral pigs), near death, she's rescued by a young border warrior, a Tonx by the name of Jail. Against his training and the law of Kergulen, he chooses to listen to his heart and takes her to his town of Nene to be healed by his sister, the only surgeon and primary healer of the town.Foreigners are not allowed in Kergulen and are usually put to death immediately. The elders allow Jail and his family, because of their status and relationship to the King, to take care of her until such time as she can be taken to the capital city for interrogation and ultimately a decision on what to do with her. Her secret, she's an Alocan. Her eyes change color with her surroundings but she also has magical gifts, yet to be discovered and nurtured. This places her and her now adopted family in jeopardy creating a civil war in the town of Nene. Lured outside one evening by magic, she is captured, beaten, raped and left for dead by a group of haters. Only her will to survive keeps her alive until Jail and his family discover she's gone, find her, and save her life once again.
Through all of this, Rima not only struggles with her own self worth issues of being different and an outcast but now struggles with the pain of watching those who befriended her suffer loss as well. On the plus side, she learns to defend herself and is awed by the wonders nature offers; the natural beauty of the forest, birds chirping, snow, all of the things she's never known before, including love.
This story is powerful in many ways. It evoked and projected my own emotional outcry against racism, ignorance, and brutality, issues, unfortunately, that we still face within our own world day to day. It also touched my heart as to the compassion and love one family offered a scared young woman facing the fear of being killed by haters of those that are different. Going against and entire town and kingdom to defend Rima's rights as a human, the family places their own lives in jeopardy to defend hers.
R.A. White has written a tale definitely worth reading. I highly recommend this book to those who want to ride an emotional roller-coaster from start to finish. Kudos R.A. White. I look forward to following your series.
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Kergulen The Kergulen Series Book 1 eBook RA White Reviews
This is not my normal type of of book, but i met the author and wanted to see how well she wrote for a first time fantasy book. The story was very interesting from page to page. It weaves a story from bigotry to friendships developed trough different cultures. I didn't skip pages like i some times do with new authors. Very good writing.
ETA R.A. White worked really hard to re-edit the book, and the result is a remarkable story set in a well-developed world that is populated by complex, interesting characters. The edited version of the book gets those five stars I couldn't give it pre-edit. If allowed me to strike the parts that no longer apply, I'd do so. Since it doesn't, and since I refuse to delete what I wrote before, just note that White took care of most of the things that stopped me rating this five-stars after my initial read.
This could have been a five-star book. It should have been something I wanted to give five stars. Instead, I wouldn't feel right claiming it was anything more than a three-and-a-half-star book. (Since Goodreads doesn't do half stars, and because I love the story, I'm marking giving it four stars.)
R.A. White seems to have put in a tremendous amount of effort in building a world that is interesting and complex. She depicted each culture as consistent within itself while not falling into a trap of making anything predictable. (That's a result many authors fail to achieve.) Things that didn't make sense at first were almost invariably explained eventually, so my curiosity remained piqued, but I never felt like I was the victim of an info dump.
I found the central characters to be believable, and even though few made choices I would have made, I didn't find myself sneering at them. However, characterisation is part of where this book lost a star from me.
The plot kept me intrigued and invested in Rima's story throughout - even when it seemed to be trailing off into unimportant areas (but wasn't). I hadn't seen anything like that from an author in a long time, and I ate the experience up.
The first half star was lost early in the book Rima, the protagonist, is a slave who has spent her entire life as a slave on an isolated farm located in Banlund - a country populated by dark-skinned people. She has lighter skin than most of her fellow Banlunders. And yet, in the first pages of the book, where the story-telling style in all other instances appears to be close third-person, we read about her observing her own dark skin. And that self-image continued on, even before she found herself surrounded by pale-skinned Kergulenites.
The next half star was lost to a similar fail, although I had to read the next book in the series before I felt comfortable saying it was, indeed, a fail. Turning red. Dark skin is highly subjective, and some people who have dark skin do visibly blush to the point of turning red. There comes a point, however, we our blushes stop manifesting themselves with visual cues akin to what one might describe for a White person. Even after reading the second book, I wasn't certain which category Rima fell. But I since I was already feeling sceptical, once I saw a character - albeit in the second book - whose description seemed to place him into the latter category also turn "bright red", it firmed up my scepticism for the descriptions in this book.
The final half star was lost to persistent word-use and punctuation fails. "Complement" in place of "compliment" and "discrete" in place of "discreet" are pet peeves of mine. Those, coupled with indiscriminate comma abuse made me grit my teeth through much of the book.
Fortunately, the story was so good, I was ravenous in my appetite to continue reading. <s>I would have given up on a lesser book. I certainly would not have gone on to buy the second had R.A. White not had such a wonderful tale to tell.
At this point in time, there are around 50 prior reviewers who did love it. And I respect that obvious majority's opinions; which was one of the reasons why I downloaded It. But for me, this was just an OK read.
I thought the MC, Rima, was an intriguing character who developed and matured during the story. The World was interesting, with plenty of politics and discrimination to fuel the plot. There were even Dragons getting involved towards the end.
However...although there were a few very good action scenes, for the most part I found the pace to be tedious. Too much unnecessary descriptions of ordinary occurrences. Too many details of the surroundings. Too much mental introspection on the Heroine's part. I also can't say that I really liked very many of the characters.
I think that the World and the Heroine has the potential to sustain a series. But I found myself putting this book aside too easily, which I never do if I'm thoroughly involved. Maybe it just wasn't my 'cup of tea'.
Once in a while you stumble across a real gem. Kergulen is one such gem. A powerful and poignant story of a young slave girl, Rima from Banlund, who escapes the captivity of a merciless master that whips her constantly because he can, and because she's a half breed with strange eyes. The only place she knows to go, where she won't be tracked down, is the forbidden forest of Kergulen. No one ever escapes to tell of Kergulen. Little does she know, she's thrust herself into another world of pain, shaming, and struggle to survive. Yet, behind every cloud is a silver lining. Attacked by a vicious pack of Alepay (feral pigs), near death, she's rescued by a young border warrior, a Tonx by the name of Jail. Against his training and the law of Kergulen, he chooses to listen to his heart and takes her to his town of Nene to be healed by his sister, the only surgeon and primary healer of the town.
Foreigners are not allowed in Kergulen and are usually put to death immediately. The elders allow Jail and his family, because of their status and relationship to the King, to take care of her until such time as she can be taken to the capital city for interrogation and ultimately a decision on what to do with her. Her secret, she's an Alocan. Her eyes change color with her surroundings but she also has magical gifts, yet to be discovered and nurtured. This places her and her now adopted family in jeopardy creating a civil war in the town of Nene. Lured outside one evening by magic, she is captured, beaten, raped and left for dead by a group of haters. Only her will to survive keeps her alive until Jail and his family discover she's gone, find her, and save her life once again.
Through all of this, Rima not only struggles with her own self worth issues of being different and an outcast but now struggles with the pain of watching those who befriended her suffer loss as well. On the plus side, she learns to defend herself and is awed by the wonders nature offers; the natural beauty of the forest, birds chirping, snow, all of the things she's never known before, including love.
This story is powerful in many ways. It evoked and projected my own emotional outcry against racism, ignorance, and brutality, issues, unfortunately, that we still face within our own world day to day. It also touched my heart as to the compassion and love one family offered a scared young woman facing the fear of being killed by haters of those that are different. Going against and entire town and kingdom to defend Rima's rights as a human, the family places their own lives in jeopardy to defend hers.
R.A. White has written a tale definitely worth reading. I highly recommend this book to those who want to ride an emotional roller-coaster from start to finish. Kudos R.A. White. I look forward to following your series.
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