Review: Book Review of Across the Great Sparkling Water (The Peacemaker Trilogy, book 2) by Zoe Saadia is a great read
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 27, 2013
Across the Great Sparkling Water (The Peacemaker Trilogy, book 2) by Zoe SaadiaA long time before the United States, a great government was formed in the northeastern area of the United States. This federation and the many myths associated with it are the foundations that this historical fiction series by Ms. Saadia is built on. Like the federation itself, I find this historical fiction trilogy most fascinating.Book one ended with Two Rivers and Tekeni barely escaping with their lives, but on a mission to change their world. Tekeni is a young man at the time and is bloody and injured, having survived a great battle. Not born to this tribe, he was taken hostage as a young boy and never indoctrinated into the tribe, and therefore never earned the good standing that other hostages sometimes achieve.Two Rivers was born to the tribe in question, but he constantly found himself at odds with the various people of the tribe. He questioned tradition he thought preposterous, often stepping on the toes of those who accepted tradition as an absolute. He even had the gall to question the wisdom of constant warfare, which alienated him from the warriors that had grown addicted to constant raids.That Two Rivers and Tekeni would find themselves having to escape was not surprising. Book one ended with the two escaping across the lake where they intended to promote Two Rivers' revolutionary idea of peace. Book two picks up with them on this mission, Tekeni now a seasoned young man and Two Rivers' best friend and most devoted follower. They are on the dangerous path of peace, dangerous because not everybody wants peace, some even hostile to the very concept and anybody advocating it. In all of time the tribes had fought and gone to war, nobody had ever much questioned it. Certainly, those on the losing end regretted such battles and wars, but only after the fact, nobody ever seriously advocating the idea of universal peace until Two Rivers came along with his strange tongue and even stranger ideas.Book two introduces a new character, a remarkable and free-spirited young lady named Onheda who was captive of enemy tribe. Rather than be adopted into the tribe, she ran away, preferring death over captivity. While on the way back to her people, she encounters Two Rivers and joins his cause.Is the meeting of Two Rivers and Onheda the beginning of a wonderful romance? Will Two Rivers achieve his dream of peace? Will Tekani be united with his girlfriend? These are just a few of the questions that I can't wait to be answered in book three, which is already in my kindle. Book two is another great book by Zoe Saadia.