Review: A spectacular journey by sea and through land you don't want to miss!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 22, 2014
If a person from today boarded a ship in the early part of the 19th century, she or he just might feel that they had entered the infamous Twilight Zone the culture shock would be so great. Those who did so at the time probably considered this a “modern step forward” giving them the ability to cross the world for their own particular motives.The Morcan's World Duology takes you by sea on a ship most of us today would not find seaworthy even sailing on a local lake. And yet the people of the time might spend three to six months on such voyage for new profitable markets, for religious proselytizing, for adventure, to be shipped to penal colonies. In these motives, circumstances, we meet Susannah, Jack, and  Nathan who weather the hazards of storms, whales, pirates, fellow passengers, terror, excitement, and yes, destiny too.The voyage is stressful, filled with illness, loss, temptation, repulsion, and determination.For some the harsh journey ends only to be faced with the culture shock of constantly warring tribes, although endless wars were a part of their own history as it is of ours, but to follow through with the Twilight Zone reference, The How to Serve Man cannibals on Fiji took quite a bit of getting accustomed to. Attempts of bring Christianity to the “savages” are coupled with trading for sea slugs, seemingly a delicacy in some places, for muskets.The Reverend Drake, Susannah's father,  carries a pistol as well as a Bible.Although this is an historical adventure novel, with a love story, it is more than that, so I borrow this from my original review of Fiji:Fiji, again, is not just a religion versus religion, profit for sake thereof, but a story of coming to terms with soul, with sexuality; with a sense of humanity; with a sense of friendship, with a sense of, well, honor. This is not a view of natives living in paradise and sometimes feeding on each other, but with their own very harsh reality, religion, and mores that the "White-faces" come to at least begin to understand as they begin to understand themselves at a level deeper than they ever have beforeThe Reverend keeps not only his Bible, but a gun nearby for outlanders who are constantly problematical for this particular group of islanders with their "surprising" use of ingenious barricades and water flows for protection. Perhaps an island version of crenelated walls and boiling oil, if you will.You may check all out my reviews of the books of Lance and James Morcan here at Amazon. Soon there will be a new one; the epic tale of who really runs the world, and for what purposes. This one will NOT be fiction. So join Lance and James now for The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy.And of yes, perhaps after you read the new one you might be moved to take back control of your TV set!