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Loading... The Dark River (Vintage)by John Twelve Hawks
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. This second book in the trilogy was good. In the beginning of the book is a short recap of what happened in the first book The Traveler. The Dark River has the Brethren in full gear and Michael at the wheel. Gabriel is on a quest to find his father who he thought was dead before his brother does. This search takes him to a realm run on violence and hate. Maya the Harlequin who is supossed to protect Gabriel at any cost is removed from that responsibility because she crossed the line between the code of Traveler and Harlequin. Can she save Gabriel so he can fight his brother and this vast machine that monitors our lives without us knowing? The third book should be out around Sept. of 2009. (  )curlysue | Apr 4, 2009 |   Really enjoyed The Traveler -- this one was much more difficult to stick with. (  )skraft001 | Mar 31, 2009 | Both "The Traveler" and "The Dark River" are based on an interesting, even alarming, premise--that a secret cabal is trying to set up a prison for the entire populace based on electronic surveillance. The irritationan and alarm that almost everyone experiences about increasingly intrusive data-tracking lend the book a certain credence. In "Dark River", however, the author presents a book that appears to be nothing more than a cliffhanger for the next in the series, leaving the reader with nothing resolved and a pile of questions: Will Maya and Gabriel fnd each other? Has brother Michael really gone over to the dark side--or is he going to have a change of heart? Will Hollis become a Harlequin? Will father be found? Does anyone care? Not me. Two of these were more than enough.. (  )turtlesleap | Mar 27, 2009 | So I recently read two books that kind of scared me. They were very good, but it made me want to move into the mountains somewhere and never come back. They are Traveler and Dark River. Dark River is the sequel and what the author doesn't get into about the big brother type things that are happening RIGHT NOW in Traveler he goes into in this book in so much more detail. After the first book I was a little freaked and wanted to move to a hippie commune and change my name to Snowflake but after the second book I think that might not be enough. So what scared me? How about the fact that this technology that he talks about in the book to track people like they're hunting animals already exists. And if this technology is known, what do they have that is still in the testing stages? Did any of you see that short piece (that no tv news media reported on by the way) about these little strange flying devices in DC that look like dragonflies but are possibly cameras? Seriously???!!!! Where could they go with that if no one knows they're cameras? And if surveillance cameras don't scare you, you have no idea what they can do. Go check this out: http://www.notbored.org/nannycams.htm... and more generally: http://www.notbored.org/scp-faq.html The cameras are the just the smallest entity of what is going on though. So until the day that I become Snowflake WaterSuite, I will be much more careful about how I present my information to the world. Back to the books though. I was very impressed with the not only the storyline but also John Twelve Hawks writing style. I've read so many fantasy/sci-fi stories that when I come across someone who writes different it's like drinking fresh water for the first time. Unless you've read a thousand fantasy or science fiction novels, you may not be aware that about 9 out of 10 of them are the same story with different character names. It makes trying to find something to read a little frustrating if you go into the book store thinking, "I wonder what's new in THAT section..." I am definitely looking forward to being freaked out again by the third book! (  )TonyaSB | Mar 18, 2009 | I like the idea of the book, and I also wanted to like the book. However, what can I do: characters are shallow and writing is quite poor. I'm disappointed. ( )Serayna | Nov 6, 2008 | 0.044 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0385514298, Hardcover)A frantic race to save a long-lost Traveler. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:02 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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