Witches of Cahokia

Therein lay the difference, I think. But it brings up a point that was nagging me while reading the debate: He is trying to accomplish the goals of the CRA but now through the sheen of respectability and precedent.

But the author is to be commended for causing that reaction out of this reader — not condemned. To make me react this way to a fictitious character in a fictitious setting is the goal of every good writer. So what is the solution? The book provides one and, wisely, the solution is presented by Josh-Joseph. Thus expunging his earlier villainy in the eyes of the reader.

Fred and we learns of Chinese culture as he examines the buffalo hide telling the tale of the White Buffalo Calf Women from Witches. The Cult of Ku, the bringing and cultivating of corn and the Viking rape — all events we the readers are aware from the prior book — are reviewed and examined with skepticism by Eldridge.

Again Eldridge is brought to life and is a three-dimensional character as opposed to the nay-saying curmudgeon of Flight. Fred helps Ben and Ah when Ah becomes pregnant with their second child — verbotten in China — and his solution is written well. What if there is no creator?

Or there is a conflict as to who the creator is? How can these truths be self-evident if they have NOT been endowed? In a coincidence that only happens in novels, Fred is contacted by the same man who gave Daniel the transcript that made up the bulk of Flight — that told the tale of Sun and Snow Pine and their voyage to America and, eventually, to the cliffs of the Mississippi where the Piasa is painted.

This time he has a manuscript telling the tale of the Last Witch of Cahokia as told by a scholar names Shen Fu who travels with Admiral Zhu Wen, whom we met near the end of Witches. Many times in Flight, Eldridge said to throw it out, it was fake, no one at the time wrote like that, etc. Stood on the Great Wall as they did and where they did.

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The writer did a good job showing the shoe on this particular foot. Last Witch pours a lot of information and brings up moral questions absent from the first two books. Between the info dumps and the morality discussions and, literally, lectures we are provided with enough information to take sides on the issues and be firm in our convictions.

But we also find ourselves cheering on the peacemakers and hope they can find enough common ground to provide a reasonable solution — and hope we can do so in real life too. The author avoids the usual traps in books such as these — bad allegories, awkward info dumps, etc. Such things make a book preachy rather than entertaining. Witch is not preachy and VERY entertaining. I cared what happened to the characters — I hated to put it down at the end of a chapter during bedtime!

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The info dumps here are well done, although at times repetitive — the fact that the Cahokia Mound people have no known direct descendents and the Illini moved into the area centuries later is now etched in my brain. But that is a minor complaint — I loved all three books and will return to them in years to come. All three are quick and enjoyable reads. My copies of the first two books were not so published. Thus the typeset and interiors of Last Witch is different from the first two. It certainly does not affect the readability of the story, but the difference is notable.

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Witches of Cahokia

It is a tale filled with passion, sacrifice, love, and loss. It is the tale of an ancient civilizations rise and fall. It is the tale of the women who shaped the development of the city of Cahokia. The novel explores the growth of the mound city of Cahokia, an actual archaeological site along the Mississippi River. With a population of approximately 20, it was at the time larger than Paris, and no other North American city reached its equivalent size until