Let's talk about WARLIKE.
Warlike is my second book published. The official description depicts a young woman's quest to free her (jungle-forest) tribe from a menace called raptors. The young woman is called Thresha. After the most skillful war-party of the tribe is killed on a hunt, Tresha wants to go out and kill the raptors herself. In essence, the raptors are dinosaurs, and they've been plaguing the tribe for decades. The book is set in the year 2250.
Let's start with a simple question: Why dinosaurs? In 2250? In this story the Earth is practically abandoned. It's not been left behind by space travel but rather humankind caused themselves to become extinct. There were several wars and so much pollution the Earth changed. What's left of the great cities are structures like the Deep (a crumbling hospital). The rest has been covered (at least in Thresha's part of the world) by a jungle-like forest. As forests are not the most food-producing ecosystems (this is a fact) the tribes that sprung up are small hunter-gatherer tribes with some degree of awareness of technology although nothing technological really has survived.
In this setting then Thresha is told to stay down even as her tribe's most revered hunters are killed in the fight against the raptors. But Thresha is very stubborn and has a strong urge for initiative. She won't be kept down. She will be fighting not only for herself but her whole tribe. At the beginning of the novel she starts to do exactly that, even against the wishes of her tribe's Elder, and as a result, Thresha is exiled. She has freedom then, but no security with her tribe any more, and the world is much, much bigger than she thought.
I love this book simply because it's such an adventure. It's really fast-paced with a view out of Thresha's own mind and it is still able to slow down at some point to include Thresha's core values as a character - what she loves and what she hates. All in all it's the one YA-like book I always wanted to read but no one wrote. There is no romance (because who isn't tired these days of all YA books having a romance? I wouldn't have read that as a girl) but great focus is put on meeting new people and navigating their worlds. Friendship is made the central theme of the story instead of romance. (Think about the first Pacific Rim film! I loved it simply BECAUSE it had no stupid romance but focused entirely on Raleigh's protectiveness and friendship-love for x)
Do you think WARLIKE might be something for you? I'd (obviously) love for you to read it!
As a second piece of news: I got my second review for Catching Fireflies! I love it!
This piece of news: In a few days my books will be on goodreads! This means you can review them there as well and add them to your lists! A post about that should follow soon!
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