1. Burning Sky
    Lori Benton
    WaterBrook / 2013 / Trade Paperback
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  1. KavR
    Canada
    Gender: female
    5 Stars Out Of 5
    November 8, 2013
    KavR
    Canada
    Gender: female
    Quality: 5
    Value: 5
    Meets Expectations: 5
    Rich, evocative text creates a tapestry of images in this stunning debut novel. I easily lost myself within the pages and was always reluctant to return to the 'real' world. This epic novel isn't meant for a marathon read though, so I had to make the transition between centuries way too often. At 400+ pages you will want to take the time to savor every word. The historical detail is exquisite -- I swear Benton time traveled in order to draw on first hand accounts to lend authenticity to her story. :-)

    My heart ached for Willa and a host of other characters. Prejudice is such a horrible blight in history no matter what the time period but I've always been touched by the treatment of Native peoples throughout North American history. I found Benton's portrayal of the People's dilemma to be a moving tribute.

    A complex plot with plenty of twists and turns that left me gasping for breath along with a complicated romance made this a page-turning read. Burning Sky is just plain good! An exceptional book choice for historical lovers everywhere.
  2. Britt98
    Grand Prairie, TX
    Age: 35-44
    Gender: female
    5 Stars Out Of 5
    A gripping tale of a woman torn between two worlds
    October 24, 2013
    Britt98
    Grand Prairie, TX
    Age: 35-44
    Gender: female
    Quality: 5
    Value: 5
    Meets Expectations: 5
    What a novel to debut with! Burning Sky is a deep, powerful journey back in time to the tumultuous years after the American Revolution. Burning Sky is the Mowhawk name that was given to Willa Obenchain, who was stolen from her family twelve years before the start of this book.

    Willa built a life with the Mowhawks, but when she loses everything and decides to travel back to her original home, will she be able to make a life again amongst people who feel they have been terrorized by the very people she learned to call family?

    Willa takes in a man named Neil MacGregor when she finds him injured on the border of her family's land. Neil is originally from Scotland and is a botanist sent to document the flora and fauna of the west. Willa is a strong, yet traumatized woman. Neil unleashes feelings in her that she is not ready to face. Will she ever be able to let her guard down? Neil has his own struggles to overcome. Will he be able to determine what God really wants for his life?

    This novel is full of beautiful imagery and offers the reader a window into another time. The distrust that Willa, the two children in her care, and Willa's adoptive Mowhawk brother face is intense. I really enjoyed the author's writing style. I felt totally immersed in the time period and very invested in the lives of the characters.
  3. Moriah
    Maine
    Age: 18-24
    Gender: Female
    5 Stars Out Of 5
    LOVED this book!!! I HIGHLY recommend it.
    October 18, 2013
    Moriah
    Maine
    Age: 18-24
    Gender: Female
    Quality: 5
    Value: 5
    Meets Expectations: 5
    Wow! This book was EXCELLENT!

    Willa Obenchain was captured by Mohawk Indians when she was fourteen and adopted into one of their clans. Twelve years later, after the death of her family from a smallpox outbreak, Willa returns to her family's land, on her way discovering a wounded man who she feels responsible to bring back to health.

    Upon arriving at her former home, Willa discovers the barn burned down, the house empty and the yard grown up- and her missing parents suspected of being Tories...

    This was an awesome book. It was written with so much depth and character. I was really impressed with Lori Benton's writing. I loved this book. I highly recommend it!

    Thank you so much to WaterBrook Multnomah for sending me a free copy of Burning Sky in exchange for an honest review.
  4. janadd
    Louisiana
    Age: 55-65
    Gender: female
    5 Stars Out Of 5
    I highly recommend this book.
    September 25, 2013
    janadd
    Louisiana
    Age: 55-65
    Gender: female
    Quality: 5
    Value: 5
    Meets Expectations: 5
    This is a great book. i really enjoyed reading it. It is about a young woman that was taken from her home by indians. Years later she returns home and finds her parents gone. She finds a wounded man on her property. She takes care of him and brings him back to health. She doesn't trusts anyone. She only trusts God. I highly recommend this book. It is a great historical christian fiction.
  5. An Old Fashioned Girl
    Minnesota
    Age: 25-34
    Gender: female
    5 Stars Out Of 5
    Beautiful historical tale of restoration
    September 19, 2013
    An Old Fashioned Girl
    Minnesota
    Age: 25-34
    Gender: female
    Quality: 5
    Value: 5
    Meets Expectations: 5
    In her debut novel "Burning Sky," Lori Benton writes a sweeping tale of restoration after the American Revolution. With her Mohawk family dead, white captive Burning Sky leaves the life she has known these past twelve years and makes her way back to the home of her white family, taking back her birth name: Wilhelmina Obenchain. At the border of her father's land, she finds an unconscious man with a broken arm - the botanist and doctor Neil MacGregor - and she drags him with her to the abandoned farm that her family had once owned. Because her parents were suspected Tories when they disappeared during the Revolution, their land was confiscated, and has now come up for auction, though Willa intends to save it by proving her parents were loyal to the Americans. Finding herself pulled many ways, Willa seeks the truth of what happened to her parents, while her clan brother Joseph Tames-His-Horse encourages her to return with him to the Mohawk nation, and Neil plants himself firmly in her life, slowly thawing her frozen heart.

    Without sounding like a textbook, Benton does an excellent job incorporating the history of upstate New York into the novel. At the border of British Canada, many villages suffered raids by marauding British and their Iroquois allies even after the war was officially won. While I was taught in school about Paul Revere and Boston Tea Party, I do not remember anything of the civil war being fought amongst the Iroquois nations that had occupied the northeast. Although the six Iroquois nations had been united for centuries, most of the Oneidas and Tuscaroras sided with the Patriots in the Revolution, while the rest joined the British. While it is not a main focus of the novel, Benton brings out the sorrow of the People who were forced to fight against their brothers in a war that ultimately led to the loss of their homeland for all six nations.

    With all their humanity - their flaws, failings, attributes, and accomplishments - Benton's characters feel very real; none is perfect, but none is wholly evil either. Even Richard, as contemptible as he is, was once a loving young man, and I can pity the vicious man that emerged from war. Joseph Tames-His-Horse, the Colonel, Anni, Goodenough - all are decent people, friends to Willa, but like real people, they each have their faults and blind spots.

    I really like Neil; he is not the tallest or the strongest or maybe even the best looking man in Willa's acquaintance, and since his near scalping, he can no longer even read or write, but what he lacks physically he more than makes up for spiritually. Granted, he is not perfect - he still questions God and disobeys His instruction, but he learns. He repents. He makes changes. Of all his good qualities, Neil's ability to be content is most impressive; as a doctor, scholar, and scientist, words have been his world, and to lose the ability to read and write could throw any person into depression and bitterness, but he continually - though imperfectly - practices being content in the circumstances God has allowed to befall him. My life is a breeze in comparison, but I still have much to learn from him!

    More than anything, this is a novel of healing and restoration. So many of the characters are broken inside, hurting, and afraid. Although Willa trusts in God, she is afraid to let others into her heart, for fear of losing one more person she loves. After being stolen from her birth family at fourteen, she has also lost her Mohawk husband to war and her children to smallpox. However, in spite of the loss of two families, God restores her heart and provides her with a motley party that becomes her new family.

    After growing up on Lois Lenski's "Indian Captive" and Elizabeth George Speare's "Calico Captive," both about young women as they grow up in captivity, it was good to read about what happens when the captive returns to her people, the changes in her, and the whites' attitudes towards her. Benton has written a beautiful, in-depth novel that I highly recommend. 5 out of 5 stars!

    I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review. All opinions expressed are my own.
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