Janice Y. (jai) reviewed on 2/15/2007 + 310 more book reviews

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This is the sequel to Moon-Flash. Kyreol grew up in a world where the River was the world - Riverworld. Her people's lives are steeped in ritual and have the power of foretelling through dreams. In the first book her world ended where the River did - past a waterfall, but that changed when she discovered that the universe is much much bigger than she thought. Now she lives away from her people because she knows too much and wants to protect them from losing their ability to dream. In the sequel Kyreol will go offworld to another planet, while her friend Terje keeps observing their people's rituals. Both their enterprises cause her mother some concern and a foreshadowing of a problem. Terje and Kyreol may be very far from each other, but they find that both their stories are interlinked. This is an early McKillip novel, and the style is a little less dreamlike than her later works. There is a sci fi meets fantasy element to it as well.

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