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    The Sundered: Among the Mythos, #7
    The Sundered: Among the Mythos, #7
    The Sundered: Among the Mythos, #7
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    The Sundered: Among the Mythos, #7

    By Ruthanne Reid

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    The world I know is flooded. You don't go in the water. You don't touch it. If you do, it will get you, drag you down, and you're gone.

     

    Harry Iskinder knows the rules: Don't touch the water, or it will pull you under; conserve food, or you'll run out at the worst time; use Sundered slaves gently, or they die too quickly to be worthwhile.

    The Sundered create food. The Sundered create shelter. They're also dying out. In a world lost to deadly flood that kills on contact, Harry thinks he knows the score, but when he claims the magnificent and powerful Sundered One named Aakesh, he quickly finds himself in deep and dangerous water.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRuthanne Reid
    Release dateJun 22, 2012
    ISBN9780985260071
    The Sundered: Among the Mythos, #7
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    Ruthanne Reid

    Ruthanne Reid is one of those pesky fanfiction authors who made good, and thus eschews most labels. Except for being a Generation X-er (or maybe Xennial, according to some guy's webpage), a musician who loves music but also carries a ton of baggage about it, a self-taught graphic artist who designs her own covers, a chronic pain warrior, a rabid shipper who's too smart to lay out precisely which ships because of the wars, and an avid reader. Indie author. Spouse of geek. Mother of cats. She/her. Daily pep-talks for #CreateIt22. Owns a lot of things that need to be plugged in.

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    • 4/5
      I wasn't sure what to expect when I decided to join the tour for this book. Before I read the synopsis, I had visions of a horror strewn blood bath. That was before I looked up the meaning of sundered. (sunder--to separate; part; divide; sever) As I began reading, the name made sense. The Sundered Ones in the story are separate from the humans in physical appearance and in power. And as the author stated in her guest post, Harry doesn't really know what their powers are...no human really does. And not knowing what you're truly dealing with is dangerous.

      It would be difficult to go into too much detail about the story because that would give far too much away so I'm going to focus on what I did like. I enjoyed the easy, laid back flow of the characters and their dialogue. There was no stiffness that I have found in other SciFi books I've read. Harry is a riot with his internal monologue. I love when he calls the professor at the Academy a douche (in his head). That's not the only funny thing he says or thinks. Harry is just a riot. His interaction with the Sundered One he claims, Aakesh, is priceless.

      Which brings me to the claiming of the Sundered Ones. It seems the humans can "claim" them. To me, it almost seems like slavery. It was never more evident than when Harry is reciting a rhyme they learned to keep track of the tiers of Sundered Ones. It goes like this:

      Fifth-tier's strong and lifts big blocks,
      not too bright but strong as ox.
      Fourth-tier's fine with clever fingers,
      painting, sculptures, make good singers.
      Third-tier's quiet, good for play,
      safe for children every day.
      Second-tier's wild, feral, free,
      eats everyone, but works for me.
      Claim the rest with little work,
      but they die soon, so best not shirk.

      Aakesh's reaction to this is to say to Harry, "You do not see how degrading it is?" It's obvious that the Sundered Ones do have negative feelings about their place in society, if you can call it that. There really isn't much society in this book because the world has become so surrounded by the black water. Land is few and far between and the cites are brown and dirty. The dystopian elements kept reminding me of that Kevin Costner movie that everyone hated, "Waterworld" (I actually liked it). But it is excellent world building. I could really see in my mind's eye what the author was describing. The black water reminded me of that bog area in Lord of the Rings, I can't remember if it was in The Two Towers or The Return of the King. You know the one with all the dead people in it and it tries to drag Frodo down into it. Creepy.

      I am really impressed that this is Reid's first novel. She really knows how to tell a story. I recommend The Sundered to anyone who enjoys the speculative fiction genre.
    • 4/5
      This felt like YA to me in many respects- first person narration, young and uncertain hero saddled with a missing parent's quest and gradually discovering his world. Then you get to the enslavement, gory deaths, and genocide. I found the world-building enjoyable but not particularly remarkable. On the other hand, Reid gets major props from me for not pulling her punches Re: Fantastic slavery and its consequences. Aakesh (our hero's slave, a different species than human) has a lot of rage and an ambivalent and twisty way of relating to our hero, while the hero is a good person corrupted by his power to enslave. No Great White Saviors here.

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