Yoke of Wind edition by Luke Comer Literature Fiction eBooks
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Before the Civil War, a slavemaster named Jonah takes his family and five of what he believes are his most loyal and trustworthy slaves to a remote and beautiful island off the coast of Florida.
But as soon they arrive, one of the slaves named Shaka lures the other slaves into his Shamanic and animistic beliefs. When a pair of black, inverted wings appear on the island from nowhere, the slaves come into conflict with Jonah and soon revolt altogether.
As Jonah strives to repress the rebellion and his wife, Eloise, strives to reconvert the slaves back to Christianity, the slaves delve deeper into the Shamanic realms until Shaka reveals to them that they are preparing for an extraordinary exodus back to Africa.
While the island hovers on the verge of violence--and even madness--the whites and black are forced to confront the dark, secretive but sometimes loving relationships that exist between them through spending their lifetimes together on a raw and uncivilized plantation in the backwoods of Alabama.
As the day of liberation approaches, the story increasingly turns and twists in ways the reader cannot imagine, as the characters see their ideas about their lives shattered--and eventually reconstructed anew.
Written in seamless, well-paced and poetic prose, this novel synthesizes several genres into one story while driven by adventure and suspense, it simultaneously delves into the ideas behind our American culture--and then even deeper into the most repressed reaches of our mind. In the end an allegory emerges from the pages, at once painful and unflinching but healing, about the history of America.
Yoke of Wind edition by Luke Comer Literature Fiction eBooks
Yoke of wind written by Luke Comer is a griping tale about love, religion, and the introspection of human morality and self-worth during times of slavery or great peril. I may be giving this book a little too much credit. The writing is excellent, but the dialog leaves something to be desired especially in the earlier parts. The speeches do not really feel authentic for the time period, but I’m not an historian. Personally I don’t like when authors give away a characters story or attitude from their name. I have to admit Luke does a fairly good job in the cases of Shaka and Jonah. Without giving too much away this book does a good job drawing you in before any action starts. I received this book for an honest review.Product details
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Yoke of Wind edition by Luke Comer Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. Caution This review might contain unintentional spoilers; however, they are not applied to the end of the story. This was an intense read from start to finish. The most compelling story I have read in a while, and yet at points it was so vividly written that I felt I needed to pause before the emotions of the characters became too much, especially when Jonah is whipping Shaka.
I am not sure what I expected when I picked up this piece of historical fiction. Perhaps I was mesmerized by the description on and wanted to read more about this intense time period. I was not expecting a gripping story which travels between time periods and settings. Comer keeps his readers on their toes because when paragraph you might be reading about being on an island during the main time period of the story when suddenly you are transported back to when Jonah and Shaka were children. A few paragraphs later you return to the island to see interactions between other characters. As a reader, you must keep your mind sharp in order to follow this engaging story.
Important to note this story is not for the faint of heart. The story, while incredible, does have some violence and must be approached as such. This isn’t all about slavery and freedom. It is about being a slave and what happened when a slave went against his mater’s wishes. Although set in a very different time period, there are overarching themes which, unfortunately, can still be applied to today’s racially fueled violent society. I recommend this book to those who are open-minded, who enjoy history and learning about differences in culture, but also who are old enough to realize that people can become very violent and strangely so.
Yoke of Wind is like a fantasy. It takes you into a visual dream journey. A story of hope and conflict. I really loved reading this book. A page turner.
Woven with such masterpiece of words painting a vivid reincarnation of a dark time in history that has rarely been examined from such unique and intimate perspective, Yoke of Wind is thought provoking and transformative, stirring a vast canvas of emotion and deep inner contemplation.
Transported on the wings of potent allegory through the timeless depths of the human psyche, the reader comes breathtakingly close to the divine and brushes the edges of mystery and magic, then plummets once again back into the wrenching and at times beautiful reality and realness of our mortal spar with light and dark in realization that no one can save us except we ourselves. Contrasting the search for God and the understanding of self, and challenging the prejudices of birthright and destiny with the irrevocable value of every individual life and the right of each of us to be free and seek happiness, the story dances between love and brutality, bravery and fear, power and shame, the known and the unspoken, the anticipated and the surreal.
Such opposing perspectives, and varying experiences, and yet we’ve all walked each of them in some way at some point along our journey to embrace our personal truths and answer our soul questions. Are we ever really as different as we think we are? What if, at our core, we hope for and strive for such a similar thing?
By compelling us to face the graphic understory of our nation’s history, which to this day so many wish to forget, we come face to face with darkness and illusion we all must reconcile within as part of our own quest toward wholeness, purpose, and morality. We then know that we must find the courage to become greater than all of the yesterdays that have brought us to today, together and separately. This book is a powerful reminder of our choices and the choices of our families, and how these shape our lives.
In the endless debate of nature over nurture, “Yoke of Wind” may have cast the mightiest of stones. It is our experiences that make us, and our experiences that break us. We shape our world, and we shape our children… for better, or worse, this is so. We are each born in innocence speaking and understanding a language of love that transcends all color, all religion, all differences, and genetics has not cast our fate but rather fallible humankind.
The timeless question - who would you be, if you stopped being who you were told to be?
And how would you see the world, if you ceased looking for god outside of yourself?
Yoke of wind written by Luke Comer is a griping tale about love, religion, and the introspection of human morality and self-worth during times of slavery or great peril. I may be giving this book a little too much credit. The writing is excellent, but the dialog leaves something to be desired especially in the earlier parts. The speeches do not really feel authentic for the time period, but I’m not an historian. Personally I don’t like when authors give away a characters story or attitude from their name. I have to admit Luke does a fairly good job in the cases of Shaka and Jonah. Without giving too much away this book does a good job drawing you in before any action starts. I received this book for an honest review.
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