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[source] => Publishers Weekly
[quote] => A rich story of cultural revolution. The singers of the ice planet Nevya use their musical psi-powers to hold back the deadly cold. In Sing the Light, young singer Sira loses faith in doctrine after a violent encounter with power-hungry politicians. She sets out on her own in Sing the Warmth, spending years gathering and training like-minded individuals. Her attempt at peaceful cultural change is nearly ended when the mad carver Cho attempts to take over Nevya in Receive the Gift. This tale of duty, loss, self-sacrifice and standing up for one's beliefs is occasionally gritty, often suspenseful and always emotionally gripping.
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[source] => The New York Review of Science Fiction
[quote] => Sing the Light
Marley is herself a writer of considerable talent. She's a good prose stylist and her characters are quite engaging. She obviously knows something about music and does an excellent job of showing how the musical talents of the Gifted combine with their psychic powers. Many readers, particularly those who love Pern and Darkover, will appreciate visiting Nevya.
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[source] => Glodowski's Bookshelf
[quote] => Sing the Light
Louise Marley is a natural fantasy writer . . . Marley's world tinkles with music, light, and creativity . . . to produce a Midsummer Night's Dream feel. Her writing is ethereal and touching, and her plot is irresistible.
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[source] => Jacqueline Lichtenberg
[quote] => Sing the Light
Sing the Light is a science fiction/fantasy crossover style novel. On this colony of humanity, the cold, bleak, harsh planet with an unusually long year has produced a human psychic mutation . . . a guaranteed good read, pure entertainment. You'll never be able to tell it's good for you by the way it tastes.
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[source] => Locus
[quote] => Sing the Light
First novelist Marley shows a real feel for the elements that make fantasy (and science fantasy) popular.
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[source] => The Eastside Journal
[quote] => Sing the Light
Sing the Light is a highly crafted science fiction tale that makes authentic use of the author's extensive musical background.
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[quote] => Sing the Light
Marley makes her writing sing.
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[source] => Locus
[quote] => Sing the Warmth
With this sequel to Sing the Light, Marley again demonstrates the storytelling skills that carried her first novel . . . Marley's lively storytelling and engaging characters give them a life of their own.
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[source] => Elizabeth M. Atwood
[quote] => Sing the Warmth
While shivering under the weight of our own wintry beast, pick up Louise Marley's books and warm yourself at the fire of Sira's extraordinary heart. You'll be glad you did.
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[quote] => Receive the Gift
Receive the Gift . . . concludes her trilogy about descendants from a crashed starship who survive on a very cold planet (summer comes once every five years) by their ability to create psionic warmth through singing. I've enjoyed all three.
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[source] => Geoff Ryman
[quote] => Receive the Gift
The subject . . . is full of beautiful ideas and the feeling for place is real, specific, substantial.
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[quotation] => A rich story of cultural revolution. The singers of the ice planet Nevya use their musical psi-powers to hold back the deadly cold. In Sing the Light, young singer Sira loses faith in doctrine after a violent encounter with power-hungry politicians. She sets out on her own in Sing the Warmth, spending years gathering and training like-minded individuals. Her attempt at peaceful cultural change is nearly ended when the mad carver Cho attempts to take over Nevya in Receive the Gift. This tale of duty, loss, self-sacrifice and standing up for one's beliefs is occasionally gritty, often suspenseful and always emotionally gripping.
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Marley is herself a writer of considerable talent. She's a good prose stylist and her characters are quite engaging. She obviously knows something about music and does an excellent job of showing how the musical talents of the Gifted combine with their psychic powers. Many readers, particularly those who love Pern and Darkover, will appreciate visiting Nevya.
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[quote_source] => Glodowski's Bookshelf
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[quotation] => Sing the Light
Louise Marley is a natural fantasy writer . . . Marley's world tinkles with music, light, and creativity . . . to produce a Midsummer Night's Dream feel. Her writing is ethereal and touching, and her plot is irresistible.
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[quotation] => Sing the Light
Sing the Light is a science fiction/fantasy crossover style novel. On this colony of humanity, the cold, bleak, harsh planet with an unusually long year has produced a human psychic mutation . . . a guaranteed good read, pure entertainment. You'll never be able to tell it's good for you by the way it tastes.
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[quotation] => Sing the Light
First novelist Marley shows a real feel for the elements that make fantasy (and science fantasy) popular.
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[quote_source] => The Eastside Journal
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[quotation] => Sing the Light
Sing the Light is a highly crafted science fiction tale that makes authentic use of the author's extensive musical background.
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[quote_source] => The Everett Herald:
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[quotation] => Sing the Light
Marley makes her writing sing.
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[quote_source] => Locus
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[quotation] => Sing the Warmth
With this sequel to Sing the Light, Marley again demonstrates the storytelling skills that carried her first novel . . . Marley's lively storytelling and engaging characters give them a life of their own.
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[quote_source] => Elizabeth M. Atwood
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[quotation] => Sing the Warmth
While shivering under the weight of our own wintry beast, pick up Louise Marley's books and warm yourself at the fire of Sira's extraordinary heart. You'll be glad you did.
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[quotation] => Receive the Gift
Receive the Gift . . . concludes her trilogy about descendants from a crashed starship who survive on a very cold planet (summer comes once every five years) by their ability to create psionic warmth through singing. I've enjoyed all three.
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[quote_source] => Geoff Ryman
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[quotation] => Receive the Gift
The subject . . . is full of beautiful ideas and the feeling for place is real, specific, substantial.
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[source] => Don D'Ammassa, Chronicle/Critical Mass
[quote] => Although I've read several novels by Louise Marley and remember them fondly, I don't think I had ever consciously noted any of her short fiction, if I've read it at all prior to this book. There are ten stories here, spanning a wide variety of settings and themes. The book opens with the title story, a moody piece about the conflict between the rights of the individual and the dictates of society. The next is a lighter, and better story about the integration of female players into professional baseball. The next two are relatively minor, although I liked the western motif in one of them, sharing the author's fond recollections of the work of Zane Grey. "Jamie Says" is a thoughtful look at questions of gender that doesn't descend into pedantry and is my favorite in the collection. The balance of the book includes a light fantasy, a musical prodigy, a religious novice with an unusual affliction, and a fictional meeting between two musical legends. All of Marley's stories are centered on the characters rather than physical events, but not at the expense of storytelling. If she was more prolific at this length, she would almost certainly be numbered among the most promising short story writers working in the field.
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[source] => Regina Schroeder, Booklist
[quote] => Marley's first collection covers a wide range of the fantastic with a keen eye for human character and motivation. The title story, inspired by the biblical fate of Absalom, concerns a group of women on a distant planet who sacrifice themselves to save their children from being taken away to war at younger and younger ages. "Starchild Wondersmith" gives entirely new life to the situation of the kid trying to fit in at a new school, for Starchild is a True Being; since he isn't getting the expected TB powers, he chooses transfer to a normal school and discovers hidden depths. The volume closer, "Deep River," tells of the marvelous meeting between the greatest operatic voices of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, one of them a naturalized American originally from Germany, the other a young black woman from Harlem. Marley's narrative voice is strong, and her focus on characters and emotional depth pays off in a set of satisfying, thought-provoking stories.
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[source] => PurplePens.com
[quote] => Marley digs into the heart of her characters, managing to create living, breathing people upon the page.
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[source] => SF Signal
[quote] => This seemingly simple premise turns out be dramatic and engrossing with Marley's tight storytelling. The meaning of Johannes Brahms' "p dolce" is the center of the mystery and both characters, the handsome Kristian and the plain Frederica, are desperate to learn the secret. Frederica's months-long disappearance works in her rival's favor and gives him the chance to learn the same secret by witnessing firsthand the lives of Brahms and his paramour, Clara Schumann. But what's more important: finding and retrieving the consciousness of Frederica, whose body lay comatose in their future, or learning the secret to the grand music mystery? Good stuff.
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[quotation] => Although I've read several novels by Louise Marley and remember them fondly, I don't think I had ever consciously noted any of her short fiction, if I've read it at all prior to this book. There are ten stories here, spanning a wide variety of settings and themes. The book opens with the title story, a moody piece about the conflict between the rights of the individual and the dictates of society. The next is a lighter, and better story about the integration of female players into professional baseball. The next two are relatively minor, although I liked the western motif in one of them, sharing the author's fond recollections of the work of Zane Grey. "Jamie Says" is a thoughtful look at questions of gender that doesn't descend into pedantry and is my favorite in the collection. The balance of the book includes a light fantasy, a musical prodigy, a religious novice with an unusual affliction, and a fictional meeting between two musical legends. All of Marley's stories are centered on the characters rather than physical events, but not at the expense of storytelling. If she was more prolific at this length, she would almost certainly be numbered among the most promising short story writers working in the field.
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[quotation] => Marley's first collection covers a wide range of the fantastic with a keen eye for human character and motivation. The title story, inspired by the biblical fate of Absalom, concerns a group of women on a distant planet who sacrifice themselves to save their children from being taken away to war at younger and younger ages. "Starchild Wondersmith" gives entirely new life to the situation of the kid trying to fit in at a new school, for Starchild is a True Being; since he isn't getting the expected TB powers, he chooses transfer to a normal school and discovers hidden depths. The volume closer, "Deep River," tells of the marvelous meeting between the greatest operatic voices of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, one of them a naturalized American originally from Germany, the other a young black woman from Harlem. Marley's narrative voice is strong, and her focus on characters and emotional depth pays off in a set of satisfying, thought-provoking stories.
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[quote_source] => SF Signal
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[quotation] => This seemingly simple premise turns out be dramatic and engrossing with Marley's tight storytelling. The meaning of Johannes Brahms' "p dolce" is the center of the mystery and both characters, the handsome Kristian and the plain Frederica, are desperate to learn the secret. Frederica's months-long disappearance works in her rival's favor and gives him the chance to learn the same secret by witnessing firsthand the lives of Brahms and his paramour, Clara Schumann. But what's more important: finding and retrieving the consciousness of Frederica, whose body lay comatose in their future, or learning the secret to the grand music mystery? Good stuff.
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[source] => Connie Willis
[quote] => "When you read the first few pages . . . you think you're headed into familiar SF territory. You couldn't be more wrong. The place you're going, under Louise Marley's gifted guidance, is one you've never been before: a world of troubling mysteries and even more troubling answers, of lost colonies and lost souls. It's a revelation. And a journey you won't want to miss."
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[source] => Publishers Weekly
[quote] => Initially a conventional first-contact story, Marley's sensitive, lyrical SF novel, set on 23rd-century Earth and the oceanic world Virimund, swiftly evolves into a meditation intertwining spiritual values, godhood itself and romantic love. . . the book treats feminism's central issues gently, skirting the strident swamps of passion and the fatal abyss of sentimentality, with tender insights into love and sacrifice all too rare today.
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[source] => Paul Goat Allen, Barnes & Noble SF Editor
[quote] => Louise Marley's powefully edifying science fiction thriller pits a woman priest against a corporation bent on using an idyllic oceanic planet as an energy-producing power park, and determined to exploit a group of extraordinary children from a lost colony. . . Like Marley's other novels, The Child Goddess is a passionate and deeply spiritual story powred by her adept characterization. Marley crafts realistic, three-dimensional characters that readers can't help but empthize with. If famed Trappist monk and poet Thomas Merton ever wrote science fiction, it would resemble a Marley novel.
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[source] => Deloris Tarzan Ament, Seattle Times
[quote] => Because it is set more than 300 years in the future and its characters undertake intersteallar travel, Louise Marley's seventh novel, The Child Goddess, is classed as science fiction. In other respects it is a literary novel, with characters whose inner struggles are as important as the plot. There is enough of the latter to satisfy hard-core fans of the genre who like a healthy dose of speculative science to go with offworld settings. . . Marley . . . has the gift of tackling deep issues in the context of a compelling story.
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[source] => Romantic Times Bookclub Magazine
[quote] => Isabel is an extraordinary character, torn between faith and love, duty and sacrifice. Oa is also a fascinating creation: a young girl who has lived more than a century but remains a child. Marley describes this futuristic Earth with just enough detail to bring it alive without overwhelming the reader. An exploration of the mysteries and complications of being human disguised as a science-fiction adventure, this is a novel not to be missed.
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[source] => The Davis Enterprise
[quote] => Personal journey sagas are the hardest to tell, because they take place almost exclusively in the character's mind. But when they're told well, such tales are truly memorable. Louise Marley has taken an intense personal growth tale and infused it with quiet energy in the understated The Child Goddess . . . The novel's power lies in this low-key approach. Isabel is a character with flaws, some close to the surface and some more deeply hidden. But she deals with those inner problems with a compelling grace and dignity.
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[source] => Booklist
[quote] => Marley attacks the problems she poses satisfactorily, with a well-placed plot and characterizations, in particular, that are engaging even amid the tangle of interpersonal relations.
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[source] => Katie Dean, The Agony Column
[quote] => The Child Goddess is an engaging story that one cannot help feeloing compelled to read. Louise Marley writes in an easy-going style and has a true gift for story-telling. She also aims to deal with some hard issues . . . this does nothing to detract from the success of this novel; it is science fiction at its most appealing--light on the science and heavy on the fiction.
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[source] => BookPage
[quote] => In The Child Goddess, Marley brings together religious and medical ethics and asks what we want from the universe and how far we are willing to go to get it. This interesting novel will generate much discussion among readers.
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[source] => Elliott Bay Book Company Booknotes
[quote] => . . . This is a tender story, filled with images of religious faith, romantic love and its disappointments, haunting loss, and new interpretations of just what it means to be human--to possess a soul. Local author Marley is at the peak of her form. Her universe is internally consistent--while this isn't a sequel, characters refer to events in previous novels. . . The Child Goddess is a tour de force of soft science fiction.
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[source] => Lisa Deas, The Pilot Newspaper
[quote] => . . . Not just a science fiction adventure, this story also touches on themes of duty, honor and love without attempting to provide answers for any of those questions.
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[source] => Challenging Destiny
[quote] => . . . The Child Goddess has a wonderful core of sf that follows Orson Scott Card and Ursula K. Le Guin . . . The book also features strong characterization and intensely felt personal dilemmas. . . It would be fabulous if all science fiction books had characterization as good as this book.
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[source] => Elise Tobler, Italics
[quote] => As always, Marley writes with an insight that makes for compelling reading. The book's messages are timeless and timely. And as a bonus for Marley readers, The Child Goddess fits in with the universe introduced in The Terrorists of Irustan . . . John Jude Palencar lends his talents to the cover, as he did with The Terrorists of Irustan . . . It's a beauty, inside and out.
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[quotation] => "When you read the first few pages . . . you think you're headed into familiar SF territory. You couldn't be more wrong. The place you're going, under Louise Marley's gifted guidance, is one you've never been before: a world of troubling mysteries and even more troubling answers, of lost colonies and lost souls. It's a revelation. And a journey you won't want to miss."
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[quote_source] => Publishers Weekly
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[quotation] => Initially a conventional first-contact story, Marley's sensitive, lyrical SF novel, set on 23rd-century Earth and the oceanic world Virimund, swiftly evolves into a meditation intertwining spiritual values, godhood itself and romantic love. . . the book treats feminism's central issues gently, skirting the strident swamps of passion and the fatal abyss of sentimentality, with tender insights into love and sacrifice all too rare today.
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[quote_source] => Paul Goat Allen, Barnes & Noble SF Editor
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[quotation] => Louise Marley's powefully edifying science fiction thriller pits a woman priest against a corporation bent on using an idyllic oceanic planet as an energy-producing power park, and determined to exploit a group of extraordinary children from a lost colony. . . Like Marley's other novels, The Child Goddess is a passionate and deeply spiritual story powred by her adept characterization. Marley crafts realistic, three-dimensional characters that readers can't help but empthize with. If famed Trappist monk and poet Thomas Merton ever wrote science fiction, it would resemble a Marley novel.
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[quote_source] => Deloris Tarzan Ament, Seattle Times
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[quotation] => Because it is set more than 300 years in the future and its characters undertake intersteallar travel, Louise Marley's seventh novel, The Child Goddess, is classed as science fiction. In other respects it is a literary novel, with characters whose inner struggles are as important as the plot. There is enough of the latter to satisfy hard-core fans of the genre who like a healthy dose of speculative science to go with offworld settings. . . Marley . . . has the gift of tackling deep issues in the context of a compelling story.
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[quotation] => Isabel is an extraordinary character, torn between faith and love, duty and sacrifice. Oa is also a fascinating creation: a young girl who has lived more than a century but remains a child. Marley describes this futuristic Earth with just enough detail to bring it alive without overwhelming the reader. An exploration of the mysteries and complications of being human disguised as a science-fiction adventure, this is a novel not to be missed.
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[quote_source] => The Davis Enterprise
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[quotation] => Personal journey sagas are the hardest to tell, because they take place almost exclusively in the character's mind. But when they're told well, such tales are truly memorable. Louise Marley has taken an intense personal growth tale and infused it with quiet energy in the understated The Child Goddess . . . The novel's power lies in this low-key approach. Isabel is a character with flaws, some close to the surface and some more deeply hidden. But she deals with those inner problems with a compelling grace and dignity.
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[quote_source] => Booklist
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[quotation] => Marley attacks the problems she poses satisfactorily, with a well-placed plot and characterizations, in particular, that are engaging even amid the tangle of interpersonal relations.
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[quote_source] => Katie Dean, The Agony Column
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[quotation] => The Child Goddess is an engaging story that one cannot help feeloing compelled to read. Louise Marley writes in an easy-going style and has a true gift for story-telling. She also aims to deal with some hard issues . . . this does nothing to detract from the success of this novel; it is science fiction at its most appealing--light on the science and heavy on the fiction.
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[quote_source] => BookPage
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[quotation] => In The Child Goddess, Marley brings together religious and medical ethics and asks what we want from the universe and how far we are willing to go to get it. This interesting novel will generate much discussion among readers.
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[quote_source] => Elliott Bay Book Company Booknotes
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[quotation] => . . . This is a tender story, filled with images of religious faith, romantic love and its disappointments, haunting loss, and new interpretations of just what it means to be human--to possess a soul. Local author Marley is at the peak of her form. Her universe is internally consistent--while this isn't a sequel, characters refer to events in previous novels. . . The Child Goddess is a tour de force of soft science fiction.
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[quote_source] => Lisa Deas, The Pilot Newspaper
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[quotation] => . . . Not just a science fiction adventure, this story also touches on themes of duty, honor and love without attempting to provide answers for any of those questions.
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[quote_source] => Challenging Destiny
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[quotation] => . . . The Child Goddess has a wonderful core of sf that follows Orson Scott Card and Ursula K. Le Guin . . . The book also features strong characterization and intensely felt personal dilemmas. . . It would be fabulous if all science fiction books had characterization as good as this book.
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[quote_source] => Elise Tobler, Italics
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[quotation] => As always, Marley writes with an insight that makes for compelling reading. The book's messages are timeless and timely. And as a bonus for Marley readers, The Child Goddess fits in with the universe introduced in The Terrorists of Irustan . . . John Jude Palencar lends his talents to the cover, as he did with The Terrorists of Irustan . . . It's a beauty, inside and out.
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[source] => Publishers Weekly
[quote] => . . . a literate, musically informed story of personal courage and fortitude in the face of evil that will appeal to all who root for the underdog. . . Marley's writing is lyrical and persuasive.
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[source] => Roberta Johnson, American Library Association, Booklist
[quote] => . . . Marley reinvents the World War II French resistance movement in a future world in which the Line of Partition separates the haves from the have-nots, a Line which totally blockades traffic, trade, and even medical aid. Have-not nations are supposedly rife with plague, fallout, and war after the economic crash when oil reserves ran out . . . Flutist Ebriel Serique lives with her husband and daughter in Paris and doesn't think too often about the other side of the Line. Then husband and daughter are murdered, supposedly because their yacht crossed the Line with medical supplies. InCo gives Ebriel no answers, and when she reveals her situation on an underground network, she is incarcerated and kept dosed with tranquilizers. But a secret resistance movement led by a badly crippled, charismatic scientist frees her, and through fierce action, Ebriel rediscovers the ability to care and love. Marley never lets polemic overwhelm plot in this passionate story.
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[source] => Library Journal
[quote] => . . . When Parisian flautist Ebriel Serique loses her husband and daughter in a terrorist attack, she seeks justice from InCo, the global agency that rules the civilized world, only to find her protest rewarded by imprisonment in a mental institution as part of a government cover-up. After a group of resistance fighters rescues Ebriel and introduces her to a movement known as the Chain, she discovers her true goal in life--the liberation of her world from a tyranny of politics and technology. The author of The Glass Harmonica weaves a complex tale of one woman's struggle against a corrupt regime. Set in the near future, this fast-paced, thought-provoking novel belongs in most libraries.
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[source] => Alyx Dellamonica, Locus
[quote] => The Maquisarde is, first and foremost, a novel about abandonment: powerful nations abandoning the weak, government leaders choosing not to help their citizens, even individual parents who desert their children. . . Marley has a way of infusing tragic characters with a sense of purpose and emergent hope, and her portrait of Ebriel is that of a woman in motion . . . The Maquisarde offers a palette of emotions and reactions, including unexpected moments of brightness and splashes of romantic sensibility.
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[source] => Harriet Klausner, Allscifi.com
[quote] => . . . This is the story of a woman who undergoes a change from an elitist into a revolutionary, a person who comes to symbolize to the world that there is a change needed in the world order. Louise Marley has an uncanny ability to make the reader feel that the events in The Maquisarde are really unfolding, sort of like turning the pages of the Neverending Story. The heroine makes mistakes, learns from them, and gets a second chance at happiness. Readers will admire her grit, determination, and courage, but mostly appreciate Ms. Marley's ability to paint a picture of a world turned much colder and nastier than Dickens' worst nightmare.
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[source] => Paul Goat Allen, bn.com science fiction editor
[quote] => Louise Marley's first hardcover release is a surprisingly moving novel about a young woman's desperate quest for justice. . . what begins as a high-energy story of international political intrigue and top secret military operations turns into a very touching tale about one woman's journey of healing and self-discovery. Marley succeeds in not only weaving a brilliantly complex tale with realistic, flawed characters, but also in touching the reader on an emotional level.
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[source] => Cheryl McKeon, BookSense
[quote] => Late in the 21st century, a flutist living with her family in Paris safely inside the 'Line of Partition' flees in grief after a tragedy and becomes a maquisarde, a member of the resistance who must face the truth about the forces that have brought evil to the world. Marley's strong women characters and compelling action will draw in even those who think they don't read this genre!
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[source] => Nisi Shawl, Seattle Times
[quote] => . . . Maquisarde is worth reading, especially for those interested in political theory and human rights . . . Once again, Marley deals with themes of justice and enfranchisement; once again, she does so by revealing the details of her characters' everyday lives, by rejecting unthinking, automatic violence. She insists on hope, and lighting candles that burn as unevenly, as tenuously, as the lives of her 'starchildren.'
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[source] => Elise Tobler, PurplePens.com
[quote] => You say you want a revolution? Musician Ebriel Serique certainly does, for the tranquil life she once knew has been turned upside down . . . Ebriel stumbles on her path, eventually into the hands of the revolutionary maquis, a group determined to shine the light of truth on the lying government. Amid the maquis, Ebriel finds a new home, and a new family led by a mysterious man they call Papa. Ebriel shuns the music she once so dearly loved, for there is nothing left but her need for revenge. The Maquisarde explores both sides of Ebriel's revenge . . . she is confronted with truths and questions she could not imagine along her journey. It is no light matter, for Ebriel or author Marley. Marley allows Ebriel to explore that journey's complete scope; there are losses, but there are gains; there is shadow, but there is light. I believe one of Marley's greatest strengths as a writer is that she allows her characters to grow. She allows them to fail and learn. None of her characters is a boulder that cannot be budged; everyone changes over the course of a Marley novel. What I like best about The Maquisarde is that is is a journey into and through grief. There is the promise of another side. What is there, we cannot always immediately say. It is enough for the side to exist. It is a joy to watch Ebriel Serique fight to get to that side.
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[quote] => Marley ratchets this hair-raising plot to one with breathtaking levels of suspense. She is inventive, sensitive to nuances, and possibly prophetic in her view of mankind as desperate and even reckless in the pursuit of the old freedoms . . . If you are looking for a writer with a provocative view of the future, Marley delivers. Her stylish, measured prose and ability to create scenes with energy that crackles and fizzes is a treat.
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[quotation] => . . . a literate, musically informed story of personal courage and fortitude in the face of evil that will appeal to all who root for the underdog. . . Marley's writing is lyrical and persuasive.
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[quote_source] => Roberta Johnson, American Library Association, Booklist
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[quotation] => . . . Marley reinvents the World War II French resistance movement in a future world in which the Line of Partition separates the haves from the have-nots, a Line which totally blockades traffic, trade, and even medical aid. Have-not nations are supposedly rife with plague, fallout, and war after the economic crash when oil reserves ran out . . . Flutist Ebriel Serique lives with her husband and daughter in Paris and doesn't think too often about the other side of the Line. Then husband and daughter are murdered, supposedly because their yacht crossed the Line with medical supplies. InCo gives Ebriel no answers, and when she reveals her situation on an underground network, she is incarcerated and kept dosed with tranquilizers. But a secret resistance movement led by a badly crippled, charismatic scientist frees her, and through fierce action, Ebriel rediscovers the ability to care and love. Marley never lets polemic overwhelm plot in this passionate story.
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[quotation] => . . . When Parisian flautist Ebriel Serique loses her husband and daughter in a terrorist attack, she seeks justice from InCo, the global agency that rules the civilized world, only to find her protest rewarded by imprisonment in a mental institution as part of a government cover-up. After a group of resistance fighters rescues Ebriel and introduces her to a movement known as the Chain, she discovers her true goal in life--the liberation of her world from a tyranny of politics and technology. The author of The Glass Harmonica weaves a complex tale of one woman's struggle against a corrupt regime. Set in the near future, this fast-paced, thought-provoking novel belongs in most libraries.
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[quote_source] => Alyx Dellamonica, Locus
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[quotation] => The Maquisarde is, first and foremost, a novel about abandonment: powerful nations abandoning the weak, government leaders choosing not to help their citizens, even individual parents who desert their children. . . Marley has a way of infusing tragic characters with a sense of purpose and emergent hope, and her portrait of Ebriel is that of a woman in motion . . . The Maquisarde offers a palette of emotions and reactions, including unexpected moments of brightness and splashes of romantic sensibility.
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[quote_source] => Harriet Klausner, Allscifi.com
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[quotation] => . . . This is the story of a woman who undergoes a change from an elitist into a revolutionary, a person who comes to symbolize to the world that there is a change needed in the world order. Louise Marley has an uncanny ability to make the reader feel that the events in The Maquisarde are really unfolding, sort of like turning the pages of the Neverending Story. The heroine makes mistakes, learns from them, and gets a second chance at happiness. Readers will admire her grit, determination, and courage, but mostly appreciate Ms. Marley's ability to paint a picture of a world turned much colder and nastier than Dickens' worst nightmare.
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[quote_source] => Paul Goat Allen, bn.com science fiction editor
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[quotation] => Louise Marley's first hardcover release is a surprisingly moving novel about a young woman's desperate quest for justice. . . what begins as a high-energy story of international political intrigue and top secret military operations turns into a very touching tale about one woman's journey of healing and self-discovery. Marley succeeds in not only weaving a brilliantly complex tale with realistic, flawed characters, but also in touching the reader on an emotional level.
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[quote_source] => Cheryl McKeon, BookSense
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[quotation] => Late in the 21st century, a flutist living with her family in Paris safely inside the 'Line of Partition' flees in grief after a tragedy and becomes a maquisarde, a member of the resistance who must face the truth about the forces that have brought evil to the world. Marley's strong women characters and compelling action will draw in even those who think they don't read this genre!
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[quote_source] => Nisi Shawl, Seattle Times
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[quotation] => . . . Maquisarde is worth reading, especially for those interested in political theory and human rights . . . Once again, Marley deals with themes of justice and enfranchisement; once again, she does so by revealing the details of her characters' everyday lives, by rejecting unthinking, automatic violence. She insists on hope, and lighting candles that burn as unevenly, as tenuously, as the lives of her 'starchildren.'
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[quotation] => You say you want a revolution? Musician Ebriel Serique certainly does, for the tranquil life she once knew has been turned upside down . . . Ebriel stumbles on her path, eventually into the hands of the revolutionary maquis, a group determined to shine the light of truth on the lying government. Amid the maquis, Ebriel finds a new home, and a new family led by a mysterious man they call Papa. Ebriel shuns the music she once so dearly loved, for there is nothing left but her need for revenge. The Maquisarde explores both sides of Ebriel's revenge . . . she is confronted with truths and questions she could not imagine along her journey. It is no light matter, for Ebriel or author Marley. Marley allows Ebriel to explore that journey's complete scope; there are losses, but there are gains; there is shadow, but there is light. I believe one of Marley's greatest strengths as a writer is that she allows her characters to grow. She allows them to fail and learn. None of her characters is a boulder that cannot be budged; everyone changes over the course of a Marley novel. What I like best about The Maquisarde is that is is a journey into and through grief. There is the promise of another side. What is there, we cannot always immediately say. It is enough for the side to exist. It is a joy to watch Ebriel Serique fight to get to that side.
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[quote] => "Strong character development, politics, and magical horses all add up to what promises to be a lively and engaging trilogy."
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[quote] => "Bishop enables us to visualize the horses in solo flight and complicated formations, scenes at the academy are utterly real, and the characters have dimension. A thoroughly satisfying read."
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