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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN num: 9780385514293
ISBN number: 0385514298
Label: Doubleday
Manufacturer: Doubleday
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 384
Printing Date: July 10, 2007
Publishing house: Doubleday
Release Date: July 10, 2007
Sale Popularity Level: 125842
Studio: Doubleday
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A frantic race to save a long-lost Traveler.
An epic battle for freedom.
Two brothers whose power puts them on a collision course . . .with each other.
In The Traveler, John Twelve Hawks introduced readers to a dangerous world inspired by the modern technology that monitors our lives. Under constant surveillance of the ‘Vast Machine,’ a sophisticated computer network run by a ruthless group, society is mostly unaware of its own imprisonment. Gabriel and Michael Corrigan, brothers who were raised “off the grid,” have recently learned they are Travelers like their long-lost father— part of a centuries-old line of prophets able to journey to different realms of consciousness and enlighten the world to resist being controlled. But power affects the brothers differently. As The Traveler ends, Gabriel hesitates under the weight of responsibility. Michael seizes the opportunity—and joins the enemy.
THE DARK RIVER opens in New York City with a stunning piece of news. Gabriel’s father, who has been missing for nearly twenty years, may still be alive and trapped somewhere in Europe. Gabriel and his Harlequin protector, Maya, immediately mobilize to escape New York and find the long-lost Traveler. Simultaneously, Michael orders the Brethren—the ruthless group that has been hunting Gabriel—into a full-scale search. Gabriel yearns to find his father to protect him; Michael aims to destroy the man whose existence threatens his newfound power. The race moves from the underground tunnels of New York and London to ruins hidden beneath Rome and Berlin, to a remote region of Africa that is rumored to harbor one of history’s greatest treasures. And as the story moves toward its chilling conclusion, Maya must decide if she will trade everything to rescue Gabriel.
A mesmerizing return to the places and people so richly portrayed in The Traveler, THE DARK RIVER is propelled by edge-of-the-seat suspense and haunted by a vision of a world where both hope and freedom are about to disappear.
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As a book fiend, a scifi maven, and an omnivore of fiction its rare that I find a book that is...well...mush. This is mush. The crystalline edges of technology that drive good scifi plots forward are sort of soft and drippy here.
Even the premise is so... so wrong.
Scifi authors should have some grounding in science... without that, its simply fiction.
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I loved this book, just like the first. Definitely amongst my all time favorites. Wake up people!
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First of all, let me tell you that I haven't read the very first book in the trilogy. I was in the airport this summer, I forgot my book in the car... and I wanted a book to read for my 14 hour flight... I read the backpage and I thought... "Why not??"
The truth is that I read the book in less than a week... If you are an action lover, you definitely cannot stop reading this book... It is a never ending action...
Second, you can follow the story even if you don't know what happened in the very first book... but it is not an independent book... at the end you get the feeling that... now what??... and I hate to realize that it's been 3 months and there is no answer to my question... because I have to wait the third book... that's the only thing I do not like... I need the book to have some kind of an ending... and this one definitely doesn't have one...
Now if you are the type of person that doesn't like action books... you will definitely do not like this, as there is no break on action in it...
It lacks some explanations of how the author views some stuff... but I believe it is at the discretion of the author to leaves some mystery around...
Finally, the spoiler is that the title makes no sense until.... :) ok I am not going to spoil it... :)
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I loved this book. I enjoyed every minute. The only real problem I had with it was that I have to wait to on the subsequent book in the series. The book wasn't hard to understand, there wasn't too much going on, and it is very interesting. I enjoyed reading it, and I can't wait to read the subsequent book.
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Having so much enjoyed The Traveller, I could barely wait for the subsequent installment and ordered The Dark River as soon as it came out. I was, however, somewhat disappointed. While it was perfectly adequate for an action thriller, it did not live up to the high standard of the very first book.
For me the difficulty was that while there was relentless non-stop action, the story didn't actually move forward very much. The bad guys were still ahead and the good guys hadn't really made any progress and were pretty much in the same place they had been at the end of the very first book, except that some of the more sympathetic characters had been killed off. An author's willingness to kill characters with whom the reader might identify - the 'good' characters -adds to the suspense. If we know they are not ultimately safe, we will worry about them. I think, however, that Twelvehawks goes a bit too far in that direction. The destruction of Victory from Sin Fraser, a wonderful character with a happy future, was too depressing and I really didn't want to go on reading. And was it necessary to destroy the Harmony community? Did it really serve the story. We know the Tabula are really bad people but do we need to have our noses rubbed into it that much?
I also hoped that we would learn more about the other realms and apart from the First Realm, there was nothing. I would like to have learned more about the higher realms and how Travellers to these realms became able to raise other people's level of consciousness to such an extent that they were a threat to the forces of order and control.
My overall feeling about the book is that the author had a great idea and got off to a roaring start and then hadn't quite worked out where to go with it. I hope he figures it out because in spite of my criticisms, I did enjoy the book enough to stay with it and will read the third, if there is one.
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