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Black Ships
Black Ships | Jo Graham
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In a time of war and doubt, Gull is an oracle. Daughter of a slave taken from fallen Troy, chosen at the age of seven to be the voice of the Lady of the Dead, she is destined to counsel kings. When nine black ships appear, captained by an exiled Trojan prince, Gull must decide between the life she was born for and a most perilous adventure - to join the remnant of her mother's people in their desperate flight. From the doomed bastions of the City of Pirates to the temples of Byblos, from the intrigues of the Egyptian court to the haunted caves beneath Mount Vesuvius, only Gull can guide Prince Aeneas on his quest, and only she can dare the gate of the Underworld to lead him to his destiny. In the last shadowed days of the Age of Bronze, one woman dreams of the world beginning anew. This is her story. Just as Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon breathed new life into Arthurian legend, BLACK SHIPS evokes the world of ancient Greece with beautiful, haunting prose, extraordinary imagination, and a profoundly moving story.
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Black Ships | Jo Graham
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Catching up on the #alphabetgame
A mix of genre, new, old. That I would and have reread.

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Thank you for playing! 2y
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Black Ships | Jo Graham
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Such a wonderful, intricate universe, you dive and come up the other side and just want to go again. Love this universe.
#adventrecommends

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Black Ships | Jo Graham
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Presenting the July-December portion of my 2018 Long List, which might get even longer if I'm lucky. 4.5-star reads are in pink, while 5-star books are in purple.

Full disclosure: I read THE LODESTAR OF YS in June, but I got so excited about Ichigo Takano's ORANGE that I left it off the bottom of the relevant list. Gasp!

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October Stats. I thought I'd read less once my Marvel Unlimited subscription ended, but I guess the Readathon and my ongoing reread of A BRIDE'S STORY by Kaoru Mori bulked up my numbers.

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xicanti
Black Ships | Jo Graham
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Sometimes you read the right book at the right time and everything's magic. Jo Graham's first Numinous World novel took me on the sort of rich, personal, epic journey I wish all books could pull off. I fully inhabited it while I read, and I'm still there now. I doubt I'll leave for a long, long time.

Taken alone, BLACK SHIPS is a great retelling of Virgil's Aeneid. Viewed as a series opener, it's one hell of a promise that wonder lies ahead.

xicanti Also of note: there are currently six Numinous World novels and one short story collection, and you can read them in any order without missing stuff. I went with third, second, fifth, stories, first. Still gotta get to the fourth and sixth books (which seem to form a trilogy with #4). 6y
xicanti Also of note: I LOVED THIS BOOK SO FUCKING MUCH YOU GUYS. I DONT HAVE NEARLY ENOUGH SPACE FOR ALL THE GUSHING I WANNA DO. 5 SUPERCHARGED STARS. 6y
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Black Ships | Jo Graham
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Pain day reading material. BLACK SHIPS is blowing my mind, people. AN INFORMAL HISTORY OF THE HUGOS is also great, but it's hammered home how poorly-read I am. As of 1972, I've only read four of the Best Novel winners or nominees, and I'm pretty sure I've read zero of the novellas or short stories. Things should improve a bit from the mid/late-70s onward (I hope).

ETA: I peeked, and things do not improve from the mid/late-70s onward. Damn.

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Amazing universe where characters live again. Immortality with a twist. David Bowie we kinda felt would live forever and like the characters in Jo Graham maybe he amazingly does. #septemBOWIE

Cinfhen Well played ❣️ 7y
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Black Ships | Jo Graham
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This is a ré-imagining of The Aeneid through the eyes of a priestess of The Lady of The Dead. This quest of the People, exiled from Wilusa (Troy) destroyed to find a place, to fulfil their destiny is well constructed, well plotted and twist enough of the legendary tales to make it fresh and vibrant. Find it and enjoy even if you have never heard of the tale of Aeneas. It's a great story about friendship, faith, unrequited love and destiny. ❤️❤️❤️

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Such a wonderful, intricate universe, you dive and come up the other side and just want to go again. Love this universe. #greatfirstlines #booktober 💝👍😍

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"She has chosen you to be Her voice and Her hands. You will be dedicated at the Feast of the Return, the Thesmophoria, as is proper. And from that time forward you cannot do as the living do. You cannot shed blood, or watch it shed. You cannot cut flesh with a knife, or wear the colors of the sun. You belong to the Lady, and to the shades beneath."

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