When Women Were Warriors Book II - A Journey of the Heart

Book one of this series captured my attention immediately. These books are ones that you cannot put down. As soon as I finished the first book I ordered the second. I love the writing style of the author.

I wasn't disappointed when I read the second part of this lovely teller.I particularly liked the memories told about merin and tamnet. One sentence stick out to me as if it were the perfect measurement for love. "My mother is to Merin what Emaret was to you." Wonderful story

As well as being an excellent narrative with well-rounded characters, this is a book filled with wisdom and thoughtful insights into the human heart. A well-plotted saga that develops over the course of the trilogy, I highly recommend all three books in this series.

I STRONGLY recommend that book, to every person who has a thing for fantasy. Though the series is not entirely fantasy (more of a historical genre, prehistorical actually) it has this AMAZING vibe about it.Five stars without a doubt.

I STRONGLY recommend that book, to every person who has a thing for fantasy. Though the series is not entirely fantasy (more of a historical genre, prehistorical actually) it has this AMAZING vibe about it.Five stars without a doubt.

A wonderful read that pulls you in from the start. The world created by Cathrine M. Wilson is vibrant and full of depth from the different cultures to how the characters simply view each other. I have re-read this series many times and simply love it!

In this second volume of WWWW, the short shrift given to men does somewhat bother me. They seem, at most, decorative in the lives of any of the important characters. I am also uncomfortable with how common mentor/mentee relationships include sex, be it loving or transactional.

On the other hand, the characters still have life in me, a few years after the reading. I am quite likely to buy the last volume, and I expect to be glad to have done so.

It puzzles me that Wilson so clearly wants to encourage adolescent girls and young women in developing both self-confidence and humility (personal and in community), yet punctuates with fairly descriptive lesbian sex scenes. Her advice is often insightful -- I ADORE and keep close to my own heart Namet's exhortation, "Some hearts break from grief and some from joy. Some even break from love. But hearts break because they are too small to contain the gifts life gives us. Your task will be to let your heart grow large enough not to break." But I can only imagine the sex puts her work completely out of reach in one way or another for much of the intended audience.