Soul Flame (Audible Audio Edition) Barbara Wood Maureen Jones LLC Cherry Hill Publishing Books
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Born into the tumultuous world of ancient Antioch, Selene is orphaned at birth. But before her father dies, he leaves a puzzling clue to her heritage She has come from the gods and has a special destiny to fulfill.
In the coming years, Selene studies the primitive healing arts with Mera, the healer-woman who adopts her. She learns how to lower fevers by brewing Hecate's Cure from the willow tree, how to apply green mold to an open wound to prevent infection, and, most important, how to calm a patient by summoning the inner power of the "soul flame". But on her 16th birthday, Selene falls in love with Andreas, a passionate and troubled surgeon. When fate cruelly separates them, Selene's search for Andreas takes her to the great centers of civilization in the ancient world - Egypt, Babylon, and Rome. Desperate to find Andreas, Selene is torn between love and her dreams of healing when a revolutionary vision brings her to the fulfillment of her destiny - and the dawn of modern medicine.
Soul Flame (Audible Audio Edition) Barbara Wood Maureen Jones LLC Cherry Hill Publishing Books
in the past year and I don't know whether to cry that I missed her works before, or rejoice that I've discovered them and can look forward to reading all of her backlist. Just a phenomenal writer. I have seen some of the critiques about plot devices/coincidences and if one is of that bent, you can probably find some complaints if you are very picky, but none of that bothers me because her ability to transport one into another time and place is exceptional. I see that she diligently/obsessively researches and travels to the places she writes about, but there is a verisimilitude in her writing that to me goes beyond research or travel - it is almost as if Wood can transport herself to another time and place to give life to her books or the great collective unconscious that sometimes fuels writers looks upon her with great favor.Product details
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Soul Flame (Audible Audio Edition) Barbara Wood Maureen Jones LLC Cherry Hill Publishing Books Reviews
Love the medical history through out. It was easy to read and entertaining, although not great literature by any means.
I love Barbara woods and this is another good book of hers.
I loved the Book and thought it was well done with all the history included and all the medicines and herbs described in the book. Interesting story with lots of surprises on the way. Just some parts of it seemed a bit too long and therefor I gave it 4 stars and not a 5 star rating. But if you keep on reading you won't be disappointed.
but i wish there were more than 2 books in this series. i really came to know and care for the characters and the many adventures and tangles and resolutions. Barabara Wood~> please write another 1 or 2 more in this series so we can delve in to the next phase!!!
Barbara Wood eeally takes you inside the book... It is a page turner, very interesting.. I liked it very much
Revisiting a book from the past and it hasn't let me down. Loved it the second time around.
The 400+ page saga of Barbara Wood's heroine, Selene, begins with a mysterious birth in the ancient city of Antioch durng the time of the first Caesars of the Roman Empire. Two fugitives, a well-to-do Roman and his in-labor wife, appear on the doorstep of the healing woman, Mera who performs a hasty midwifery minutes before Roman soldiers appear, kill the new father and haul away his wife and baby son. Unbeknownst to them, Mera, hidden in a grain container, has saved the baby daughter and at the bequest of the dying Roman, rears the child, Selene, as her own, teaching her the art of healing while keeping the Roman's ring and the key to Selene's true heritage secreted within an alabaster rose pendant.
As Selene grows into a lovely young woman, Mera's training brings to fruition a competent compassionate healer with a special gift for the medical arts and a curiosity to discover and gather the medical lores and practices of many cultures both familiar and foreign. Her natural inquisitiveness is piqued during a freak accident in the Antioch streets a donkey driver, hit by the legs of a kicking animal, lies with a head wound in the street. When Selene compels a Greek doctor, Andreas, to treat the wound, she falls helplessly in love with him and together they decide to pool their learning and dedicate their lives to promoting the ancient art of healing while simultaneously alieviating the suffering of the sick. But as such stories usually go, fate intervenes and Selene and Andreas are separated by misunderstanding fueled by outside factors. And as Selene attempts to be reunited with her beloved and find out the secret of her ancestry, she undergoes trials and tribulations that promote her understanding of herself and the human condition.
As with many of her other novels, Barbara Wood uses her own medical knowledge to augment an already interesting story of a young girls advent into womanhood and her quest for self identity. An ample sprinkling of word derivations, herb lore and little known facts about the Roman Empire and its customs which have have germinated into today's traditions, keeps the reader turning the pages intent on discovery Selene's next path and garnering enough information about the ancient world to win the next Trivial Pursuit match.
Many of the turns the novel takes regarding Selene's medical development are predictable. Selene's singlemindedness does not endow her character with much motivation other than to create a clean hospital environment for her future patients. In fact, much of the character motivation is merely brushed upon, relying on a few paragraphs of information to provide emotional background for characters about which I would have prefered drawing conclusions based on actions rather than narration.
The quest for Selene's parentage however is not only predictable---not in terms of whom her parents turn out to be---but in the convenient way the author presents the denouement to this aspect of the novel and Selene's rather immature reaction. Even Selene, as dedicated to her vocation as she was, could not have been this naive as a grown woman. More disappointing was Selene's "reunion" with her twin brother--a rushed scene that sadly takes place within the last 20 pages of a novel that could have afforded at least 100 pages on this very important secondary plot idea. Most horrendous was the incompete tale of Selene's daughter, who leaves Rome to find her own heritage and to whose end, the reader is left without a clue.
The pace of the story hurtles like a snowball gathering momentum downhill. At first, it is just right, but as the novel nears its end, the revelations and happenstances fly by like scenery observed from the window of a high-speed train.
That being said, I still award the story 4 stars for its immense ability to entertain on a very readable level. The reader is never bogged down with excrutiating detail, however I will admit to skipping passages of the character's self-musing simply because I had already gotten the point and didn't need to read every nuance of Selene's painstaking thought development. Recommended to anyone who wants to be entertained by a master storyteller.
in the past year and I don't know whether to cry that I missed her works before, or rejoice that I've discovered them and can look forward to reading all of her backlist. Just a phenomenal writer. I have seen some of the critiques about plot devices/coincidences and if one is of that bent, you can probably find some complaints if you are very picky, but none of that bothers me because her ability to transport one into another time and place is exceptional. I see that she diligently/obsessively researches and travels to the places she writes about, but there is a verisimilitude in her writing that to me goes beyond research or travel - it is almost as if Wood can transport herself to another time and place to give life to her books or the great collective unconscious that sometimes fuels writers looks upon her with great favor.
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