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(More customer reviews)When cultures clash in Africa, along come adventure, mystery, romance and some fantasy. The aforementioned best describes ORACLE OF THE SUN GODS by M. Chelley Laurenz.
Challenged by her professor, Raine Marsh and five other students travel to Sudan, to study for the summer. No amount of lecturing and books would prepare them for the adventure they embark on. Raine, a brooding and insecure young woman, would rather be anywhere but Africa and her feelings are known by all. She considers Africa a third world country and vows to hold it against her mother for not intervening with her professor. Her companions, with the exception of one, are spoiled and rich and believe spending the summer in Africa will be a cultural experience, a personal journey and quite possibly fun. Each has their own selfish and manipulative reasons for taking this trip.
Upon arriving in Sudan, the girls venture out on a tour and Raine is mesmerized by an item in a museum and the presence of a man. During their night out, an assassination occurs of members of the ruling family of the country of Macurria. The remaining member of the ruling family and heir apparent, Sheik Ari, is forced into action to save another family member from other attempted attacks and it is at this point that Raine and her classmates are forced into the midst of a war. Separated from her classmates and stumbling upon a mother and child, Raine finds herself in the middle of a family feud for control of a country and the protection of a child.
ORACLE OF THE SUN GODS is a very well-written novel. Highly entertaining, the dialogue is engaging, the depiction of the characters is vivid and the imagery described is entrancing. The book provides some interesting historical and contemporary facts on Africa, its arts and their ruling families. M. Chelley Laurenz has combined several storytelling elements into one story that captures the imagination and appeals to the soul.
Reviewed by Dawn R. Reeves
of The RAWSISTAZ(tm) Reviewers
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Oracle of the Sun Gods is a story that follows several young African-American college students as they embark on their summer school exchange program to Africa. They are forced to take a look at life, love, the unquenchable thirst of youthful ambitions, and examine how the most simple and innocuous decisions can change one s life forever. The trip to the Motherland was to educate them on the subject of Natural History and to gain an invaluable experience working on a very significant archeological site. But while there, each young woman realizes her dreams, explores her passions, tastes the sweet grapes of glory and discovers hidden talents when faced with adversity. For Raine Marsh in particular, she discovers the awful reality of how the unexpected twist of fate can deposit her in a predicament which she, in her wildest dream, would ever have imagined. Raine s path is crossed by a mysterious and sinister Sheik, whose intentions are to bend Raine to his will and to deceive his nephew out of his inheritance. Raine finds herself as a temporary guardian to the sheik s nine-year-old nephew, and soon discovers that her involvement with the boy will thrust her in the midst of a war between two relentless, rivaling tribes.
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