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The Last Hour of Gann (edição 2013)

por R. Lee Smith

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It was her last chance:Amber Bierce had nothing left except her sister and two tickets on Earth's first colony-ship. She entered her Sleeper with a five-year contract and the promise of a better life, but awakened in wreckage on an unknown world. For the survivors, there is no rescue, no way home and no hope until they are found by Meoraq-a holy warrior more deadly than any hungering beast on this hostile new world...but whose eyes show a different sort of hunger when he looks at her.It was his last year of freedom:Uyane Meoraq is a Sword of Sheul, God's own instrument of judgment, victor of hundreds of trials, with a conqueror's rights over all men. Or at least he was until his father's death. Now, without divine intervention, he will be forced to assume stewardship over House Uyane and lose the life he has always known. At the legendary temple of Xi'Matezh, Meoraq hopes to find the deliverance he seeks, but the humans he encounters on his pilgrimage may prove too great a test even for him...especially the one called Amber, behind whose monstrous appearance burns a woman's heart unlike any he has ever known.From R. Lee Smith, author of Heat and Cottonwood, comes an epic new story of desire, darkness and the dawn that comes after The Last Hour of Gann.… (mais)
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Título:The Last Hour of Gann
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This book comes with all the trigger warnings. It is very well written, but I feel like I was tricked going into it because I ignored the reviews DO NOT BE ME. I thought I was going to be reading some cheesy futuristic romance, what I got was a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel with a romantic subplot that is really a metaphor for redemption. If you are not in the right headspace, don't read it. I certainly was not, but I stupidly kept reading anyway. There are also some triggers for our current hellscape about pandemics and capitalism, but also a lot of violent death and rape and problematic subtext that I will not go into here. I just thought that this book's trigger warnings need trigger warnings. ( )
  kittyfoyle | Mar 15, 2024 |
This is easily one of the best things I've read all year. I won't lie, I was put off by the cover and the whole interspecies romance thing. But it is so much more than that! It's well written, has a great pace, funny, and Meoraq is so fleshed out that you won't see him as a lizard alien, you'll see him as a person.

I will warn readers, there is a ton of graphic rape in this book. Like, a lot. Add weird lizard anatomy into the mix and...yeah.

This book was a very pleasant surprise. Don't be put off by the length, it did not feel like 1000 pages at all because I couldn't put it down. ( )
  Lairien | Jul 26, 2023 |
Loved. It. I wish I could buy this book in a dead tree copy so I could share it with all my friends. I've read a few comments about this book. I know some people thought it was too long but you could sign me up right now for another 2400 pages. Some people thought it was too violent. I was glad the author had the courage of her convictions. The hero is not going to save the heroine every time before the bad stuff happens. So on to my review.

First, the world building was amazing. The religion based culture of the planet the humans landed on was fully realized and made clear sense. Sometimes alien religions seem murky and hokey. Not here. The hero, Meoraq, had firm belief. All his words and actions spoke to his belief. He was an amazing character and I loved him. He was a good man and a wise one. He behaved the way he knew was right and let no one except the heroine sway him. He fell in love with her and indulged her where he could without compromising his principles. His dialog was lovely and the way he loved her and spoke of her was beautiful. He wasn't always perfect and I felt he learned and grew as the story went along.

The heroine, Amber, was interesting. She was bitchy and the other humans didn't like her. But she was right and they were wrong and she let them know it. She understood their situation and tried to learn and move on with her new life. She wasn't perfect. She held on to the other humans way too long and let the walk all over her. But I think that was explained at the end when she told Meoraq that they were the only humans left and she couldn't let them go. She was ultimately a good woman. She loved Meoraq and tried to always have his back. She wasn't xenophobic. She was open and accepting of the people and culture of the planet. Except she was an atheist. She and Meoraq squabbled about religion all the time.

I loved the minutiae of the journey to the shrine. That is my crack. I love to have every detail explored especially in a sci fi book. I like to see how they are responding to and dealing with the new world. That might not be everyone's cuppa but it sure is mine. The violence was there but honestly I have read way worse violence in some romantic suspense books. Yes she got raped but it wasn't horrifically graphic. She mostly just figured it was going to happen and just got through it best she could. She was a survivor. I think this violence etc., just added realism to the story. She was on an alien planet full of sex driven men. It was going to happen. Not putting it in would have been doing the story a disservice. The important part is that she got through it and that both she and Meoraq clove together anyway. Their relationship was the important thing to both of them. Although of course there was thought put into how to move forward, at least on her part. He never took his eyes off the prize which for him was her.

I didn't feel this story was too dark. There was hope throughout. There was courage and love. The ending could have been a major downer but I felt the author pulled it out at the end. Of course I knew early on what was going to happen at the shrine. I've read too much sci fi not to but I liked the way it was handled and how Meoraq eventually dealt with it.

On a more prosaic note. This book was well written, well plotted. No typos or other self pub type issues.

If you like sci fi romance you should read it.

Gotta get to work now. I might have to come back and fill this review out a little more when I have more time. :-) ( )
  Luziadovalongo | Jul 14, 2022 |
DNF- While the story held my interest at the beginning of the story, it wasn’t progressing. I read about 50% and story wasn’t moving along at all. All that I kept reading were arguments between the ‘commander’ and amber and their power struggles
  mybookcafelife | Apr 25, 2021 |
Don't be daunted by the length of this book. Yes, it's long, but there is no way that any single word could be cut out of this book without damaging it. The world-building is simply amazing. I was completely transported to a whole new world and it was a world that I discovered as Amber discovered it, in a completely organic manner. It was so awesome.

There are so many thing about this book that I liked but one of the things that I liked is that neither Amber or Meoraq are perfect. In fact, they are so not perfect, they are sometimes almost completely unlikable, which is amazing when it comes to the hero and heroine. Amber is pushy, bossy, annoying, and sometimes a know-it-all. It's no wonder that the rest of the survivors don't always like her. Of course, the fact that Scott pushes it and makes the problem even worse doesn't help. Meoraq is rude, angry, a zealot, and arrogant. It's no wonder that many of the survivors don't like him and are scared of him. I would be too, if I were them. Then again, I wouldn't have been sitting around on my derriere the way that most of them were doing either. Amber was right, the more of them that would've known what to do, the better off they would've been. Meoraq would've been less angry with them if more than just Amber were pulling their weight.

Speaking of the humans, not one of them, outside of Amber is remotely likable. I wanted Nicci to die a fiery death from about the 10% mark, and Scott from practically the first time we saw him. He was a smarmy pr1ck, a bully with a nasty streak, and a potential murder in so many ways.

The book is a slow, long burn, but it's a good one. It's an amazing ride with a spectacular and interesting world to visit, complete with a whole new theology, a caste system, and a different lifestyle. It's definitely worth every second of reading it. ( )
  tetisheri | Aug 15, 2020 |
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It was her last chance:Amber Bierce had nothing left except her sister and two tickets on Earth's first colony-ship. She entered her Sleeper with a five-year contract and the promise of a better life, but awakened in wreckage on an unknown world. For the survivors, there is no rescue, no way home and no hope until they are found by Meoraq-a holy warrior more deadly than any hungering beast on this hostile new world...but whose eyes show a different sort of hunger when he looks at her.It was his last year of freedom:Uyane Meoraq is a Sword of Sheul, God's own instrument of judgment, victor of hundreds of trials, with a conqueror's rights over all men. Or at least he was until his father's death. Now, without divine intervention, he will be forced to assume stewardship over House Uyane and lose the life he has always known. At the legendary temple of Xi'Matezh, Meoraq hopes to find the deliverance he seeks, but the humans he encounters on his pilgrimage may prove too great a test even for him...especially the one called Amber, behind whose monstrous appearance burns a woman's heart unlike any he has ever known.From R. Lee Smith, author of Heat and Cottonwood, comes an epic new story of desire, darkness and the dawn that comes after The Last Hour of Gann.

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