Call Down the Stars

by Sue Harrison

Book Overview

On that day of great terror and sadness, the girl called Daughter escaped with her grandfather across the icy North Pacific to find shelter on the islands of the Whale Hunters. But peace was not to be their lot. For here the mad medicine woman K'os was scheming vengeance against her most despised enemy, the revered warrior and statesman called Chakliux -- her son. And this young, innocent female from a far-off place was the key -- the final, essential...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 038072605X
• ISBN13: 9780380726059
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Avon Books
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 4.3" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Call Down the Stars

Couldn't wait to read it but it was the first of the trilogy that arrived. Glad I waited....Sue Harrison is a great storyteller with the research (that I have in my knowledge bank) backing her up. I'll read it again in front of a warm fire in the dead of winter!

Wow!

Good summary to the story with the exception of a few missed details. I'm left wanting more closure but the book was overall very entertaining! I loved reading about the two most evil characters I've ever read about finally facing off against each other. This book kept me guessing and I now have new expectations for villains! For some reason, I don't think I'll find any other villains more entertaining than K'os. Great twists and very witty!

intriguing

A very interesting and beautifully written book. The trilogy is about Alaskans Natives who are story tellers. You begin to feel for the characters and dream with them. I wish that American youth would be required to read these books and other stories like these, so that our young generation would have a better understanding about Native American's culture and past. Sue Harrison is an extremely creative and intelligent writer, you should read all of her books.

Call Down the Stars

Sue Harrison's work is not only about storytellers, but also by a storyteller. Her plots are engrossing and the reader can get lost in the emotion of the events. CALL DOWN THE STARS is not only a wonderful stand-alone book, but a perfect culmination of all her books. In more recent times than her first trilogy, the storytellers in CALL DOWN THE STARS use the old characters from all the books as part of their history and continue to tell new additions to these people's lives while their own stories unfold. I highly recommend this, and all of Ms. Harrison's books to anyone looking for something new or in this genre.

A fascinating glimpse into an ancient way of life

Sue Harrison is one of the best storytellers out there today-- which she proves in the completion of the storyteller saga. She manages to do by creating intriguing characters who are also storytellers, and manages to make a novel with two parallel plots weave together perfectly. Harrison makes the way of life for the ancient people of Alaska come alive, in all its hardships and joys. She creates complex and differing characters, from K'os, the villain who thinks only of herself in a place and time where cooperation was a necessity to survival, to Daughter, who is gentle and helpful, even to her adoptive mother K'os. This is definitely a novel worth reading.