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Promised Valley War

Ron Fritsch
Asymmetric Worlds (2011)
ISBN 9780615567297
Reviewed by Kam Aures for RebeccasReads (2/12)

“Blue Sky suddenly realized who the man was:  the lead hunter in the ravine the previous autumn, the hill man who’d initially disregarded Wandering Star’s warning cries not to take his hunting party any higher up the mountainside and risk death at the hands of the farmers.

Then the man looked up at the farmers’ guard post and saw Blue Sky and his equally brave or foolish comrade, Spring Rain, ready for bloody battle all by themselves, but still holding back their arrows when they easily could’ve let them fly.” (p. 2)

Ron Fritsch’s “Promised Valley War” picks up where his first book, “Promised Valley Rebellion,” left off.  In the first book, the younger people staged a rebellion against the King for he was opposed to the marriage of his son, the prince, to the hill people’s princess.  In this second installment of the series we are transported back to prehistoric times once again where the valley people and the hill people are still at odds. 

At the beginning of the book, Fritsch thankfully provides the reader with a character list which I found to be enormously helpful.  Not only did it help refresh my memory as to who each person was but it helped me to keep everyone straight as I was reading the novel.  With character names like Autumn Wine, Tall Oak, Rose Leaf, and Sturdy Limb, it sometimes takes a little bit to keep everyone straight.  There are around 30 characters with names like these so it was wonderful to be able to flip to the front of the book if I had any doubt about who a specific person was.  I enjoyed seeing how Fritsch further developed the characters that the reader was introduced to in the first book in the series.  It was fun to learn more about them and watch them evolve.

 “Promised Valley War” reads well as a stand-alone novel, especially if you read through the notes and character synopses at the beginning of the book.  However, I think that in order to get the full impact of the story it is best to read the previous novel, “Promised Valley Rebellion,” first.   There are two more books coming in this four-part series and I am excited to see what adventures this pre-historic cast of characters will face next. 

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