Walking the Tree eBook Kaaron Warren
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Botanica is an island, but almost all of the island is taken up by the Tree.
Little knowing how they came to be here, small communities live around the coast line. The Tree provides them shelter, kindling, medicine – and a place of legends, for there are ghosts within the trees who snatch children and the dying.
Lillah has come of age and is now ready to leave her community and walk the tree for five years, learning all Botanica has to teach her. Before setting off, Lillah is asked by the dying mother of a young boy to take him with her. In a country where a plague killed half the population, Morace will otherwise be killed in case he has the same disease. But can Lillah keep the boy’s secret, or will she have to resort to breaking the oldest taboo on Botanica?
Another astonishingly imaginative novel from the acclaimed author of Slights.
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“Like walking from a dream into a mythical land both familiar and delightfully strange. A tale of tolerance and survival, in a fascinating and beautifully realised world.”
– Trudi Canavan, author of the Black Magician Trilogy
“Kaaron Warren is a fresh, amazingly talented voice out of Australia. You must read her work.”
– Ellen Datlow
“It is the setting that really makes the story and keeps the reader interested. The various communities of Botanica are well thought out and intriguing, and their differing attitudes towards disease, sex and the Tree constantly challenge Lillah’s thoughts and beliefs. It also draws on our own awareness of humanity’s evolution, and adds a sense of reality to the already convincing setting.”
- Total SciFi Online
Walking the Tree eBook Kaaron Warren
This is a fantastic book in the classic Quest format that recalls some of the best work by author Robert Silverberg. However, better than Silverberg: Walking the Tree is a decidedly tender, smart and empathic book. The encounters among various societies and "ways of being" are very eye-opening, and the world created by Warren is quite beguiling. I hope to visit it again!While there could have been even more cultural variation among the various tribes, Warren balances sex-positive female characters with realistic views of both feminist and terribly chauvinistic societies. The ways in which conversation, child-rearing, and sexuality emerge among the characters is fascinating. Also, the characters grow and change in such subtle ways that they're quite different by the end of the book, before one even notices.
The novella at the end — a bonus of the story written from the pov of another character is quite boring, but the main event so to speak, the novel itself, is fantastic.
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Walking the Tree eBook Kaaron Warren Reviews
On an island which seems to constitute their entire world, the young women of small coastal communities lead groups of children on a years-long educational circumnavigation of the vast Tree at its centre. As they visit one community after another, the children learn about the various cultures of the island, Botanica, and the women seek a place to settle down.
This book represents some exemplary worldbuilding - each new village has its own distinct culture crafts, sciences, cooking, superstitions, sexual traditions, beliefs about how to treat the Tree, behaviour towards outsiders etc. It's a thoughtful - though never preachy or obvious - examination of gender politics, cultural tolerance and the role of tradition and superstition in shaping communities. It's also a tense, suspenseful drama - the longer that protagonist Lillah keeps her deadly secret, the fewer allies she can depend on for protection.
I think that it might do this beautiful, melancholy journey an unfortunate disservice to classify it as an epic anthropological mystery, but I think that's as close as I can get. I highly recommend it.
Every once in a while I enjoy reading a book that is, um, a little out there. This book definately fit the bill. It was different, made my brain stretch a little, and was overall, an interesting book to read. Many books are just a copy of our current world-view with a few tweeks here and there. This author created an entirely new and different society, with different and interesting rules.
This is quite an astonishing read. Kaaron breaks all the so-called rules of writing but does it with such finesse that you can't put it down due to the uncanny sense of immediacy. I did not enjoy the morbid cultural acceptance of all kinds of cruelty, but it is only a partial aspect and the main character is able to stand against this. Perhaps the intention is to make the reader squirm just as Lillah does; if so, then it's a success. Definitely glad I picked this one up.
This is the third book by Kaaron Warren that i have read (see my earlier reviews of "slights" and "Dead sea fruit") and i think this book really showcases here huge imagination. The fantasy world she has built in this book is mind blowing and epic, the characters live on an island called Botanica which is dominated by a vast tree which takes up nearly the whole island and effectively rules thier lives. The people are spread out in tiny villages on the edge of the island where they live and every few years the young women and children are sent out to "walk the tree" and go the whole way around the island visiting the different communities and interacting with them.
This book deserves at least three stars just for being so inventive and original, one of the reasons i don't read much fantasy anymore is because the genre is flooded with imitations of great books. So Tolkien had dragaons, wizards and quests and now there are thousands of books with stories about dragons and wizards and quests. This book really breaks the mold and you should read it just for that reason but the story line is a great slow burner as well.
I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys having their imagination given a good workout and wants something different than the ususal stale fantasy fluff. Just be aware that it is a slow burner so you have to be patient and let the story develop but when it does you won't be dissapointed.
This is a fantastic book in the classic Quest format that recalls some of the best work by author Robert Silverberg. However, better than Silverberg Walking the Tree is a decidedly tender, smart and empathic book. The encounters among various societies and "ways of being" are very eye-opening, and the world created by Warren is quite beguiling. I hope to visit it again!
While there could have been even more cultural variation among the various tribes, Warren balances sex-positive female characters with realistic views of both feminist and terribly chauvinistic societies. The ways in which conversation, child-rearing, and sexuality emerge among the characters is fascinating. Also, the characters grow and change in such subtle ways that they're quite different by the end of the book, before one even notices.
The novella at the end — a bonus of the story written from the pov of another character is quite boring, but the main event so to speak, the novel itself, is fantastic.
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