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This book is more than characters, plot, story - it's a journey of truth. The compelling characters and fascinating story are huge, don't get me wrong, but what makes this book shine is the depth of what these characters are facing. Identity at its core, really, when you think of what you believe this world to be. For fans of historical fiction you will be blown away by the authenticity in every Freydis scene, and the wonderful connections made between Freydis and Emma in relation to their very similar struggles even a thousand years apart.

The story is superbly written and clips along at a wonderful pace. As usual Amalia Carosella delivers an effortless read that transports the reader immediately. Her voice and command of language make every scene come alive, whether it's through intoxicating, magnetic Viking swarthiness or betrayal and political power plays. Best of all, this story is so raw and honest, I feel like anyone who reads it will discover something new about themselves as they reflect on what's happening to these two women.

Whoever you are reading this review, I genuinely hope you read this book because either you will relate to Freydis and Emma, in which case this book can be a source of strength and understanding for you, or you won't identify directly and in that case, how fantastic and amazing that you can gain insight and vicariously see the world from a point of view that's so real to so many people. Either way, happy reading!


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Daughter of a Thousand Years eBook Amalia Carosella Reviews

I feel compelled to write a review but also unsure how to categorize this book. It reads like a novel but feels like a meditation on the role of faith and religion in our lives and all the related questions that go with it. In fact, all the action and dialogue revolves around and is filtered through the issue of religion. The two parallel storylines are told from a pagan perspective, and Christianity is the "other," which makes this an unconventional read, but brings the central question of faith into the forefront. Amalia Carosella (a pagan herself) presents many questions about what it means to have true faith in a spiritual tradition and to practice it without condemnation, as well as what it really means to have religious tolerance, but doesn't answer them for the reader. Rather, she offers up the ideas for the reader to think about.

The first storyline takes place in AD 1000 and features a Viking woman who is fiercely pagan and facing the pressures of conversion by the growing Christian community around her. I found this storyline interesting and a good attempt to portray what it would be like to live in a world where everything you believe to be true is being challenged by change. Freydis is a strong and independent woman, carving out a non-traditional role for herself in a male-dominated society, and at times not being a very sympathetic character. I truly wanted to follow her journey to the very end of the novel.

The second storyline is contemporary and features a woman of Nordic ancestry who is trying to carve out her own identity in a very Catholic environment and with the pressure of scrutiny from her father's campaign for public office. While Emma is a sympathetic character who makes every effort to be honest and honorable, I found her less interesting as a character and found myself skimming through some of her chapters more than reading them. I wanted to see how she resolved her dilemmas but the events in her storyline felt forced and contrived much of the time. I have never lived anywhere where the community is so fiercely Catholic (or any religious tradition) that they would be that scandalized by a pagan.

However, as the child and grandchild of immigrants, I can fully appreciate how someone who does not conform to the norm of the society around them would be marginalized and made to feel less than human. After all, this has played out in the modern world over and over in the past 50 years from the perspective of nationality/culture more so than religion.

Ultimately, I applaud Amalia Carosella for tackling a large and complicated topic in a relatable way.
Easily my favorite novel from Amalia at this point. The dual narrative structure of modern day USA and 1000 A.D. Greenland lets you see into the same conflict a thousand years apart. Emma comes to terms with her non-Christian faith in the face of family drama and political scandal, while Freydís comes to terms with upholding her non-Christian faith in the oncoming tide of Christianity to her homeland.

I churned through the book in a matter of days, ever needful of the next complication in the lives of Emma and Freydís. Their struggles--against external forces asking them to compromise who they are at their very core in order to ease their own lives and the lives of those around them--are universal, no matter your religion, your background, your culture, your sexuality, your gender preference, your politics.

At some point, your views have been undermined and tossed aside as fake or unimportant. At some point, you were faced with the decision to convert (change), hide (live a lie), or die (be outcast).

This book follows two women who daily face problems with their relationships to their faith and the difficult circumstances it creates in societies that demand you change, that demand you pretend so you don't make waves. Their external struggles are as powerful as the fights they have with themselves, coming to terms with what it means to become "different" or to stay "different" than the societal norms of their respective time periods.

Even if you're not a Heathen, you have probably experienced some kind of pressure to be different than you feel, and that universal conflict is what tore me through this story, empathizing with women with vastly different faiths, personalities, and struggles to my own. Because their struggles are mirrored in my life in a dozen different ways.

Finding a way to cope with being "different" is just as important as finding the right words to communicate your stance, your feelings, on something you hold dear. Everyone has faith or believes in something; it's truly special when you can understand and empathize with another's views even when they are so different to your own.

Emma and Freydís are me, as much as they are not. Their struggles are my struggles, and this book has left me with heightened appreciation for people of faiths outside my own.
This book is more than characters, plot, story - it's a journey of truth. The compelling characters and fascinating story are huge, don't get me wrong, but what makes this book shine is the depth of what these characters are facing. Identity at its core, really, when you think of what you believe this world to be. For fans of historical fiction you will be blown away by the authenticity in every Freydis scene, and the wonderful connections made between Freydis and Emma in relation to their very similar struggles even a thousand years apart.

The story is superbly written and clips along at a wonderful pace. As usual Amalia Carosella delivers an effortless read that transports the reader immediately. Her voice and command of language make every scene come alive, whether it's through intoxicating, magnetic Viking swarthiness or betrayal and political power plays. Best of all, this story is so raw and honest, I feel like anyone who reads it will discover something new about themselves as they reflect on what's happening to these two women.

Whoever you are reading this review, I genuinely hope you read this book because either you will relate to Freydis and Emma, in which case this book can be a source of strength and understanding for you, or you won't identify directly and in that case, how fantastic and amazing that you can gain insight and vicariously see the world from a point of view that's so real to so many people. Either way, happy reading!