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Wings to the Kingdom (Eden Moore Book 2) (original 2006; udgave 2006)

af Cherie Priest (Forfatter)

Serier: Eden Moore Series (2)

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The fields at Chickamauga, Georgia--America's oldest national military park--claimed 35,000 casualties during the Civil War. Any good guide will tell you that the grounds are haunted. The battlefield even has its own resident haunt, called Old Green Eyes for his tell-tale luminous gaze. It has long been said that Old Green Eyes intends no harm to those who respect the park. He is no menace, but a guardian of the dead. While he walks, the dead may sleep secure in the knowledge that their restwill be undisturbed. While Old Green Eyes patrols the battlefield, there is nothing to fear, for graves are not robbed and bones are not moved. But suddenly a different phenomenon starts puzzling and frightening visitors, causing tours to be canceled and rangers to quit their jobs. These new ghosts are no illusions carved out of the low-rolling fog. One by one, the solemn-faced spirits in ragged uniforms show themselves, and one by one, they point a determined arm off into the distance. Why do the soldiers march again, and what has become of their unblinking custodian? The spirits need a go-between, someone who can speak to them, andfor them. Eden Moore is not interested. But the ghosts aren't taking no for an answer.… (mere)
Medlem:pmackey
Titel:Wings to the Kingdom (Eden Moore Book 2)
Forfattere:Cherie Priest (Forfatter)
Info:Tor Books (2006), Edition: First, 400 pages
Samlinger:Dit bibliotek, Kindle
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This is a sequel to "Four and Twenty Blackbirds," but I thought it worked as a stand-alone.
In the first book, we were introduced to Eden Moore, a young woman in the American South whose life is considerably complicated by her ability to see ghosts.
In this installment, the ghosts of the Civil War dead start appearing to her, seeming to want something. Rumors, centering around an urban legend about some kind of monster that haunts the battlefield, start flying. It's strange enough that a slick TV crew from a paranormal investigation reality show are soon on the scene, much to Eden's disgust.
Eden would rather ignore ghosts and just live a normal life - but she begins to realize that whether she wants to or not, she and her friends are going to have to do something.

A fun, well-crafted ghost story. ( )
  AltheaAnn | Feb 9, 2016 |
As with the first book in this series, the second book stands on its own. There are references to the first book, but nothing that would interfere with understanding the story in this book. The story is that something has happened at the historical Chickamauga battlefield in Georgia to make the ghosts of the dead soldiers restless. They’ve started showing up and startling visitors in broad daylight, pointing toward something in the distance. Our main character, Eden, is trying to figure out what’s happened and how to solve the problem.

I enjoyed this book, but I liked it a bit less than the first book in the series. This story was more straight-forward than the first one and it was pretty easy to guess the answers to the main questions from early on. I missed the suspense from the first book that propelled me through it almost against my will in search of the answers to all my questions. Also, even though the first book wasn’t terribly creepy, it was definitely creepier than this one and I missed that creepier atmosphere. Despite all this, the book was still well-written and interesting. I still had some trouble putting it down because I was interested in the story even if I did always feel like I knew what was going to happen next.

As with the first book, the story is told from the first-person perspective of our main character, Eden. However, unlike the first book, there are a few chapters where we read from the third-person perspective of a different character. From the first chapter with this other character it’s easy to understand what’s going on and, from that point, make a good guess about the shape of the rest of the story. Especially since his story begins a few weeks in the past compared to the other chapters. When there are only two character perspectives, you know that their two stories are intertwined in some way and there are usually only so many ways to put the two pieces together so it makes the story more predictable. I think, when it comes to perspectives, I prefer either a single perspective or else a whole bunch of perspectives.

In this book, Eden isn’t working alone as much as she was in the first book. She has some friends her age, although I certainly have no idea where she found them since she didn’t seem to have any long-term friends at all in the previous book, she doesn’t go to school, she doesn’t have a job, and these mysterious friends don’t seem to live near her. All Eden seems to do when she’s not hanging out with ghosts is hang out in coffee shops and diners. I guess maybe she met them there, or else she knew them from her school years. This is the one thing that’s still really annoying me about the series – Eden is a likeable character, and her personality is very clear and distinct, but there are some gaping holes in terms of what her life is like beyond the main events of the stories being told.

So, with those complaints, I don’t think I can justify giving this more than 3.5 stars. I did still enjoy the story though, and I do like the author’s writing style, so I plan to read the third and final book in the series. ( )
  YouKneeK | Apr 2, 2015 |
"With the 150th anniversary of the Battle at Chickamauga approaching, I picked this book off my shelf to get in the spirit of commemoration. I had read Priest's first Eden Moore novel, Four and Twenty Blackbirds, a few years back. I enjoyed Wings to the Kingdom quite a bit more. The characters were somewhat more believable and real. But it was the setting that really got my attention.

As someone who has lived in the North Georgia area for 30 years, I'm very familiar with both Chattanooga and the Chickamauga battlefield. I currently live a stone's throw from a road named after General H. V. Boynton, one of the men mentioned in the book as having helped found "the park," which is how many locals refer to it these days. And, my husband asked me to marry him there (we jokingly say that's where the real battle began). So I can attest that the author researched the spots mentioned and described them accurately; that was enjoyable for me, as was the overall spooky atmosphere she conveyed.

The novel held an interesting premise: the ghosts of soldiers are revealing themselves to visitors, trying to communicate, while pointing off in the distance. In a seemingly unrelated incident, Eden (a young woman with reluctant but undeniable supernatural skills) happens upon Old Green Eyes, but not at the battlefield where he's supposed to be. For some reason, he left the battlefield and returned to Moccasin Bend. "The dead are my children," he says. When Eden hears of the ghost sightings at the battlefield, she puts two and two together and enlists her friends Jamie and Benny to help figure out why he left one sorrowful place and went to another. Through a series of events, mishaps, and encounters, Eden and her friends finally get the answers to their questions and help to bring peace back to the restless spirits.

We will be visiting the battlefield in the coming weeks (we try to at least once during the autumn season; it's so beautiful and peaceful there). But this next time, I will bring with me a few new thoughts of ghosts and their protectors, namely, Old Green Eyes himself." ( )
1 stem susanaudrey | Sep 7, 2013 |
(Book 2/Eden Moore series) Modern southern gothic/speculative fiction.

Eden Moore sees ghosts and the ghosts at the Chickamauga battlefield are not resting easy. The local legendary figure of Ol Green Eyes (a supernatural guardian) has gone MIA and the ghosts are now coming to Eden to solve the mystery. Tie that together with a mental institution buried atop Native American grounds, professional ghost hunters from a TV show and Priest's wonderfully eerie/creepy atmosphere and you've got a yumalicious read. So go on....meet the dead. ( )
  jlparent | Apr 17, 2011 |
I read these books out of order, this is the second one in the Eden Moore universe. But it turns out that Cherie Priest is such a good writer and storyteller, that it doesn't matter that I read the third one before the second. If anything, the second is much creepier than the other two. It's a fun ghost story, of sorts, about Confederate soldiers, a create that's not quite human and note quite a ghost and Eden Moore and her friends. It does help to have read at least one of the other books in the series to understand some of the minor plot points, but it works well as a stand alone novel as well. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, even if it did scare me on a few occasions. I am excited to read more of Priest's novels. ( )
  callmecayce | Jan 29, 2009 |
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The fields at Chickamauga, Georgia--America's oldest national military park--claimed 35,000 casualties during the Civil War. Any good guide will tell you that the grounds are haunted. The battlefield even has its own resident haunt, called Old Green Eyes for his tell-tale luminous gaze. It has long been said that Old Green Eyes intends no harm to those who respect the park. He is no menace, but a guardian of the dead. While he walks, the dead may sleep secure in the knowledge that their restwill be undisturbed. While Old Green Eyes patrols the battlefield, there is nothing to fear, for graves are not robbed and bones are not moved. But suddenly a different phenomenon starts puzzling and frightening visitors, causing tours to be canceled and rangers to quit their jobs. These new ghosts are no illusions carved out of the low-rolling fog. One by one, the solemn-faced spirits in ragged uniforms show themselves, and one by one, they point a determined arm off into the distance. Why do the soldiers march again, and what has become of their unblinking custodian? The spirits need a go-between, someone who can speak to them, andfor them. Eden Moore is not interested. But the ghosts aren't taking no for an answer.

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