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Library Journal Review

Deserted by her itinerant husband while giving birth to their first child on a treacherous journey, Kwani returns to the Cicuye village as the mate of Tolonqua, an esteemed hunting chief. Kwani is ``She Who Remembers,'' venerated for her mystical visions and powers, charged with a mission to hand down Indian folklore to young women who will immortalize the ancient customs and beliefs. In this sequel to She Who Remembers ( LJ 2/15/88), Shuler once again crafts a finespun epic saga of Indian tribal rituals in the American Southwest during the late 13th century. Although a bit lengthy, this well-researched novel (complete with bibliography) balances the gusto of buffalo hunts and horrific tribal attacks with romantic interludes and warm vignettes of family life. Recommended. Literary Guild selection; previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 3/1/92.--Mary Ellen Elsbernd, Northern Kentucky Univ. Lib., Highland Heights (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Publishers Weekly Review

Thirteenth-century North America, where bands of Indians roam the land, again provides the backdrop in this sequel to the bestselling She Who Remembers . Kwani, a woman with compelling spiritual powers, has been driven from her Anasazi tribe and joins her mate Tolonqua's people, the Towa, in the Pueblo city of Cicuye. Over the next 20 years, Kwani survives enemy attacks, participates in rituals seeking guidance and good fortune from the deities, nurtures her spirited son Acoya and daughter Antelope, and struggles to fulfill her anointed role as She Who Remembers, the woman chosen to teach young girls the secrets of Earthmother. The author steeps her narrative in meticulously researched detail, which seems to have taken priority over the plot. Endless listings of minutiae, combined with an awkward dialect that reads like an inferior translation from a foreign language, diminish the reader's willingness to be transported to another time. In the end, Shuler's living history never comes fully to life. Literary Guild main selection. ( July ) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Booklist Review

One has to like this kind of thing, these pre-Columbian America fictions fashioned from extant archaelogical and anthropological evidence--and many readers do. Shuler drew a considerable readership with her first novel, She Who Remembers. Now, in her second, she picks up where the previous one left off. It's two centuries before the advent of Columbus to North America, and the Anasazi Indians of New Mexico are going about their ways and means as they have done since time immemorial. The heroine of the previous novel stars in this one as well; her plight this time is, with husband and newborn son, to move across foreign territory bearing in her possession the tribally important Robe of the White Buffalo. Details ring with authenticity, as do attitudes and expressions Shuler imparts to her characters. The writing is not particularly graceful, but serves the author's purpose: simply diversionary reading. Voice promises to be as popular as its predecessor. ~--Brad Hooper