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Legends of the Exiles Kindle Edition

by Jesse Teller (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.3 3.3 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
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The isolated barbarians of Neather have deep ancestry and strict traditions. Four resilient women defy tribal customs as they fight to overcome their own tragedies. Abuse. Addiction. Assault. Grief. What struggles can they endure to defend their hopes and their hearts?

Helena seeks a love as bold as she, yet finds the men of her village lacking.

Jocelyn fears her strange visions and sacrifices a life with the man she loves for the one her destiny demands.

Torn apart by abuse and grief, Ellen is a brilliant woman who must focus her intellect on finding reasons to persevere.

Rachel, a brash girl of noble heritage, dares all men to challenge her and longs for one who will.

In this set of four interwoven novellas, award-winning author Jesse Teller challenges assumptions and showcases the strength of feminine resolve.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07MTJB4JC
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ (April 15, 2019)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 15, 2019
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 6811 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 457 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 179865234X
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Jesse Teller

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Jesse Teller fell in love with fantasy when he was five years old and played his first game of Dungeons & Dragons. The game gave him the ability to create stories and characters from a young age. He started consuming fantasy in every form and, by nine, was obsessed with the genre. As a young adult, he knew he wanted to make his life about fantasy.

His writing influences include Stephen King, Steven Erikson, Robert E Howard, George RR Martin, Piers Anthony, and Paulo Coelho. From exploring the relationship between man and woman, to understanding the qualities of a leader or a tyrant, Jesse Teller uses his stories and settings to study real-world themes and issues.

Bronze Medal, 2018 Readers Favorite Book Award

1st Prize, The 2017 Drunken Druid Book Award

Literary Titan Gold Book Award Winner, 2017

Drunken Druid Editor's Choice, March 2017

Short List, The 2016 Drunken Druid Book Award

Hungry Monster Gold Book Award Winner, 2016

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great book!
Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2019
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I love books with strong female leads. This had it. Very well written!
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1.0 out of 5 stars Characters were lacking, and children were oversexualized. A solid concept that fell off the tracks
Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2019
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I received an ARC for free in exchange for an honest review.

As a female fantasy reader, I thought that this might be right up my alley when the book was offered to me. Unfortunately, it turned out to not sit well with me at all, and I felt it necessary to give a very low rating. As briefly as I can, I’ll cover my feelings on the book here.

The pros:

- The way this book was written, with four novellas, truly was intriguing. I found that I got a lot more out of the books when I went back to check over sections, and I think the re-read value would be quite high if the novel was one you enjoyed. That’s something that’s pretty rare, and I think it’s quite a solid aspect of how these four novellas are shaped.

The cons:

- The writing often felt repetitive, with entire paragraphs built off the same sentence structure. It made many sections feel rougher than needed, and was a challenge to push past, especially at the beginning.

- My first impression of the novel was more of a drama based on women’s issues and the challenges they faced in a patriarchal society, with romance elements mixed in. That impression came from the blurb and how the book was presented. The novel I read felt much more like a romance novel, with each novella explicitly built around sexual relationships. I’ll emphasize explicitly, as beginning with the first novella there is a lot of detailed sex.

As a book that proclaimed itself as “challenging assumptions and showcasing female resolve”, I’d have expected to see sex play a role in the novel - but be just one facet of femininity and the challenges these characters face. Instead, each of the four novellas was based around a woman’s relationship with a man (Her man is in an arranged marriage instead of being with her, has to bang a man for ‘destiny’ instead of being with her lover, sexual assault, and woman being in an arranged marriage instead of being with her lover ).

Given the wide array of complex issues that could have been tackled as women living in a clearly well-crafted barbarian society, focusing everything on sex and romance and saying it ‘challenged assumptions and showcased women‘ started to feel insulting past a certain point.

- Female characters were often lauded as strong, proud figures - but in execution, I found them lacking. Not all strength is physical, I 100% agree, but it seemed that the female characters trended towards immature. Too often to me it felt like other characters were telling the MCs how strong or proud they were, rather than the characters showing their strength - emotional or otherwise. That doesn’t make each of the characters bad, but it made me feel like the “they’re fighters/warriors/independent” message was being jammed down my throat, versus guiding me to reach that conclusion on my own.

- Book 3 (Dead Girl) danced with fire in terms of graphic content and sexualizing children, in my opinion. While I respect that the story attempts to convey important messages about sexual assault, I felt that the explicit content and the seeming agency being given to a prepubescent character sexually was very dangerous. It was far too easy for me to read the pivotal scene as Ellen being ‘into it’. As a 12 year old character engaged in acts with an older man, I found the seeming level of involvement and instigation from her to be highly inappropriate and sending the wrong message to those who might be reading it. Needless to say, a 12 year old can’t consent, and the portrayal of how things went down didn’t sit right with me

- Book 4, then, leaps straight past that boundary and oversexualizes a child for no discernible good reason, lesson, or message. It appeared to just be a tool to emphasize how wild and boundary-breaking she was. As a 12 year old. Rachel was not a likeable character, and had very little in the way of actual growth - her being sexualized on top of that made the whole situation a bit sickening. Regardless, under no circumstances do I want to be reading about the quality of a child’s ‘assets’ as she tries to entice a young man into sex.

I wish that I could have rated it higher, as I do think there's a lot of potential in the world and concept and Teller is clearly a skilled author. Unfortunately, at this time, I can’t give that recommendation.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A fantastic collection of novellas about incredible women!
Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2019
I've previously read and enjoyed Jesse Teller's Manhunters trilogy (Song, Hemlock, Crown), so naturally I was excited to read something new from him. I was even more excited when I discovered that Legend of the Exiles is a tale of four interwoven novellas that take place in the world of Perilisc, each focusing on one individual woman. I wasn't sure what to expect from this format, but I knew that it was in good hands with Teller.

The stories take place in a low fantasy setting that has been fully built up and explored in his previous trilogy, but that doesn't mean that these stories lack in setting up a great world as well that I was easily able to find myself lost within. Even though I have knowledge of the world from previous books, I think anyone new to Teller's work should have no problems jumping right in. There's no major info-dumping, but there's enough world-building to give readers a solid foundation for understanding and enjoying the world.

The first thing that comes to mind upon reflecting on this book is how much I loved the ways in which Teller portrayed the "strength" of each woman. Lately, so many books--particularly in fantasy--are stuck in a certain rut where a "strong female character" equals being tough, using a sword, and rejecting most feminine values. I find this to be a harmful and frustrating trend, so I was glad to see that Teller used a bit of variety and showed how women can be warriors in more than just the traditional idea of a 'warrior.'

I really enjoyed reading about all four of these women and found all the themes they struggled with extremely compelling, whether I could personally relate to them or not. Ellen's story in particular stood out to me, and I was so pleasantly surprised by how well Teller navigated the topics involved. The other three women, Helena, Jocelyn, and Rachel, also bring great lessons and personality to the book. Each story starts out with an exploration of a general struggle that each woman is currently facing, but the result of the story leaves both the reader and the character making new discoveries about their individuality and how they have the strength to handle everything. The only minor issue I had was that I wish the there was a lot of the women/narrative telling the us the readers about their strength, rather than showing as much as they could have.

Within these stories, Teller tackles a wide variety of difficult topics and does a great job of exploring them and handling them in tactful and engaging ways. One of my favorite things was how Teller managed to keep them intertwined. It wasn't always overt, but there were many subtle mentions that added to both previous and future stories in ways that I thought were really clever.

Overall, I've given Legend of the Exiles four stars! If you're looking for some stories about incredible women, then look no further.
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