Okay, I admit it I ended up fancying him myself! The Great Peacemaker, named Two Rivers, is marvellously multi-faceted, single-minded in his mission to bring about ruling councils and end the warring between the nations, yet so human, too unlike others of Zoe Saadia's books that I've read, this one contains an element of love and passion of the more mature variety which is very convincing, as Two Rivers fights his feelings for woman, concerned that it will distract him from his cause. A time and place when life was lived according to the rules of nature only, but with civilised regimes set in place for the efficient survival of communities. So readable just as an adventure story on its own, Across the Great Sparkling Water (later to become Lake Ontario) is fascinating in that it tells so much about the customs of the time, and the day to day living - and yes, yes, it made me want to go back in time and live amongst them, as all good historical fiction should do. It's a while since I read the first one so I had to recap, after which the two stories flowed together. I'll just mention that it's important to read the first in this series, Two Rivers, first. More than a few scholars agree that the latter day USA constitution was influenced by this Great Law of Peace. This is the second in the Peacemaker series, a fictional account based on fact, about how the Great League of the Iroquois was formed.

Two rivers by zoe saadia