Passage to Jarpara
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4.5 • 8 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Taef Lang must set out on his grand quest…
… To find a job.
Now a married man, the time has come for Taef to begin his long-delayed career as a professor of Island archaeology and/or Island history. To do so, he and Lessie, along with Sella and Carz, set sail for the Island and the University of Jarpara.
Passage to Jarpara is a travelogue of that journey. It's an account of islands called on, old friends and acquaintances met, new ones made, as well as potential pirates, curse-beasts, haunted Tiki palaces, fire islands, and a hidden race of immortals. In short, it's an episodic record of the everyday life of the island-studded Tropic Sea.
Passage to Jarpara is the third and final volume of Tales of the Tropic Sea from the pen of C. Litka. It draws a fitting conclusion to the adventures of Taef, Sella, and Lessie that begin with their voyage to Redoubt Island and continued with the freeing of the Prisoner of Cimlye. It blends fantasy, science fiction, adventure, and romance told in C. Litka's classic lighthearted style. Like all his novels, it features engaging characters, witty dialog, meticulous world-building, and mysteries to be solved in unexpected ways.
Customer Reviews
Mostly a repeat of l the first two books
I like the author’s writing style but most of this book was many repetitive retelling of the two previous books. Every new acquaintance was told the back story. If the reader did not learn in the early chapters about Vente sorceresses, the adventures in the previous books, and that “no one can say ‘no’ to Sella”, they will certainly know it after umpteenth retelling. Indeed, the first three-quarters of the book could have been condensed into one or two chapters. The author needs a ruthless editor. Repetition seems to be a C. Litka habit: in another series the protagonist cannot stop repeating that he is “a very cautions fellow”. Yes, we know already! Tell us something new!
For this book you can skip all the way to the secret island toward the end of the book and lose nothing of import.