Kayak Reef (Eye of the Arctic)

By Bradley J. Stewart and J. Stewart Bradley

Inside this hundred years Arctic legend, Myauka's epic tail comes to life. Beneith the story's mystery: What happens, to a spirit separated from it's human experience? Do you truly go to heaven and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 097963170X
• ISBN13: 9780979631702
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Searchlight Publishing
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

magical story

Within a few pages of this book, you realize this tale of two boys is building a subplot. Pages later on the edge of your seat, the story rewinds a hundred years and Myauka's world on the Arctic, comes to life. Suddenly I was inside a legend that would rival Walt Disney's best. The closely weaved double story of Myauka's past, and the boys, developed as if two books were inside. I especially liked Geoff's talks with his mother. I was impressed by the author's description of how the universe was made. The vivid scenes were structured, and then a theme of putting others first was rippling in. This adventure brings to surface the harrowing events that strike in the path of poachers on the hunt. From the youth's growth and elements of fate, came two teens galvanized with inner strength. The theme matured, and paralleling this, a love story entered. Protecting wildlife and kayaking in such severe conditions, gave these boys extremely potent senses. It is this supernatural nature in the tale which allows the reader to experience the enchanted story in real time. Excitement, love, pain and joy, brings this metamorphic tale, which provokes with such diversity, together as it heads for an emotionally uplifting close. I didn't want it to end. Chris V.

Wow! What a story!!

With so many cliff-hanging moments in this adventure fantasy, and wild developments, digressions, whip-sawing transitions from the present to the past and back again, back and forth, shifting point-of -view focussing first on the present day teenaged hero and his extended family and then the spirit/ghost/legend of a long-lost Eskimo girl (and her remarkable pet, a rather intelligent penguin named Louie), the book reads like a stream-of-consciousness coming-of-age tale (reminding me of some surreal foreign novel I read in school ages ago?) pitting the good and noble native cultures and traditions against the "civilized" hunters. The words tumble on to the page with passion, evoking sorrow, pain, and happiness - and sometimes wit, as when the "golf ball machine" rained down hailstones, and I felt like running for cover and simultaneously reading on to see what could possibly happen next.... What a ride! This would make a great movie!

Check this out!!

Excellent read! I really enjoyed this book so very much. The typical beginning of a mother and two toddlers opening the story in conversation is a clincher. The main character, Geoff, lives in a world like any other boy; never mind things are familiar. His life is anything but normal. The author, Bradley Stewart has really captured my imagination with his innovative writing characteristics. I love when a book carries you away to thoughts and places in your own mind that aren't visited often enough, and Kayak Reef certainly does so! This heartfelt tale is full of adventure and fantasy. I hope you and your family enjoy it as much as I did!

Enchanting

This book is relevant to what is happening to the wildlife on our planet. It is very spiritual and life changing. It's more than an adventure, a mystery or a romance it keeps the reader rivetet with twists and turns. In the end of this book good prevails over evil.

creative dad

By Heidi My dad, author of Kayak Reef, shows a creative sense of plot and suspense which twists through this mystery like a serpent.