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Kathleen Flanagan Rollins taught composition and literature at Mott College in Flint, Michigan and developed a decades-long fascination with early explorers in the Western Hemisphere. Travels in Europe, Africa, Australia, and the Americas, especially ancient sites in Mexico and Guatemala, provided the inspiration for the Misfits and Heroes series of novels.
Her blog at http://misfitsandheroes.wordpress.com provides additional information about the archeological research used in writing the books.
Reviewed by Lee Ashford for Readers' Favorite
A Meeting of Clans by Kathleen Flanagan Rollins intrigued me all the way through. This fictional fantasy takes place 14,000 years ago and explores the migration of a small group of people who, for one reason or another, either have been exiled from their homeland, or have elected to leave home and explore what may lie beyond the sea. Mostly island people, the first clan we meet has survived a long and uncertain voyage into the unknown, making landfall in southern Mexico. The reader virtually becomes one of the clan as the handful of survivors struggles to adapt to their new home. Among the unexpected challenges they face is evidence of another clan nearby, apparently with less than honorable intentions toward the newcomers. To their surprise and reluctant acceptance, another group of recent arrivals with friendlier objectives comes into their midst, in time to successfully fight off their attackers. The two clans soon develop a trading relationship between their settlements.
A Meeting of Clans is the third novel in the author’s Misfits and Heroes series. Each of the previous stories focuses on a different group of refugees who came to the southern part of Mexico during the last Ice Age. The book is very well written. Although fiction, the cultural nuances described are readily believable, as the author is a retired professor of English Literature and Composition, with a personal fascination for the early settlers of North and South America. This interest persuaded her to visit ancient sites in Guatemala and Mexico, further whetting her appetite for writing fiction about those earliest Americans. Her grammar, spelling and general composition are impeccable, as one might expect from an English professor, but her interest in the people who began populating the Americas during the last Ice Age has provided her with exceptional fodder for an excellent series of captivating stories. Anyone interested in the early settlements of the Americas will thoroughly enjoy A Meeting of Clans. I’ll even stick out my neck a bit and suggest that the first two novels in this series, as well as the upcoming fourth novel, will all make excellent reading as well.
