The Traiteur's Ring by Jeffrey WilsonMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
So this book came to me by way of the Goodreads FirstReads Giveaways. Yeah! Free book!
I kept looking at the title, and I just didn't get it because i was reading it as "traitor" and after getting into the book, i realized that "traiteur" is a cajun/creole way of saying a "seer" or someone who has a power or second vision or sight. That made a whole lot more sense.
Ben in the lead character, and he was born and raised in the cajun back-country by his Grammy, who was a seer of the area, she protected the area. Ben is a Navy Seal, and a protector in his own right, when he is confronted by an elderly seer in a village in Africa and the Seal's are fighting off Al Quaida. Ben isn't sure what to think, he doesn't recognize or want to recognize that part of his history, he has put all memories of life in the back country with his Grammy behind him and not thought of them except as crazy dreams. Now he has to confront them as real life and something that he has to deal with.
For being a story written about a group of men, which I really didn't think I would like or be able to relate to, it was really good, although I find that the lead, Ben has more trouble accepting the supernatural in the world than a female tends to do. It was still a good story and one that I found myself enjoying and having trouble putting down.
That all being said, I did have to go back and read the things written in the cajun tongue a couple of times and still not being sure I quite got what the author intended.
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