Wendy Gillissen
Author of Curse of the Tahiéra
Works by Wendy Gillissen
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- Legal name
- Gillissen, Barbara Gwendolyn
- Other names
- Gillissen, Wendy
- Birthdate
- 1969-01-05
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- Netherlands
- Places of residence
- Delft, Netherlands
- Education
- University of Leiden
- Occupations
- psychologist
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past life regression therapist - Organizations
- OBOD
- Short biography
- Wendy Gillissen is a psychologist, past life regression therapist and author in the Netherlands.
In 2009 her debut novel, 'Curse of the Tahiéra' was published and won three awards for independent authors.
Wendy lives and works in Delft, the Netherlands.
In June 2020 the sequel to her début was published: The Search for Tzanáta. Wendy is currently working on 'The Lost Lands', part three of the ongoing Tahiéra series.
In her spare time Wendy plays the Celtic harp.
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- Works
- 4
- Members
- 14
- Popularity
- #739,559
- Rating
- 4.1
- Reviews
- 5
- ISBNs
- 3
- Languages
- 1
The story begins with how Rom and Yldich meet. Which is to say, Rom gets into a bloody fight and then meets Yldich while he's recovering and not listening to common sense (which seems to be a thing he does frequently). Yldich is older then Rom, but is the more laid back one. The one who isn't worrying so much about this or that not happening. Rom is rather intense, focusing so keenly on his dreams and what they mean that it consumes him at times. They come from two different races, but don't have trouble communicating.
Occasionally the narrative was a little stiff, but this was translated from another language and even the best translations fall short of the mark. It's often hard to capture the same lyrical quality or tone that an author uses in their original language when translating to English. I see the problem often when reading manga or translated japanese novels--you can't translate it word for word (due to differences in grammar and puncuation) and if you instead translate with the 'gist' of the intent you'll likely miss important clues without even realizing it.
The climax was in fact thrilling. Rom's journey as he connected the pieces in his dreams of the past to the now of the present came together and the choices made left me feeling satisfied. Not fully, I still have a great urge to read the sequel, The Search for Tzanata (due out this autumn according to the author's website) however.… (more)