Benny Zhao từ San Tha, Na Noi District, Nan, Thailand

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11/24/2024

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Benny Zhao Sách lại (10)

2018-05-15 05:30

Bách Khoa Toàn Thư Cho Bé - Động Vật Biển Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Phùng Duy Hưng

This book was thoroughly enjoyable! As my first, but certainly not last, foray into the Steampunk genre, I was a tad nervous. Plus, it's not just Steampunk but Paranormal Steampunk with vampires and werewolves and ghosts (oh, my!). But I never found the individual elements that were thrown together and blended at high speed distracting. Rather they compliment one another surprisingly well! Alexia is a wonderful romantic heroine who has no expectation or inclination toward romance or love due to the fact that she's a little older than the girls about her (firmly on the shelf at 25, thank you very much). In fact, all she seems to want to get her hands on is a nice serving of tea and biscuits. But fate, and her preternatural (read Soulless) status, seem to thwart her at every turn. That and the fact that her family are woefully lacking in the brains department are enough to make any young lady crabby (which she is, much to the reader's delight). Then add into the mix that her favorite, verbal sparing partner (a peer of the realm AND a werewolf) has begun to act strangely around her and you can see why Alexia is driven to distraction. And then, of course, there's the fact that Alexia finds herself embroiled in a mystery after inadvertently killing a vampire and as she unravels it, she finds herself drawn more and more to Lord Maccon (the aforementioned werewolf/snark target). But she doesn't have much time to contemplate what her emotions for the man may be since vampires and werewolves are disappearing and things just get progressively more complex. I loved the interplay between Alexia and Lord Maccon. I loved the twisted historical setting. And I adored the side characters, from Alexia's best friend, Ivy, and her spectacularly horrid hats, to her outrageously gay vampire friend, Lord Akeldama. This read was fantastic and I'm definitely looking forward to reading the remaining books in the series. But I still don't get what was up with the octopuses....

Người đọc Benny Zhao từ San Tha, Na Noi District, Nan, Thailand

Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.