Nep Cardenas từ Wietszyce, Poland

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Nep Cardenas Sách lại (10)

2018-09-14 19:30

Kiêu Hãnh Và Định Kiến Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Jane Austen

I liked this book, especially as it took place down under. Take an almost perfect teenage girl and have her notice a bumbling but talented artistic boy and combine them with time-travel, ESP, and medieval witchcraft and lore. The result is a Julian Thompson cast in a Margaret Mahy plot. There is, no doubt, an audience for fantasy that seems grounded in this contemporary reality of high school and single-parent households. Yet Dylan's artistic abilities and Juniper's telepathic powers never take on reality. The time traveling that takes the daring young woman into medieval times and the visions that she sends her friend to sketch never quiver or seem subject to any human failings. Even the trappings that could help readers buy into the fantasy, such as Juniper's completely medieval room, seem artificial. Real life, on the other hand is very hard--so difficult that breezy competent Juniper panics just crossing a shallow ford, and fails to realize that her popular boyfriend is a jerk--until he almost kills her. Dylan's home life is such a disaster that readers will wonder where he gets the energy to receive Juniper's mental images of another time and to render his perfect drawings. Jordan's fiery ending pulls together threads of story and, without dodging or prettifying, provides that climax to which all the earlier suspense has been leading. This is the best part of the book, and, while melodramatic, it has a genuineness and excitement that satisfies. It almost makes the book worthwhile. But not quite. --Carol A. Edwards, Buckham Memorial Library, Faribault, MN

Người đọc Nep Cardenas từ Wietszyce, Poland

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.