Gerardo D từ Simbo, Tanzania

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11/05/2024

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2018-12-20 12:31

Chú Thoòng - Tập 13 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Vương Trạch

This book was just TOO CUTE! I didn’t think I’d like this one at all—I thought it would be overly sentimental chick lit.I needn’t have worried! This was good. A quiet magical realism and a bit of a murder mystery (kinda; that's really more of a subplot). But really it's a romance. It's pretty much pure fluff, but that was exactly what I needed and it was utterly satisfying fluff. It would be really easy for Allen to have descended to pulp novel-level stereotypical characters. But, somehow, even though they fit “types” the characters felt whole. Willa, the ex-bad girl (well, not really bad, just a prankster with a bad spending habit) who, after her father’s death feels ashamed of disappointing him (she thinks! Of course, he was actually proud of her but for some reason never tells her) so returns to town and tries to be as normal and as good a citizen as possible. She, of course, has to learn to open up a little more and let a touch of her wild child loose. And Paxton, the too-good girl, a perfectionist with a controlling mama and an inability to stand up for herself. She, of course, also has to learn to let go and be true to herself. I did love that Paxton was the rich, popular girl who was never a mean girl. She just happened to be wealthy and so involved that she was naturally popular. In a lesser story, Paxton would’ve bullied Willa in high school or been a snob or something. Instead, they just had some honest misunderstandings of how they felt about each other and also just never were in the same social circles. Colin was a solid love interest for Willa—a normal guy who weirds Willa out by putting her high school self on a pedestal and who runs away from dealing with his family’s perceived expectations for his life instead of staying in town to work them out. I thought it was funny that Willa kept trying to avoid him, but he was sweetly (and not overbearingly!) persistent. That sentence sounds weird and stalkerish...but it wasn’t! My heart really belongs to Sebastian, though. Unfortunately, his storyline is pretty spoiler-ish, so that is all going to be spoiler tagged. (view spoiler)

2018-12-20 17:31

Văn Học Cổ Điển - Robinson Crusoe Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Daniel Defoe

This is the first time I read a book and can honestly say that my favorite character is the house. In this case, that's not an insult - the homestead of the Bishops, a long line of New England witches, is an excellent character; cranky, opinionated, prone to hiding things and given to occasionally sprouting entirely new rooms when it expects guests, any scene that involves the Bishop house is a winner. I wish I could say I liked the rest of the book as much as I loved the house (although I suppose that's a high bar). The story follows Diana Bishop, a researcher/professor who has rejected her witch lineage after the brutal murder of her parents when she was young. Traveling to Oxford to continue her work on alchemy, she calls forth a manuscript that has been lost for hundreds of years, and which proves to be of great importance to the three races of magical creatures that live amongst humans. Witches and Vampires are all over the place these days, and there is much to this world that feels fresh and newly drawn, especially in the three magical types of creatures and their relationship to humans (I love the details like the hyper-creativity of the demons, and the fact that most vampires are academics or scientists - because really, if you were immortal, you probably would go back to school!). I'm also looking forward to deepening the mythology of things like the relationship of alchemy to witchcraft and the creation of magical creatures that is foreshadowed for the next books. The only thing that didn't feel fresh to me about this was the romance. Matthew, the handsome vampire, doesn't quite feel as interesting as he should, and Diana, the spunky witch protagonist, falls into the unfortunate trap of starting out stubborn and independant, and then spending a huge amount of time wounded and sleeping all the time. Perhaps it was just that their eventual coming together felt so obvious that anticipating its outcoming wasn't suspenseful, or perhaps I'm just wary of another romance in which a human who is constantly wounded falls madly in love with a vampire who spends the night watching her sleep (also, and a slight spoiler alert, but can we PLEASE have a normal, planned wedding in one of these books?! What IS it about these weird vampire/human non-weddings?!). But caveats aside, I will definitely be looking forward to more in this series.

Người đọc Gerardo D từ Simbo, Tanzania

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.