Dennis Song từ Doroshivka, Vinnyts'ka oblast, Ukraine

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11/05/2024

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2019-04-04 22:30

The Shadow in the North (A Sally Lockhart Mystery) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Philip Pullman

Oh dear, what to say about this book? I will start with one minor and one major quibble that I had with it. 1. American authors who want to set their books in England, including historical England really ought to get British editors to read their works before publication. There were quite a few Americanisms that slipped in and could have easily been resolved. Otherwise this book might have been set in New England at the same time period with much the same effect. I was surprised no one in the book mentioned the fact that there were no wolves in England by the 1900s. 2. The ending was terribly unsatisfying. The story built up to the 'Mysterious Howling' and the question of who set the Children up in the climactic scene, but do we find out? No! There is no resolution at all. It feels like there are five or six chapters missing. If the author didn't want to answer the mystery in book 1, then why name it in the title? Very frustrating. That aside, I gave this book four stars because of Miss Penelope Lumley. I absolutely adored her. I could read twenty books in this series just for Penelope. Her mix of common sense and compassion, pluck and caution was so well balanced that I could relate to her immediately. She draws on the best of literary governesses without feeling like a pastiche. Her love for pony stories and poetry gave her an underlying sweetness that seemed in place with her being 15 years old. I truly enjoyed this book thanks to Penelope.

2019-04-05 04:30

Bí Quyết Của Thành Công (Tái Bản 2016) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: David Niven, Ph.D

This is the second in the series by Kimberly Derting (The Body Finder being the first and my review for that can be found here) This is a major warning for spoilers for the 1st book in this review but it IS SPOILER FREE for this book. So we know that Violet is special and not just because she's got a talent at school or generally well liked. She can sense the dead but not just anything that has died; the dead animals and people that have suffered in their death. Murder victims, suicides, road accidents and this isn't an easy gift to bear when you're a teenage girl that is trying to make it through high school without anyone else finding out your secret. Violet and Jay are still very much blissfully in love when we meet them again in Desires of the Dead which I'm SO happy about because I love Jay and I love those two together. In the last book I was getting actual achey pains in my chest when it was all 'will they; won't they'. That rarely happens to me so it's a general sign of great writing and I just love how Kimberly Derting builds her characters and the sense of dread and danger through out her books. In the 1st Body Finder book we had a serial killer on the loose and this time its the death of the past that is haunting the present. It's forcing Violet to keep secrets to those she loves and risking exposing and revealing her secret to those she doesn't know. She has to decide if telling people the truth about her gift is worth the risk or will it just put them into harms way. With two new kids at school, one of which is best buds with Jay, Violet has to get used to new people in her life while she's also being stalked by a mystery person leaving her on edge. I think I loved the characters and how they developed in this book more in this book than the last. Violet and Jay's relationship was EPIC. They are just so cute together and a big high five for role reversal (Violet very much wants "things" to progress quicker than Jay does). Jay is her knight in armour but Violet isn't a damsel in distress; she can fight her own battles and this can cause some friction between them but I kind of like that it's not perfect 24/7. I did wish that the plot had a few more twists and turns like the 1st book which had me doing the awkward gasping in public when you get TOO into a book on the train but it was still full of questions and that lurking danger like The Body Finder; just wanted more. I've already got The Last Echo, the 3rd book, on my TBR and it's calling me like one of Violet's death echo signals.

Người đọc Dennis Song từ Doroshivka, Vinnyts'ka oblast, Ukraine

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.