Andrey Gushchyn từ Panteleimonivka, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine

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05/17/2024

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2019-04-25 00:30

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M.J. Putney’s YA debut takes place in regency England where there magic in the world which is commonly used by the lower classes but is shunned by the elite and upper class. When Lady Victoria Mansfield accidentally reveals her powers, her father is quick to protect the family reputation and sends her off to Lackland Abbey, a reform school for privileged children. There they learn to suppress their magical abilities and hopefully one day be able to return to their families. The reason Tory’s powers were exposed in the first place was because she did something very heroic and it ended up saving a life. The result was disappointment and disgust from her father, friends and neighbours and also society but she doesn’t regret it one bit. It really shows what kind of character she is--strong, brave and self-sacrificing. Cynthia who is Tory’s roommate is pretty much the opposite. They get off on the wrong foot but by the end there’s a big turnaround with her character. Two characters that I wanted to more of was Elspeth and Allarde. Elspeth Tory become friends at Lackland and she was present through a lot of the story but her character wasn’t a big focus and mostly left in the background. There is an eventual romance between Tori and Allarde. The first time they’re introduced there’s a spark between the two and an instant connection. My problem was that there wasn’t enough interaction between the two until the later half of the book so the romance didn’t feel believable to me and I just wasn’t feeling it. With the title of “Dark Mirror” and also having a mirror on the cover I knew the mirror would be an important object in the story. It’s a time travelling story but instead travelling back in time Tory and some of her fellow students are able to travel to the future and help England in the time of WWII. Tory and her friends do manage to use their magic to help out and by the end most of the loose ends are tied up so I’m curious to see where M.J. Putney will take the story in the next book as it is the first book in a series.

2019-04-25 01:30

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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Keith D. Harrell

I have to say that this book just wasn’t for me. There appear to be a lot of people who did like it, but I found it dry, with very little actually occurring. The synopsis on Goodreads made me think it was mostly about summer love and growing up, but I found the book to have a very different feel from all of that. I didn’t connect at ALL with any of the characters, which is a huge problem for someone like me who reads for character. Chase just didn’t come alive as a character for me. I didn’t understand him or any of his motivations. To me it felt like I was looking in through a window, observing these people, yet not really having a clue what they were actually saying. It also disturbed me that Claudia was so sexualized at such a young age. Right from the beginning I wondered why Shannon, a 15 year old boy, would be obsessed with an 11 year old girl. At that age four years is a huge difference. It just felt dirty and strange. The format of the book was also prohibitive to my enjoyment of it. Because the book takes you through four summers, you’re only able to get brief glimpses of time, but never actually the whole story. I wasn’t able to connect to the characters or feel anything about the plot, because it was all very patchy. Finally, there’s the whole Camus obsession. To be brutally honest, it made me want to smash my head into a wall. Who quotes philosophy like that? It was so strange to read about teenagers quoting Camus verbatim like that. I could understand a quote here and there, but no, it was full, lengthy passages that they somehow knew off the top of their heads. It didn’t feel realistic at all, and it was also pretentious and boring, and after a while I skipped over all the passages. I definitely recommend that you check out all of the positive reviews of this one. Who knows, maybe this will be a book for you. Perhaps it was just too literary for my taste, but I couldn’t make sense of most of it, and I really didn't enjoy it at all. I'm giving it a two because I could see glimpses of redeeming qualities in a couple of the characters, and because the writing was definitely strong.

Người đọc Andrey Gushchyn từ Panteleimonivka, Donetsk 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.