Hannah Valdeabella từ Perumagoundampatti, Tamil Nadu , India

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05/17/2024

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2019-05-12 13:31

Từ Vựng Tiếng Pháp - Tái bản 2003 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Wendy Bourbon

I loved this book! The Gamble of the Godless begins when a lone survivor of the Emperor’s army makes a midnight visit to our hero Avin’s farm. He tells the frightening tale of an unprecedented ambush by an army of wolves who have crossed the mountains. Sixteen hundred soldiers, brutally massacred. When the news reaches the human cities men are called to muster for a counter attack on the great wolf cities Alpha & Gamma. Avin’s older brother rushes ahead of the army looking for payback… but we soon learn that the wolves were not responsible. Someone is working hard start a war between this world’s two greatest military forces – wolves and men. Avin and his new friends find themselves on a quest to figure out who is behind the plot, locate Avin’s brother before he gets himself killed and stop a war that will leave all the human kingdoms & animal territories vulnerable. This is a fantasy novel, and we all know fantasy plots follow a formula. Harry Potter or George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice & Fire – strip them down and the difference between the two series is negligable. Bad guys intent on world domination; shadowy armies forming in the North/East/West/South; a courageous band of heroes rushing to save the day. Authors like Tolkien and Martin go for a more epic scope (usually accomplished by adding more characters) but the fundamentals of the storyline always remain the same. That’s how it should be. Because fantasy novels are character driven. David Maine has created a wonderful cast of characters and a elaborately detailed world. Avin the farm boy, Ax the soldier and Jocen the one armed sorcerer might not be all that unusual. But add a brave little owl, a cheetah in search of her next chuya grass fix, a horse and a raccoon working for Equine Intelligence – and things quickly get interesting. Their journey will take them from the great wolf cities of Alpha and Gamma, into the underground serpent city known as the Net, across Cheetah Run ruled by the Feline Sisterhood and eventually to the Barrens… where the mysterious Godless and their army waits. Each species of animal has its own dialect – wolves speak in metaphors, apes can only use the present tense, cats refer to themselves in the third person. Their cities are distinctive and a large portion of The Gamble of the Godless is spent on world-building. All these establishing scenes can become tedious in the hands of a less skilled writer, but Maine does such a good job I found myself glued to the page. I read this book, cover to cover, in two 3-hour sittings. If Book 2 were available, I’d have downloaded it immediately and kept on reading.

2019-05-12 15:31

Khi Hơi Thở Hóa Thinh Không Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Paul Kalanithi

The Imperfectionists is another successful novel-in-short stories, this one set at the headquarters of an international English-language newspaper based in Rome. The setting itself provides more than enough fodder for the series of dynamic, character-driven, compelling stories that populate the novel--from the powerful family that owns the paper to the editors, reporters, and even readers who keep it going--in good times and bad--over the decades. Rachman pulls these vastly different stories together by interweaving them with blurbs that describe the history of the paper, from its earliest conception in the 1950s up until more recent years. Thus, the arch of the novel transcends the individual characters to tell the story of the rise and fall of a modern newspaper over the course of five tumultuous decades. Everything begins and ends at the newspaper headquarters on Corso Vittorio, and the details that Rachman uses to bring the newsroom to life--from the evolving technology to the stained rug--tell its story quite vividly. Rome becomes a romantic, gritty backdrop to the drama, politics, and personal successes and failures of the individual characters, but never upstages them. It is the quirky and eccentric characters, in fact, that compel the reader to move quickly from story to story, wondering which of the background characters from previous stories will take center stage in the next one, and what secrets of his or her love life, professional life, or innermost fears and desires will be revealed.

Người đọc Hannah Valdeabella từ Perumagoundampatti, Tamil Nadu , India

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.