Taha Hussien từ Montmartin-sur-Mer, France

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05/06/2024

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2019-07-22 20:30

Ông Già Và Biển Cả - Tái bản 25/06/2014 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Ernest Hemingway

Debut FBI Special Agent Lucas Vasco has been working undercover to find evidence to bring down the mobster Joey Silvano. But just as he finds an opportunity to go through Silvano's office he hears voices outside the room and escapes by diving out the window. Unfortunately he's been seen, his getaway car takes a bullet to one of the tyres and he's done-in his ankle. Luckily for Luc, there's a car stalled at the traffic lights. Katie McCabe found her fiance with another woman. Six months and a job later, she still hasn't moved on. When her car stalls at the lights and a dark-haired stranger dives into the front seat and bullets start flying she's got no choice but to gun it out of there. After coming to a dead end in a quarry Katie is forced to defend herself against Frankie Silvano, Joey's son. With the quick arrival of the police Frankie is arrested. He's never been collared before - no arrests, no warrants and he's not taking it very well. He's got revenge on his mind and Katie in his sights. Author Betsy Horvath writes with a really good sense of humour. The plot, the prose, the main characters were great. But what lifted this above your average romantic suspense was the really funny situations and dialogue. (I've always loved Zorro. Now I have another reason to smile when I think of him). If you're overly sensitive to the f-bomb. Beware. It's used a lot. Sometimes I think its use can be appropriate. As for instance when Joey or Frankie use it every second word. It just sounds exactly how a mobster would talk. But when every man and his dog uses it, then it's overdone and loses its impact. There was a sub-plot involving Katie's parents. It seemed unnecessary, unless of course this book is the first in a series. I did check the author's website and though there is no mention of a follow-up, I imagine there will be since there is at least another story here with Katie's foster sister Melanie and Justin, a former partner of Luc's in the FBI. Hold Me is a very good debut, a recommended read for those who enjoy their romantic suspense with a side-serving of humour. ARC courtesy of Carina Press via NetGalley

2019-07-22 23:30

Một Tiểu Thuyết Pháp Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Frédéric Beigbeder

Lark lives in a pretty crazy world. Apparently to sustain the energy needed to run this world they harvest children. Creepy right? Each person contains some magic and there is a ceremony where a group of children are chosen to be harvested. It’s an honor to be chosen. After you’re harvested you get to join the world of adults and be assigned a job. (Doesn’t sound all that much fun to me!) Lark is reaching the ripe old age of 16 and yet she still hasn’t been chosen to be harvested. She’s starting to get a complex. She’s devastated when she discovers that she didn’t make the list once again. Then mysteriously she is chosen. And being harvested isn’t exactly what it’s cracked up to be and Lark ends up escaping with barely her life in tact. She’s on a journey to discover what she is and find the Iron Woods. I’ve got to admit I was a little confused at the beginning of this book. But I find that happening to me frequently when I’m reading about a new world, so I try not to get detoured by that. I had some ups and downs the first half of the novel. Once Lark gets chosen and in the process of the harvesting, there was some crazy things going on. Then once she escapes, I got a bit disinterested. I was still a little confused at the pockets of magic and what exactly was going on. Also, Lark was alone, so it got a bit tedious for me. Thankfully Nix and then not long after that Oren show up. I was back in the game at this point and it kept going till the end. I loved Lark and Oren. And I totally did not see that “thing” coming. You’ll know what I’m talking about. Totally threw me for a freaggin loop there. I was so distracted by this crazy world and Lark trying to navigate everything around her that I was totally blindsided. I liked the world building, but I would have liked to know more of the “why” of it all. What was the war exactly and why did happen? Maybe we’ll find the answers to that later on in other installments of the series? Even though I had initial reservations, I ended up devouring this book. The writing was superb, the characters were complex and well thought out and the story was just so intense! I am ready for more. I really want to meet Basil. This MUST happen! Sci-fi, fantasy, maybe a little dystopian elements thrown in there and some magic, Skylark has it all.

Người đọc Taha Hussien từ Montmartin-sur-Mer, France

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.