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Sách được viết bởi Bởi:
It's what we have to work with. A good and necessary tool, but can always use improvement.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Lorenzo Angeloni
Should I feel guilty that while I love this book, I can count three film versions that I love more? (don't discount the bollywood Bride and Prejudice, you'll love the snake dance).
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Kiya
Delicious little mystery
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Đình Tú
This is a really good book.
2010 Rainbow Awards Honorable Mention (5* from at least 1 judge)
Seventeen-year-old Princess Alera of Hytanica has one duty, to marry a suitable heir to the king, but the man her father has chosen is arrogant and intolerable. But no other men she's interested in present themselves - at least, until an intruder from their enemy kingdom is captured. Her secret meetings with Narian, however, prove to be about more than just romance as he reveals a dark legacy surrounding their births. Now, I'm a fan of romance in general, and I don't mind the whole plot being about that if that's what the book is about, but one of my biggest pet peeves is when a romantic subplot takes over the whole book. Unfortunately, this was the case with LEGACY. Not only was there too much romance and too little about the actual legacy, I also felt the romance with Narian progressed way too fast. It was sweet to read about, but Cayla Kluver sort of skipped over the whole part where they fall in love and went straight to actual love. I also found that overall the book couldn't really keep my attention too well. There were definitely places where I was absorbed in the story to the point where I didn't pay much attention to my surroundings, but those were few and far between, and it was hard to get into a spot where I could fall easily into the words. For much of the novel, I was somewhat bored and counting down pages - or percent, as it were, since I was on my Kindle - to the end. I wanted to like this book, and it did have good parts. Alera, although somewhat naive and occasionally annoying, was mostly a strong character, and there were parts here and there where I had to keep turning pages. The romance was also quite well-written, but it went too fast and consumed too much of the novel. Additionally, the ending was far from my favorite. All in all, LEGACY was an okay book, but only something I would recommend to die-hard fans of romance in fantasy.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Shinobu Ohtaka
Great detective, murder mystery read. Plus it takes place in Knoxville, TN so it's cool.
I'm among those who don't see the appeal here. I picked it up and read on the advice of a commentator I respect who mentioned it favorably in a piece he wrote. But the actual read was less than satisfying. The worldview at the "foundation" of the book is suspect at best (All of history is mechanistically programmed and therefore can be mathematically predicted? Come on, people.) But I could have lived with that disagreement if the pacing and character development had been better. As it was, it was hard to connect with characters and just when one maybe started to do so, that episode ended and you had to switch to another. And where were all the females? In this first book, anyway, there was only one female character I can remember, and her portrayal was starkly negative.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Lê Hữu Huy
It was a dark and stormy night. * * * "Do you think things always have an explanation?" "Yes. I believe that they do. But I think that with our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations. But you see, Meg, just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist." "I like to understand things," Meg said. * * * What could there be about a shadow that was so terrible that she knew that there had never been before or ever would be again, anything that would chill her with a fear that was beyond shuddering, beyond crying or screaming, beyond the possibility of comfort? * * * "Annd yyou kknoww tthatt yyou wwill nnott ssucceeedd?" "There's nothing left except to try." * * * From Madeleine L'Engle's Newberry Medal acceptance speech, "The Expanding Universe" (August 1963): A writer of fantasy, of fairy tale, or myth must inevitably discover that he is not writing out of his own knowledge or experience, but out of something both deeper and wider. I think that fantasy must possess the author and simply use him.
I started out really enjoying this story but felt like the middle was a little slow. I felt like the author spent too much time dragging out Avielle's fears and self doubt although I could see that time was well spent building up the secondary characters. It seemed like there was a lot of potential for a monumental climax and ending but then it failed to deliver. It left me wondering if she's planning on writing a second book or making this into a series. I see a lot of potential in the story but if it was intended as a stand alone book I wouldn't recommend it.
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.