劳 囿业 từ Barot, Haryana , India

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2019-10-10 19:31

Chỉ Có Thể Là Yêu - Tái bản 05/12/2012 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Hân Như

Repost of my Amazon review (http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R3IQUP... I got this book as a Kindle edition through Goodreads. I've not read the previous book but this story manages to retell any missing bits - no idea how much this might annoy those who did know the #1 in the series. One point before I get to the review, if you've not read the book description above (** ie, on the Amazon.co.uk site), then don't, it contains serious spoilers. Without giving anything away, the story concerns Alice, a museum curator, her daughter Margaret, who shares and surpasses her mother's 'seer' abilities, and Nik, Alice's partner, the resident skeptic. Their story happens in 'present' time. It is interwoven with the 'past' story of Ned, another 'seer', who escapes his evil mother's clutches as a child and grows up trying to make sense of his gift/curse. The supernatural aspects of the story are taken from the Australian Aboriginal Dreaming mythology. First the supernatural. I am Australian and did find it a little off-putting to see an American using the Aboriginal mythology in her story but was prepared to be accepting. But the mythology did not ring true. I'm no expert but, although the author uses aspects of the Dreamtime, it seems to include bits of different group stories (based on my Wikipedia and internet browsings) and ascribes to the creatures only one dimensional features of the old ones' natures. Basically, it seemed more a mixing of simplistic dreamtime stories with movie horror tales than of features of aboriginal law. The story is well told and hooked me in after only the first couple of chapters. The characters are engaging and you care about them. The problem is that this reads too much like an in-between book. It explains bits of the previous book and the overall history and sets things up for the next but too little happens to the characters in the present day story and the one from the past, while playing out in an exciting way, is not enough to hold the book together. There is also a major disconnect between the story of Alice's mother in the past and her character as Alice knows it. And the way the book ends, I doubt this will get resolved. It was this final disconnect which dropped my rating from 4 to 3 stars.

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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.