Richard Rajan từ Shankar Gachhi, West Bengal , India

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05/02/2024

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2018-05-03 21:31

Dạ Khúc - Năm Câu Chuyện Về Âm Nhạc Và Đêm Buông Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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** spoiler alert ** this is not what I expected from this book at all. &why is hawkforte in here? wasn’t that in Dream of Me? oh boy, this girl has powers too. the speech is sometimes modern. I noticed very soon in here that this book was wordy. in other words, it’s a tad boring to read. seeing too many words on the page makes you wanna skim&scan. I was instantly disappointed that he sounded just like an Englishman, and had been getting with Englishwomen, particularly that stupid widow. ‘”you cannot possibly expect me to just sit back &do nothing. I have waited far2long &risked too much 2bear that.” the moment the words were uttered she knew she had made a mistake.’ she didn’t say anything wrong. certainly not enough 4him to come striding across the room&grab her. prince had an estranged wife. married someone else? what! way to hit us with that surprise! freckles fade in that short of a time period?! mine haven’t faded in almost 20 years, much less in one trip on the ocean. this book can be so confusing at times. voice saing Joanna and daughter while she’s in the ocean, but they don’t really explain it. I mean obviously her parents are saying “daughter” but who’s saying Joanna, and better yet how is it possible? is she imagining it or what? I don’t like how the author switches from one character’s perspective to another with no warning. that can also be confusing. I get that the author wants characters to bond, but Kassandra being curious/welcoming/nice to what she thinks is her brother’s concubine is unrealistic and stupid and just wrong. who would do that? his sister has powers too. my goodness. im not buying that he’s attracted to her &has to stay away from her because he wants her. ‘the idea of her being sad or afraid or in want caused something inside him2twist painfully.’ scoff! ‘but even lionesses had bad moments.’ oh boy this crap is annoying. he’s holding her hand when shes sleping &when he lets go, she grabs onto it. ‘4this woman, he wud sit thru the remaining hours of the night, heedless of his own needs,&simply hold her hand. rather2his surprise,that was enough.4now.’ ‘sida made a small sound suspiciously like a snicker but 1 quick, hard glance from Joanna left the woman looking abashed. “I must speak w/prince alexandros,” joana sed again, this time very firmly. she raised her head as she spoke&looked straight at Kassandra.’ way2 act rude. who do u think u r? ur playing the role of concubine. prinny kept being mentioned&I had no idea who it was. ‘whippet body.’ I wanna know 1 person who knows what that means. simply finding something/someone &being able to see&feel what they’re seeing/feeling are too very different things. “please to wait 4 prince alexandros 2take you.” that’s a weird way 2 say that. the 1st time they kissed/almost made love was random. which isn’t romantic. im not buying comments like these at all-‘he had known feminine beauty in many forms but nvr had loveliness moved him as it did now.’ or that she affected him like no other. im so tired of comments like that. it’s like they’re less believable the more I hear them. “you are…superb.” dumb&modern. she says earlier that she knew or at least thought she did, of what went on between a man&woman. then later with alex, she’s like “more…really?” why are we just now hearing of that memory of her parents over halfway through the book? ‘she smiled, country girl that she was.’ what does being from the country have to do with her smiling or what they’re doing? a razor &a hand towel. how modern-sounding. ‘he spoke very gently, his voice a caress. as implacable as all his caresses.’ calling him hector was in no way an insult, or saying “he died by it, because other, lesser men were not so noble.” that sounded like a compliment. the whole thing did. it should have been worded differently if you were shooting 4an insult. they talk in a shortened way throughout this book, which doesn’t sound accurate-“Figure out where Royce is.” you call yourself sensible but then say you plodded through muddy fields &birthed calves. you know how to sail? how would a lady know that?! the image of her sailing alone 2 that island was a stupid one. she should let the men handle it. she’s just getting n the way. “iota” and “bedazzled” has no place in a historic book. ‘they sounded like thunder but in fact they were very faint. &still some distance off.’ how is that possible for voices to sound like thunder, meaning they’re loud, and then faint. that’s a contradiction. sometimes the speech is modern&all wrong and it just jars you from the story, and other times josie is capable of writing such eloquent and well-spoken sentences that make it seem like we’re delving into a historic world. &other times the writing isn’t good-like when she thought they were bull-men. I actually had to go back&read that part. I was like oh no, there’s mystical creatures in here. &this sentence wasn’t good-‘the top of his head was coming off.’ I thought he was being beaten, not morphing into Rambo &wanting 2go on a killing spree. the writing is also confusing at times, too. –“of far more matter were the other 3.” im getting heartily sick of Joanna recalling hawkforte and comparing it to akora. “I wonder, back there n the cave, would u have taken ur turn or wud u have been unable?” that didn't sound like something Joanna would say. and it wasn't the best-sounding insult. ‘she was a hawkforte.” “she was of hawkforte.” what is so special about it?? ‘”can you swim?” the question was reasonable but it startled her all the same. so basic a part of her &yet he did not know it. she answered simple. “yes.”’ weird!! some stuff in here is so weird. when she goes to reach for his knife when he’s sleeping to cut their bound hands, and he suddenly wakens and clamps down on her hand, saying “joanna..” what did he think she was doing? did he really think she was about to kill him or something? and if so, saying “Joanna..” with trailing dots isn’t the appropriate response. also, this-‘for just an instant, he was tempted to refuse, to keep her tied close to him. an unworthy thought. an impossible wish. the deed done, he rose.’ that’s an example of how annoying/not good the writing can be in here. sometimes there were shorty choppy sentences and many cases of weird sentence structures and writing and they just don’t make for good writing. “talk up one side of the mountain and down the other” comment was wayy modern as is several other things in here. and the way she shortens sentences down is so modern. like she says “die first” instead of id rather die first. its all wrong. I hate how the author just skipped over Joanna leaving. I wanted his reaction or if he watched her go! the comment about “we get The Times” was also modern. what kind of name is Mme. Dupres?? I thought it was a typo at first. I was honestly disappointed with this book. I expected so much more. when I first read the description for this book a long time ago, I was so excited and interested in reading it. I thought it would be set in a mystical, enchanted world. and I thought it would be unlike other books. wrong! first of all, it started out in England. alex sounded just like an English lord. it also started off kind of boring. there were so many words on the page and I really felt like skimming some of it. I think his attraction to her came on kind of suddenly. I cant believe Litton mostly brushed over the romantic scenes. how disappointing! I hate when authors do that. it made the book not as good. also, where exactly are her &alex living? I thought they would be in Akora, but it seems like they mostly stay in England. overall, this wasn't very interesting, was on the boring side, and just a disappointment.

2018-05-03 22:31

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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Yoriko Tsutsui

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Người đọc Richard Rajan từ Shankar Gachhi, West Bengal , 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.