Akshay Lahoti từ Zykova Gopa, Arkhangelskaya oblast', Russia

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05/18/2024

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2020-01-18 17:31

Bức Thư Bị Lãng Quên (Tái Bản 2017) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Cố Tây Tước

Fantasy. At the University of the Archangels and St. John The Divine, the angels are a little more real than Katherine Sweeney Cassidy ever expected. Her first day of classes, she answers a question that maybe she shouldn't have and suddenly it's like she's stepped into a whole different world. Eighteen years ago, this was one of my favorite books. I could see it had problems; I just didn't care. I loved the hot, mysterious atmosphere of the fake university with its fake secret society, plopped down in a D.C. that had no room for it. I loved its timelessness, the promise of destiny, Sweeney's yearning for her new, beautiful friends. It pushed my buttons. I love the story about the normal girl who gets pulled into a world beyond her understanding, and so I ignored the overly poetic mystical prose. I ignored the fact that Sweeney's first person narrative was constantly interrupted by chapters in clumsy third person omniscient. And I especially ignored that Dylan, and, fine, Sweeney herself, seemed to be lacking all but the most basic of personalities. This time through I couldn't ignore those things. The end still got me in that soft, wish fulfillment place, but the rest was just messily overwrought and confusing. Way too much pretentious mystical detail and repetitive worshipful chanting that I totally skipped over, eyes rolling, tongue slightly sticking out. It just, the whole thing seems unlikely. Why are we bringing back this female goddess if she's just going to destroy the world? What's the plan there? And Sweeney—she can tell me that she turned her heart off after that first disastrous month of college, but that makes for an empty, boring adult, and a bland narrator. Bottom line: Mysterious happenings. Ancient gods. The swampy heat of Washington, D.C. Prose so purple it's magenta. Lots of queer characters. Some sexy stuff. Lots of blood and murder. At least one scene that's genuinely spooky. But the story has a heavy touch, and its sense of mystery doesn't last long. Mainly because of all the over-explaining. Three stars. I loved it once. This time it was only okay.

Người đọc Akshay Lahoti từ Zykova Gopa, Arkhangelskaya oblast', Russia

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.