Rosemary Edghill
Autor(a) de Beyond World's End
About the Author
Rosemary Edghill was born long enough ago to have seen Classic Trek on its first outing and to remember that she once thought Spock Must Die! to be great literature. As she aged, she put aside her fond dreams of taking over for Batman when he retired, and returned to her first love, writing. Her mostrar mais first SF sale (as eluki bes shahar) was the Hellflower series, in which Damon Runyon meets Doc Smith over at the old Bester place. Between books and short stories in every genre but the Western (several dozen so far), she's held the usual selection of odd and part-time writer jobs, including bookstore clerk, secretary, beta tester for computer software, graphic designer, book illustrator, library clerk, and administrative assistant for a non-profit arts organization. She can truthfully state that she once killed vampires for a living, and that without any knowledge of medicine has illustrated half-a-dozen medical textbooks mostrar menos
Disambiguation Notice:
(eng) Rosemary Edghill is a pseudonym for eluki bes shahar.
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Obras de Rosemary Edghill
Rosemary Edghill 2 cópias
Riis Run 1 exemplar(es)
It's a Wonderful Life 1 exemplar(es)
The New Britomart [short story] 1 exemplar(es)
Spellbinder {short story} 1 exemplar(es)
Dreaming The God 1 exemplar(es)
Shadow Grail #4: Victories 1 exemplar(es)
Shadow Grail #3: Sacrifices 1 exemplar(es)
Catch Fire, Draw Flame (Short story) 1 exemplar(es)
The Sword of the North {short story} 1 exemplar(es)
Bitter Fruit 1 exemplar(es)
The Phaerie Bride 1 exemplar(es)
Bad Heir Day [short story] 1 exemplar(es)
The Mould of Form 1 exemplar(es)
Prince of Exiles 1 exemplar(es)
The Ever-after 1 exemplar(es)
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Conhecimento Comum
- Outros nomes
- Shahar, Eluki Bes
Edghill, Rosemary - Data de nascimento
- 1956-06
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Ocupação
- editor
writer
author - Relacionamentos
- Edghill, India (sister)
- Pequena biografia
- While this author has written romance, her primary genres are science fiction and fantasy. She has collaborated with Andre Norton and Mercedes Lackey
- Aviso de desambiguação
- Rosemary Edghill is a pseudonym for eluki bes shahar.
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- 3.6
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- ISBNs
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To center on Spirit's negativity for a moment; I fully understand and agree with a character who later on validates Spirit's grief and inability to move past that grief. Its been more or less implied by almost every character of importance to Spirit that she can't find closure for her grief so she is instead projecting her need to fill that hole in her life by being useful. The fact that she is right every single time is a bit more irritating.
We're not given a real understanding as to why her friends keep rocking back and forth on whether Spirit is crazy delusional or scarily accurate in her fears, its implied that the Oakhurst rings they have to wear have something to do with it, but that's about it. So its frustrating as a reader to hear Spirit try to discuss reasonable fears, with justified reasoning and proof to back it up in some cases, and to have her friends say 'Oh Spirit get over yourself and try not to make everything about you.'. Every. Single. Time. It becomes a predictable pattern as Spirit voices a concern, in increasing measures of urgency, her friends pooh-pooh it at first telling her to calm down, Spirit wonders if she's going insane, something occurs and ta-da! Her friends all come streaming back to apologize. This happens at least three times.
So maybe Spirit overall negative attitude is understandable, just doesn't make it easier to read. She expends more energy worried that her friends aren't more worried then she does proactively fighting what has her so afraid. When she finally realizes this its almost too late to actually do very much but contain the situation enough so no one else gets hurts.
Meanwhile the book itself jumps around a bit in terms of pacing. Without knowing the particulars of the plotting process I'm left to wonder if they meant for this book to be two separate editions or just didn't realize how much they were trying to pack into the page length. We find out more about the ones who may have been behind the Wild Hunt in the first book, Legacies, as well as the mirror side to that fight. A character, Elizabeth, is introduced mostly as a plot device to explain to Spirit (and her friends) that entire backstory.
Between Spirit worrying about her friend's non-worry, her grief, her schoolwork, several mandatory school functions and a budding romance we're introduced to a couple of plot details that I wish had more play time. The fact about the group's rings, the alumni and possibility that things conspired to bring the kids to Oakhurst and the arrival of Mark Rider and his troop of diabolical merry minions.
Character development wise a guess I had about two character's feelings in the first book are confirmed, though to the credit of Lackey and Edghill the reveal about the one is handle in a 'And so this is who this person is, doesn't change anything does it?' at least until the Sadie Hawkin's Dance. Spirit also bluntly points out to Muirin, Addie and Burke that they were sheep until her and Loch showed up, in regards to what was going on at the school.
While this one didn't bowl me over, it did keep my interest going as to the true nature of Oakhurst and answers to the mysteries therein. With the ending to this book being as explosive as the ending to the first, I certainly hope this means Book 3 will give us a showdown to remember.… (mais)