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Carregando... Sea Changede S.M. Wheeler
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Reading this book is like reading a traditional heroine's quest fantasy turned 90 degrees. Nothing quite happened the way I have been led to expect by countless plucky heroine stories before it. This is the story you find when you turn the shiny river stone over and see the beauty in the ugly, mossy black wet underside Sea Change put me strongly in mind of The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart by Jesse Bullington. Unlike the latter, its tone is decidedly serious, but both share a how-astonishingly-gross-why-am-I-so-thrilled fairytale world. Carnage and wild strange magic. 5 stars for delightfully awful weird. However, I felt let down by character motives and personality. I sympathized with Lilly, but she was single-minded and I didn't get enough of Octavius's character to appreciate why (he is an extremely passive kraken). Lilly's parents remain completely opaque to me, and I only understood about half the motives of the supporting cast. 3 stars, maybe 2, for character development.
When her best friend, a talking sea monster, disappears, Lilly must embark on a sequence of self-sacrificing quests to release him, starting with the removal of her reproductive organs. Prêmios
The unhappy child of two powerful parents who despise each other, young Lilly turns to the ocean to find solace, which she finds in the form of the eloquent and intelligent sea monster Octavius, a kraken. In Octavius's many arms, Lilly learns of friendship, loyalty, and family. When Octavius, forbidden by Lilly to harm humans, is captured by seafaring traders and sold to a circus, Lilly becomes his only hope for salvation. Desperate to find him, she strikes a bargain with a witch that carriesa shocking price. Her journey to win Octavius's freedom is difficult. The circus master wants a Coat of Illusions; the Coat tailor wants her undead husband back from a witch; the witch wants her skin back from two bandits; the bandits just want some company, but they might kill her first. Lilly's quest tests her resolve, tries her patience, and leaves her transformed in every way. A powerfully written debut from a young fantasy author, S.M. Wheeler'sSea Change is an exhilarating tale of adventure, resilience, and selflessness in the name of friendship. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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My only issue is that I sometimes found the narrative a bit hard to follow, of who was speaking or taking action, so I had to reread sentences and paragraphs a bit. ( )