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Carregando... Breath of Earth (2016)de Beth Cato
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. In general, I'm a fan of Beth Cato, although she walks the line of too much stuff going on to the detriment of the story. However, I definitely feel like her writing just keeps getting better and better, so this is an exciting new world from her. Very original, very interesting weaving of San Francisco history with a magical influences and I like the pointed exaggeration of the brutal havoc caused by colonialism in India and China, and the oppression of Chinese immigrants to the US-- not that her world exaggerates the reality all that much, but that the alternative history is set up to focus on it in a way that most history books do not. I appreciate the diversity of the characters (asian, hawaiian, unknown, trans) the strong heroine, the interesting the magics (geomancers!) and the airships (yay). I like both the compassion displayed and the thorny-ness of the problems they face. Also, btw, kick-ass adventure. I can't wait to see where this goes next. Ingrid, a young woman with unrecognized geomancer talent is engulfed in a plot to detroy San Francisco. She learns she must run while discovering the extent of her exceptional talent. She falls in with a strange group of friends who work together to thwart the scheme, but end up having to flee for their lives. I wasn't swept away by any excellence, but I was caught and read the thing in just two sittings. I suppose it was the appealing characters that caught me. The plot itself is weak, and there is much hyperbolic action and several loose threads not tucked in nicely. What a coincidence that such important hidden people found each other on such a critical day. Hmmm. But I enjoyed the company of the group, and the romantic attraction made sense. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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"In an alternate 1906, the United States and Japan have forged a powerful confederation-- the Unified Pacific--in an attempt to dominate the world. Their first target is a vulnerable China. In San Francisco, headstrong secretary Ingrid Carmichael is assisting a group of powerful geomancer wardens who have no idea of the depth of her own talent--or that she is the only woman to possess such skills. When assassins kill the wardens, Ingrid and her mentor are protected by her incredible magic. But the pair is far from safe. Without its full force of guardian geomancers, the city is on the brink of a cataclysmic earthquake that will expose the earth's power to masterminds determined to control the energy for their own dark ends. The danger escalates when Chinese refugees, preparing to fight the encroaching American and Japanese forces, fracture the uneasy alliance between the Pacific allies, transforming San Francisco into a veritable powder keg. And the slightest tremor will set it off" -- provided by publisher. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Some of my problems lay in the fact so very much happens with so many different pieces. They would overlap and caused some confusion for me as I couldn't quite keep a grasp of who was working with who while betraying who else.
I also wasn't keen on how many guys SQUEALED. Lee was big on this and it got annoying.
I loved Fenris and tolerated Cy. He sometimes was a bit milquetoast for me and the section with his past catching up to him at the theatre dragged done the pacing. ( )