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Carregando... Nine Gates (2009)de Jane Lindskold
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I enjoyed this sequel to The thirteen orphans as well. I'm not sure if it was my lack of concentration, but I did get distracted relatively easily during the middle of the book. Still, at the end the pace picked up, and I especially enjoyed Brenda getting into action. And I was very glad that her ally-but-opponent Honey Dream finally came to her senses. She's been such a despicable person up until now, so immature and selfish and annoying, that it was getting irksome. As in the previous book, I appreciated the way the relationships, particularly between Brenda and her father, and the way Brenda's growing into her heritage are described. There is nothing flashy or unrealistic about it. Then there's the Chinese setting, which I find interesting, the good mixing of male and female characters (and an equal mixing of their abilities as well), and the good mix of old and young people, where each group is treated with respect and can be formidable in its own right. ( ) I liked the first one - or at least, the characters from Thirteen Orphans stuck with me and I genuinely wanted to know how things would turn out. I read a few reviews on LibraryThing before I picked it up and knew going in that not much would happen. Knowing ahead of time that it's mostly talk aided my experience. If you like the characters, are interested in the set-up, and want to know how things work out, I would definitely recommend continuing on in the series. Just keep in mind that this is a pretty traditional second-book-of-a-trilogy and you'll enjoy it. Great fun, this second part of the Breaking the Wall trilogy. Although at first I had some trouble getting into to the story, I liked it almost better than [Thirteen orphans]. A lot of action and danger. Not everybody makes it out alive, which makes the story feel all the more realistic (besides the magic and trips to the afterlife). This story gives us also one more viewpoint, Honey Dream, the Snake, Brenda's rival. She is at the start not exactly a friend of the main characters, which gives a nice edge. this fantasy novel is a followup to the 13 Orphans book. About three-quarters of the way through, I mislaid the book and only recently refound it and finished it. It does get better, with more action and more character development. And lots of discussion about the magic system. Clearly a middle book of a series. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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As evocative and moving as Charles de Lint's Newford books, with the three-dimensional protagonists and enthralling action of Mercedes Lackey's fantasies,Nine Gatesmakes our world today as excitingly strange and unfamiliar as any fantasy realm . . .and transports readers to a wondrous magical world drawn from Chinese lore and legend. Brenda Morris has barely had time to become accustomed to the idea that she has some of the powers of the Rat, a member of the Chinese Zodiac; that her elderly, former child-star "aunt," Pearl, is the Dragon; and that the young African-American former soldier she trains beside is the Dog. Brenda has learned that our world is not the only world and that her not-quite-Chinese ancestors came from a magical place, the Lands of Smoke and Sacrifice, created thousands of yearsago by the destruction of China's books and scholars during the time of the first Emperor. Now, generations later, the Lands are once again at war, and the magics of the Thirteen Orphans are desperately needed. A mission to capture those powers went disastrously wrong and now the Lands' Dragon, Tiger, Snake, and Monkey are trapped on Earth unless the Orphans can build the Nine Gates. To do that, they must first save the Four Guardians of the landbetween, who are under magical attack. Complicating things is the fact that Brenda has fallen hard for the handsome man who is the Tiger, much to the distress of the sensual young woman who is the Snake. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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