Jean Michell Michell itibaren Zbydniów, Polonya
Las novelas de Crichton suelen mantener muy bien la tensión, pese a que el fondo argumental suele ser escaso. En esta ocasión, además, se trata de "exprimir la vaca" de Parque Jurásico, con la misma trama y los mismos personajes... Entretenida, sin más.
It's strange how short glimpses into the lives of ordinary people can capture so much of what we experience in our own. One of my favorite reads ever.
The book cut is by Patrica McCormick, a brilliant author, with this book she went BEYOND descriptive-activity. Callie, I imagine her as a brunnett, dark blue beautiful eyes, and a million cuts on her arms. I really liked this book because, callie, the main character. is very sensitive and maybe a but shy. and how her friends depend on her for almost everything. my favourite part is where she runs... runs away from everything. then ends up at a donut shop on the other side of town. her dad picks her up and takes her backk !
Dull - gave it to my father-in-law
It took me a while to read Throne of Jade, despite how much I loved Temeraire (or His Majesty's Dragon, for you non-Brits). But Black Powder War is due back at the library tomorrow, no renewal possible, so I finally raced through Throne of Jade in hopes of finishing both it and Black Powder War in time to return them to the library tomorrow. I think I might even manage it, given an hour or two of quiet to read in the morning, perhaps even in the library itself. When you actually get down to it, the books are amazingly readable and you can eat them up. My hesitations with Throne of Jade had nothing to do with the writing, and everything to do with me being a wuss. I can't finish watching Supernatural because I'm scared that the boys I love will get hurt too much. It's the same with this. I love Temeraire and Laurence, and from the very first things are happening to them that worried me because I couldn't see how they could be resolved. Don't let that scare you off, seriously. For a start, Novik deals with it quite well. Laurence's sureness of Temeraire and yet his jealousy of anything that might take him away, Temeraire's confusion and his need to deal with it... The book also raises issues of civil rights: obviously a big thing in the time the book is set, due to the slave trade, but also with the dragons themselves. I don't think I've read anything like it in fantasy. No such world has been set up, where dragons have such minds of their own. The obvious comparison is Anne McCaffrey's series, but thinking back, I'm pretty sure the dragons never would have even thought about freedom in the way Temeraire does here. The contrasts between the British way of doing things and the Chinese are interesting, and I like that the conclusion isn't that the British way is better, despite the fact that it seemed fine to us in the first book. I love that stuff like that has become problematised! It's also following up on the small hints at how dragons are treated in the first book, with Rankin's treatment of Levitas being frowned upon, and yet him not being rebuked -- and Laurence forbidden to interfere. In terms of the plot itself, I felt that parts of it were quite slow, while once they got to China, things raced along at a pretty good clip. That's partly, of course, the varying speed that I read bits at, but also a lot more seems to happen in the final section of the novel than in the previous parts. I would have liked it to be a bit longer... Parts of it seemed a little disbelievable, particularly the relatively easy resolution at the end after the whole book was full of resistance. I understood the reasoning, but wasn't quite convinced. Character-wise, it's mostly Laurence and Temeraire again. But! I was interested in other characters, too, particularly Granby and Riley. It's a little uncomfortable that one does like Riley, and yet he's not opposed to the slave trade. I guess that does sort of throw up the whole issue of slavery again: he appears to be a good guy, but he's not opposed to the slave trade, how can you reconcile that? I don't feel like this book is really a character-book, but it has more than enough there to support the plot and keep my interest (and I am a character kind of girl). ...I used the word problematised in a review. Academia is swallowing me whole: I don't even like the word, but so many of my lecturers use it... Aaah. Anyway. Conclusion: I liked this a lot, it's well worth trying this series. This book doesn't, however, stand alone: you definitely have to start with Temeraire (His Majesty's Dragon).
This book was pretty good but personally I liked the first one better bc the drama in this one was so immature between her and Jay. The love story in the first one was really good, but this one it was just already there. But this one wasn't as creepy bc there was no serial killer, just some girl her age who was jealous of her and trying to scare her. But I am going to read the 3rd one when it comes out because I want her to get with Rafe, he is like her and there is some chemistry there for sure :-)