Klik på en miniature for at gå til Google Books
|
Indlæser... Unnatural Magic (udgave 2019)af C. M. Waggoner (Forfatter)
Værk informationUnnatural Magic af C. M. Waggoner
   Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog.  caedocyon | Feb 23, 2024 |   This was easy to read, no trouble at all engaging with the world or characters, and I liked the story. I recommend trying it! (  ) zjakkelien | Jan 2, 2024 |  ) jennifergeran | Dec 23, 2023 | As a result of this after a promising start to her story it feels a bit like things just fall into Edda's lap. She deserves her successes but their should have been more struggle, examination of the circumstances and development of the characters in her path. And because of this the climax feels a little rushed. And a central character just disappears for about a chapter. None the less, a great first book with an interesting concept and a fascinating world. It will probably become a favourite of mine. Edit Review ( ) Andrew_C | Jul 5, 2023 | But much as I could see the flaws, I found myself enjoying this an awful lot anyway. The characters are engaging and the world beautifully detailed, with Waggoner dropping you down in the middle of it and having the confidence to provide you with the context needed for you to figure out a lot about how this world works and what its history is without info-dumping at you. There's humour and warmth, but it never tips over to twee for me. I'll definitely be checking out future works by the author. ( ) siriaeve | Jun 15, 2023 |
 ...utterly delightful. It has all the elements of a parlor room mystery, with the depth and complexity of any sturdy secondary world fantasy, with just enough sense of humor, danger, and reality to round out the whole book into a startling sort of debut. Waggoner has created a world set at about the turn of the century, with a feel of industry sitting alongside a pastoral and intimate world, one which humans share with the mysterious clans of long-lived trolls, who hold a different sort of magic away from their human neighbors. Tilhører serienUnnatural Magic (1)
"An enchanting debut historical fantasy starring a young woman with an incredible natural talent for sorcery. Onna Gebowa is determined to become a great wizard. She can write the parameters of a spell faster than any of the young men in her village school. But despite her incredible abilities, she's denied a place at the nation's premier arcane academy. Undaunted, she sails to the bustling city-state of Hexos, hoping to find a place at a university where they don't think there's anything untoward about providing a woman with a magical education... Tsira is a troll who never quite fit into her clan, despite being the leader's daughter. She decides to strike out on her own and look for work in a human city, but on her way she stumbles upon a body of a half-dead human soldier in the snow. As she slowly nurses him back to health, an unlikely bond forms between them, one that is soon tested when an unknown mage makes an attempt on Tsira's life. Far away in Hexos, the newly arrived Onna is also drawn into a mysterious, magical attack on a troll. Trolls have lived alongside--and been revered by--humans for generations, but now it appears they're being targeted by a sinister sorcery. And Onna and Tsira both begin to devote their considerable abilities into figuring out how to stop the deaths before their homeland is torn apart.."-- Ingen biblioteksbeskrivelser fundet. |
Aktuelle diskussionerIngenPopulære omslag
 Google Books — Indlæser...GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyLC-klassificeringVurderingGennemsnit: (3.78)
Er det dig?Bliv LibraryThing-forfatter. |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
4
i'm out of the habit of reading fantasy so it took me a while to get into this, but the plot was strong enough to carry me through. doing that thing that's all the rage in sf&f right now where you propose alternate arbitrary kyriarchies (about immigration history, species, race/national origin, gender, class, religion) and play around with them, which i rarely object to. it's done pretty well here.
tsira and jeckran being implausibly bad at communication is more of the romantic tension than i would prefer. cut more of that and spend more time on the mystery, thank you. also, what happened to the gay half-troll poet who almost got murdered?? i was very invested in him and i don't think we even know whether he survived. (