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Indlæser... Death's Door: An Edgar Allan Poe Time Travel Novella (The Immortal Descendants: Baltimore Mysteries) (udgave 2020)af April White (Forfatter)
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. The elements of time travel and Poe tempted me to download this short novel by an author I'd never heard of, and I was pleasantly surprised. While not a deep read, it is quite well written and light-hearted, a pleasant read with some interesting ideas. The main character Alexandra Reynolds is the owner of a bar in Baltimore, who is surprised when a drunken Edgar Allan Poe staggers in one night - but not as surprised as one might think, as she seems to be a time traveller herself, though her origins are not explained. It emerges that Poe has time travelled from a point just a few days before his early death in 1849, and the plot centres around Reynolds trying to find a way to return Poe to his own time, even though she knows he will shortly die, with the help of a local cop who has the hots for her. Reynolds's own time travelling exploits are not explained, though she was involved with helping to hide runaway slaves on the famous Underground Railway. Quite intriguing, and I would read more from this author. ( ) ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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A master of the macabre and an ageless crusader cross paths in the shadows of time? ??Ye who read are still among the living; but I who write shall havelong since gone my way into the region of shadows.? ~ Edgar Allan Poe The first time Alexandra ??Ren? Reynolds meets Edgar Allan Poe is the night he walks into her bar?? over 170 years after his mysterious death.Ren has heard rumors of ??Clockers??? the Descendants of Time who can travel through portals. But until she can find the portal Poe accidentally used to reach 21st Century Baltimore, she??s stuck with him. And there is a problem: someone else has seen Poe and now they??re hunting for him. Not even Ren??s fledgling friendship with Officer Nick Pieretti will keep the vigilante away. Hiding an arrogant anti-abolitionist in a secret room in her bar?? once a station along the Underground Railroad?? is oddly satisfying to the descendant of slaves. But Ren has much bigger secrets to conceal than the out-of-time presence of Edgar Allan Poe, and the events that transpire during their brief time togethe No library descriptions found. |
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