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Indlæser... Beautiful Deathaf Joely Sue Burkhart
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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. Despite not knowing what was going on half the time, I found this story interesting enough to finish. In a post-apocalyptic Earth, where humans and their cities have taken on names from Greek mythology, Marshal Isabella Thanatos is charged with killing "contaminants", people who have turned into ravening monsters after exposure to a virus brought to Earth by aliens called Macedonians and Thracians. One such alien is Hades, who has been working both with and against Isabella's father (Zeus) in the hope of eventually claiming Isabella and defeating Kleopatra (she's kind of like the evil alien overlord who exiled Hades to Earth). Zeus is... well, he's not going to win any father of the year awards. Isabella and Hades' relationship is full of passion and angst (and biting). I liked Hades and at times liked Isabella, but she was so self-indulgent in her prejudice against the aliens and her bitterness about her life that even though I understood it, it was kind of frustrating. While the cast of characters was close to being well-developed, I never really got a good feeling for the geography of this new Earth, which is important to the storyline. It did kind of remind me of Ergo Proxy, which was neat. This was close to being good in a lot of ways and the author has a compelling enough voice that I'll look for more by her. There's enough potential here that with more experience and a better editor, I think she could put out some really good stories. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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What were my favorite bits… hmm. I liked the naming conventions. If you’re familiar with Greek myths, you get hints of the characters’ personalities based on the names they took. (Each had another name prior to an outbreak, and then took new names in a kind of token re-birth. I’m not really clear if this was required in their society, or merely common.)
I liked the worldbuilding. Joely is an expert at that, and always manages to create a world that draws me in. This one is a futuristic, and you get senses of what today’s world turned into in her world’s history.
The characters also were well drawn. At times I was confused by some of the alien bits, but the personalities were nicely developed. The parts that confused me were mostly physical in relation to the aliens. They seem too human to not be human. I kept waiting for the twist to say they really were humans, they’d just been genetically modified or something. (But no, they really were aliens.)
If I have a complaint, it would be that there were a few things that weren’t explained to my satisfaction. Things like what happened at the very end to the Enforcer, how a certain necklace was really capable of what it described as being capable of, a bit more (or different) explanation of some of the futuristic bits… Basically, my complaint is that I enjoyed the world so much I couldn’t get enough of it. Not that I needed more, but that I wanted it. There was plenty of detail, don’t get me wrong. I just loved the world Joely created. ( )