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Chargement... A Pocketful of Stars (Applied Topology Book 1) (2018)par Margaret Ball
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. A very interesting book - there were a lot of annoying parts, mostly having to do with standard relationship tropes, but there's also an excellent, very unusual magic system (applied topology?!). Also one ancient mage and one current mage, who's thoroughly nasty - interesting contrasts with the math magic. And a few idiots of various stripes - the one who got the ring then disappeared from the story, not sure if those things are related. And so on. There's a lot of things beginning here - I definitely want to read the next one! aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Appartient à la sérieApplied Topology (1)
Thalia Kostis will be the first to tell you it's not magic, it's theoretical math when she walks a Möbius strip through walls to her office at the Institute for Applied Topology. CIA Case Officer Bradislav Lensky doesn't care what it is, as long as she can help track down a smuggling ring and the terrorists in their safe house in Austin. The other magicians nearby don't agree, and don't care for new rivals either! Now Thalia and the rest of her misfit crew are in a race against time, terrorists, common sense, grackles, and their graduate advisor to save the day! Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The thing I did NOT like about the book was that it became more unbelievable as it went on, in a bad way. The genre suddenly shifted, in a way that was too jarring for me to overlook. This made me sad, after such a great beginning. I really liked the characters, I especially liked the dialogue (and the internal monologue of the protagonist), but I just didn't like how the world developed. If it had started out like Harry Potter, it would have been fine (fantasy literature is great, in its place). But when you start out like Arthur C. Clarke (hardest of the hard SF) and then halfway through the story suddenly shifts to J. K. Rowling, that just doesn't work well (in my opinion).
I would still recommend this book, just because it is hilarious, and it was still enjoyable. ( )