M. K. Hobson
Auteur de The Native Star
A propos de l'auteur
Crédit image: Photo by James W. Fiscus
Séries
Œuvres de M. K. Hobson
Daughter of the Monkey God 3 exemplaires
The Unsteady Earth (Veneficas Americana #4) 3 exemplaires
Hotel Astarte 3 exemplaires
Hippocampus 3 exemplaires
The Warlock and the Man of the Word 3 exemplaires
The Hag Queen's Curse [short story] 2 exemplaires
God Juice 2 exemplaires
Oaks Park 2 exemplaires
Powersuit 1 exemplaire
Comus of Central Park 1 exemplaire
Severance Pay 1 exemplaire
The Hand of the Devil on a String [short fiction] 1 exemplaire
Votary 1 exemplaire
What They Wanted 1 exemplaire
Hell Notes 1 exemplaire
The Ladies and the Gentlemen 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Willful Impropriety: 13 Tales of Society, Scandal, and Romance (2012) — Contributeur — 82 exemplaires
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #298, Special Double-Issue for BCS Science-Fantasy Month 5 (2020) — Narrateur, quelques éditions — 5 exemplaires
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #262 (Tenth Anniversary Month Double-Issue II) (2018) — Narrateur, quelques éditions — 5 exemplaires
Black Static 01 4 exemplaires
Realms of Fantasy, April 2010 (Vol. 16 No. 4) — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Hobson, M. K.
- Autres noms
- Mary Catherine Koroloff
M.K. Hobson - Date de naissance
- 1969-01-21
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Oregon City, Oregon, USA
- Études
- University of Oregon
- Professions
- Marketing Consultant
- Organisations
- Historical Novel Society
Broad Universe
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA)
Romance Writers of America - Agent
- Ginger Clark (Curtis Brown, Ltd)
- Courte biographie
- M.K. Hobson was born in Riverside, California, but grew up in Portland, Oregon. She attended the University of Oregon, where she ran Catalyst Films (the campus film society), helped launch The Student Insurgent (a radical progressive ‘zine that’s still being published) and drove night-shift cab in nearby Springfield, Oregon. After graduating with a degree in English and Communications, she moved to Hiroshima, Japan to teach English. Returning to the United States two years later, she purchased The Northwest Neighbor, a community newspaper founded by legendary Portland mayor Bud Clark. She ran the paper for several years before moving on to a career in the field of corporate communications, working with Fortune 500 clients in the fields of retirement and healthcare.
Currently, she is one of the co-hosts of Podcastle, the acclaimed short fiction podcast. She lives in Oregon City, Oregon with her husband and daughter.
Membres
Discussions
The Native Star by M.K. Hobson à FantasyFans (Décembre 2010)
Critiques
The Native Star (Veneficas Americana) par M. K. Hobson
It had its moments, but I didn't like it enough to keep it. Pat Wrede's take on the Wild West (with magic, without steampunk) is much better. ([b:Thirteenth Child|5797595|Thirteenth Child (Frontier Magic, #1)|Patricia C. Wrede|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1328840173s/5797595.jpg|5969561] & sequels)
This was another one of my series-sampling audio listens, to see if I might want to pursue it in print someday.
Audio Narration
The narrator is Suehyla El-Attar. I liked her pretty well. Her narration was easy to listen to and didn’t annoy me. I did think the voices she used for the male characters were difficult to distinguish between at times, but then there were quite a lot of male characters popping up for brief passages. The text made it pretty easy to realize who was talking anyway, and I was mostly just happy she didn’t voice them in a ridiculous-sounding way like some narrators do when trying to voice characters from the opposite sex.
Story
This is an alternate history fantasy set in the 1800’s. Witchcraft and sorcery have a relatively prominent role in society. The main character, Emily, is a witch from a small town in California where she’s struggling to make ends meet. She accidentally gets a dangerous magical rock embedded in her hand and she’s forced to turn to a warlock she dislikes for help. They set off on a trip to get help, but things get progressively more complicated.
This is a very romance-heavy story with the enemies-to-lovers trope. I should have hated it, but I actually enjoyed it pretty well. The setting was interesting and the story held my attention. The romance didn’t annoy me very much, because at least it wasn’t the sort where the character is constantly thinking, “Oh he/she is such a jerk. But look at his/her lips/butt/abs/arms/whatever. Swoon… Oh, maybe I should run from this big bad monster that’s about to attack me.” The relationship was developed more gradually, with none of the ridiculous obsessing at weird and inappropriate moments. The relationship developed from antagonistic, to somewhat respectful, to somewhat friendly, and so forth.
I did enjoy the first half more than the second half. By the second half, I started to get a little frustrated with all the people who were either insanely evil, or untrustworthy, or pursuing a hidden agenda, or some combination of those things. The romance also started to get a little more obnoxiously angsty. This was a good story for audio listening though, and another one of the ones where I wonder if I might not have actually enjoyed it more as an audio than I would have in print. It’s on the simpler side and I think that combined with all the romance would have annoyed me faster in print. I looked forward to having time to listen to more of the audiobook each day.
I’m rating this at 3.5 stars and rounding up to 4 on Goodreads. I’m marking this as a “maybe” for following up in the future. I wouldn’t mind reading (or possibly listening to) more, and there are a couple more books published, but it seems like the author stopped publishing books even though more were expected in the series. I might therefore just leave things where I am because the ending of the 1st book was pretty satisfying. Not all the threads had closure, and it did end with some hints about what the next book might involve, but the main plot was wrapped up well enough.… (plus d'informations)
Audio Narration
The narrator is Suehyla El-Attar. I liked her pretty well. Her narration was easy to listen to and didn’t annoy me. I did think the voices she used for the male characters were difficult to distinguish between at times, but then there were quite a lot of male characters popping up for brief passages. The text made it pretty easy to realize who was talking anyway, and I was mostly just happy she didn’t voice them in a ridiculous-sounding way like some narrators do when trying to voice characters from the opposite sex.
Story
This is an alternate history fantasy set in the 1800’s. Witchcraft and sorcery have a relatively prominent role in society. The main character, Emily, is a witch from a small town in California where she’s struggling to make ends meet. She accidentally gets a dangerous magical rock embedded in her hand and she’s forced to turn to a warlock she dislikes for help. They set off on a trip to get help, but things get progressively more complicated.
This is a very romance-heavy story with the enemies-to-lovers trope. I should have hated it, but I actually enjoyed it pretty well. The setting was interesting and the story held my attention. The romance didn’t annoy me very much, because at least it wasn’t the sort where the character is constantly thinking, “Oh he/she is such a jerk. But look at his/her lips/butt/abs/arms/whatever. Swoon… Oh, maybe I should run from this big bad monster that’s about to attack me.” The relationship was developed more gradually, with none of the ridiculous obsessing at weird and inappropriate moments. The relationship developed from antagonistic, to somewhat respectful, to somewhat friendly, and so forth.
I did enjoy the first half more than the second half. By the second half, I started to get a little frustrated with all the people who were either insanely evil, or untrustworthy, or pursuing a hidden agenda, or some combination of those things. The romance also started to get a little more obnoxiously angsty. This was a good story for audio listening though, and another one of the ones where I wonder if I might not have actually enjoyed it more as an audio than I would have in print. It’s on the simpler side and I think that combined with all the romance would have annoyed me faster in print. I looked forward to having time to listen to more of the audiobook each day.
I’m rating this at 3.5 stars and rounding up to 4 on Goodreads. I’m marking this as a “maybe” for following up in the future. I wouldn’t mind reading (or possibly listening to) more, and there are a couple more books published, but it seems like the author stopped publishing books even though more were expected in the series. I might therefore just leave things where I am because the ending of the 1st book was pretty satisfying. Not all the threads had closure, and it did end with some hints about what the next book might involve, but the main plot was wrapped up well enough.… (plus d'informations)
Really liked this one... Had to take a break from work to finish it... I will definitely read more of the series.
Well, I liked this, but not quite as much as the first one. This provided some answers that were left out of the first book, but I really missed Emily & Dreadnought together. That really was the appeal and this book was so much more about Emily. Although, I did like her and even more I like Miss Jesczenka.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 21
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- 19
- Membres
- 920
- Popularité
- #27,887
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 62
- ISBN
- 9
- Favoris
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