Martin Kee
Auteur de A Latent Dark
A propos de l'auteur
Notice de désambiguation :
(eng) Martin Kee is the pen name of Marlan Smith. The website has both names as he did not start using his pen name until he became published.
Séries
Œuvres de Martin Kee
GLEAN: Patcher vol.1 4 exemplaires
KIN: Patcher vol. 2 2 exemplaires
Hollow: a novelette 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Kee, Martin
- Nom légal
- Smith, Marlan Kee
- Autres noms
- Kee, Martin
- Date de naissance
- 1972
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Visalia, Ca
- Professions
- Game Tester. Writer
- Courte biographie
- Martin Kee is an author, gamer, husband, Redditor, cyclist, paper-modeler, reader, and musician. He is the author of A LATENT DARK (2012) and BLOOM (2013)
He now lives near San Francisco with his wife and their myriad of pets. He is a huge fan of technology, cats, dinosaurs, robots, bad science-fiction films, humor, books, steampunk, horror, ravens, and strangeness.
You can follow him on twitter @fersnerfer, or on Facebook
He also has a blog where he posts recent and upcoming work at www.marlanesque.com - Notice de désambigüisation
- Martin Kee is the pen name of Marlan Smith. The website has both names as he did not start using his pen name until he became published.
Membres
Discussions
(M91'12) A Latent Dark, Martin Kee à World Reading Circle (Août 2013)
Critiques
I enjoyed this book a lot. What's keeping me from giving it four stars is the overall lack of depth and the amount of infodumps near the end.
Cette critique a été rédigée pour LibraryThing Member Giveaways.
Bloom is a lovely telling of two seemingly different stories. There’s Tennyson and Lil’it—one a boy/young man whose story takes place in our world; the other a faerie, whose story is set in a different world altogether. It was fun and interesting reading about these two very different characters and worlds, wondering all the while how they were related.
That, I think, is the strongest quality of Bloom—the stories within the story, separate yet part of the whole. Wondering how the two worlds could be related to one another created a deeply engaging narrative, as did the characters that I found to be interesting and genuine. The story is, at times, endearing, which was a pleasant contrast to the sometimes more gruesome parts.
I’ve had a really hard time trying to figure out what to rate this book. It’s worthy of five stars for its uniqueness as well as wonderfully touching moments that I found wholly unexpected for this kind of book. But there are issues. There were a fair amount of typos that kind of let the story down in their own incessant way. The pacing also kind of flagged in the middle and then the end came too soon, in my opinion. But maybe I only think that because it’s a really great story, and I just didn’t want it to end.
Bloom is a story that is one part sci-fi, one part fantasy, and seasoned with a good dash of horror. I’d recommend it to anyone who enjoys these genres, or to anyone who is looking for an interesting and unique read. It’s definitely one of the best books I’ve read in a while and I’m glad to have found it.
Review re-posted from: http://saracsnider.com/book-review-bloom/… (plus d'informations)
That, I think, is the strongest quality of Bloom—the stories within the story, separate yet part of the whole. Wondering how the two worlds could be related to one another created a deeply engaging narrative, as did the characters that I found to be interesting and genuine. The story is, at times, endearing, which was a pleasant contrast to the sometimes more gruesome parts.
I’ve had a really hard time trying to figure out what to rate this book. It’s worthy of five stars for its uniqueness as well as wonderfully touching moments that I found wholly unexpected for this kind of book. But there are issues. There were a fair amount of typos that kind of let the story down in their own incessant way. The pacing also kind of flagged in the middle and then the end came too soon, in my opinion. But maybe I only think that because it’s a really great story, and I just didn’t want it to end.
Bloom is a story that is one part sci-fi, one part fantasy, and seasoned with a good dash of horror. I’d recommend it to anyone who enjoys these genres, or to anyone who is looking for an interesting and unique read. It’s definitely one of the best books I’ve read in a while and I’m glad to have found it.
Review re-posted from: http://saracsnider.com/book-review-bloom/… (plus d'informations)
Cette critique a été rédigée pour LibraryThing Member Giveaways.
I really loved this book. I hope there is more and soon. This should be a must read for middle school and high school kids. I have asked my teenaged kids to read it.
Prix et récompenses
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 7
- Membres
- 96
- Popularité
- #196,089
- Évaluation
- 4.1
- Critiques
- 17
- ISBN
- 4
Great book, though the nature of the heroine's abilities, of the main antagonist and his plans might be just a tad too reminiscent of Lyra and some of the events in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy.