Edward Willett
Auteur de Masks
A propos de l'auteur
Edward Willett is the author of young adult fantasy novels, as well as more than twenty nonfiction books. Previously, he has written biographies of Orson Scott Card and J.R.R. Tolkien in the Authors Teens Love series and Jimi Hendrix in the American Rebels series for Enslow Publishers, Inc.
Séries
Œuvres de Edward Willett
Shapers of Worlds: Science fiction & fantasy by authors featured on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers (2020) 13 exemplaires
The Basics Of Quantum Physics: Understanding The Photoelectric Effect And Line Spectra (Library of Physics) (2004) 8 exemplaires
Shapers of Worlds Volume II: Science fiction and fantasy by authors featured on The Worldshapers podcast (2021) 7 exemplaires
Skateboarding: Techniques and Tricks (Rad Sports Techniques, Training, and Tricks) (2003) 7 exemplaires
Disease-Hunting Scientist: Careers Hunting Deadly Diseases (Wild Science Careers) (2010) 6 exemplaires
Shapers of Worlds Volume III: Science fiction and fantasy by authors featured on The Worldshapers podcast (2022) 3 exemplaires
Shapers of Worlds Volume II: Science fiction and fantasy by authors featured on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The… (2021) 3 exemplaires
The Bounty Mutiny: From the Court Case to the Movie (Famous Court Cases That Became Movies) (2010) 3 exemplaires
Strange Harvest (in On-Spec Summer 1998 - HAMMOND) 2 exemplaires
Moon Baby 1 exemplaire
A Safe and Prosperous Future : 100 Years of Engineering and Geoscience Achievements in Saskatchewan 1 exemplaire
Je Me Souviens 1 exemplaire
How Our Laws Are Made 1 exemplaire
Shapers of Worlds Volume II 1 exemplaire
Lost In Translation [short story] 1 exemplaire
Beadle's New York Dime Library: Hemlock Hank, Tough and True; Or, the Shadow of Mount Katahdin 1 exemplaire
Land surveying in Saskatchewan : laying the groundwork for property rights development (2010) 1 exemplaire
Stewards Of The Land 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Tesseracts Seventeen: Speculating Canada From Coast to Coast to Coast (2013) — Contributeur — 15 exemplaires
My Battery Is Low and It Is Getting Dark (2020) — Contributeur; Auteur, quelques éditions — 13 exemplaires
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- male
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- Canada
- Lieux de résidence
- Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
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- SF Canada
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- Ethan Ellenberg
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- Œuvres
- 91
- Aussi par
- 5
- Membres
- 896
- Popularité
- #28,593
- Évaluation
- 3.6
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- 50
- ISBN
- 195
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- 4
And terrible things happen. Because when don't they when you're the Chosen One. Which make no mistake Mara is very clearly The Chosen One. I was seriously waiting for the reveal that she was "The Lady of Fire and Pain"s grand daughter or that she was secretly the Autarach's daughter. Because seriously, she's that special.
The first half of this book I was enjoying myself. Mara was a spirited, mostly intelligent considering her age girl who had all the insecurities you'd expect in a 15 year who's life was just torn apart, pieced together wrong and forced through a hole three sizes too small. No one tells Mara anything ever. They say things at her. They dance around topics. They come up with vaguely comforting but utterly useless platitudes. But no one tells her anything. Which really mattered very little since until the Masking her biggest problems (in this order) were 1) her daddy was ignoring her for the last two months, 2) her best friend became the Queen of Ice and 3) she thought she was a huge fraud so she could be sentenced to a life of hell. Maybe. Probably.
Mara's time with the UnMasked Army was also similarly fun, though shallow by in large. She got SOME answers and as a reader we realized MORE answers then she could hope to, but it was another case of "we'll tell you if its necessary do as we say".
And then came the single stupidest act in a novel I've ever read. Well..okay it maybe wasn't as bad as a couple of those Harlequin romances I read, but this honestly ranks up there.
Grute who had sworn to "take care of" Mara on several occasions, leered, sneered, made crude comments, attempted indecent actions and was in general happy to pull wings off of birds has escaped. Remember this.
Mara, god love her soul, thinks this means its a GRAND TIME to go and take a bath. By herself. In the most isolated place you can imagine because she'd be damned if she stunk of high heaven if one of her crushes happened by. You can probably guess what happened then.
And honestly the entire second part was one way too contrived coincidence after another. She had 9 lives or something. As for her magic...ugh. Since we're only given the barest of ideas of what the "magic" was and where it came from its hard to really understand what was going on there. The magic is running out because the Autarach is...sapping it? To seem youthful? Or something?
The next book promises pirates (I think? There's a ship on the cover and a shipwreck soo...) and Mara going batshit crazy dark. Considering the number of dead people you can lay at her feet that should be interesting to see.… (plus d'informations)