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Chargement... The Dark Missions of Edgar Brim (2017)par Shane Peacock
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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. The writing is a bit on the unpolished side, but there's a high enough creep factor to have readers considering a look under the bed every so often. ( ) Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing. The third and final book in a Gothic YA trilogy, featuring monsters from classic literary tales, secret societies and the fight between good and evil. If you enjoyed the earlier volumes, you'll want to read this. Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing. With a dark warning from the odd, little man whose persona goes back and forth between William Shakespeare and Don Quixote, the four friends we’ve known in the first two books in the series are warned that a darker, more sinister being will threaten them. So, Edgar Brim, along with siblings Jonathan and Lucy Lear, and Tiger Tilley will try to, once again, rid the world of the evil form.This being, they are warned by Shakespeare, is the Devil himself! Yet, Edgar is having delusions and The Hag is visiting him more frequently and with a greater presence. As the days go on and things begin to blur between reality and fantasy, Edgar doesn’t know who or where he can turn to...everyone and everything seem to be his enemy. He consults with Dr. Hilda Berenice, a alienist who taps into his fears. She is frightening, yet enlightening. Eventually they realize that someone is controlling their emotions, fears, thoughts, and they begin to question and doubt one another....to nearly deadly results. In the end, they find that one cannot let fear control oneself and must face it head on....but, can they? Thank you to LibraryThing Early Reviewers, Tundra Books, and Shane Peacock for this ARC. Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing. I received this from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.A great start to a dark YA series that isn't aimed at young girls with a fascination for vampires or love triangles. Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing. The Dark Missions of Edgar Brim by Shane Peacock tries, & sadly failes, to emulate the Gothic Horror stories of the past. What could have been a unique & terrifying spin, & an introduction to our younger generations, to classic monster stories simply does not deliver- either the spine tingling suspense or the page-turning fascination we have come to except from Gothic Tales. The first part of the book is slow moving & murky. Our unheroic hero, Edgar Brim, is haunted by his past & by a malevolent hag whose purpose or existence is never explained. The story picks up in the later half of the book as more action scenes play out, but the jaring inclusion of a side story from Bram Stokers viewpoint is started to late to seem anything more, at that point, than an confusing intrusion. I did like the quirky supporting cast, especially Tiger Tilley- a spunky female adventuress who deserves her own story book. If you are looking for a slow, mild story; read on, but if you are expecting to be chilled & thrilled in true Gothic fashion stick with the classics that inspired this tale. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Appartient à la sérieEdgar Brim (1) Prix et récompenses
The first in a gripping gothic trilogy from an acclaimed author, featuring monsters from classic literary tales, secret societies and the fight between good and evil. Edgar Brim is a sensitive orphan who, exposed to horror stories from his father as a young child, is afraid of almost everything and suffers from nightly terrors. His stern new guardian, Mr. Thorne, sends the boy to a gloomy school in Scotland where his dark demons only seem to worsen and he is bullied and ridiculed for his fears. But years later, when sixteen-year-old Edgar finds a journal belonging to his novelist father, he becomes determined to confront his nightmares and the bullies who taunt him. After the horrific death of a schoolmate, Edgar becomes involved with an eccentric society at the urging of a mysterious professor who believes that monsters from famous works of literature are real and whose mandate is to find and destroy these creatures. With the aid of a rag-tag crew of friends, the fear-addled teen sets about on his dark mission, one that begins in the cemetery on the bleak Scottish moors and ends in a spine-chilling climax on the stage of the Royal Lyceum Theatre in London with Henry Irving, the infamous and magnetic actor, and his manager, Bram Stoker, the author of the most frightening and sensational novel of the day, Dracula. Can Edgar Brim truly face his terror and conquer his fears? Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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