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Chargement... Ninth House (édition 2019)par Leigh Bardugo (Auteur)
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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. This is my second time trying to read this, and I did make it half way this time. But unfortunately, as much as I want to like this book because the concept sounds awesome, it's not for me. I don't enjoy the main character at all, and the plot is too slow to make up for that and the many sensitive topics that seemed somewhat overindulged. I love Bardugo's style and descriptiveness, but this one is just not my cup of tea! ( ) This was... not great? I didn't hate it, but I didn't like any particular part of it either. I do have a lot of complaints, though. - Boring, repetitive plotting. Lots of sneaking into different buildings by using different magical items that ALL DO THE SAME THING. Though the tricks changed regularly (at least in theory - wow she's using a magical compulsion powder this time instead of that other compulsion coin!), it still got old way too early into the book. - I don't think we ever got a compelling reason for why the main character cared about solving this murder, why she goes so out of her way for it. My best guess is that it's just because she's a rebel or whatever, but still I never got to feel her rebelliousness. Not a lot of feelings in this book, in general, despite the amount of trauma being inflicted. - Shock value writing. Not my thing in general, especially not in a case like this. It started feeling like overkill, like the book was tipping over into a horror-comedy, Zombieland-style i keep seeing reviews talking about how they liked the second half of this book better than the first and i have to respectfully DISAGREE (not that i didn't like the second half of course) bc the first few chapters of this had me HOOKED. i love sitting somewhere between a vague understanding of what magic exists/is possible in this world and having the curtains fully pulled back to reveal demons and fairies etc. so the slow wade in the beginning was my personal sweet spot and i could've existed there forever. opening with a bloody prognostication for stock info? horny society parties that fuck with your mind? idk that was IT for me. this story was the perfect kickoff for fall and so much FUNNIER than i expected. leigh does a really good job with dialogue that is hilarious and feels natural. i do see where people are coming from when they say some things just felt too convenient in the story, but i was having so much fun it barely made a difference for me aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Galaxy "Alex" Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale's freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug-dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. In fact, by age twenty, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she's thrown her life away. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend one of the world's most prestigious universities on a full ride. What's the catch, and why her? Still searching for answers, Alex arrives in New Haven tasked by her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale's secret societies. Their eight windowless "tombs" are the well-known haunts of the rich and powerful, from high-ranking politicos to Wall Street's biggest players. But their occult activities are more sinister and more extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive. They tamper with forbidden magic. They raise the dead. And, sometimes, they prey on the living. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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