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Chargement... The Dragons of the Cuyahogapar S. Andrew Swann
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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. Good fantasy noir (albeit reporter hero rather than detective). ( ) A portal has opened over Cleveland - which leaks magic into the surrounding area - allowing for dragons and elves and magic. Our intrepid reporter - Kline Maxwell, is sent out to report on a death of a dragon. This leads him into conspiracy theories, Deadly elves, and political scandals. Its an okay book, not great, not bad. At times it was annoying, with a few good moments. A likable enough lead character, but a long winded conspiracy makes this book only okay, not great. 'The Dragons of the Cuyahoga' is action packed, a fascinating concept and well executed. Descriptions of the plot can be found elsewhere. I shall instead describe the style of the writing and what makes this a book worth reading. I think Swann shows expert word-smithing in this story. It is tight and concise, yet the descriptions are full and exact. This is a quality I wish more authors employed. I got the sense that Swann knows my time is valuable and took pains not to waste it. He does not skimp, he paints a complete (and accurate) image in your mind, yet he does this without becoming florid or long-winded. This book and 'The Dwarves of Whiskey Island' are so accurate in description that you can follow the action using Google Earth and Wikipedia. Really. This lends a completely new level of immediacy and reality to the story. How many fantasy books can claim that? Kline is a City Hall journalist in a Cleveland that has changed drastically since a portal to another world opened 12 years ago. He is assigned to cover the violent death of a dragon, and while investigating it, he discover layers of deceit and political intrigue perpetrated by both humans and the new species from the other side of the portal - dragons and elves. In the post-portal Cleveland technology is limited due to the presence of magic, and mystics may become sorcerers. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML:It all started about a decade ago, when the Portal suddenly opened up over the stadium right in the middle of a game. Cleveland just hadn’t been the same since, what with electronic devices pretty much useless—unless you were willing to spend a fortune in digital protection and redundancy equipment—and all the dragons, elves, gnomes, dwarves, gargoyles, etc. who’d come through the Portal to take up residence within the areas covered by the Portal’s magical field. For Kline Maxwell, City Hall reporter for the Cleveland Press, magic-based Cleveland had long since become the status quo. At least until a fellow reporter named Morgan came down with a case of eyeballs growing all over his body. The diagnosis: stay out of Portal territory and he’d be just fine. But that meant Maxwell and all the other reporters were going to have to take up the slack. And Maxwell hated the thought of doing “fuzzy gnome” stories. Still, he took his job seriously, and when he was assigned to cover a dragon’s death by crash-landing into the Cuyahog, he headed over to the accident site with only a modest number of curses. But what should have been a simple accident report soon led Maxwell in search of a much bigger story—one that would see him kidnapped by elves, framed for murder, holding secret meetings with dragons, and fleeing not only from the cops but from pretty much everyone…. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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