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Shadowland (2005)

par Rhiannon Lassiter

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'What happens here is real and dangerous. You have stumbled into a darkness you don't understand.'They thought they could handle it. They thought they understood the rules. They were wrong.Now four of Earth's teenagers are trapped in new and unfamiliar worlds - paying for their part in destroying the city of Shattershard . . . and almost destroying each other.Each thinks they know their friends from their enemies, but who can they really trust? And will they ever find their way home?Shadowland is the third part of a fast-paced fantasy which shows what it might really be like to travel into another world.… (plus d'informations)
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Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing.
Book received for LTER several years ago. Not read as the third book in a series and unable to acquire the previous two books. I did greatly enjoy another of Rhiannon Lassiter's books but this one is being removed from my collection.
  RLMCartwright | Jan 15, 2020 |
Free book I got from LibraryThing Early Reviewers.
  lydiasbooks | Jan 17, 2018 |
Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing.
This book was given to me as part of LibraryThing's Early Reviewers programme.

This is a continuation of the storyline started in Outland. The two groups have had their differences officially settled by the court and the punishment is then meted out. For Morgan and Alex, this means being returned to their home world although the twins say they will transport them, and we know straight off this will not happen. So no surprise when it doesn't and the twins take them off to a different world entirely. The others decide to go looking for a character who was briefly introduced at the start of the first book and has been briefly alluded to since. This involved them going off to a different world in order to access the character's home world. And as before, just as the plot started to get interesting, the book finished.

I said of Outland that there were a lot of characters and now there's even more. As before, they're all very flat and each one is reduced to one characteristic which is repeated ad nauseum. It just meant that I didn't really care about any of them. A lot of the characters actually annoy me, especially the twins. There's obviously something strange about them, which we've had drummed into us since they first appeared in book 1, but there's no further information on that coming even after 3 books. The details provided by the author is strange. The information I want to know is not forthcoming, while the information I already know is repeated over and over again. I know that Laura can't see, I know that she manipulates people for her own aims and these are the things that I'm constantly being reminded of, rather than being told more about her background, her family, her history or more of her personality. All of the characters act in a very black and white way which perhaps makes it easier for the author to keep a handle on them all.

There's also too many locations and worlds. There's been no further information about how they all fit together within the Library, how the Library works or anything like that. There was a tiny teaser of some of the Library's past in this book, we learned that there were previous groups who have since disappeared, but it's just not enough to keep it interesting. There's only so long I'm happy to read while not having a clue what's going on. I think the author has overstretched herself and made the world too big to be contained in such short books and such a short series. This is book 3 of 5, by now I expected to have some answers but there haven't been any. ( )
1 voter Ganimede | Apr 20, 2011 |
Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing.
This is odd as I am cetain that I have already reviewed this book yet the stats are telling me that I have never added this to my library. Many appologies to the early revieweres who must have been waiting for this.
Shadowlands is the third in a fantasy series aimed at young adults. Though I would actually give this to upper primarys rather than teenagers. It does suffer slightly from being pert of a series but I was actually quite impressed by the flow of the story without the back information. I am still left with questions as to what happened in the past, such as how did they actually all meet up and I was surprised when one of the characters did not come from the same world as the rest. But what was happening now was apparent and just enough of the back story was incerted to maintain the main story line. But when all was said and done i was always aware that I was reading part of a series and that I had missed lots of the story
I liked the premise of the library connecting the worlds, though i have seen this before. From an adults point of view I could see that the authour was gently making fun of the different kinds of readers/book collectors out there when describing the different groups that inhabit the library. I am slightly concerned that I may have found myself in one of the descriptions.
The main characters were a little predictable, but that had more to do with the logic of each person being part of the story rather than lack of change, the change was just well highlighted.
I would reccomed this book for the preteen's but for me it did not give me the trill of being based somewhere magical, at least this episode of what I feel will be a long story
1 voter jessicariddoch | Jan 31, 2011 |
Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing.
I received this book through the Early Reviewers Programme. I began the book, and quickly found myself at sea in unfamiliar places, characters, and rules. Actually as the book continues there is just about enough to make this work as recap to enable new readers to join an existing series, and for the plot as a whole to more-or-less work as a standalone novel.

However, I put down the book in order to get hold of, and read, the two books that preceded this one, and that made this book much more satisfying, and made it easier to appreciate who everyone was, the various factions in the Library that we know about so far (and what they are, or may be, up to), and where this particular set of plotlines fits in. The first book took place on Earth and in the Library (where there are various Doors leading to other worlds), the second in Shattershard, and this one is now in the Libray, Chalice and Fenrisnacht.

The protagonists at the start of the series are: Alex and Laura (siblings, studious on Earth, power hungry and manipulative elsewhere), Morgan (a Goth on Earth, and magic user elsewhere), Zoe (an army child out to make friends on Earth, caught in the machinations of others), Jhezra (rebel from outside of Shattershard), and Kal (the former archon of Shattershard).

By book three there have already been quite a few alliances and splits in this group, and things change yet again in this book. Two agents of Vespertine Chalcedony from Wheel faction become much more fleshed out in this book, and begin to have stories of their own, not just those of their patron or their prisoners - Charm (a mind-reader), and Ciren.

Lisle Weft, currently of the Jurist faction, but formerly many things, becomes involved with the protagonists after their appearance in the Converse Court and their trial. Alex, Morgan, Laura, and Kal receive various kinds of sentences. Ciren and Charm emerge as shadowy guides for Alex and Morgan after their sentence, whilst Laura, Zoe, and Kal speak to Lisle Weft....

I think this book is where the stories start to get really interesting, many things and people are not what they seem, and our main characters have to reassess who they are, what they are doing, and how they are dealing with being trapped in a strange set of worlds with no obvious route back to Earth, and the problems of being involved in wider political schemes . Various factions and worlds want more space and power than they have, and some are more subtle than others about how the get it, whether they break the Library's rules, and whether they are punished for it. Some Library factions are very much in denial about this, which is thoroughly unhelpful.

A thoroughly enjoyable, convoluted read, well written and worth the effort. I look forward to the final two volumes. ( )
1 voter Flit | Jan 16, 2011 |
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'What happens here is real and dangerous. You have stumbled into a darkness you don't understand.'They thought they could handle it. They thought they understood the rules. They were wrong.Now four of Earth's teenagers are trapped in new and unfamiliar worlds - paying for their part in destroying the city of Shattershard . . . and almost destroying each other.Each thinks they know their friends from their enemies, but who can they really trust? And will they ever find their way home?Shadowland is the third part of a fast-paced fantasy which shows what it might really be like to travel into another world.

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