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Chargement... Ghost Ocean (2009)par Shawn M. Peters
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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. First of all, whoever listed this on Goodreads as "Whitechapel #2) was smoking something that isn't tobacco. This book has absolutely nothing to do with [b:Whitechapel Gods|2302159|Whitechapel Gods (Whitechapel, #1)|S.M. Peters|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1266713831s/2302159.jpg|2308565]. Second, Ghost Ocean is not nearly as imaginative as S.M. Peters's first book. In fact, it's pretty much a decently-written [a:Charles de Lint|8456|Charles de Lint|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1269735259p2/8456.jpg] knock-off. Plucky twenty-something in an unspecified North American city must find the magic within her and undergo hideous trials to save the world, etc. If you like that sort of thing, read one of de Lint's books rather than this one. A fast-paced urban fantasy which pulls from a wide variety of sources. It's very eclectic, sourcing everything from Faerie legends to Greek myth, to Lovecraft. Te Evangeline is a likable protagonist, no angst or constant whining from her, although she's got enough reasons. She spends more time thinking than sleeping around. The cover blurb is a bit misleading -- there's no investigation of how real the paranormal is: she's almost immediately thrown into a supernatural war. A three vs a four because it does suffer from the super-power syndrome where it's not enough for the story to put her friends or family's lives at stake, it has to be a near-apocalypse.
Ghost Ocean: a title that understates what all is going on in S. M. Peters’ newest novel. In a way, Ghost Ocean (Roc) is a new take on the urban paranormal; but in other ways, you could consider it a rebirth of an older style of city fantasy. Appartient à la sérieWhitechapel (2)
In the dark, rainy town of St. Ives, twenty-two-year-old Te Evangeline works for paranormal investigator Babu Cherian. The work isn't very dangerous--Te's not sure she even believes in the supernatural. But she knows that her father believed enough to work as Babu's partner, until he died mysteriously five years ago. Since then, St.Ives has been relatively quiet. But when a friend of Babu's is murdered under impossible circumstances, Te learns that the dead man was keeping an ancient power at bay, and the creature he was guarding has escaped. Now Te and Babu must track down what killed him, and capture it before it can unleash an evil as old as time. As Te's investigations lead her into the darkest corners of the city, uncanny signs point to this death being linked to her father's. Te is beginning to believe in a world where things are not as they seem--where old powers are awakening and realities shifting, and where Te may find that she herself is somehow stranger and more powerful than she ever imagined. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The characters were interesting, although at times they acted in a manner that didn't make sense. For example (without spoilers), it isn't clear to me how it is possible for the protagonist to be so (supposedly) unaware of the mystical considering the descriptions of what she had to deal with growing up. That's really my only sticking part of this novel, as the whole is quite good, but it did throw me off a bit reading it which is the only reason I took off one star.
It says here that Ghost Ocean is Whitechapel #2, which was a surprise when I came to write this review. I had started on Whitechapel Gods quite a while ago, but I was very busy at the time and didn't get very far. I now feel compelled to pick up that book and give it another shot, both because Peters has impressed me with Ghost Ocean and because I am very curious what connection lies between the two stories. ( )