Gin Lu itibaren Gori Fanta, Uttar Pradesh, India

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05/04/2024

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2019-01-20 21:41

Mavi Fetih:Fatih’in Karadeniz Seferi TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Maarif Mektepleri

I always judge a really satisfying book by the way that, when I am done reading it, I put it down on the table and let out a breath I didn't realize I'd been holding. This edition is really four books, so it's hard to review collectively. The first book, Wild Seed, is probably the best (and longest). It tells two intertwined stories: that of Doro, a spirit thousands of years old who inhabits the bodies of humans by using their bodies as a temporary vessel as he "feeds" upon them, and Anyanwe, a shapeshifter who has lived for hundreds of years by using her supernatural abilities to heal and rebuild her own body. Doro selectively breeds humans in an attempt to create superior beings with psychic and telekinetic powers, and the book doesn't shy away from this by masking it in metaphor: Doro is a slave trader, and those he breeds and controls are all, to varying extents, his property. This alone makes the work nearly unique among SF works; the horror of the plot device is magnified by the very real American race relations of the setting. Anyanwu is forced to struggle between her desire to care for the children that Doro has fathered with her ("wearing" different bodies each time) and her need to escape his grasp. Five stars. The second book, Mind of My Mind, is set in the present day. Doro's breeding has created a widely dispersed population of troubled psychics, many of whom succumb to mental illness or suicide because of the torment their powers cause. One of his children, at the maturation of her powers, finds that she can connect telepathically to all the others to form a network ("The Pattern") from which she can both draw power and control everyone else. Four stars. The third book (Clay's Ark) is only tangentially related to the previous two. In it, a crashed spacecraft's escaped inhabitant spreads a virulent extraterrestrial plague to everyone he comes in contact with. The mechanism of the disease is almost certainly an intentional nod to the AIDS epidemic. Those who survive the initial infection develop mutant powers of enhanced speed and reflexes, but with a terribly desperate need to spread the infection to others. The small rural community he infects struggles to remain isolated enough to keep the rest of (post-apocalype, by the way) humanity safe while culling enough uninfected outsiders to satisfy their needs. Three stars. The final book, Patternmaster, is my least favorite. Despite the chronology of the stories, this was Butler's first published work, and it's not that strong. It is set far in the future, where The Pattern has grown stronger and links everyone on earth that possesses psychic ability, leaving un-gifted individuals as the "mute" servant class for their psychic masters. Two stars.

2019-01-20 22:41

Gençliğe Mesajlar-Ragıb Es-Sercani TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Beka Yayınları

Book Info: Genre: Paranormal Fantasy Reading Level: Young Adult My Thoughts: An interesting idea with a strong moral to the story, but one that requires a bit more work. The main problem with this book is that is reads like a movie – there is very little description or narrative, and the plot is moved along primarily with the use of dialogue. It also suffers from telling rather than showing, which leaves what could have been a richly lush story falling a bit flat. The characters really don’t have individual personalities – the good guys are good, the bad guys are bad, and everyone sounds and talks sort of the same. Despite this, I found the story quite compelling, and possibly by working with a critique group of established authors, Schutte could polish his style to create a stronger story. There was one word that was consistently misused, and it caused me some amusement. A person “nocks” an arrow; they “knock” on a door. There were some other misuses: the word “bath” was used in instances where “bathe” should have been used, “reigns” where “reins” and “feint” where “faint”; other than that, the book is well-edited; I didn’t notice much else amiss, and I generally see such things whether I want to or not. I would say for writing style, a 3 out of 5 stars, and for personal interest in the story a 4 out of 5 stars; average 3.5 stars,which rounds up to 4. Recommended for fans of fantasy stories. This is book 1 in the Energy Trilogy; watch for my review of book 2, Birth of a Wizard in the next day or two. Disclosure: I received a free copy of this eBook from the LibraryThing Members Giveaway in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: Follow Brighton and Lilian through an action-packed, fast-paced adventure in the first book of the Energy Chronicles Trilogy as they discover their unique talents in the art of energy manipulation. As teenagers, Brighton and Lilian live quiet, peaceful and uncomplicated lives in a remote mountain village called Four Mountains. Before they can explore their feelings for each other, a dark secret about Lilian’s past rips their world apart. Brighton finds himself fighting for the girl he loves as well as his own life while simultaneously discovering an even bigger secret about himself. Brighton has to overcome great odds and even death itself if he is going to save himself and Lilian from the evil determined to destroy them.

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