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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Yediiklim Yayınları
Aiden MacAlpin appreciates that he has survived hell on Earth and has his brothers and sisters to thank for that. But right now he is not feeling like kin; he feels like a stranger. His ambition to exact revenge on the man who sold him into slavery, into hell; he wants to make him suffer like he has suffered. His family cannot comprehend that. Elspeth Farquharson has already resigned herself to a life of being alone and a spinster. That is before she meets the brooding Aiden. He is a real-life hero just like out of her adventure books. But she wants to prove to him that she is more than a book nerd who stutters a lot. Maybe Aiden has what it takes to bring out the heroine inside Elspeth so she can save Aiden’s angry soul. Devil’s Own by Veronica Wolff is romantic, sweet, and has a hot Scottish man in it so I was in love from page one. Then I got to meet the awesome characters. Elspeth might think she is nothing more than a book worm and spinster but get her in the position to protect those she loves and she becomes more—she becomes what she dreams of being—a heroine. She has charm, class, and a fiery passionate nature that I adored completely. Aiden is a yummy, brooding, emotionally scarred Scot. He needs someone to really love him, be on his team no matter what, and bring out the lover and hero inside of him. His Beth does it with one kiss and one hug at a time. He doesn’t even know she has taken over his heart until it is too late. He does have issues but together these two prove love really can conquer all. Ms. Wolff wrote a passionate story that drew me in and made me want much more in the future. I love a story I can feel a part of and Devil’s Own will be on my keeper shelf for sure. This is part of the Clan MacAlpin series. I picked this up without having read the previous book and was not lost at all. I would like to go back and see what I missed though because I am so in love with the MacAlpin family.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Timaş Çocuk
Excellent book on the 1960s automotive racing events of Le Mans based on the Ford GT40 and Ferrari rivalry. Baime does an excellent job of developing the story like a movie script and the players are well detailed- Henry Ford II, Carrol Shelby, Enzo Ferrari, John Surtees, Lee Iococca, and others are brought under the spotlight as the era was full of American engineering optimism and Ferrari's genius challenged. Highly recommend to the racing enthusiast.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Minima Yayıncılık
After the apocalypse, a couple of hundred survivors hole up in a ring of barricaded buildings and fight off the zombiefied commuters that attack every night. But is the greatest threat from without, or within? The setup of The Kill Crew is far from original - we've seen much the same thing before in Day of the Triffids, 28 Days Later, I Am Legend, Dawn of the Dead, and so on. In the early pages, especially, this book felt like a grab-bag of random elements from films - a mysterious mist, zombies, cars not working, etc - and they didn't seem to fit together all that well. The zombies, in particular, seemed rather underwhelming, and zombies isn't really the right word: they're people in office clothes who wander around crying. They aren't undead, and they don't eat people. With an author I'd read before, I'd probably have been more trusting, but in those early pages I felt very much as if D'Lacey had put the cart before the horses: he'd come up with the (rather worrying) image of people blasting commuters with shotguns, but struggled to come up with an actual reason for it happening. It felt a bit too contrived. But as it turns out, the book saves its originality for its second half. By the end the commuters have become extremely alarming antagonists, and the book's various elements come together very well. It was never quite clear why The Kill Crew - a team of monster slayers sent out to battle the commuters every night - (a) went out at night when the commuters were active, instead of hunting for them while they slept, and (b) went out at all, since the commuters were hardly bothering their community any more. It seemed like a really bad way to go about things - but then the book makes the point that these aren't soldiers, they're just everyday people struggling to cope. Perhaps it's just the human desire to "do something" asserting itself at a very bad time. Or maybe it's survivor's guilt, a deathwish. And the book would have been much duller if they hadn't left the compound: the sequences where The Kill Crew has to high-tail it back to the Station were exceptionally thrilling. There are a couple of editing glitches. For example, there's a passage where a guy called Lee stops talking, because someone's given him something difficult to think about. Sheri then explains to the reader that she's happy when everyone's quiet, because it means they are concentrating on the job - which makes little sense when we know Lee is quiet because he's thinking about something else. Commuters is capitalised or not fairly randomly. Apostrophes are up to their usual high-jinks: "Stopper's with this problem." "Load you're gun, babe." But those minor things weren't enough to spoil a very exciting and at times very frightening book - and in the end the publisher takes responsibility for those, rather than the author. I enjoyed it a lot. What's most interesting and impressive about The Kill Crew is the way it skips the actual apocalypse to focus on what it's like to be cooped up in an enclave fighting for survival. The book conveys brilliantly a sense of how thoroughly depressing that would be, of how such a life would wear a person down. Many post-apocalyptic books are about rebuilding, about beginning a new cycle, but this one is about attrition, about an apocalypse that won't give up until it has utterly destroyed us. And if it doesn't destroy us physically, it'll erode our humanity until we have no reason left to live. It may not be the most original book ever written, but it's very well done, psychologically very rich, and extremely efficient in its eighty pages. Anyone who enjoys survival horror will find this very satisfying.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: No Name
This is the novel that got me hooked on Ian McEwan. His other books are more clever, but this one has more heart. If you can stand another sad World War II story, give it a try.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Martı Çocuk Kulubü
The youngest of the Dolan sisters, expecting to be funny. Her stories of promoting this book on teh Satellite Sisters radio show pod casts were hilarious.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Yapı Kredi Yayınları
I think the author had a fun idea, but I had a hard time liking the situation the main character was in.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları
Olivia liked it more than Grant did.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Ülke Kitapları
Bettany Hughes’ debut work is a magnum opus of truly astonishing proportions. Hughes has not only written a thoroughly detailed examination of the evidence for a real Bronze Age Helen, and produced an in depth portrait of the woman if she indeed existed, but she has delved even further, studying perceptions of Helen throughout history and exploring the big question of just why Helen of Troy has remained a subject of fascination, reverence and revilement for millennia. Meticulously researched, Helen of Troy weaves together thousands of strands of evidence to create a comprehensive picture of not only Helen, but also the vibrant world she moved in. Hughes is insightful, discerning and astutely pieces together the long scattered fragments of the Helen of Troy puzzle. At the same time, her work is interesting, engaging and clearly written, you won’t find a stuffy textbook here, Hughes writes in a very personable style which draws upon anecdotes and plain language to get her points across, and her voice shines through just as if I was watching one of her fantastic documentaries. Quite possibly the definitive biography of Helen of Troy.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Litera Türk
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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Otopsi Yayınları
A fun follow-up, but warning: this one, more than the other two, ends on a cliffhanger. There's some resolution, but it's only partial. It's a good one otherwise, though, with more humor than the second book and more sadness than either the first or second.
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