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Sto caricando le informazioni... The House of Shattered Wingsdi Aliette de Bodard
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. looking forward to more. so original! ( ) I wasn't sure what I was expecting when I started this book but what I found definitely wasn't it. That said, I'm totally glad I picked this book up. It is completely different than anything else I've read or seen on the bookstore shelves recently. This is dark fantasy with a side of post-apocalyptic, with a side of murder mystery and political shenanigans. This is the second de Bodard I've read (the first being her Hugo and Nebula award-winning On a Red Station Drifting), and I will definitely be looking out for her other works. The world-building is phenomenal. This is a world in which World War Two gets interrupted by fallen angels, who appear on Earth with no memory of their previous lives, have amazing magical powers, and continued their war in our world. In Paris, a kind of detente is reached with different angelic factions forming a kind of feudal system of Houses that each hold power in the city. House Silverspires was once the greatest of these houses and was founded by Morningstar, who has long disappeared and presumed dead. The story is told in shifting POVs among Selene, the current head of Silverspires; Madeleine, Silverspires's alchemist with a secret addiction; and Phillipe, a Vietnamese outcast immortal who was kidnapped to take part in the Fallen war decades ago. There is a released curse, a murder mystery, political machinations, and a blending of Christian mythology with Vietnamese mythology. It is utterly fascinating. And the plot is really good too. Those who like their books fast-paced may not like this one. The plot is definitely on the slower side, with incremental reveals and regimentation of information based on who is the current narrator. But the end result is completely worth it. This is a gorgeous book. It's a very dark book without a happy ending, but in a world that has been torn apart, the ending is fitting. I'm very looking forward to book two nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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In the late twentieth century, the streets of Paris are lined with haunted ruins. The Great Magicians' War left a trail of devastation in its wake. The grands magasins have been reduced to piles of debris, Notre-Dame is a burnt-out shell, and the Seine has turned black with ashes and rubble and the remnants of the spells that tore the city apart. But those that survived still retain their irrepressible appetite for novelty and distraction, and the great houses still vie for dominion over France's once-grand capital.Once the most powerful and formidable, House Silverspires now lies in disarray. Its magic is ailing; its founder, Morningstar, has been missing for decades; and now something from the shadows stalks its people inside their very own walls.Within the house, three very different people must come together: a naive but powerful fallen angel, an alchemist with a self-destructive addiction, and a resentful young man wielding spells of unknown origin. They may be Silverspires' salvation -- or the architects of its last, irreversible fall. And if Silverspires falls, so may the city itself. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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