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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Olympian Affair (The Cinder Spires) (edizione 2023)di Jim Butcher (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Alas, this is a very middle book. Lots of action, not all to the point. Real baddy bad, honor splattered all over, and cats without character development. If cats are active characters why are they simply rote roles? For an action book it isn't paced quite right either - and ends with a partial cliff hanger. ( ) In the Cinder Spires series, Jim Butcher trades in commercial wizardry on the mean streets of Chicago for a postapocalyptic aero-punk world with large talking cats, duels, flying beasties called mistmaws, and sword-slinging duelists on giant airships. The Olympian Affair is a delayed sequel to The Aeronaut’s Windlass (2015). Palace intrigue, aerial battles, mysterious etherialists, and ominous magical pronouncements from wise old cats spice up the adventure. If you like Windlass, you will like this one. All I can say is that Sir Jim better be working hard on the next installment! I commend him for persisting with the tale as he hints that it wasn't easy. I did feel the book started tentatively and then picked up steam -- perhaps as he saw his way forward. Can't say much without spoiling, but once again Butcher achieves an excellent balance of interactions between the characters, detailed action, fraught situation, and some pure fun. Hope book 3 proceeds more smoothly! ****1/2 Reading this has been a real struggle. I so love Dresden, and I want to love this, but it drags. The cats are the most interesting characters, but they are only briefly amusing. Update: Somewhere just short of the halfway point, this picked up. Part of my problem was the time between reading books 1 and 2...and I missed the novella, so I didn't remember much about the people. I don't know if Robert E. Howard invented the capture blade with fleshy body part duel-winning technique, but it was used well here. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Fantasy.
Fiction.
Science Fiction.
Thriller.
HTML:The fate of the Cinder Spires may be decided by crossed swords in the next exhilarating fantasy adventure from the author of the Dresden Files, in this New York Times bestselling series of noble families, swordplay, and airships. For centuries the Cinder Spires have safeguarded humanity, rising far above the deadly surface world. Within their halls, aristocratic houses rule, developing scientific marvels and building fleets of airships for defense and trade. Now, the Spires hover on the brink of open war. Everyone knows it's coming. The guns of the great airship fleets that control the skies between the last bastions of humanity will soon speak in anger, and Spire Albion stands alone against the overwhelming might of Spire Aurora's Armada and its new secret weaponone capable of destroying the populations of entire Spires. A trading summit at Spire Olympia provides an opportunity for the Spirearch, Lord Albion, to secure alliances that will shape the outcomes of the war, and to that end he dispatches privateer Captain Francis Madison Grimm and the crew of the AMS Predator to bolster the Spirearch's diplomatic agents. It will take daring, skill, and no small amount of showmanship to convince the world to stand with Spire Albionassuming that it is not already too late. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.6000Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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