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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Foundling's Tale, Part Two: Lamplighter (originale 2008; edizione 2008)di D. M. Cornish (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. Didn't see that one coming. But you're going to have to go read it yourself. I am working through the Foundling's Tale and just finished the second book. What a ride! On the one hand, I respect the author's meticulous detail creating a world with people and monsters. Characters with place names from our world (I caught Europe and Idaho amongst others. On the other hand, the print is small and no detail can be missed or you are missing the whole scene. The back third of the book is the background, glossary, etc. I put this creation on par with Middle Earth. ( ) Good Reads Summary: Rossamund Bookchild stands accused of not truly being a human at all, but of being a monster. Even the protection of Europe, the Branden Rose-the most feared and renowned monster-hunter in all the Half-Continent-might not be enough to save him. Powerful forces move against them both, intent on capturing Rossamund- whose existence some believe may hold the secret to perpetual youth. My Review: Talk about spoiler alert in the Good Reads Summary! I thought this was a fitting end to the trilogy although things moved a little slowly before the big build up at the end, but I did like how everything rounded itself out satisfactorily. Det var ett bra tag sedan jag läste första delen av D.M. Cornish serie Blodsmärkt – så länge att en hel del av detaljerna försvunnit ur minnet och läsningen av andra delen, och om man nu så vill tredje (svensk utgivning av översatt fantasy är nu vad den en gång är): Lärling och Lykttändare, vari unge Rossamund påbörjar sin tillvaro som just lykttändare vid en av de större kejserliga vägarna. Uppgiften är dock inte fullt så fridsam som namnet kan antyda, då de monster som förpestar världen när som helst kan attackera. Att Rossamund dessutom känner viss sympati för sådana bestar gör saken knappast lättare, då att göra sig känd som mosterapologet (»sedorner«) oftast är ett snabbt sätt att få huvudrollen vid en avrättning. Han lyckas i alla fall vinna i alla fall en ny vän, den unga, stolta adelsfröken Trenody, som sökt sig till livet som lykttändare för att undkomma sin dominerande moder. Dessutom träffar han återigen på monsterjägaren madame Europa, som tycks road av den underlige men begåvade pojken: förutom hantering av kemiska preparat är han dessutom oväntat stark. Och sedan är det ju allt det där monstersnacket – men det är väl inget att lyssna till? Världsbygget är det inget större fel på, även om man nästan förväntar sig att det finns ett rollspel kopplat till detta: speciellt all barockartad terminologi är rolig och ger många extrapoäng, även om översättningen av mer vardagliga ord ibland ger en konstig smak i munnen. Historien är kanske lite svagare: det finns förvisso en central konflikt för historien, med en maktsugen byråkrat som vill ta över lykttändarna, men det tycks osäkert om den kommer nå ett ordentligt slut – fast med det antal lösa trådar som till slut finns kvar vore det konstigt om den inte gjorde det. Nåväl, det är ändå spännande nog som det är, så om och när tredje delen översätts skall den också läsas. The second book in the Monster Blood Trilogy finds us once again immersed in the Half-Continent world, where Rossamund has taken up his sworn duties as an Imperial Lamplighter on behalf of the emperor. A life of high adventure and dangerous escapades soon loses it's appeal as the responsibilities of ensuring the illumination and safety of the highway roads becomes a daily battle to stay alive against the monsters the run rampant in the wild. Furthermore, a conspiracy surrounding the mighty fortress, Winstermill, where all new lamplighters are trained causes Rossamund to doubt not only his future career in the imperial forces but his loyalty to the humans is also called into question. Once again, I am in awe of the sheer amount of details and thought that Cornish has put into his world building. If the explicarium is any evidence of his labour of love, then the trilogy itself is the crowning achievement of all his boy hood years spent drawing and dreaming. This is a series worth investigating if you can appreciate the vast amounts of new terms, lingoes, and ideas that the author creates, but be forewarned, it is a world like none other. Continuing from where we left off in the previous book Rossamund finally joins the Lamplighter corps. He's in training and finds friends, a girl joins the corps and gives him mixed signals and he also finds enemies. We finally find out more about him, and he finds that all is not what he believed. It's an interesting story, that did occasionally get bogged down in detail but was still an interesting read. I did sometimes wish that the author didn't try to reinvent the english language as he went, but it did add to the atmosphere. I would suggest having both this one and the first book nearby for reference purposes. I'm now curious what happens next. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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As Rosamund starts his life as a lamplighter on the Wormway, he continues his fight against monsters, making friends and enemies along the way, but questions about his origins continue to plague him. Includes glossary. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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