Cassandra Rose Clarke
Autore di The Assassin's Curse
Sull'Autore
Serie
Opere di Cassandra Rose Clarke
The Nobleman's Revenge 9 copie
Opere correlate
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction July/August 2018, Vol. 135, Nos. 1 & 2 (2018) — Collaboratore — 18 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1983-09-21
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Texas, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Houston, Texas, USA
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 29
- Opere correlate
- 2
- Utenti
- 2,022
- Popolarità
- #12,713
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 145
- ISBN
- 91
- Lingue
- 2
- Preferito da
- 1
So what's going on in the city? Marianella Amitrano, an aristocrat, is desperately trying to keep a secret. She hires PI Eliana Gomez to retrieve some stolen documents, but Eliana finds much more. With her discoveries a vicious power struggle blazes out in the open and the city begins to unravel.
I so enjoyed the beginning of this novel. What I liked is that there wasn’t much world building. In many ways it's a classic detective story, a PI walks into her office, now she's got a case and she's digging in the underbelly of the city. That was fine. But then it changed. Suddenly the story was about politics and personhood and agency. And that wasn't really the story I signed on for. I know, sci-fi is rife with the exploration of personhood and politics, I get it. But I started the story with a PI and halfway through, she became superfluous. So, a mixed experience.… (altro)