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Bound di Benedict Jacka
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Bound (edizione 2017)

di Benedict Jacka (Autore)

Serie: Alex Verus (8)

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Fantasy. Fiction. Thriller. HTML:Mage Alex Verus is caught between a rock and a hard place in the eighth urban fantasy novel from the national bestselling author of Burned.

Right now I wasnâ??t seeing Richard as the teacher out of my nightmares; he was just another Dark mage, and I looked into the future to see what would happen if I turned that knife on him insteadâ?¦
 
Alex Verus is still haunted by his time apprenticed to Richard Drakh. Heâ??s been free of him for many years, but now the only way to keep his friends from being harmed is to again work for Richard and his deadly ally. Even worse, Alex is forced to bring the life mage Anne into this servitude as well.
 
After weeks of being hunted and finally cornered into what he thought was his last stand, Alex never imagined his life would be sparedâ??and never anticipated at what price. This time, the diviner can see no
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Utente:AnnieMod
Titolo:Bound
Autori:Benedict Jacka (Autore)
Info:Ace (2017), 352 pages
Collezioni:Read, Read in 2023, Letti ma non posseduti
Voto:****1/2
Etichette:read, read in 2023, library, lib:Scottsdale Public Library

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Alex spent years running away from Richard and the Light Council spent years suspecting him of working for Richard. So the irony of Richard saving Alex at the end of the last book and getting him and Anne to work for the Dark Mage is not lost on Alex (when he can spare any thought on the irony that is - trying to survive tends to be a bit more important). The novel opens where the last one closed - with Alex and Anne walking into Richard's castle and learning what will be expected from them. Which turns out to be a bit surprising.

Alex is appointed as the aide of Morden in the Light Council (the last two ides did not fare very well - they are still looking for some of the bodies... or body parts) and most of the novel deals with that appointment and the thin line Alex needs to walk between betraying Richard (and thus losing the protection which halted the execution - the sentence was never lifted after all) and betraying his principles. Which does not make it a calm novel at all - battles and altercations are everywhere.

This is also the novel where you start seeing the series starting to head towards a definite ending. While most of the previous novels were slowly progressing an overall story, they had their own story line as well which could have led to an unlimited series. Here things start getting tied a lot more and the previous books and seemingly random episodes and characters come back into play. Which may make it harder to read and follow if one does not remember much -- if you are just coming back to the series after a long break, it may be worth revisiting the previous novels.

Just as with the previous one, the novel ends on something of a cliffhanger - things change again for Alex and the people around him. ( )
  AnnieMod | Mar 22, 2023 |
There is no way out that Alex can divine to keep him from either working for Richard or having the council restart their death sentence on him and Anne. Richard had Alex doing odd jobs for him and working as an assistant to Morden since he is now a councilor. Morden’s previous assistants have all died of torture so there is still another avenue of problems for him. Dodging attacks and running errands for Richard as Alex tries to figure out what he can possibly do to change the outcome of his current life. Arachne gives him some good advice and he is able to use some of it. Don’t want to spoil any of the story but this certainly isn’t the book to start with. Everything that has happened before comes up as part of the plot. ( )
  Glennis.LeBlanc | Jan 4, 2023 |
Reread update: Downgraded to 4.5 stars out of 5, but the second half of the novel is absolutely brilliant! ( )
  JumpyDr4gon | Aug 10, 2022 |
Es ist und bleibt einfach eine Reihe, die man lieben muss.
Auch Band acht war wieder spannend und voll Abenteuer, wenn auch mit weniger Action als der vorige Band, was vor allem daran liegt, dass all das drunter und drüber genau hierauf hinauslief. Hierin endete es um dann zu einem anderen, viel größeren Schlamassel zu werden. Man hat also tatsächlich mehr eine direktere Fortsetzung, als es bei den Büchern sonst der Fall ist und nach all den Geschehnissen von vorher landet man nun mit Alex zusammen auf dem Boden der niederschmetternden Tatsachen. Alles vergebens, unausweichlich, düster. Es wirkt aussichtslos, hoffnungslos und natürlich ist die Stimmung hier eine ganz andere, nach allem was passiert ist. Dass selbst hier immer wieder diese kleinen Lichtblicke sind, der Hauch einer Normalität ist wirklich toll gemacht und zeigt so sehr, wie diese Truppe funktioniert und wie sie füreinander einstehen.

So oder so, ich liebe die Fortsetzung und finde es sehr spannend, wie auch die Seite der Schwarzmagier - neben dem stärkeren Fokus auf die Ratspolitik - nun weiter in den Vordergrund rückt. Wie die Grenzen zwischen Schwarzmagiern und Weißmagiern noch mehr verschwimmen als ohnehin schon der Fall, und ich beim Lesen manchmal sogar merke, dass ich in manchen Momenten mit den Schwarzmagiern sympathisiere. Natürlich kommt irgendwann wieder etwas, wo ich sie furchtbar finde, aber das geht mir beim Gegenpart auch nicht anders. Denn wenn ich ganz ehrlich bin - ich könnte mich nicht auf die Seite der Weißmagier stellen, im Grunde sind sich beide Seiten so ähnlich, dass man kaum eine Trennung unter ihnen machen kann. Es gibt eigentlich gar nicht diese zwei Lager von Gut und Böse, denn die Weißmagier handeln im Grunde genauso, nur können sie das Gesetz nach belieben biegen. Der einzige Unterschied ist der, dass sie sich für besser halten, sich selbst tatsächlich für die Guten. In mancher Hinsicht mag es vielleicht zutreffen, aber zu viel läuft schief. Zu viele sind eben doch genauso wie die, die sie verteufeln. Aber das sieht man eindrucksvoll in allen Bänden der Reihe und ich bin wirklich gespannt, wie es am Ende aussehen wird, wenn diese Geschichte irgendwann beendet ist.

Im neuesten Alex Verus erlebt man die Truppe um Alex nochmal ganz neu. An niemanden geht das Geschehene Spurlos vorbei und man merkt, wie nicht nur die Story, sondern auch die Charaktere in einer Entwicklung stecken. Gerade bei Luna hat man noch mal eine Entwicklung verfolgen können, aber auch bei Anne passiert einiges. Selbst bei Alex hat sich ein wenig was getan, würde ich meinen. Variam bleibt eine Konstante, aber auch er hat Fortschritte gemacht. Ich bin absolut gespannt auf die Fortsetzung und kann es kaum erwarten, dass dieses Jahr um ist und es Nachschub gibt! Klare Empfehlung - aber unbedingt erst alle anderen Bände lesen! ( )
  Andersleser | Jun 14, 2022 |
4.5 stars Alex's oldest enemies keep him and his friend Anne on ice through most of this book, but that does not mean nothing is happening. The last half or so really picks up the pace and the end of the book makes up for a slow beginning.
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  fuzzipueo | Apr 24, 2022 |
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Fantasy. Fiction. Thriller. HTML:Mage Alex Verus is caught between a rock and a hard place in the eighth urban fantasy novel from the national bestselling author of Burned.

Right now I wasnâ??t seeing Richard as the teacher out of my nightmares; he was just another Dark mage, and I looked into the future to see what would happen if I turned that knife on him insteadâ?¦
 
Alex Verus is still haunted by his time apprenticed to Richard Drakh. Heâ??s been free of him for many years, but now the only way to keep his friends from being harmed is to again work for Richard and his deadly ally. Even worse, Alex is forced to bring the life mage Anne into this servitude as well.
 
After weeks of being hunted and finally cornered into what he thought was his last stand, Alex never imagined his life would be sparedâ??and never anticipated at what price. This time, the diviner can see no

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