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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Innkeeper Chronicles, Volume One (2020)di Ilona Andrews
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I received a free copy of this book from NetGalley. Thanks to the author and publisher. One of my favorite fantasy authors. 3books make up this collection, all with the same setting and lead characters, just one adventure following another. An inn, neglected almost unto death, afraid to lose its new innkeeper but brave enough to fright. Humans, vampires, werewolves finding common cause along with assorted other folk. Lovely villainess of a certain age, who doesn't pretend to be anything else. Dina, Innkeeper, may her power grow. Stories to make you laugh and cry. Read this on a bad day and things will get brighter. Snow might not stop falling, temperature may continue to drop, rivers overflow etc. but for a while you might forget it. This is an omnibus edition of three previously published volumes that were sold as novels but really seem too short to qualify. While it is of no use to complain about something that has already happened, here we have an excellent series that suffers from being a collaborative effort. Somehow, although the method used isn't quite clear from the text, these novellas were written using periodic feedback from online readers and others. This is probably the source of the unevenness in tone, and some strange elements that have been being thrown in. In particular, there are random paragraphs of second-rate sensuality in places where they only break the flow of the narrative. There is clunky backstory (you know the kind – everything that has gone before crammed into a single paragraph) added at the transitions between novellas. There grammar errors that should have been avoided ("lay" and "lie" are consistently misused, as are object pronouns). The artwork is saccharine. The list price for the hardcover is crazy. These negatives aside, the Inns and their Innkeepers are an excellent premise and the series, if handled correctly, should carry us onward for quite some time. I received a review copy of "The Innkeeper Chronicles, Volume One" by Ilona Andrews (Subterranean) through NetGalley.com. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Meet Dina Demille, a nice Texas gal who runs a seemingly ordinary, quaint BnB. But Dina's inn is a magic, thinking entity; her fluffy Shih-tzu, Beast really is a beast; and her guests are the kind that no one on earth is supposed to know about: guests like a dethroned galactic tyrant with a massive bounty on her head, the Lord Marshal of a powerful vampire clan, and a displaced-and superhot-alpha-strain werewolf. So don't expect a normal stay...and don't stand too close, or you may be collateral damage.. In Clean Sweep, Dina-with the unwanted assistance of newcomer (and alpha werewolf) Sean Evans and Arland, a cosmic vampire soldier-takes on an extraterrestrial killing machine that could destroy her Inn, her neighbors, and everything she holds dear. Sweep in Peace, finds Dina hosting an anything-but peace summit between three warring intergalactic species; Space Vampires, the Hope-Crushing Horde, and the devious Merchants of Baha-char. One Fell Sweep sends Dina to the galaxy's worst penal colony to rescue her sister; and back home to fend off a clan of assassins in pursuit, all while saving a guest's civilization from annihilation - and searching for her missing parents. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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1 - Clean Sweep (2013)
This series comes highly recommended by a lot of other LTers so (despite my first book by this duo not being my best experience - partly due to being from the middle of a series and partly my discomfort with the narrator of the audiobook) I thought I would give it a go. I'm glad I did and I've already
borrowed the next book on Overdrivebought the first three books as an omnibus for my Kindle.Dina is an Innkeeper in Red Deer, Texas which means that she maintains an inn, which is neutral territory, for guests from other planets/ worlds. As an innkeeper her first priority is the safety and comfort of her guests for which she employs her magic (which is sometimes indistinguishable from technology) which is strongest within the property boundaries of the inn. Dina is working to reinstate The Gertrude Hunt Bed and Breakfast after it had been unused for a time; to do so she must maintain the inn and have guests staying there. The inn itself contributes its own magic (such as avoiding potential guests from the local planet) and she has a small shi-tzu called (deservedly) Beast.
When something obviously not of Earth starts killing the neighbourhood dogs, Dina feels obliged to investigate even though the crimes occur beyond the inn's boundaries. And so she has to deal with stalkers, vampires and werewolves among other alien species.
Although there are action sequences, the parts that had me gripped were the ones where the characters exercised their brains rather than their muscles. There were a few funny moments too, which I appreciated.
Although from Earth herself, Dina is obviously comfortable with the alien worlds and visitors; her parents were innkeepers too so she has grown up with them and she is fully capable of meeting any challenge thrown at her. Although we are occasionally left wondering what something meant, we're not left wondering for long and the information is fed to us logically in bite-size pieces.
The book comes to a logical conclusion but there are some questions left unanswered such as 'What happened to Dina's parents' inn?' that intrigue me so I will continue with the series.
4-4.5 **** stars (21-07-2020)
2 - Sweep in Peace
After Dina's adventures in the first book, the Gertrude Hunt Inn has been upgraded to two and a half stars which eases the pressure on the gang a tiny bit. The inn is not the earthly bed and breakfast it seems but a waypoint for alien travellers whose presence must not be revealed to the locals. Innkeepers such as Dina have magic which is linked to the inn and symbolised by a broom which can transform into almost any other equipment; once off the property, her magical power tails off dramatically. The inn itself is sentient but so as not to fall dormant, it requires guests. Dina has revived the inn, as a means to finding her lost parents who were also innkeepers, but she desperately needs more guests.
To her comes the Office of Arbitration asking if she would be willing to host peace negotiations. The planet Nexus is claimed by three different species, none of them native; the fox-like Nuan Cees who are a blue-furred Merchant clan, the war-mongering humanoid otrakar who live to claim territory and our old friends the vampires (cue Arland of the Krahr) who also live to claim territory. The vampires and otrakars are evenly matched but neither side will back down and so it has turned into a war of attrition with the Merchant clan, on whose land the only working transporter is sited, caught in the middle.
If Dina can pull this off, forty guests will substantially improve the Gertrude Hunt's standing - but she'll have to prevent her guests coming to blows for the duration of the peace summit. I like the way she can use the Inn's magic to expand the available space and tailor the quarters to each species as well as ensure that they are kept apart.
Her 'gang' are Beast, her deceptively cute-looking shi-tzu (so named for a reason) and Her Grace, Caldenia na ma gret, a humanoid alien with a bloody past who is a permanent guest of the inn, Earth being neutral territory. We see two new additions in the form of a cat (currently nameless) and Orro, a hedgehog-like alien super-chef with a drama queen complex.
As before, this novel was fun and enjoyable. I admit that my imagination resorts to children's cartoons to envision the aliens but the illustrations in my e-book are very helpful. Alien politics, visits to alien worlds (including throwing a vampire Marshal into a monster-infested ocean), fights by supernaturally fast beings, magic, family, lots of tea - what's not to like?
NB: love the vampires (though I'm quite happy for one not to turn up at my door); they take themselves so seriously but they're a light spot for me.
3.5-4 **** stars (05-01-2021)
3 - One Fell Sweep (2016)
{Third in The Innkeeper Chronicles; fantasy, interstellar politics, romance, adventure}
Dina runs the Gertrude Hunt, an inn on Earth for aliens, and thanks to her previous adventures the inn has increased its ranking to two and a half stars. This time, it's no different. Starting three days after the end of the events in Sweep in Peace the adventures keep coming. First Dina goes off-planet to bring her sister and niece back to Earth and then she welcomes a guest who is one of the last of his kind because a war of extinction has been declared against his species by those from a neighbouring planet.
As Innkeeper, her primary directive is the safety and comfort of her guests while preventing the people of Earth discovering that aliens have been visiting our planet for a thousand years. Dina, the Gertrude Hunt and their allies (including - of course - Sean the werewolf and Arland of House Krahr, the vampire) have to defend the inn's grounds from the assassins sent against him until he can find a new home.
And there are some touches of romance.* And Officer Marais, the local cop, gets even more suspicious ... but I should let you read it for yourselves.
I laughed my way through this one. I highlighted so many quotes (on my Kindle) but there are too many to copy them all out. The potential romance triangle is resolved happily on all sides.
* word of warning; the first two books could be considered upper level YA but this one notches up the age level.
5 stars *****
I didn't know where to fit this quote in, but it puts the first one in perspective:
(23-03-2021)
Averaging: 4.2-4.5 stars ( )