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Sto caricando le informazioni... Evil for Evil (2006)di K. J. Parker
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Parker, K. J. Evil for Evil. Engineer Trilogy No. 2. Orbit, 2007. In the first volume in this series, an engineer with more creativity than his straitlaced bosses can tolerate escapes his execution and defects to a rival city-state, where he improves their feudal technology. In this second volume he is on the run again and hanging out with a nomadic group and improving their technology. If that were all, then we would have a tight little 300-page novel that I probably would have liked better. As it is, this one adds plots and characters like barnacles and bloats to almost 700 pages. There are duels, love triangles that don’t much involve the engineer, spy plots and battles—the whole game of thrones panoply. Sorry. I only care about the engineer. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Appartiene alle SerieEngineer Trilogy (2) Premi e riconoscimenti
The engineer Ziani Vaatzes designed and built a war. Thousands died as a consequence of his elaborate plan. The civil servant Manuo Psellus took the decision that started the war. The very foundations of his world are now threatened. The ruler Duke Valens brought the war on himself. Now he must decide whether to sacrifice his country to save his people. They embarked on the war for their own reasons, but as it takes on a life of its own they find they've become components in their own machine. And the machine, it seems, has one purpose: to render evil for evil. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)823.92Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 2000-Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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What I enjoyed though:
- Plots within plots within plots within plots and some unexpected developments. (You do need to suspend disbelief when Z is being so very clever all the time.)
- Geekery: more engineering, metallurgy, mining, porcelain-making (of all things ;-)), and falconry.
- The characters are great, even the very minor ones.
One more thing about the characters:
Z was scary in the first book, in this one he keeps getting scarier and scarier and scarier... AND THIS GOES FOR ALL THE OTHER IMPORTANT CHARACTERS FROM THE FIRST BOOK. This was rather difficult for me to stomach. Not that K. J. Parker's other books are full of lovely, kind, sympathetic people - they most definitely aren't, and this is not why I keep reading his work. It's just that there was too much darkness here - imho.
Obviously, I'll be reading the third book. I want to see the resolution. ( )