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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Greenstone Grail (2004)di Amanda Hemingway
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. https://tamaranth.blogspot.com/2021/03/2021037-greenstone-grail-amanda.html ( ) This book is a little different from the usual run of young adult's fantasy fiction. It's got magic, but not the Harry Potter kind of magic, and some of the characters inhabit that grey place where you're not sure if they're evil or not. It's a subtler book in that way. The central character, Nathan, can dream himself into other worlds but they aren't the wish fulfilment kinds of worlds. Actions have consequences and can affect our world. There are layers of story telling in the book and it's the kind of book that adults will read slightly differently to children. Although it's technically a young adult book, it's definitely not children-only and all the characters, adults and children, are well drawn. The mysteries in the book will keep you turning pages and make you impatient for the next book in the series. An interesting story, with interesting view of magic. Three treasures are in this world and have to be used to try to keep this world and another world being taken over by evil. The characters are interesting and have complex backgrounds. The long-lived characters are believable. I really enjoyed it. I thought it was fun and interesting and couldn't wait to start the next in the series. Highly enjoyable and recommended. Author also writes under the pen name Jan Siegel. First of a trilogy, but actually has an ending, which is nice. Shades of "His Dark Materials", without the anti-religious agenda. Skillfully blends fantasy and science fiction with history and legend. An 11-year-old boy is the protagonist, but it's not written for kids. However, there is nothing inappropriate in it - no swear words or sex scense - and older teens would definitely get into the story. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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The first book in a brand new trilogy from the author of Prospero's Children. Bartlemy Goodman is approximately 1500 years old. An albino of Greek parentage he was born in Byzantium amidst the decline of the Roman Empire and now resides in the village of Thornyhill, England with his dog, Hoover. Bartlemy is one of the Gifted. But long experience has taught him the perils of the power of the witch-kind and so throughout the ages has channelled his considerable talents into cooking, his culinary prowess becoming the stuff of legend: he worked for the Borgias, was among the first to discover chocolate and even taught the likes of Escoffier. On a warm evening in 1991 a young homeless woman holding a baby turns up on Bartlemy's doorstep and he senses destiny at work. The woman's name is Annie Ward and her son, Nathan, is an exceptional child as Annie cannot account for his conception. Her husband Daniel died in a car accident so Nathan cannot be his. Soon Bartlemy comes to believe that the boy was created beyond the Gate of Death by a superior being for a special purpose, one that may threaten all of witch-kind and that it is his job to protect him. Whilst Nathan grows and Bartlemy continues to watch over the small family, strange occurrences begin to plague the village. The Thorn family, who gave their name to the village have lived close by since pre-Christian times, were once the guardians of a strange cup of greenish stone and set with jewels. When it was lost; sold to a Jewish collector in Austria by the black sheep of the family who absconded with it in the 1920's, the family's fortune soon followed suit. Rumoured to have been stolen by the Nazis during the war it has now turned up at Sotheby's and the last of the Thorns is determined to get it back by proving the original sale false. Bartlemy joins his friend, Rowena Thorn, in her campaign. But the matter becomes complicated and sinister when Nathan discovers the body of the Austrian owner in the wood nearby and begins to experience disturbing visions involving the cup itself. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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