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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Book of Dead Days (2003)di Marcus Sedgwick
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This was my introduction to Marcus Sedgwick's work. Deliciously dark but maybe a bit of a slow read to some. I read it when I was a teenager and got it at a book fair (Yeah, remember those things? Simpler times) It comes equipped with magic, demons, Faustian-style pacts, and gloominess. While I rate this book somewhere between 3.5-4 stars, that is still a fairly strong rating. It's not my favorite work by Sedgwick, but it's worthy to have in my library. If I re-read it, I may update the rating if I feel the need to. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Appartiene alle SerieBook of Dead Days (book 1) Premi e riconoscimentiElenchi di rilievo
Fantasy.
Horror.
Young Adult Fiction.
Young Adult Literature.
HTML:THE DAYS BETWEEN Christmas and New Years Eve are dead days, when spirits roam and magic shifts restlessly just beneath the surface of our lives. A magician called Valerian must save his own life within those few days or pay the price for the pact he made with evil so many years ago. But alchemy and sorcery are no match against the demonic power pursuing him. Helping him is his servant, Boy, a child with no name and no past. The quick-witted orphan girl, Willow, is with them as they dig in death fields at midnight, and as they are swept into the sprawling blackness of a subterranean city on a journey from which there is no escape. Praise for The Book of Dead Days: Beautifully paced and sometimes blood-soaked. . . . A very tangible sense of evil.The Guardian Subtle menace and power.The Independent Packed with drama, mystery, and intrigue.The Bookseller. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)823.914Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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The book started off well, it had promise of the dead days and a good mystery at first with all these deaths what force it was that was coming for valerian. This book is very plot driven which I appreciate but at times it doesn’t line up with the characters either. It felt that the “kids are smart and adults are creepy and mean” trope which at the time of the writing, YA was still in its infancy so I’m not surprised by that. I gave it three stars because the plot has potential and the pacing was good and I liked the concept of the dead days being used in here. ( )