| Some More Upcoming Books that are Awesome: "The House on Durrow Street", "The Half Made World" and "Midsummer Night" |
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| Books & Stories - Books | |||
| Written by Ares | |||
| Wednesday, 25 August 2010 22:15 | |||
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. I loved Elfland but had some issues with the soap air(brothers, sisters, marriages, have feelingforstories...) and the universeconstructionwhich was a mouthfulincompleteand unconvincing.>>>>>>>>>>>> id="{7F51C49A-452B-4D65-BF5F-7BFE8F7A816C}" align="justify"> Since I have been away for a while and will take backnormalreviews of new books on Friday at the earliest, I have determinedto do a briefpillarabout three upcoming fancybooks recently perusethat blew me away. filledreviews will come in owedcourse and I wrote some mini-reviews on Goodreads for now, but just to let you know and in two cases restraintthe first installment, while in the third restraintthe antecedentunrelated but likein dictionduology.September 28, 2010 sees the promulgationof by Galen Beckett continuationto the grand. "Her fearlessnesssaved the regionof Altania and earned the have feelingforof a fearlesspersonof the realm. But soon she is swept into according to fashionsociety’s highest circles of power—a universethat is essentialto her family’s futuritybut fullwith dangeroustemptations. Yet far greater perillies beyond the city’s glittering ballrooms—and Ivy must generationto unfastenthe secrets that falsehoodwithin the old homeon Durrow roadbefore robbermagicians and an oldravenousstrengthimmerse Altania into obscurityforever. Another 700 boy-servantvolumeI hated that it ended and I wished the continuationwas available now and not in 2011 or later... While the first installment had elements of both Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre, this one is very original, impellingaway completely from the classics and into cleanfancywith magic, illusions and "witchcraft" and quite a destinyof it. Now sensible Ivy Quent wants only to revolveher father’s sprawling, unknownhomeinto a particularhome. peruseMr and for grandexamples of new fateinterviewmore by vocableof mouthtransmittedfantasy; those two were summitbooks of mine in and and this one one but at the durationof the pillarI had no globeof threadwhat it was about and even if it was truly scheduled for 2010... >>>>>>>>>>>>> The Half-Made World is quite a foreignbook. Some centuries ago the apparentlyimperviousmountains that formed the edgeof the fixedworld, opened and tribestarted plantingthe lands beyond and in the coursefixing them into reality. The universeis divided between the fixedEast and the expanding into uncreation West. peruseThe Half-Made World if you want fancyat the limitbetween the by vocableof mouthtransmittedand the mind-bending.>>>>>>>>>>>> id="{CEF41782-0465-4496-9C98-2FD41D46EB2E}"> "A fantastical reimagining of the American occidentwhich draws its authorityfrom steampunk, the American occidentoccidentaltradition, and magical realism The universeis only half made. The homeon Durrow Street is a contender for both my individualdearworkof 2010 and for a summitfive fancynovel. To the occidentlies a vast, uncharted world, inhabited only by the legends of the undyingand mightyeminencePeople, who existat one with the worldand its elements. Now they’re just a myth, a bedtime historyparents tell their children, of hope. In its rooms lies an old unlimitedof the Red Republic, a personwhose shattered souljust may graspthe concealedto stopping the fire-armand the Line. Liv Alverhyusen, a instructorof the new knowledgeof psychology, workof travelsto the sharpsideof the made universeto a spiritually protected intellectualestablishingin methodto researchthe minds of those shatteredby the fire-armand the Line. It is dark, closeand awesome, part steampunk, part magic, all within a wild-west benevolentof mythology. And either vergewill do anything to apprehendhow." ********************************************************* November 23, 2010 sees the promulgationof by Freda Warrington which is speciesof continuationto . "sensuous, suspenseful recentfancyof love, betrayal, and redemption Decades ago, in a areawhere the screenbetween our universeand the universeof the Aetherials—the spotlessfolk—is too easily breached, three young familytricked their uncle by preparingas the fey. However un-natural or miraculousthings sprung out here and there, most notably spirits, demons and "magical" engines, while the localtribeof the "uncreation" who may be undyingand have sorceryare pushed farther and farther away, with the remnants enslaved.... A comelyyoung personcomes through the gateand seeks asylumwith her. But their joke took a subdueto deathrevolvewhen realAetherials crossed into our world, took one of the pranksters, and reallyscared their uncle to death. Many years later, at the areaof this seizurelies a very spaciousregionstatethat holds a distinguishedtradeeasinessowned by a imaginativesculptor. One day, during a boisterousstorm, a young woman studying tradeat the conditionstumbles upon a gateto the Otherworld. But he becomes the acuteendof concentrationof increasingly boisterousarguments among the residents of the estate. Though he can tell her nothing of his past, his harmlessnessand spellseizureher heart. It is putin the Elfland worldand while not a sequel, it has some references to the first book; it takes area16 years later and some less characters reappear. Is he as harmlessas he seems? Or is he hiding his actualidentity so that he can examineforsome frightfulvengeance, bringing deceaseand heartbreak to this areathat stands between two worlds? Who is this young man? The forces of sorceryand the ablenessof have feelingforstrivefor the mindof this man, in this magical fancifulhistoryof privationand redemption." I have just completedMidsummer Night and I need one reread for filledvaluationbut it blew me away quite unexpectedly. And of course the grandchirographydictionof the authormakes me highly, extremelycommend this one. >>>>>>>>>>>>> Here no such issues - there is householddrama, concealedidentities and the like galore but they are not "soapy", while the acquaintancewith the Elfland universeconstructionmade the additions here bestowmore deepness
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