Intisar Khanani
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- Geburtstag
- 20th Century
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Wisconsin, USA
- Wohnorte
- Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia - Ausbildung
- Johns Hopkins University (Master of Public Health)
- Kurzbiographie
- Intisar Khanani grew up a nomad and world traveler. Born in Wisconsin, she has lived in five different states as well as in Jeddah on the coast of the Red Sea. She first remembers seeing snow on a wintry street in Zurich, Switzerland, and vaguely recollects having breakfast with the orangutans at the Singapore Zoo when she was five. She now resides in Cincinnati, Ohio, with her husband and two young daughters. Prior to becoming a full time mom (and writer), Intisar wrote grants and developed projects to address community health with the Cincinnati Health Department, which is was close as she could get to saving the world. Her approach to writing fantasy reflects her lifelong passion for stories from different cultures. She is currently writing a trilogy set in the same world as Thorn. This is her first novel.
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Standalone Group Read - September - Thorn by Intisar Khanani in The Green Dragon (September 2014)
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Sunbolt (The Sunbolt Chronicles) (Volume 1) von Intisar Khanani
I really enjoyed how this book fed us worldbuilding information as we needed it instead of using any info dumps. I also really appreciated that the book had some darker moments and themes (one example: betrayal) without turning bleak or grim. It kept a generally positive outlook even when things seemed dark for Hitomi. This was a very fun read, and I'm glad I picked it up. I'm really looking forward to seeing where the story goes from here.
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I think Ms Khanani is an excellent writer. This novel length follow up was very enjoyable and I will be eagerly awaiting the next in the series.
Intisar Khanani is a talented writer with strong characterisations. This was a good prequel to become aware of the backstory in The Theft of Sunlight.
Unlike Thorn, this book is not a close riff on a known fairy tale but explorations of the non-fairytale aspects of the world built for Thorn. Children have been disappearing for around 30 years and the few who are found require a Blessing which removes recent memory in order not to succumb to the Darkness, so investigations have discovered little. Amraeya ni Ansarim, known as Rae, goes to help a cousin who has married "up" into the court to see if she can encourage those more powerful to increase investigations. Rae herself, has a vital secret to protect and with a misinformed foot and plain looks, knows she will be disadvantaged in the court settings. What she doesn't expect is that she also has advantages which will propel her near the highest and most dangerous levels of court.
Well told and moving well, this clearly becomes the first half of a larger story when the stakes are upped enormously too far into the story for any satisfactory resolution, and indeed, we are left hanging from a cliff. Significant ding for introduction of unneeded somewhat jarring romance elements.… (mehr)
Well told and moving well, this clearly becomes the first half of a larger story when the stakes are upped enormously too far into the story for any satisfactory resolution, and indeed, we are left hanging from a cliff. Significant ding for introduction of unneeded somewhat jarring romance elements.… (mehr)
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