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Lädt ... The Second Mango (2013. Auflage)von Shira Glassman
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. This book is just amazingly cute and fluffy! At the same time the adventures keep it interesing, and I love Glassmans way to describe the world and the charactes. Comparing dragon scales to avocado is just perfect. Did I mention fluffy? This book feels like being wrapped in a blanket on a rainy day with a cup of your favoirte tea ;-). I liked that this book had a kick-ass heroine "Rivika" who in the opening chapter saves the princess who rules the country. The princess "Shulamit" is forced to abandon her guards to find a lesbian lover due to their intolerance. This is the first Hebrew based fantasy I'd ever read, so that was interesting. The book is really short less then 50,000 words, so it was hard to fill in the back story to the two main characters and have a complicated plot going at the same time. This is an adorable fantasy-lite quest story with a lot of interesting tropes woven together to make something quite different. Lesbian queen Shulamit goes looking for a sweetheart, acquires a body guard who is a woman living as a man, and manages to solve a number of problems in quite a small amount of time. True to the fairy tale origins of the story, it is a cheerful and upbeat ending. Setting is explicitly Jewish. Language differences between Shulamit and the bodyguard, Rivka, appear to be indicated by judicious use of Hebrew and Yiddish. A helpful glossary at the back cleared up which are which for me. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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Queen Shulamit has inherited the throne at a young age and seeks a partner, a woman, to share life with. A warrior pretending to be a man comes into the picture and agrees to take her on a voyage on the back of her dragon to search for the appropriate match. In the course of the search, they discover a temple full of women turned to stone by an evil sorcerer. A rescue mission ensues. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Shulamit has what is coded as celiac disease or maybe Crohn's. So, a chronically ill character, too! And she's openly gay! Seeing myself represented on the page in so many ways, unapologetically, was beyond wonderful. The names Glassman picked for her characters are actual Hebrew girl names. This was not a fantasy book with Westernized coding and names, which is so common, I could gag. No, this was a fantasy book that allowed Hebrew and Yiddish-speakers to...exist. How simultaneously soothing and empowering! I liked watching the friendship between Shulamit and Rivka develop. They balanced out one another. I handwaved and got used to entire chapters being backstory due to how they were introduced: the previous chapter's ending sentence indicated there would be a lot of information. In the world Glassman set up, and the structure of this novel, this worked. The ending fit neatly, and that's hard to do in some fantasy books. I was pleased to find out this book even has a sequel. ( )