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Lädt ... A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, 1) (2021. Auflage)von Freya Marske (Autor)
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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 started off with an interesting premise and some cool worldbuilding, but it failed to engage me. I was bored reading it, and never cared about the characters or romance. Overall, I would not recommend. ( ) I wanted to like A Marvellous Light much more than I did. I'd seen a lot of people recommend it, and a queer fantasy romance set in an Edwardian England where magic is real, if secret, should be the kind of thing I eat up. But while it's readable, and I even enjoyed stretches of it at a time, it lacked that ineffable spark a book needs to make it come alive for the reader. In fact, I'm not even convinced it had that for the author. It's competently written, yes, but did Freya Marske herself actually have fun while writing it? It's all so serious, when a book like this—with curses! magical hedge mazes! country house parties where everyone dresses for dinner!—should just lean into the campy technicolour possibilities of it all. Equally, the female characters around the edges—as clichéd as they were—would probably have been a better place to begin the trilogy, given their second-class position in the magical social system that Marske sets up. It may well have given the book more tension, and encouraged Marske to bring in some more verisimilitude to the historical setting. (Why is this set in 1908, other than to have the shadow of WWI on the horizon? Because Marske doesn't seem particularly interested in the Edwardian period, and the dialogue, manners, etc, don't ring true. It might have worked better set in the '30s.) Like I said, it's competent, and if I come across the sequel I wouldn't rule out giving it a try, but I don't think I'm going to rush out to look for it either. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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"Red White & Royal Blue meets Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell in debut author Freya Marske's A Marvellous Light, featuring an Edwardian England full of magic, contracts, and conspiracies. Robin Blyth has more than enough bother in his life. He's struggling to be a good older brother, a responsible employer, and the harried baronet of a seat gutted by his late parents' excesses. When an administrative mistake sees him named the civil service liaison to a hidden magical society, he discovers what's been operating beneath the unextraordinary reality he's always known. Now Robin must contend with the beauty and danger of magic, an excruciating deadly curse, and the alarming visions of the future that come with it-not to mention Edwin Courcey, his cold and prickly counterpart in the magical bureaucracy, who clearly wishes Robin were anyone and anywhere else. Robin's predecessor has disappeared, and the mystery of what happened to him reveals unsettling truths about the very oldest stories they've been told about the land they live on and what binds it. Thrown together and facing unexpected dangers, Robin and Edwin discover a plot that threatens every magician in the British Isles-and a secret that more than one person has already died to keep"-- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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