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Lädt ... Fivefoldvon Nathan Burrage
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"A mystical thriller that draws on the rich tradition of the Kabbalah. What if we got it wrong? What if the first five chapters of the Bible weren't about good and evil at all? What if they contained a hidden meaning, evidence of a divine grand plan? Throughout history, a select few have been entrusted with the knowledge that the future of human civilisation boils down to a single test. A test that's conducted every second century and just happens to coincide with major turning points in human history. What if the choices you made determined the outcome? Five ordinary people from London who stumble across a hidden set of ruins are about to find out " Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Fivevold is set (mostly) in present day Britain and tells the story of James Steepleton and the four friends who bail him out of the financial hole he’s in due to a drink-driving charge. The friends take a trip to Yorkshire and stumble upon a ruined cathedral which begins their descent into another world all together. Although they briefly head back to their normal lives in London the group’s members have been changed forever as they discover new powers and learn about the ancient traditions they have been chosen to continue.
The book certainly has all the traditional elements of the genre including a logical (if fantastic) world with its own rules and language. Also as is usual for the genre (and my other reason for not reading more of it) the book draws on a whole range of religious and non-religious traditions then mixes them together almost randomly which can be exasperating. However Burrage does an above-average job of incorporating these disparate elements into a sensible narrative.
Each short chapter of this book is told from a different character’s point of view with the members of the cabal appearing most often but villains and others having their turn in the spotlight too. While this makes for a fast-paced read it is a bit disjointed and has resulted in the lack of a focal point. I’d have liked to see a standout main character.
Which might have helped with the big problem I had when reading this book: there were no characters to love. Or hate. They were all a bit too earnest and dull to generate much of an emotional reaction at all which, for me, is the key thing that keeps me reading. I want to find out whether my favourite characters will survive and if the villains will come to a suitably grizzly end. Here however the cabal of five are the most accepting, homogenous group of fictional people I’ve met in a long time and none of them really engaged me. A humorous or slightly cynical voice for one of the characters would have grabbed my attention more than the very grave young folk that appeared.
For a debut novel in a fairly specialised genre I think this is a promising start and I will look to read more of Burrage’s work, especially standalone novels.
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