Mechthild Gläser
Autor de The Book Jumper
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: Mechthild Gläser
Obras de Mechthild Gläser
Das Buch der Seelen 4 copias
The Book Jumper 3 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Gläser, Mechthild
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1986
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- Deutschland
- País (para mapa)
- Germany
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Essen, Germany
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
Premios
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 11
- Miembros
- 1,114
- Popularidad
- #23,059
- Valoración
- 3.5
- Reseñas
- 37
- ISBNs
- 41
- Idiomas
- 3
After some difficult events, 17yo Amy Lennox leaves Germany with her mother Alexis, to spend some time on their native Stormsay in the Shetland Islands. Amy meets her estranged grandmother, Mairead Lennox, Lady of Stormsay, and is tasked with going into the book world to protect the stories as her ancestors have done before her. She discovers the Lennox and Macalister clans on Stormsay have the magical ability to jump into books and must overcome their age-old enmity to keep the books intact. She joins with the handsome Will and supercilious Betsy Macalister in entering her favourite stories.
Amy soon discovers something is terribly wrong in the book world and someone is stealing ideas from the stories. She knows she must act fast or the literature she loves will be damaged or erased forever.
This was an enjoyable story, basically every book lover's fantasy, to actually meet the characters from our favourite stories and enter their world. The concept I think borrows heavily from fellow German author Cornelia Funke and her brilliant book Inkheart. Amy is an enjoyable character, a passionate bookworm who has struggled to fit in at school. Possibly she is neurodiverse, but this is not stated. Much of the backstory in Germany was left unexplained. The ending was unusual and a little neat but overall this was a pleasant, light-hearted read.… (más)