Patty Jansen
Autor de Fire & Ice
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: Huguette LeDuc
Series
Obras de Patty Jansen
Self-publishing Unboxed (The Three-year, No-bestseller Plan For Making a Sustainable Living From Your Fiction Book 1) (2017) 4 copias
Mailing Lists Unboxed (The Three--year, No-bestseller Plan For Making a Sustainable Living From Your Fiction Book 2) (2017) 4 copias
Going Wide Unboxed (The Three--year, No-bestseller Plan For Making a Sustainable Living From Your Fiction Book 3) (2017) 3 copias
Bigger Fish 3 copias
Ambassador: Books 1, 1.5 and 2 2 copias
Indie Writer Unboxed (The Three-Year, No-bestseller Plan For Making A Living From Your Fiction Book 4) (2019) 1 copia
Little Boy Lost 1 copia
Legal Aliens 1 copia
Mass Extinction 1 copia
Whale mail 1 copia
Ambassador Series: Books 1 - 5 1 copia
Black Dragon 1 copia
Coming Home, Ambassador 4 1 copia
Highway 1 copia
Stripped Bare: A Light-Hearted Guide to Getting the Most Out of Writers' Critique Groups (2011) 1 copia
Ambassador Series Mega Set 1 copia
Metal Dragon 1 copia
The Ten Days Of Madness 1 copia
Geospermia {short story} 1 copia
Ambassador: Ten Book Set 1 copia
To Look At The Sky 1 copia
Straight Through The Heart 1 copia
The Only One He Ever Feared 1 copia
Taking Back The Words 1 copia
Never On A Birthday 1 copia
From The Parrot's Mouth 1 copia
Project Charon 2: Originator 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Extreme Planets: A Science Fiction Anthology of Alien Worlds (Chaosium fiction) (2014) — Contribuidor — 10 copias
Rogue Stars: 8 Novels of Space Exploration and Adventure — Contribuidor — 4 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 20th century
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- Australia
- Lugares de residencia
- Sydney, Australia
- Ocupaciones
- writer
- Organizaciones
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA)
- Premios y honores
- Writers of the Future
Miembros
Debates
(M42'12) Fire & Ice, Patty Jansen en World Reading Circle (agosto 2012)
Reseñas
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 113
- También por
- 16
- Miembros
- 1,092
- Popularidad
- #23,528
- Valoración
- 3.7
- Reseñas
- 92
- ISBNs
- 175
- Idiomas
- 1
The Church shown follows a common structure of Christianity-export-in-fantasy . . . save for some jarring details. And complete with a strong prejudice against magic, which is shown to be mostly picking up images and warnings from wood or wind.
Our main character, Johanna, is our link to the world and she introduces it fairly well, though there are large swathes of important things that are never explained or touched upon. There is a fairly strong thread of the rebellious princess trope in Johanna - who does not wish to marry, despite being twenty-four, but even when she brings up specific examples -
Prince Roald is clearly neurodivergent of some stripe, and he cannot manage some basic tasks without assistance or instruction. He also regularly frightens the women around him.
There is also a supporting character, Loesie, who is a friend of Johanna's and also has magic, and
Johanna does not wish to attend the ball, nor to wear one of the fancy dresses required for such a royal event - with a very strong sense of unlike all the other women. The ball does turn out to be a bit excruciating to get through, even before Johanna's promised dance with the prince (and including pages of introduction and description of characters we never heard mentioned before or after) but all the way through
In their escape aboard a barge, there are four - Johanna, her maid, Loesie, and the prince. They find more burned out horrors and death, balance their desperate need and the situation sometimes - understandably - poorly, and eventually Johanna, who was a candidate chosen by the now-dead king for the role, decides she must marry Roald. This leads to an incredibly awkward makeshift wedding and a horrifically excruciating consummation which Johanna may have walked into of her own choice but is regardless incredibly dubious consent even before the actual pain.
The book ends the day after, when they discover that the place Johanna has been leading them hoping - faintly - for help has also been burned out, and then they are captured by some of the people who have been burning and destroying the entire country(ies), who proceed to sexually assault one of the women, attack and bind all of them, and then head off to who knows where.