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Cargando... The Starving Years (2012)por Jordan Castillo Price
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Rating 7 of 10 A nice story - loved the plot, the action, the characters. It's not a romance story, if you are looking for that, but does have a romance line in it. Still for the most part the attention is on the riot, conspiracy and mana. And the family issues. All together I really enjoyed it. But... I felt a bit dissatisfied at the end. After all the tension between the main characters, after they solved the conspiracy around the mana, I would have loved to see a HEA. Don't get me wrong, there is HEA. But I would have loved to see it happen, not being forwarded and told it had. Here I'm talking about the romance line. Everything else pretty much got nicely wrapped up, but the romance somehow was left out of page. Would have loved to actually see how the guys talked it all out and sorted their relationship. I loved this book. It has so much happening. Three men end up in a relationship together, but it fits so smoothly into the storyline instead of being the focus. There's action and drama. The details are so believable that it seems like this could really happen. Pretty scary. It makes me worry about all the 'food' I eat. I really recommend. Jordan Castillo Price does it again--first she crushed any desire of mine to be psychic after reading PsyCop, and now this. Sometimes when feeding my cat and not feeling particularly up to cooking anything I've said, "Why can't they just make people kibble?" No longer will those words pass my lips. What an awesome ride! I loved the characters, the story--everything! Against the backdrop of such utter chaos, there was such a feeling of unity and family with the characters, who are such an interesting mix of people. I have migraines, so I definitely empathized with Nelson (and yes, the price of migraine meds is too high!). Highly recommend. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Imagine a world without hunger. In 1960, a superfood was invented that made starvation a thing of the past. Manna, the cheaply manufactured staple food, is now as ubiquitous as salt in the world s cupboards, pantries and larders. Nelson Oliver knows plenty about manna. He s a food scientist according to his diploma, that is. Lately, he s been running the register at the local video rental dive to scrape together the cash for his exorbitantly priced migraine medication. In a job fair gone bad, Nelson hooks up with copywriter Javier and his computer-geek pal Tim, who whisks them away from the worst of the fiasco in his repurposed moving truck. At least, Nelson thinks those two are acquainted, but they re acting so evasive about it, he s not sure how they know each other, exactly. Javier is impervious to Nelson s flirting, and Tim s name could appear in the dictionary under the entry for awkward. And with a riot raging through Manhattan and yet another headache coming on, it doesn t seem like Nelson will get an answer anytime soon. One thing s for sure, the tension between the three of them is thick enough to cut with a knife...even one of those dull plastic dealies that come in the package with Mannariffic EZ-Mealz. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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That said, there's a lot good about this novel. I am not at all sad I finally got around to reading it. It has a lot of creep factor and a lot of struggle through a city coming apart while navigating sudden potential connections with strangers. I loved the way circumstances shifted depending on which of the three points of view we were seeing. I loved how each character's handicaps and baggage skewed what they thought and did. It's interesting and entertaining and scary. I liked it. ( )