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Cargando... Uprooted (edición 2015)por Naomi Novik (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Uprooted - Novak 3 (generous) stars I was very impressed with Novak’s Spinning Silver, but this book disappointed me. My opinion may be partly influenced by my dislike of the audiobook. Lacking time to sit with a book I had hoped for an enjoyable audio. The reader’s Russian accent did add an authentic atmosphere, but ultimately it was painful to listen to her distorted halting pronunciation. I enjoyed the book a bit more when I was able to sit with the text. At least, I was able to speed up my pace through an overly long story. I do think the book was too long, but strangely, I also feel that it was underdeveloped. The source and rapid acquisition of Agnieszka’s magic is never really explained. She leaps from incompetent novice to world saver in the nick of time. Magic, of course. But, as a reader, it was hard to buy into it. The book is full of personal and political complications that appear with little development. I kept waiting for the puzzle pieces to fit together, but when they did I wasn’t sure how it happened. The ‘happy’ ending felt overly convenient and unlikely. I’m left with the opinion the Uprooted was a good first effort at a fairytale retelling. Spinning Silver is the work of a more experienced and skilled author. There wasn't anything objectively bad about this book, but it never gripped me. The writing was solid and the plot flowed quite well, but I found the Wood as an enemy pretty nebulous, even after you learn what it is, and magic in the book is completely arbitrary. In that sense, it is much more of a fairy tale than a fantasy novel. For that kind of story, elongated from short story to novel form, it's one of the best I've read.
Uprooted is not, as I thought it might be after those first three chapters, any of the following: a Beauty and the Beast story; a somewhat quiet tale about learning one’s magical abilities and negotiating a relationship with one’s teacher; or a story that includes intrinsically-gendered magic. What it is, is a kingdom-level fantasy with great magic and an engaging narrator—which packs a surprising amount of plot into its single volume. I recommend it highly. The pages turn and the Kindle screens swipe with alacrity. An early expedition into the Wood to rescue a long-missing Queen is particularly white-knuckle. Temeraire fans will be pleased to know that a superb tower-under-siege sequence demonstrates that Novik has lost none of her facility for making complex battle scenes clear and exciting. And Agnieszka remains a scrappy, appealing hero throughout. It’s just that one can’t help but be reminded that Novik’s Temeraire series will conclude next year as a nine-novel cycle and wonder why a writer so skilled at pacing a long, complicated chronicle over multiple books has crammed this story into one. It’s as if Novik is overcorrecting for the kind of Hollywood bloat that causes studios to split fantasy-novel adaptations into multiple films. Here, she packs an entire trilogy into a single book. Agnieszka’s corridors-of-power adventures in Polnya’s capital have kind of a middle-volume vibe to them, while some fascinating late-breaking revelations about the nature of the Wood definitely feel like they deserve their own dedicated installment. I felt this most particularly in Agnieszka’s evolution as a character. While it’s thrilling in the book’s final third to read about her taking control of her own magical identity as a latter-day Baba Yaga, it does feel as though it’s happened without giving her the opportunity to explore a few blind-alley identities on the way there. Contenido enTiene como estudio aPremiosDistincionesListas de sobresalientes
Agnieszka tiene un don: es capaz de romper, manchar o perder cualquier cosa que lleve puesta en cuestión de segundos. Vive en el valle con su familia y es feliz en su pequeño y asilvestrado hogar. Pero la maligna y retorcida presencia del Bosque se cierne desde hace años sobre todos ellos. Para protegerse, el pueblo confía en el poder de un misterioso mago conocido como el Dragón, el único capaz de controlar con su magia el poder del Bosque. A cambio de protección, pide una sola cosa: cada diez años podrá escoger a una chica y se la llevará a su torre, un destino casi tan terrible como caer presa del Bosque.El día de la elección se acerca y Agnieszka tiene miedo. Sabe —de hecho todo el mundo sabe— que el Dragón escogerá a Kasia, la más bonita, la más valiente de todas las aspirantes. Y, también, la mejor amiga de Agnieszka. Pero cuando el Dragón llega, para sorpresa de todos, no es a Kasia a quien señala…Un bosque corrupto.Un mago poderoso y solitario.Una joven cuyo poder lo cambiará todo… No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Novik's characters rub me the wrong way. I find it difficult to put my finger on it, but they are all just a little too precious, if that makes any sense. However, this was not as bad here as in Temeraire. Also I found the ending a bit anticlimactic, too easy and tidy after all the buildup.
Apart from that, however, the magic content, which is most of the book, is intense and outstanding, and the story is compelling and easy to enjoy. ( )