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Cargando... The Maker of Swanspor Paraic O'Donnell
   EU Fiction: 1950-2022 (120) Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.  Kiaya40 | Jun 19, 2023 |   I mostly kept reading this book to see if something interesting does actually happen. And it doesn't. Even the ending is boring. Add in language that is over the top, mostly used to evoke a different era, but without any sort of action, it just feels presumptuous. There are no high points, no low points, just sort of a dreary gray that doesn't really change. (  ) TheDivineOomba | Aug 4, 2022 | This is a strange book, where all is not as it seems. Not quite to the extent of Alice in Wonderland, but in a similar, less extreme vein. There is some beautiful, almost poetic writing and the characters feel like players in a period piece, such as Jane Eyre. In the opening scenes we meet Mr Crowe, whose behaviour is particularly heavy-handed and who sets in motion a series of events that he appears to have very little control over. His manservant, Eustace is left to pick up the pieces and attempt to minimise the damage, but eventually, Crowe is called to account by the creepy Dr Chastern and his nasty sidekick, Nazaire. Several questions are left unanswered, such as who really was Mr Crowe? He appears to be an elderly (centuries old?) author of sorts, who has lost his motivation and now spends his time in a rambling old house with a woman who he picked up at a night club. Two other people live with him - his mute ward, Clara, who also possesses mysterious powers, and the devoted Eustace. Eustace has his own backstory but this part I found less captivating. Ditto Clara's captivity, both of which form the second part of the book. I would have liked Clara to have had some backstory too. The ending was unfortunately a bit rushed, though maybe the author had backed himself into a corner by this time. For me it was the magic and mystery of the first half of the book that earned this novel its four stars. I don't think I would have enjoyed this story so much if I'd read it in hard copy but I was listening to an Audible version, which was beautifully narrated by Mike Grady and Imogen Wilde. My only niggle with the narration was that Ms Wilde did not have enough variation in her voices and so Nazaire sounded very much like Arabella. (  ) DubaiReader | Jan 6, 2017 | Did not hold my interest, sorry. I was given a digital cop of this book by the publisher Orion Publishing Group via Netgalley in return for an honest unbiased review. (  ) Welsh_eileen2 | Jan 23, 2016 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"In the dead of night, shots ring out over the grounds of a sprawling English estate. The world-weary butler Eustace recognizes the gunman-his longtime employer, Mr. Crowe-and knows he must think and act quickly. Who is the man lying dead on the lawn? Who is the woman in his company? Can he clean up his master's mess like he always has before? Or will this bring a new kind of reckoning? Mr. Crowe was once famed for his gifts-unaccountable gifts, known only to the members of a secretive order. Protected and privileged, he was courted by countesses and great men of letters. But he has long since retreated from that glittering world, living alone but for Eustace and Clara, his mysterious young ward. He has been content to live quietly, his great library gathering dust and his once magnificent gardens growing wild. He has left the past behind. Until now. Because there are rules, even for Mr. Crowe and his kind, that cannot be broken. And this single night of passion and violence will have consequences, stirring shadows from the past and threatening those in his care. He and the faithful Eustace will be tested as never before. So too will Clara, whose own extraordinary gifts remain hidden, even from herself. If she is to save them all, she must learn to use them quickly and unlock the secret of who she is. It is a secret beyond imagining. A secret that will change everything"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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This story is about Mr. Crowe, who is magical/has magic, his servant Eustace, and Clara, who is their ward, and she has magical powers to create living things. Mr. Crowe kills someone, and Eustace has to protect Clara. Clara, a mute, has an interesting world of her own, and Eustace also proves to be interesting as we learn more about him. Thanks so much to Tin House for letting me read and review this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
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