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C.J. Archer

Autor de The Watchmaker's Daughter

90+ Obras 4,193 Miembros 177 Reseñas 3 Preferidas

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Series

Obras de C.J. Archer

The Watchmaker's Daughter (2016) 502 copias
The Last Necromancer (2015) 302 copias
The Wrong Girl (2013) 186 copias
The Mapmaker's Apprentice (2016) 174 copias
Murder at the Mayfair Hotel (2020) 146 copias
The Apothecary's Poison (2017) 121 copias
The Magician's Diary (2017) 114 copias
The Palace of Lost Memories (2018) 109 copias
The Convent's Secret (2018) 98 copias
The Medici Manuscript (2023) 95 copias
The Charmer (2013) 92 copias
The Ink Master's Silence (2018) 84 copias
A Secret Life (2011) 84 copias
The Cheater's Game (2019) 73 copias
Honor Bound (2011) 71 copias
Beyond the Grave (2015) 65 copias
Her Majesty's Necromancer (2015) 57 copias
The Prisoner's Key (2019) 56 copias
The Untitled Books (2023) 56 copias
Grave Expectations (2016) 54 copias
The Imposter's Inheritance (2020) 53 copias
The Kidnapper's Accomplice (2020) 50 copias
Possession (2012) 49 copias
Ashes to Ashes (2016) 41 copias
Of Fate and Phantoms (2017) 40 copias
The Toymaker's Curse (2021) 38 copias
From the Ashes (2016) 38 copias
Veiled in Moonlight (2017) 36 copias
The Goldsmith's Conspiracy (2022) 36 copias
Murder in the Drawing Room (2021) 36 copias
Evermore (2012) 36 copias
The Spy Master's Scheme (2021) 34 copias
Vow of Deception (2017) 28 copias
The Wisdom of Madness (2018) 27 copias
Playing With Fire (2013) 27 copias
Heart Burn (2013) 25 copias
Courting His Countess (2013) 23 copias
The Echo of Broken Dreams (2018) 23 copias
Scandal's Mistress (2012) 21 copias
The Dead Letter Delivery (2024) 20 copias
Kiss of Ash (2011) 18 copias
To Tempt the Devil (2012) 17 copias
Ghost Girl (2015) 15 copias
The Prison of Buried Hopes (2020) 15 copias
The Memory Keeper (2014) 14 copias
Surrender (2012) 13 copias
Seared With Scars (2014) 12 copias
The Mercenary's Price (2011) 11 copias
The Return of Absent Souls (2020) 11 copias
Edge Of Darkness (1914) 10 copias
Redemption (2011) 10 copias
Banished (2015) 7 copias
The Sinner (2014) 6 copias
The Rebel (2013) 6 copias
My Soul To Take (2015) 6 copias
The Saint (2014) 6 copias
Traitor 1 copia

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Etiquetado

Conocimiento común

Otros nombres
Scott, Carolyn
Género
female
Nacionalidad
Australia
Lugar de nacimiento
Queensland, Australia
Lugares de residencia
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Ocupaciones
librarian
IT support
writer

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Reseñas

A very trite story with a narrative that focuses on too many plot points: is it a crime and intrigue saga? Is it a romance or a fantasy with magical abilities? Maybe some social justice in the aftermath of WWI and its impact on societal norms in England? Oh wait, it's an art heist with the murkiest of motives and cardboard characters with no thread of events to connect the dots. And thus the novel is fractured, suspending reader engagement with unresolved vignettes strung together. The final chapter did no favours to bring a satisfactory ending, either.… (más)
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SandyAMcPherson | 14 reseñas más. | Mar 15, 2024 |
Book 4 of the Glass Library series. Sylvia and Gabe are investigating her Mother's past. They discover a set of letters which hint that her Mother was being offered in marriage to the highest bidder by her father. Trying to find one of the potential suitors leads them to a mental hospital treating shell-shocked soldiers. Sylvia also finally comes to an acceptance of her paper magic and begins to learn spells.
ebook read 3/7/2024
 
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catseyegreen | otra reseña | Mar 8, 2024 |
I won't rate it since I didn't finish it. It started off good and I got sucked in, but somewhere, it went off the rails. I don't know if this was a me problem and I got lost in the characters. I was listening to this on audio, so that could be the case. But I realized, I didn't know who was who and then I realized I also didn't care about the mystery they were trying to solve. I decided it was just time to give up!
 
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Mav-n-Libby | 14 reseñas más. | Mar 4, 2024 |
The second book in The Glass Library fantasy series centers around the discovery of a book in code that might unlock some secrets about Sylvia's past. Sylvia came to London after the deaths of her brother and mother to try to find out about her heritage. Her mother kept the three of them moving from place to place all through her life and didn't share any information with her children about her own past. Her brother began to believe that they were the descendants of a silver magician. Sylvia wants to find out if this is true.

As a result of the influence of new friend Gabriel Glass, Sylvia is now working at a job she loves in the Glass Library which is a repository of books about magic. When a new book is discovered in the library's attic, Sylvia and her new friends try to find out the book's history and try to decipher its contents which are written in an unknown code.

This story is set in 1920 and does deal with a lot of the issues returning soldiers had. Shell shock and a sense of hedonism were just some of things soldiers brought home with them. And for women who had entered the workplace while the men were away, there is a sense of displacement as they lose their jobs and purposes when the men return. One of the characters mentions that he hadn't been sober since his demobilization, for example. Add in magic which has recently been rediscovered and which only a small percent of the population has, and this story becomes historical fantasy.

Gabriel is also in the process of ending his three-year engagement to the daughter of a magical family. He knows he made a mistake and isn't the man he was when he became engaged. However, his fiance Ivy isn't going to go quietly. Gabriel, the only son of a noble magical house, is quite a catch even though he believes that he has no magic himself.

When the book is stolen, Gabriel and Sylvia and their friends follow all sorts of clues and explore various parts of London before they manage to recover it. And an assortment of bright friends of Gabriel do manage a translation of what turns out to be medieval/early Renaissance gossip. Translating the book is sort of anticlimax since the key seems to be Sylvia discovering that she does have some sort of magic if not the silver magic her brother thought the family had.

This is the second book of a five-book series. It really doesn't stand alone well and needs to be read along with the other books in the series. I am eager to continue the series to find out what sort of magic Sylvia has and whether her budding relationship with Gabriel grows.
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kmartin802 | 4 reseñas más. | Mar 1, 2024 |

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Obras
90
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Miembros
4,193
Popularidad
#5,998
Valoración
½ 3.7
Reseñas
177
ISBNs
254
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