Intisar Khanani
Autor de Thorn
Sobre El Autor
Series
Obras de Intisar Khanani
Dragon Slayer Number 9 5 copias
Swift the Chase 1 copia
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Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 20th Century
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Wisconsin, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia - Educación
- Johns Hopkins University (Master of Public Health)
- Biografía breve
- Intisar Khanani grew up a nomad and world traveler. Born in Wisconsin, she has lived in five different states as well as in Jeddah on the coast of the Red Sea. She first remembers seeing snow on a wintry street in Zurich, Switzerland, and vaguely recollects having breakfast with the orangutans at the Singapore Zoo when she was five. She now resides in Cincinnati, Ohio, with her husband and two young daughters. Prior to becoming a full time mom (and writer), Intisar wrote grants and developed projects to address community health with the Cincinnati Health Department, which is was close as she could get to saving the world. Her approach to writing fantasy reflects her lifelong passion for stories from different cultures. She is currently writing a trilogy set in the same world as Thorn. This is her first novel.
Miembros
Debates
Standalone Group Read - September - Thorn by Intisar Khanani en The Green Dragon (septiembre 2014)
Reseñas
The Bone Knife por Intisar Khanani
Intisar Khanani is a talented writer with strong characterisations. This was a good prequel to become aware of the backstory in The Theft of Sunlight.
½
Unlike Thorn, this book is not a close riff on a known fairy tale but explorations of the non-fairytale aspects of the world built for Thorn. Children have been disappearing for around 30 years and the few who are found require a Blessing which removes recent memory in order not to succumb to the Darkness, so investigations have discovered little. Amraeya ni Ansarim, known as Rae, goes to help a cousin who has married "up" into the court to see if she can encourage those more powerful to increase investigations. Rae herself, has a vital secret to protect and with a misinformed foot and plain looks, knows she will be disadvantaged in the court settings. What she doesn't expect is that she also has advantages which will propel her near the highest and most dangerous levels of court.
Well told and moving well, this clearly becomes the first half of a larger story when the stakes are upped enormously too far into the story for any satisfactory resolution, and indeed, we are left hanging from a cliff. Significant ding for introduction of unneeded somewhat jarring romance elements.… (más)
Well told and moving well, this clearly becomes the first half of a larger story when the stakes are upped enormously too far into the story for any satisfactory resolution, and indeed, we are left hanging from a cliff. Significant ding for introduction of unneeded somewhat jarring romance elements.… (más)
I don't know why more people are not talking about this author. She is absolutely wonderful and her writing has a purity that is refreshing.
This book was quite good, but way, way too short. I need it to be one of those 10 pound, over 1000 page tomes of epic fantasy. I look forward to more installments and will preorder every one. I'm off to see what else she's written. I am her newest fan.
This book was quite good, but way, way too short. I need it to be one of those 10 pound, over 1000 page tomes of epic fantasy. I look forward to more installments and will preorder every one. I'm off to see what else she's written. I am her newest fan.
Thorn (book 1 in Dauntless Path) was excellently plotted and the main character (Aylrra) was such a splendid protagonist, so I was predisposed for the chief protagonist in book 2, Rae, to follow on as a well-imagined MC, just as she was in the author's prequel novella, The Bone Knife. Twas not to be.
The Theft Of Sunlight started well-enough and Rae's escapades as one of the Princess' attendants were intriguing for the first two-thirds of the story, even though some hair-raising actions increased the suspense and added quite edgy situations. Up to this point, the novel was a 3.5-not-yet-4 rating. Then the continuity in keeping with the characterizations of Rae and to some extent, supporting characters, fell apart.
Unusual for me, I figured out who the main villain was a lot sooner than the story revealed. While that didn't detract from the adventure, it was the author's clumsy handling of the last quarter of the story that I rate as about a 2-star. From this point on, the ending was predictable and the actions that brought Rae to such a pass entirely contrived. The plotting could have been handled much more adroitly, keeping Rae a sensible, smart, and aware actor instead of presenting the reader with an easily deluded girl, then throwing the story over to an abrupt cut at the end. Such a writing fail was not enticing for seeking out book 3.
Whatever readers decide about book 2, I do highly recommend The Bone Knife as a prequel novella before reading the second book in Dauntless Path series. Readers will then be better connected to the people and understand some of the events in The Theft Of Sunlight .… (más)
The Theft Of Sunlight started well-enough and Rae's escapades as one of the Princess' attendants were intriguing for the first two-thirds of the story, even though some hair-raising actions increased the suspense and added quite edgy situations. Up to this point, the novel was a 3.5-not-yet-4 rating. Then the continuity in keeping with the characterizations of Rae and to some extent, supporting characters, fell apart.
Unusual for me, I figured out who the main villain was a lot sooner than the story revealed. While that didn't detract from the adventure, it was the author's clumsy handling of the last quarter of the story that I rate as about a 2-star. From this point on, the ending was predictable and the actions that brought Rae to such a pass entirely contrived. The plotting could have been handled much more adroitly, keeping Rae a sensible, smart, and aware actor instead of presenting the reader with an easily deluded girl, then throwing the story over to an abrupt cut at the end. Such a writing fail was not enticing for seeking out book 3.
Whatever readers decide about book 2, I do highly recommend The Bone Knife as a prequel novella before reading the second book in Dauntless Path series. Readers will then be better connected to the people and understand some of the events in The Theft Of Sunlight .… (más)
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