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Cargando... Goliathpor Scott Westerfeld
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I don't use the word "heteronormative" lightly, but..... (Ugh.) Apart from the increasingly annoying Certified 100% Heterosexual Relationship that Westerfeld made central to the story, this was pretty good. It really didn't need the romance driving it; "romance" mostly just tosses a hat over gaping ridiculous plot developments like I liked the characterization of Tesla, although maybe it helps that I find his adoring present-day fan club annoying. The social barriers Dylan ran up against, even with Dr. Barlow, were really painful to read. Maybe I took it too personally. I kept having flashes to [b:Monstrous Regiment|386371|Monstrous Regiment (Discworld, #31)|Terry Pratchett|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1347894977s/386371.jpg|25787074]; I would have loved to see how Dylan was going to keep living her dream, or how other women were dealing with things-as-they-were. Which begs the question, is Dylan going to keep living as a man? Some hints are certainly dropped in that direction. Isn't that going to create some sticky social issues if she and Alek pursue their romantic relationship? If so, Westerfeld isn't going to be the one to tell us about it. I've liked his work for a long time, his books are generally thoughtful and don't talk down to his young readers, but right now I am incredibly disappointed in him. Either he knew what he was doing with his queer subtext and was too cowardly to make it text/caved to the editors, or it was all just a joke to him. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Alek y Deryn se encuentran a bordo del Leviathan cuando se le ordena a la aeronave que recoja a un extraño pasajero. El brillante aunque loco inventor afirma que tiene un arma llamada Goliath que puede terminar la guerra, pero ¿en qué bando está el científico en realidad? Mientras se encuentran en esa misión secreta, Alek finalmente descubre el secreto de Deryn profundamente guardado, en realidad dos, puesto que Deryn no es solo una chica disfrazada de chico? sino que también siente algo por Alek. La corona, el amor verdadero que siente por una plebeya y la destrucción de una gran ciudad, todo ello espera el siguiente y último movimiento de Alek. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Set shortly after Behemoth, the British Air Service’s airship Leviathan is given orders to pick up “special cargo” in Russia as the war between the Darwinists (Britain, France, Russia) and the Clankers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Serbia) rages on. It is rumoured to be a formidable weapon that could irrevocably change the balance of power throughout the world.
Once the package is acquired, the orders are now to sail across the Pacific ocean and the United States (who are not yet involved in this war) to deliver it to New York. The Hearst media empire and Mexico’s Pancho Villa figure into the story in both a believable and cynical way.
Up to her usual heroics, Deryn finally gets seriously hurt after performing a daring feat of flying. Knowing it is the last book in the series, we feel real peril on her behalf. After all she has gone through in order to be in the British Air Service, is this now the end of her career? Will she cause the disgrace of her family and the entire British Admiralty when her secret is discovered?
Alek is pursuing his own single-minded agenda to end the war. He feels the personal responsibility deeply and does not consider either the counsel of his advisor Count Volger or the concerns of his men. He is also quite oblivious to Deryn’s affection for him.
In addition to the usual cast of characters, we are reintroduced to several of the characters from earlier in the series, each playing a pivotal role at points throughout the book.
In the first book, Dr. Barlow – granddaughter of Charles Darwin – is carefully nursing a set of eggs. In the second book, the eggs hatch and one of the animals “imprints” onto Alek. In this book, the animal, a perspicacious loris, is a prominent character never far from Alek’s side. It regularly repeats a word it has recently heard, chatters with the other loris, but has no effective contribution to the plot. These utterances, while occasionally interesting, rarely provide usable clues to what is going on or about to happen. As they are used it is more of a distraction to the reader.
This is the weakest of the three books, throwing improbable obstacles in the way of our two heroes. The resolution of the potential romance between Deryn and Alek is handled unevenly and given a hurried-feeling and a contrived resolution. Whereas the first two books were strongly character-driven, this has them act not in ways they normally would, but in ways they had to for the story.
I heartily recommend the series for any YA readers, steampunk fans, and lovers of intelligent, adventurous female heroes. ( )