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Cargando... Midnight is a Place (1974 original; edición 2002)por Joan Aiken
Información de la obraMidnight Is a Place por Joan Aiken (1974)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. The author, Joan Aiken, has a writing style that appealed to me as a child, but as an adult it still has me turning the pages of her books with alacrity, wondering how each situation will be resolved. There is only a little foreshadowing, too, though the younger reader might miss subtle references altogether. Good characters, twisty plots, and enough descriptions to illustrate the tale without bogging it down. I was interested to read this view of Blastburn, as compared to the Blastburn/Holdernesse/Playland in Is Underground. This is a far more realistic story than Is's - no magical thought messages or anything like that, just fraud, extortion, vicious pranks and plots, and a grim, dark setting. Plus, well, a couple kids - upper-class kids, at that - managing for themselves after every adult responsible for them is either dead, injured, or deliberately rejecting them - not very realistic, but still well-presented. For all that, there's hope - there's people who love one another, people striving to achieve their dreams and to help others to the same achievement, and a hopeful - not happy, but hopeful - ending. I can't quite see this Blastbourne turning into Is's - at least, not once Holdernesse turns out to be nice guy - but give it a generation or two and just about anything could happen. But then I'd have expected to find some Bells or Murgatroyds around the old town. Good story, and probably more worth rereading than most of the Wolves series proper. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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