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Cargando... The Black Flame (1980)por Lynn Abbey
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. One of the issues with sequels is that if the first book ends happily, the author has to undo that happy ending for the next volume. At the end of the first volume Rifkind had settled down wth a man she thought she might love, but the leaves this behind in the second volume to go into a marsh and confront the black flame (no relation to the earlier sf novel of that name). A good adventure story. In some ways it has the flavor of a Conan novel, without Conan's more violent tendencies, or Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser stories. The lead character, Rifkind, is a strong female hero, portrayed without resorting to the beaten-to-death "men abused me! I hate men! That makes me strong!" motif. Lynn Abbey also doesn't resort to showing the other female characters as wilting flowers, they have their own strengths as well. The characters a little wooden for my taste, I don't really feel the growth of the characters or feeling of depth. Likewise, the plot is straightforward and purely an adventure story and employs a little too much of "this event or circumstance" saves the day. If you're looking for some sword and sorcery action without epic trappings or complications, this may be what you want. If you're looking for more complicated plots, strong characterization, or epic style fantasy, I recommend selecting a different book. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Award-winning author Gerelchimeg Blackcrane has written a compelling novel, set in Tibet, Mongolia and China, about the adventures of a fiercely powerful yet lovable Tibetan mastiff that is sure to join the ranks of other much-read classic dog stories. Kelsang, a Tibetan mastiff, is just a tiny puppy when his mother dies after a vicious fight with a snow leopard. Soon he comes to fill his mother's role as sheepdog for the master, Tenzin, his instincts teaching him how to herd the flock on the northern Tibetan grasslands. But one day when visitors see this huge, beautiful purebred, they ply Tenzin with drink and convince him to sell his dog. In no time Kelsang finds himself chained up in the back of a jeep traveling far from everything he knows. A series of adventures take Kelsang from the streets of Lhasa, where he fights with local street dogs, to brief refuge with an elderly painter, until he is once again cruelly held in captivity. But Kelsang escapes and meets Han Ma, a master who inspires his love and loyalty. Further adventures include protecting endangered antelope from poachers, warning of a devastating landslide, becoming a guard dog, bonding with a beautiful German shepherd and befriending blind children. But through it all Kelsang longs for the freedom of the grasslands, and so he is overjoyed when his master takes him to live in Inner Mongolia. And here Kelsang once again proves his heroic bravery and intelligence when he saves four children from perishing in a terrible snowstorm. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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As it is, we instead have another quest which lacks the motivation of the first book where she was in conflict with a powerful worshipper of the negative dark moon, who was manipulating politics in the country she ended up in after her desert tribe was wiped out by the other tribes. The swamp environment and the culture of the raft people in the current volume is well evoked and the descriptions of how Rifkind and her companion Jenny cope with it, and there is a tie-in to the first book when she discovers that an enemy is after the same thing as her but for evil purposes.
However I couldn't believe in Rifkind's sudden over-riding passion for the callow and non warrior rather weedy man she finds living in the place she has been seeking. Also fans of Turin, the horned horse, will be disappointed as he has far less to do in this book.
As with the first volume, this suffers from a convoluted and turgid writing style which deadens what would otherwise be action packed or suspenseful scenes.
I recently found out that Abbey finally published a third volume in 2006, about 25 years after The Black Flame, but on the basis of this volume and an extract she published on the internet, don't intend to read the final volume. ( )