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Cargando... The Familiar: A Novel (edición 2024)por Leigh Bardugo (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Bardugo plunges into a world of seers and alchemists, holy men and hucksters, where the lines between magic, science, and fraud are never certain. She portrays the danger that the protagonist's Jewish blood will doom her to the Inquisition's wrath. Dark, historical, magic, and Leigh Bardugo…how bad can it be, right? Well, Bardugo’s new stand-alone book, The Familiar, feels exactly like that — Bardugo’s excellent writing, lots of magic, and a setting of 16th-century Spain. Luzia, a scullery maid who learned magic from her aunt accidentally allows her mistress to witness one of her “milagritos” setting off a series of events that ends with a magical contest for her life. The Familiar is dark, too long, and slightly over-written at points, but still worth reading for those who enjoy this type of novel. Can Leigh Bardugo do no wrong? After adoring her epic, action-packed Yale college campus novels Ninth House and Hell Bent starring the feisty Alex Stern, I was eager to read whatever she published next for adults. Plus, as someone drawn to fiction inspired by real historical events, I was particularly excited by this latest novel’s distinctly different setting and context. The Familiar is captivating and thought-provoking historical fiction first, and a fantasy novel second. I think this is an important point for those that might otherwise turn away due to the magical element. Yes, the magic is often centre stage, but Bardugo employs it as a tool to demonstrate and explore much deeper and weighty themes, such as the plight of minorities in society, the way those that are different are often demonised, and the fickle nature of power and influence. Once again, Leigh Bardugo’s talents for vivid depiction and superb ensemble character development shine so very bright in The Familiar. Continue reading: https://www.bookloverbookreviews.com/2024/04/leigh-bardugo-the-familiar.html Interesting fantasy involving Luzia, a scullery maid whose magic is something she tries to hide because Spain is in the throes of an inquisition and the difference between perceiving that powers come from God versus those invoked by the devil can be as capricious as a coin flip, or the whims of an inquisitor. Unfortunately, she has no choice in her fate as she's chosen to be one of four 'gifted' who will compete to become the holy poobah for the king. In the course of this madness, Luzia meets Santangel who alternately scares the dickens out of her, and brings out the inner snark that years of servitude tried to kill. What follows is a mix of high drama, treachery, some very hot moments between them, and an ending that doesn't quite have them sailing off into the sunset, but comes close. My first Leigh Bardugo book and I'm not sure I liked it. The writing is good (though perhaps too flowery in parts), but the story kind of drags, I didn't really like any of the characters, and I wasn't totally onboard with the love story. I mostly just wanted to get through it so I could move on to something else. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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