Sunday, 3 August 2014

Harry Potter- a travel back in time



Harry Potter- a travel back in time

I am trying to be up to date with my reviews, so you can be surprised that I am writing about such an old book series. The reason is simple- I’ve decided to re-read it, because of re-edit of the books’ covers.

General story info

I can bet that most of you already know it, so feel free to skip this paragraph. However, if you somehow managed to cover from the magic madness, I will write a few words about the plot. When we meet Harry Potter, he is an ordinary 11 year old boy, who is being treated badly by his uncle and aunt, which are raising him. Why he has no parents? Because his parents were wizards, killed by the most evil wizard, named Voldemort.  Harry’s life changes when he gets the letter from Hogwarts- the school of witchcraft. He is going to study there, meet some new friends and what’s the most important- take the most important part in the magic world’s war! If you got this far in the description, you’ve probably haven’t read it- you can download the books here as quick as possible, muggle! http://www.best-free-ebooks.com/fiction/harry-potter-ebooks-free-download/

What do I think about it?

When I hear my friends getting excited about various fantasy books for their children, I always say the same- “It’s not better than Harry Potter for sure”.  Reading it for the countless time recently made me even more confident  about this statement. The books are well written and fun at one time. When my child will be old enough, I will make him read them because of one more reason- there teach the readers about the most crucial things in life, including the power of friendship, the matter of honor and many more. If I would star rate my reviews on this site, HP books would get 11 out of 10 possible stars.

Thursday, 31 July 2014

Half A king



General Info

Ronnie urged Half a King to me, and it since I've another friend who enjoys your adult fantasy novels, it appeared like an excellent idea to give this, your first YA fantasy novel, an attempt.

Place of action

Half a King (novel one in the Shattered Sea trilogy) takes place in a society inspired by that of the Vikings and begins with Yarvi, the second son of the King of Gettland, about to take a test that'll strip him of his standing and make him a minister.

Yarvi is now the rightful king, but because of his disability, he is seen by many in his ableist society as just half a man, half a king. Yarvi himself has internalized this view of himself (to a degree I found challenging--more on this later), and is intimidated by the thought of attempting as his father must now do to avenge him and brother's deaths and ascending to the throne.

With Odem's mother and his uncle he guiding him, Yarvi shortly becomes betrothed to his cousin Isriun. He also swears an oath to avenge the deaths of brother and his father, and then he and his uncle, together with Hurik, his mum's guard, sail to fight Grom-gil-Gorm's folks.

The Raid

In the raid on the kingdom of their enemy, Hurik and Odem turn on Yarvi, revealing that they mean to kill him. Yarvi falls into the sea and is assumed drowned, but he comes at Gromgil Gorm's feet. Yarvi recognizes in order to lure Yarvi's father and brother for their departures that his uncle made up the peace offer from Grom gil Gorm. To save his skin and survive to carry his oath of payback out on its authentic target, Yarvi feigns to be a cook's son and is sold into slavery.

Yarvi is bought by a ship's captain as an oar slave. On the boat, Yarvi presents himself as Yorv to his two oar mates and fellow slaves Jaud and Rulf. Yarvi bides his time, praying for the opportunity do and to escape his revenge on his uncle. Finally, though fraught with danger, this kind of opportunity does arrive....


Half a King has strengths that impressed me and weaknesses. I'll start with what I enjoyed.

The best part of the publication was the middle section Yarvi escapes slavery and finds a group of allies with whom he bonds. Whom don't know why but while I don't find adversity at all appealing to live through, I truly love novels in which characters have to endure in challenging conditions and discover endurance and strength that they never knew they'd. This part of the novel had all that and I appreciated it a great deal.

 My mind

The depictions did not always strike me as fully believable, but I do not believe the characters were entirely meant to. The novel is written in a language that appears suitable to legends, and the characters are mostly appropriate to legends too. I didn't enjoy all the characters but the characters were practically all memorable and colorful.
Whatever one thinks whether one likes it or does not enjoy it (it took whom of getting used to), one can't deny that it is vivid and descriptive. It feels purposeful in its musicality, which isn't the case with every novel.

This was something I loved since whom'm normally able to expect surprises. When whom say the turns are big, I mean they are the kind of twists that cast the entire book in a new light. Whom could envision reading it with a fresh understanding I didn't have the first time, and appreciating it in a different way, if it were not for the frustrations I encountered.
Of these frustrations, the largest was the manner Yarvi's impairment was depicted. Since Yarvi was born with his twisted and feeble hand, he has had his entire life to accept this fact. But unbelievably, he hasn't. Throughout a good portion of the book, himself wishes, over and over, for "Two great hands." It is almost a refrain of his, and it did not take me long to get fed up.
Whom needed Yarvi to get over his self pity that was ableist and move on, find something interesting and active to do in the story and being victimized. Himself does but it took a good hunk of the publication to get there, and whom gave serious thought to stopping because of it.

Sunday, 27 July 2014

And Call Me in the Evening book review



My Personal Impression

When I saw the sequel was outside, I was quite excited because I had quite fond memories of the first novel in the series, And Call Me each morning. For various reasons I described in my own recent review, the first novel didn't work well for me on re-read as it did back in 2010. I am always a bit nervous when a novel I've enjoyed gets a sequel - Can it live up to the prior experience? Unfortunately in this instance, it supplied more of the same rather than anything overall and new, it ended up being a disappointment.
 

Jet Lag

The difficulty for me through the book, was it felt more like it'd been maybe one year since the first book, not five. Five years into a relationship I might have expected most of Eli and the problems Zane experience and been dealt with.



 

Little look on the plot 


Both Eli and Zane became ill were air-lifted out, and when working in Brazil, the result of drinking bad water and repatriated to Chicago. Zane is back on the job and has mostly recovered, Eli is a little unstable and it appears Immaculate Grace are unlikely to find him work when he's prepared. Eli has had of going overseas to practice enough - he desires to remain home. But he also wants to be with Zane and he decides he'll continue to follow Zane wherever he'll go because that's what is most important to him. Rather than, you know, have a dialogue about it.

Taye and Richie are having some problems also - I found these quite vague and finally unsatisfying.

Out of the blue, Marybeth (Eli's ex-wife) starts texting him and needs to meet up. Eli finally Zane sees holly keeps ignoring the texts and and contradiction ensues. I didn't really comprehend this. I didn't get it was a secret, why Eli did not only call the girl and find out what was what. The texts what, coming seemingly from nowhere, seemed curiously familiar and kind of sexual and there was no set up or the previous novel because of this to be thus.

Tuesday, 22 July 2014

Quick thoughts about the 50 Shades Of Grey Trilogy



General info

I’ve read all the three books and I don’t regret buying those books too much. I won’t write too much about the plot- it’s just a typical, ordinary story. Young girl with low self esteem falls in love with rich and handsome guy with issues. There many negative opinions about those books, but I don’t agree with most of them. Nobody told that it’s one of more ambitious piece of arts. It’s a normal love story with some action.

Controversies

A lot of people claims that these are the bad examples of how bedroom relations between 2 people can look like. To my mind, that’s not true. From the very beginning of the story, this couple is in love and they express their feelings by making love. They care about each other and about their needs. And this is not so common.

Main character

The thing that I like about Ana is her habit of making talks with her “inner self”. Unfortunately, apart from that she is a type of a book character which is extremely popular recently- a boring one. I prefer heroes that are more interesting, self-confident, strong… Just interesting.