Tara Isabella Burton
Auteur van Social Creature
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Fotografie: Rose Callahan
Werken van Tara Isabella Burton
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Tagged
Algemene kennis
- Geboortedatum
- 1990
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Land (voor op de kaart)
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- New York, New York, USA
- Opleiding
- Trinity College, Oxford (PhD)
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Besprekingen
Lijsten
Our digital age (1)
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Statistieken
- Werken
- 9
- Ook door
- 3
- Leden
- 789
- Populariteit
- #32,272
- Waardering
- 3.4
- Besprekingen
- 46
- ISBNs
- 42
- Talen
- 5
I enjoyed some of the attempts to explore the appeal and danger of cults. The darker aspects of Avalon were weaved in subtly enough that I could see how the characters could justify or overlook them, while they still felt unsettling and built the tension for the reader. But the simplistic nature of the main characters and their rote development took something away from that. The story is all about what drives people away from their mundane lives and what entices them to believe the fantasies cults sell — in the case of Avalon, buying into the “magic” and believing yourself to be the savior or the fairy godmother to other suffering souls — and I would have liked stronger characters to show that off.… (meer)