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Julia Gray

Auteur van The First Named

38+ Werken 2,310 Leden 14 Besprekingen

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Bevat de naam: Julia Gray

Bevat ook: Jonathan Wylie (1)

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(eng) Julia Gray is a pseudonym of Mark and Julia Smith, who also write as Jonathan Wylie.

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Werken van Julia Gray

The First Named (1987) 273 exemplaren
The Centre of the Circle (1987) 224 exemplaren
The Mage-born Child (1988) 200 exemplaren
The Lightless Kingdom (1989) 138 exemplaren
The Dark Moon (2000) 134 exemplaren
The Age of Chaos (1989) 121 exemplaren
Shadow Maze (1992) 111 exemplaren
Dream-weaver (1991) 94 exemplaren
The Crystal Desert (2001) 93 exemplaren
The Jasper Forest (2001) 91 exemplaren
Ice Mage (1998) 90 exemplaren
The Red Glacier (2002) 90 exemplaren
Alyssa's Ring (2002) 83 exemplaren
Fire Music (1999) 53 exemplaren

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Geslacht
female
Relaties
Smith, Mark [8] (contributor to shared pen name Julia Gray)
Ontwarringsbericht
Julia Gray is a pseudonym of Mark and Julia Smith, who also write as Jonathan Wylie.

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Fantasy Novel, Start of a Series in Name that Book (oktober 2010)

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Ada Byron has a disreputable genius of a father and a restrictive mother. Her father lives abroad and dies when she is young but Ada inherits some of his instability as well as her mother's skill for mathematics. Ada longs to break free of society and become that new thing, a scientist, but she has a path mapped out for her by society. When she meets an inventor called Babbage, Ada is inspired and then realises that she can improve his ideas.
I was asked to read this book with a view for it to be taken up in a school reading programme and I do intend to recommend it. The language is age appropriate and the story very much appealing to the 'Bridgerton' fans with added science. Gray is unable to avoid the scandal associated with Byron himself but it is handled sensitively.… (meer)
 
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pluckedhighbrow | Aug 17, 2023 |
The last in the Servants of Ark trilogy, this book, again, takes place a generation after the previous one. We meet Yve, an exceptional female wizard, and her familiar, a dragon who only halfway exists in this world. The characters and situations that the book mentions are interesting enough, but the characters never really come to life, and events are repeatedly just left kinda hanging.... Yeah, the world has to be saved, or destroyed, or something, but I just wasn't feeling it.
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AltheaAnn | Feb 9, 2016 |
It's got princes, a good wizard, a prophecy, a feisty princess, a mystical sword, outlaws, and an evil sorceress who takes over the kingdom.
Need I say more?
It's a quick read, fairly inoffensive, even mildly entertaining. But there are absolutely no original twists to the basic 'fantasy' story here. And the authors' (Wylie is a pseudonym for a husband/wife team) insistence on being relentlessly lighthearted in tone is occasionally disturbing. (Normally, people don't keep on merrily trucking along, cracking jokes and saying, "well, we've got to move on" directly after their betrothed/brother/friend/etc is killed.) The characters have no depth of emotional involvement - and neither will the reader. I probably won't remember anything that happened in this book shortly.… (meer)
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AltheaAnn | Feb 9, 2016 |
While I thought the first book in this trilogy was rather extraordinarily bad, in this sequel, the team-that-is-Jonathan-Wylie is back in stride. While certainly not exceptional literature, this is a perfectly acceptable fantasy adventure.
In the island nation of Ark, it's a generation later. The evil sorceress Amarino was defeated by King Mark, but now her daughters are coming of age, and a long-term plan of evil magic may come to fruition. It's Prince Luke's turn to save the land... but he seems to have fallen in love with one of Amarino's daughters...
Nothing too deep or challenging here, and a lot of the plot elements could be better thought-out or explained, but an entertaining-enough book.
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Werken
38
Ook door
1
Leden
2,310
Populariteit
#11,114
Waardering
½ 3.3
Besprekingen
14
ISBNs
83
Talen
4

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