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Bezig met laden... The Inquisitor's Apprenticedoor Chris Moriarty
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. To be completely honest: I don’t know a kid who would want to read this. The witchcraft aspect, which is supposedly the major storyline, is very quickly buried in the history of New York. Fans of historical fiction (like the American Girls series) keep reading for characters they can identify with and care about. I think the book is trying to be too many things, and therefore does none of them well. The plot bumbles around and spins its wheels, the witchcraft is given very short shrift, the characters aren’t developed well enough for the reader to really care about them… but overall, it is the feeling of being force fed history that is the biggest turnoff. In early twentieth-century New York, Sacha Kessler's ability to see witches earns him an apprenticeship to the police department's star Inquisitor, Maximillian Wolf, to help stop magical crime and, with fellow apprentice Lily Astral, Sacha investigates who is trying to kill Thomas Edison, whose mechanical witch detector that could unleash the worst witch-hunt in American history. Fantasy Meet Sacha Kessler...the Jewish Harry Potter! The day Sacha Kessler discovers that he can see witches is one of the worst days of his life. Sacha's magical abilities get him apprenticed to the New York City Police Department's star Inquisitor, Maximillian Wolf. Their first case is to find out who's trying to kill Thomas Edison! Le roman est court, dynamique, et se lit tout seul. Les personnages sont hauts en couleurs et attachants. On suit le héros durant son enquête dans différents quartiers de New York, où l’on croise des personnages historiques (Houdini, Thomas Edison, Theodore Roosevelt, etc.) dans des situations amusantes. L’univers est la période de transition au début de l’électricité. L’industrialisation — et la rationalisation qui l’accompagne — chasse peu à peu la magie, qui tombe en désuétude. Elle est omniprésente dans l’histoire, mais surtout en toile de fond. Bonus : les illustrations sont jolies. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Fantasy.
Suspense.
Young Adult Fiction.
HTML: The day Sacha found out he could see witches was the worst day of his life . . . Being an Inquisitor is no job for a nice Jewish boy. But when the police learn that Sacha Kessler can see witches, he's apprenticed to the department's star Inquisitor, Maximillian Wolf. Their mission is to stop magical crime. And New York at the beginning of the twentieth century is a magical melting pot where each ethnic group has its own brand of homegrown witchcraft, and magical gangs rule the streets from Hell's Kitchen to Chinatown. Soon Sacha has teamed up with fellow apprentice Lily Astral, daughter of one of the city's richest Wall Street Wizardsâ??and a spoiled snob, if you ask Sacha. Their first case is to find out who's trying to kill Thomas Edison. Edison has invented a mechanical witch detector that could unleash the worst witch-hunt in American history. Every magician in town has a motive to kill him. But as the investigation unfolds, all the clues lead back to the Lower East Side. And Sacha soon realizes that his own family could be accused of murder! Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Major props for the creativity - this is probably the only book ever written to combine a Dybbuk and Thomas Edison in more or less the same plot. Also, the magic feels well thought out with a clear culture of how magic is and isn't used and how this varies among the upper and lower classes. Finally, the tenement culture felt familiar and true to the historical nonfiction that I'm familiar with.
The weakness was the pacing - the entire book feels like a build up to the "to be continued" that occurs at the end. I think it probably would have been more satisfying to wait until the series was finished and read it all at one go. ( )