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Bezig met laden... Spellswept (2018)door Stephanie Burgis
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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.   ) Harks | Dec 17, 2022 |   ) Cerestheories | Nov 8, 2021 | I greatly appreciate the cover making it clear that our main character, Amy, is a woman of color. There was a brief mention of her dark skin in the story, but not much more than that. I guess in such a short piece not much more was needed, but it does help my mental images of the characters in this alternate world. ( ) ca.bookwyrm | Dec 12, 2020 |  ) quondame | Sep 21, 2020 | One enchanted evening to change the world! I’ve just finished reading this, the prequel to the Harwood Spellbook series. It was a good point to time it; it was published between Snowspelled and Thornbound and I read it with the foreknowledge of the first two books. This novella sets in motion the events that lead to those stories. Amy Standish is a wealthy orphan. Although she has always been treated well by her relatives, she has has been shunted from family to family all her life so she is determined that she will find her own place in the world and hold it hard. To this end she takes as her mentor the best politician in the Anglish Bouddicate, Miranda Harwood, and joins her household which includes her daughter, thirteen year old Cassandra, and her son Jonathan. This novella takes place in the underwater ballroom on the evening when all Amy’s ambitions (political and otherwise) are about to be realised. The recurring themes that I especially I like in this series are the way Burgis incorporates a continuing romance rather than the first falling in love and how she shows the strength of a family standing together: Amy had always known she would do anything to protect her family whenever and wherever she found them. But she’d never imagined just how much they would do for her. A good addition to the series and just as well worth reading. 4 stars ( )1  humouress | Apr 14, 2020 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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"A niftily done short romance in a satisfyingly gender-role-reversed world."- K.J. Charles, author of Spectred IsleIn the world of the Harwood Spellbook, 19th-century Angland is ruled by a powerful group of women known as the Boudiccate - but in order to become a member of that elite group, any ambitious young politician must satisfy tradition by taking a gentleman mage for her husband.Amy Standish is a born politician...but Jonathan Harwood is her greatest temptation. On the night of the Harwoods' Spring Solstice Ball, in an underwater ballroom full of sparkling fey lights and danger, Amy will have to fight the greatest political battle of her life to win a family and a future that she could never have imagined.It will take an entirely unexpected kind of magic to keep everything from crashing down around her.Warning: this novella contains forbidden romance, dangerous magic, and political intrigue in an underwater ballroom. What could possibly go wrong?Published first in the anthology The Underwater Ballroom Society on April 30th, 2018, and then republished as an individual e-book and paperback on October 30th, 2018."Spellswept by Stephanie Burgis somehow makes room for EPIC ROMANCE and ADORABLE FAMILY LOVE and MENTORSHIP and POLITICS and MAGIC and CHANGING SOCIETY and I think I actually squeed aloud at several points because it's JUST. SO. LOVELY."- Starship Library"Stephanie Burgis is a fresh new voice and I can't wait to see what she does next."Ilona Andrews Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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 Google Books — Bezig met laden...GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyWaarderingGemiddelde: (3.73)
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