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Lily is a photojournalist in search of the "animal people" who supposedly haunt the city's darkest slums. Hank is a slumdweller who knows the bad streets all too well. One night, in a brutal incident, their two lives collide-uptown Lily and downtown Hank, each with a quest and a role to play in the secret drama of the city's oldest inhabitants. For the animal people walk among us. Native Americans call them the First People, but they have never left, and they claim the city for their own. Not only have Hank and Lily stumbled onto a secret, they've stumbled into a war. And in this battle for the city's soul, nothing is quite as it appears.… (meer)
I hadn't meant to read the Newford series out of order, but when I picked up this audiobook I hadn't been aware that it was a Newford book. However, once I started it, I fell in love with the story and didn't want to pause it again. I highly recommend this one, even if you haven't read the rest of the series. ( )
[Someplace to be Flying] is noted as the 8th in the Newford Series, and it was hard for me to believe I've read that many, usually just dipping in once or so a year - I want to savor these, as De Lint deserves to be though of as the true founder of the Urban Fantasy novel. This one centers on the Corvid (think crows, etc.) people who helped to establish the world we think of as real. Origin narratives play a large role in the book, weaving the mystical into a tapestry with the 'real' seamlessly. When a warring faction steals the chalice through which the 'real' world was created, the Corvids have to save the world - though it ends up being less about their own fate and more about the fate everyone else, including those who can't see. De Lint is always preaching, subtly, about making things better, holding things together, through self-realization. There are always sacrifices, but willing and noble ones. It feels that De Lint was really hitting his stride with this entry in the series.
I really enjoyed this book. It has all of the hallmarks of a great Charles de Lint novel. We have a disparate cast of characters who end up together by the climax to try to solve whatever problem has come up. We have fantastical elements in the form of beings from another place that is adjacent to ours, or came before ours, or exists on a separate plane from ours, who inhabit the world with us. They offer a glimpse into something more, if you can open your mind to the possibility. But these beings aren't trying to moralize, or guide humans. They have all of the same shortcomings that humans do, its just that things tend to get more interesting when you are a magical being. The climax of the book was a bit anticlimactic, but I was really more interested in the characters' journeys, and not necessarily some big end of the world event. I find that when you have all of these big epic events that happen all of the time (Doctor Who I'm looking at you), they become less affecting. I just can't summon up the energy to care every single time the world is going to end. But on that note, there was a possibility that the world could have ended in this book, or at least reverted to a time before humans. I was less interested in that part of the story than I was in the characters learning who they were and reckoning with their own histories. In that department, it fell a little short, but I still enjoyed the journey. ( )
To be honest, during the first few chapters I thought it was going to suck. (I mostly dislike the "urban fantasy" type books) but I was wrong. This was really very good, and I'll be looking for more of his books. ( )
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
So I asked the raven as he passed by, I said, "Tell me, raven, why'd you make the sky?" "The moon and stars, I threw them high, I needed someplace to be flying." —Kiya Heartwood, from "Wyoming Wind"
If men had wings and bore black feathers, few of them would be clever enough to be crows. — Rev. Henry Ward Beecher (mid-1800s)
It's a long long road it's a big big world we are wise wise women we are giggling girls we both carry a smile to show when we're pleased both carry a switchblade in our sleeves —Ani DiFranco, from "If He Tries Anything"
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
For Kiya yippee-ki-yi-yay
Eerste woorden
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Newford, Late August, 1996 The streets were still wet but the storm clouds had moved on as Hank drove south on Yoors waiting for a fare.
Citaten
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
You've got to spread out as far as you can, cut down a whole forest, irrigate a whole desert, just to make sure that you won't accidentally stumble upon a place that's still in its natural state.
Laatste woorden
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
And long after the coals of Cody's fire had burned down to ash, they were dancing still.
Lily is a photojournalist in search of the "animal people" who supposedly haunt the city's darkest slums. Hank is a slumdweller who knows the bad streets all too well. One night, in a brutal incident, their two lives collide-uptown Lily and downtown Hank, each with a quest and a role to play in the secret drama of the city's oldest inhabitants. For the animal people walk among us. Native Americans call them the First People, but they have never left, and they claim the city for their own. Not only have Hank and Lily stumbled onto a secret, they've stumbled into a war. And in this battle for the city's soul, nothing is quite as it appears.
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Very good, very well written. (