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Bezig met laden... Sharp Teeth (2007)door Toby Barlow
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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. DNF after p116. There are things I really like about this book, I love the fact that when I picked it up I thought I was getting a gritty slice of life, only to find out it was a supernatural thriller. However, 100 pages in I'm finding it difficult to get through, even though I want to know what happens next. It might be because it's not so much poetry as broken prose, if you took out all the line breaks it would just read like a normal novel. It lacks the rhythm and beat that poetry needs. I plan to come back to this book and give it another shot, but for now it's just not what I'm looking for. fiction (crime werewolves/lycanthropes in modern Los Angeles). This is written in verse, but a reasonable, flowing type of verse rather than that forced, "I'm going to arrange words awkwardly on the page and then call it: poetry." Which I have seen way too many times in books. Not to worry, this one does a decent job of it. This increases the appeal for reluctant readers/teens (Alex Award winner!), though the action-packed supernatural plot should be enough. It's not super graphically violent compared to say, Jo Nesbo, but there are definitely violent acts in here that aren't dwelled upon overmuch, as well as references to "adult relations" and not infrequent swearing, and some drug activity. Barlow's free verse novel about the werewolves of L.A. may be a conceit, but I'll be damned if it isn't one that delivers. Could this book have succeeded as a prose novel? Of course it would have, but Barlow taps into powerful imagery that emphasizes the highs and lows, gore and tenderness that would not have struck home so effectively in a more typical prose format. I did not know what I was getting into at all with this one, I'd seen it on some year-end lists awhile back and remember it arriving and leaving the new rack at the library but hadn't picked it up. From the cover design I got the impression that it was a young adult horror book and I wasn't in the mood at the time. If I had picked up the book and flipped through the pages before checking it out and bringing it home I might have just put it back on the shelf. A free verse novel, about werewolves? But it works, trust me trust me trust me, it works. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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"An ancient race of lycanthropes has survived to the present day, and its numbers are growing as the initiated convince L.A.'s down and out to join their pack. Paying no heed to moons, full or otherwise, they change from human to canine at will--and they're bent on domination at any cost. Caught in the middle are Anthony, a kind-hearted, besotted dogcatcher, and the girl he loves, a female werewolf who has abandoned her pack. Anthony has no idea that she's more than she seems, and she wants to keep it that way. But her efforts to protect her secret lead to murderous results"--Publisher. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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The free verse works and works so well that you stop noticing it very quickly. The characters leap from the page (thankfully not for real: they bite) and teh story just gallops along at full speed. Incredible ( )