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Bezig met laden... Singer of Souls (2005)door Adam Stemple
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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. SLJ Reviews 2005 October Website: http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com Adult/High School -Douglas Stewart, 22, has two obsessions: guitar-playing and heroin. He has recently broken the hold the narcotic has on him but realizes that he needs to get far away from his old life in Minneapolis if he has any hope of staying clean. He flies to Edinburgh and the sanctuary that his grandmother offers. Finding that busking is a viable profession there, he uses his gift for on-the-spot composing to establish a comfortable income among tourists. But an encounter with a mysterious young woman leaves him with a vial of white powder that he can not resist. Injecting the substance does not give him the expected high; rather, it opens his eyes to the vast populations of fey folk on the streets of the city. Suddenly, he is caught up in a battle between two factions of magical creatures that have been warring for countless generations. Add to the mix a sadistic priest devoted to eradicating all such beings and the fact that Douglas's talent gives him a power in the netherworld that he barely understands and the ingredients for a highly original adventure are in place. Faintly reminiscent of Ash in the cult film Army of Darkness , Douglas is an antihero whose tragic flaws make readers root for him that much harder. Stemple blends the majesty and brutality of the faery world with the grit and pulse of contemporary society. He writes with an assurance that belies the fact that this is his first adult novel and shows himself to be a voice to be reckoned with-and much anticipated.-Kim Dare, Fairfax County Public Library System, VA I saved this book from a trash bin - was actually a decent read. Stemple did a good job for his first attempt at writing. The story invovles a druggie with musical talent and hidden power - not a new idea but decently written. Overall a simple but enjoyable read, not something i'd read more than once though. But entertaining enough i'm checking out what else Adam Stemple has written. This one started really well, and turned into a disappointing mess at the end. It blends scottish culture with a knowledge of music and manipulated fairy folk. The problem is the ending - what the heck was the author thinking? The ending was either a very rushed mess or very subtle foreshadowing for the sequal. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Leaving his life of petty crime and drug abuse behind, young Douglas flees from Minneapolis to Edinburgh, Scotland, to his stern but fairminded Grandma McLaren, who will take him in if he can support himself. Fortunately, few cities are friendlier than Edinburgh to a guitarist with a talent for spontaneous rhyme, and soon Douglas is making a decent living as the busker who can write a song about you on the spot. But Edinburgh has its dangers for the unwary. The annual arts festival, biggest in Europe, draws all manner of footloose sorts, and when a mysterious but alluring young girl offers him drugs, Douglas's resolve fails him. What follows isn't what he expects. Suddenly, Douglas can see, in all their beauty and terrifying cruelty, the fey folk who invisibly share Edinburgh's ancient streets. Worse, they can see him, and they're determined to draw him into their own internecine wars--wars that are fought to the death. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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The descriptions of violence throughout the book were somewhat more graphic than I prefer, and it got worse at the end.
Since it looks like the sequel doesn't directly continue the protagonist's story, I doubt I'll read it. ( )