![]() ![]() I really don’t want to give away any spoilers, but here’s a few tips on how to read it. ![]() ![]() It’s that rare book with great depths to ponder, but you read it in 24 hours. It deals with important topics like misuse of power, but in the most powerful way: through the story. Piranesi plays with contrasts: ancient versus modern consciousness, freedom versus bondage, contemplation versus action. I was telling a friend, “It’s like a mystery… noooo, more of a suspense…. That’s a pretty eclectic list, I know, but this is a book that keeps you guessing. If you love fantasy, or mystery, or art, or fairy tales, or books about social issues, you’ll probably enjoy this book. Well, if you have a high schooler they might like it too, but mostly I’m thinking of moms here. To be clear, this book is for you, mom, not your kids. Probably I mostly like it because the author is clearly playing with a Magician’s Nephew theme and you all may have noticed that I’ve never outgrown my childhood love of Narnia. It’s well-written, superbly plotted, and has just the right amount of nods to the classics without coming across as trying too hard. Piranesi is that rare contemporary book I can wholeheartedly recommend to all my friends with no reservations. I’ve ragged on a few New York Times Bestseller’s recently, so I wanted to share one I did love. ![]()
0 Comments
![]() Stunningly romantic, Lauren Blackwood's heartstopping debut, Within These Wicked Walls, ushers in an exciting new fantasy voice.Ī Macmillan Audio production from Wednesday Books But leaving Magnus to live out his curse alone isn't an option because-heaven help her-she's fallen for him. Death is the most likely outcome if she stays, the reason every debtera before her quit. If Andromeda wants to earn a living, she has no choice.īut she quickly realizes this is a job like no other, with horrifying manifestations at every turn, and that Magnus is hiding far more than she has been trained for. ![]() and that almost a dozen debtera had quit before her. Never mind that he's rude and demanding and eccentric, that the contract comes with a number of outlandish rules. When a handsome young heir named Magnus Rochester reaches out to hire her, she takes the job without question. Now her only hope of steady work is to find a Patron-a rich, well-connected individual who will vouch for her abilities. ![]() She would be hired, that is, if her mentor hadn't thrown her out before she could earn her license. What the heart desires, the house destroys.Īndromeda is a debtera-an exorcist hired to cleanse households of the Evil Eye. ![]() "Lauren Blackwood's can't-miss debut is a magical, Ethiopian-inspired remix of Jane Eyre." - Harper's Bazaar ![]() ![]() ![]() Though the book, with its array of perspectives and its interest in the ways in which the past lives on in the present, hardly marked a radical departure from McCann’s previous four novels, it earned him universal critical acclaim, a National Book Award, and the big audience that had hitherto eluded him. ![]() It wasn’t, however, until his fifth entry in this project, the 2009 novel Let the Great World Spin, that McCann was widely hailed as a visionary. ![]() HOW TO EXPRESS an ancient truth in a new way? This is one of the more fundamental questions facing the author those who succeed in answering it are said to possess “vision.”įor almost two decades, Colum McCann has labored at a very old truth indeed: that the burdens of the past condition the present. ![]() |