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O Inescrito, Vol. 6: Tommy Taylor e a Guerra de Palavras Parte I
Peter Gross, Mike Carey
4.11 AVERAGE
79 reviews for:
O Inescrito, Vol. 6: Tommy Taylor e a Guerra de Palavras Parte I
Peter Gross, Mike Carey
4.11 AVERAGE
Upon second reading, this was fantastic! A ton if not all answers are given and they are good answers! More story to come and I'm excited to watch the characters exist in this world(s) that have been quite fleshed out.
mysterious
might be the best one yet?
might have given it 5*s but my conditions for 5 stars seem to have got stricter.
humm
living the Harry potter, Christianity, conspiracy theory craziness.
full marks for imagination.
might have given it 5*s but my conditions for 5 stars seem to have got stricter.
humm
living the Harry potter, Christianity, conspiracy theory craziness.
full marks for imagination.
December 2015: There is so much in this book I don't even know what to do with myself. I'd forgotten how FULL it is. It's easily double the size of the other volumes up until now. Maybe even triple. And it's clearly the lynchpin that the whole series turns on.
The first and most surface thing is that Tom is ready to go to war with the cabal. He believes he has to strike now because he has access to power, and because the cabal hasn't had time to plan against them yet. He believes if he waits longer, he will lose his shot. So they go in guns blazing to the heart of the Cabal in London. Things of course don't go as planned, because while it's true the cabal wasn't fully ready for him, they had some tricks up their sleeves that throw Tom and Co. for a loop.
And one of those loops even the Cabal doesn't understand, not even close. That loop is of course Pullman, who has been hiding in plain sight within his own organization as "hired muscle," but has secretly been pulling the strings the whole time. He has a 7,000 year hate on for Leviathan and the collective power that the minds of humanity when mingled with stories represent. He sees them as a burden, and wants nothing but to be free, and so for 7,000 years (ever since Leviathan fixed his eye on Pullman, and he has been able to die ever since, sustained by the stories that dog him like chains.
A large part of this volume (and my favorite part) are the between issues that delve into pieces of history, often with Pullman at their center. Little by little, piece by piece, we are seeing the full picture, who the players are, and what they really want. And of course what's most interesting to me, why it all *matters*. (In addition to Pullman and the history of the Cabal/Leviathan, we also get Mme. Rausch's backstory and the events of the battle from the perspective of one of the unknowing minions the Cabal employs. The volume actually ends with that dude being clued in and striking out on his own.)
And with that, I've officially reached the point where I know nothing. I can't wait to read the rest of the volumes later this month. New storriiiies.
October 2012: Another wonderfully whacked out installment of The Unwritten, and six months to wait for the next. Wish I would have re-read the previous volumes beforehand, though. The series is at the point where its mythology is starting to take over, and it took me a little while to remember exactly what had happened in Vols. 1-5. I'm sure I didn't even remember it all.
Anyways, this series is awesome.
The first and most surface thing is that Tom is ready to go to war with the cabal. He believes he has to strike now because he has access to power, and because the cabal hasn't had time to plan against them yet. He believes if he waits longer, he will lose his shot. So they go in guns blazing to the heart of the Cabal in London. Things of course don't go as planned, because while it's true the cabal wasn't fully ready for him, they had some tricks up their sleeves that throw Tom and Co. for a loop.
And one of those loops even the Cabal doesn't understand, not even close. That loop is of course Pullman, who has been hiding in plain sight within his own organization as "hired muscle," but has secretly been pulling the strings the whole time. He has a 7,000 year hate on for Leviathan and the collective power that the minds of humanity when mingled with stories represent. He sees them as a burden, and wants nothing but to be free, and so for 7,000 years (ever since
Spoiler
he was a main participant in one of the oldest stories in existence--Cain, killing his brother Abel) he's first tried to kill Leviathan, and then tried to co-opt its power.A large part of this volume (and my favorite part) are the between issues that delve into pieces of history, often with Pullman at their center. Little by little, piece by piece, we are seeing the full picture, who the players are, and what they really want. And of course what's most interesting to me, why it all *matters*. (In addition to Pullman and the history of the Cabal/Leviathan, we also get Mme. Rausch's backstory and the events of the battle from the perspective of one of the unknowing minions the Cabal employs. The volume actually ends with that dude being clued in and striking out on his own.)
And with that, I've officially reached the point where I know nothing. I can't wait to read the rest of the volumes later this month. New storriiiies.
October 2012: Another wonderfully whacked out installment of The Unwritten, and six months to wait for the next. Wish I would have re-read the previous volumes beforehand, though. The series is at the point where its mythology is starting to take over, and it took me a little while to remember exactly what had happened in Vols. 1-5. I'm sure I didn't even remember it all.
Anyways, this series is awesome.
Long term payoff to the max and double the page count of other trades, spoiled.
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I wasn't as happy with this volume as I have been with the rest of the series. The Big Battle with the Bad Guys is featured, and feels thin. I'm not sure where this is going. I may revise my opinion given the next book--the fact that there is supposed to be one, after what seemed like a pretty definitive ending, is really odd.
Origin stories galore, many questions answered, many more questions for future reads (Lizzie!!!!), amazing cliff hangers (Lizzie??), some of the most beautiful artwork yet, all rolled up in a series that is a love letter to literature, words, reading, and stories. Gimme more? Yes, puh-lease
More profoundly psychological as the villain from the previous volumes comes to a head. It will be really interesting to see where this goes next.
This! Is what I've been waiting for!! I mean, this series has been good before this. I was giving it 3 and 4 stars consistently. But, perhaps sometimes unfortunately for him, Carey wrote my favorite series ever [Lucifer] so I'm often sitting here going 'look this is good but I KNOW you can do better' when I'm reading his other stuff.
Anyway, this was absolutely amazing. This volume consists of 10 issues - 5 regular issues and 5 other issues [labeled #.5], with Tommy finally facing off against the Cabal in the regular ones and us getting some flashbacks to some of the cabal's origins in the other issues. There's a lot of great stuff happening here and a lot of great reveals [some that I figured out beforehand and some that I didn't]. The only thing I'm mildly worried about is if Carey can maintain this level of high stakes for the entirety of the remaining volumes, but he managed it with Lucifer so I'm cautiously optimistic.
I would like to put a warning here that one of the flashback issues [the one about the woman who uses the marionettes in the present] does contain pedophilia/underage rape, and even though it all happens off-screen I feel like people should be aware of it if they want to skip that issue. I almost took off a star because of it but overall I feel like it was handled better than it would have been in a lot of other series [although honestly it's just so unnecessary like why even put it in there seriously] so I decided to go with 5 stars anyway.
Anyway, this was absolutely amazing. This volume consists of 10 issues - 5 regular issues and 5 other issues [labeled #.5], with Tommy finally facing off against the Cabal in the regular ones and us getting some flashbacks to some of the cabal's origins in the other issues. There's a lot of great stuff happening here and a lot of great reveals [some that I figured out beforehand and some that I didn't]. The only thing I'm mildly worried about is if Carey can maintain this level of high stakes for the entirety of the remaining volumes, but he managed it with Lucifer so I'm cautiously optimistic.
I would like to put a warning here that one of the flashback issues [the one about the woman who uses the marionettes in the present] does contain pedophilia/underage rape, and even though it all happens off-screen I feel like people should be aware of it if they want to skip that issue. I almost took off a star because of it but overall I feel like it was handled better than it would have been in a lot of other series [although honestly it's just so unnecessary like why even put it in there seriously] so I decided to go with 5 stars anyway.