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malapatasg's review against another edition
Abandonado a la mitad.
En algún sitio lo vendían como un Juego de Tronos, pero más bien es un culebrón de los de después de comer. Como en todo culebrón que se precie los protagonistas son muy atractivos. Y el que no es directamente repulsivo (y, por supuesto, malvado). Los personajes están definidos por una pulsión, normalmente la ambición, que los define y a partir de la cual se explica su comportamiento. Y no busques más profundidades ni matices en su comportamiento (al menos hasta la mitad del libro no he visto ninguna).
Pero lo que ha terminado por hacerme decidir abandonarlo son algunas escenas, como todo buen culebrón, tremendamente sobreactuadas. En particular se me ha quedado grabado un mano a mano padre/hijo en una cancha de balonmano... No tengo palabras.
No sé si la historia dará mucho más de sí, si me estoy perdiendo un final épico o si sólo es una sucesión de golpes de efecto. Pero la verdad es que, llegado hasta aquí, ya ha dejado de importarme. Abandonado.
En algún sitio lo vendían como un Juego de Tronos, pero más bien es un culebrón de los de después de comer. Como en todo culebrón que se precie los protagonistas son muy atractivos. Y el que no es directamente repulsivo (y, por supuesto, malvado). Los personajes están definidos por una pulsión, normalmente la ambición, que los define y a partir de la cual se explica su comportamiento. Y no busques más profundidades ni matices en su comportamiento (al menos hasta la mitad del libro no he visto ninguna).
Pero lo que ha terminado por hacerme decidir abandonarlo son algunas escenas, como todo buen culebrón, tremendamente sobreactuadas. En particular se me ha quedado grabado un mano a mano padre/hijo en una cancha de balonmano... No tengo palabras.
No sé si la historia dará mucho más de sí, si me estoy perdiendo un final épico o si sólo es una sucesión de golpes de efecto. Pero la verdad es que, llegado hasta aquí, ya ha dejado de importarme. Abandonado.
alexandrapierce's review against another edition
5.0
This book was provided by the publisher at no cost.
Um. Wow.
Jonathan Strahan describes this as "basically The Moon is a Very, Very Harsh Mistress" which... yes. (Also makes me curious to back it up with the Heinlein....)
The short version: this is magnificent, occasionally vicious lunar science fiction, with a fascinating society, varied and variable characters, and unexpected plot twists. HIGHLY recommended. I want to read more like this.
"A new way to live, a thousand ways to die" - the book's tagline - is about right. It's the moon, so the environment itself could kill you pretty easily: your habitat depressurises and the vacuum kills you; you suck too much radiation, or get too much dust into your lungs; there's a moonquake and things break... and if you're an immigrant and stay past your moonday, you can't go home because the gravity on Earth will kill you.
And those are just the natural hazards.
The 1.5 million people on the moon aren't really governed, as such. There aren't laws; there's contracts. Not police as such, but lots of lawyers. Society is controlled by the Lunar Development Corporation, thanks to an Earth remit; their head is called the Eagle of the Moon. The four leading companies under the LDC are known as the Four Dragons, and they're all family-controlled businesses: Suns (Chinese), Mackenzies (Australians!), Vorontsovs (Russian) and Asamoahs (Ghanaians). And then there's Corta Helio, originally from Brazil, sometimes regarded as upstarts, sometimes regarded as the Fifth Dragon, and the focus of the novel.
I'm not sure whether making business based on family automatically makes it more cut-throat, but it's certainly the consequence here. Because moving in on someone's territory isn't just threatening profit, it might be threatening family. It turns these businesses into mini-kingdoms, such that dynastic marriages become important all over again. And when things get vicious, they get really vicious.
This is a vicious novel. There are deaths - deliberate and accidental; there is backstabbing and sabotage and espionage, betrayal and deceit, and much woe. Of course there's also joy and discovery and life, but I rather feel that they're overshadowed by the brutality of life. That brutality is a fact of life as soon as you arrive, or are born: you're fitted with a chib, a pane in the corner of your eye that shows how much you're spending on the Four Essentials: water, air, data, and carbon. Yes, you pay for all of them; after all, this isn't a free world. It's a corporation. And if you can't pay, you don't breathe. Almost makes James SA Corey's vision of inhabited asteroids seem socialist by comparison.
The Cortas are the focus of the story; the point of view skips between a number of them (and one hanger-on, Marina). From the 80-year-old matriarch to her youngest granddaughter, and a number of members of the family in between, they provide a range of views on events and people. Privileged, yes, since these are people who don't need to worry about their chib counting down - but that's the story that's being told here. I did appreciate Marina, a new migrant who provides a much-appreciated outsider's view, as a counterpoint. The Cortas (Portuguese for 'cut', apparently) have made their wealth from helium-3, which Earth uses as fuel basically in lieu of oil. Adriana, who set up the business, provides some of the backstory by way of a 'confession', which I really liked as a storytelling device; it's still an info-dump that narratively it makes sense, and there's a lot of character development within it too. Her children are variously estranged, greedy for power, oblivious, or seeking to live their own life away from the business. Her grandchildren are living the result of a generation of profit: an exceptionally privileged life, but also bargaining chips for the dynasty. I'm not sure I especially liked any of them that much... or, I would warm to one, and then they'd go and do something repulsive or ruthless or alien, and I'd be left thinking "how could you do that?", and it hurt. Which I guess means I did grow attached. Certainly by the end of the novel I was attached.
The last thing that should be mentioned as fascinating about this novel is the language. It's a good thing McDonald provides a glossary, because he's made a good effort to create a world where 21st-century-English is not simply the default. The families speak their respective native tongues; "Globo" is I think based on English, although now that I reflect on it I think that's just my assumption; at any rate, McDonald says "the vocabulary cheerfully borrows words from Chinese, Portuguese, Russian, Yoruba, Spanish, Arabic, Akan." As it ought. At the start I struggled to get into the rhythm of it, but - as with any novel where there's new words, whether they're made up (Elvish), technical (engineering), or multilingual - I just got used to it after a while. And of course, it makes sense that that's what a language would be like. I love that McDonald is making the effort to imagine a genuinely multicultural future (given his previous books this doesn't surprise me).
I understand this is the first in a duology. By golly I hope so.
Um. Wow.
Jonathan Strahan describes this as "basically The Moon is a Very, Very Harsh Mistress" which... yes. (Also makes me curious to back it up with the Heinlein....)
The short version: this is magnificent, occasionally vicious lunar science fiction, with a fascinating society, varied and variable characters, and unexpected plot twists. HIGHLY recommended. I want to read more like this.
"A new way to live, a thousand ways to die" - the book's tagline - is about right. It's the moon, so the environment itself could kill you pretty easily: your habitat depressurises and the vacuum kills you; you suck too much radiation, or get too much dust into your lungs; there's a moonquake and things break... and if you're an immigrant and stay past your moonday, you can't go home because the gravity on Earth will kill you.
And those are just the natural hazards.
The 1.5 million people on the moon aren't really governed, as such. There aren't laws; there's contracts. Not police as such, but lots of lawyers. Society is controlled by the Lunar Development Corporation, thanks to an Earth remit; their head is called the Eagle of the Moon. The four leading companies under the LDC are known as the Four Dragons, and they're all family-controlled businesses: Suns (Chinese), Mackenzies (Australians!), Vorontsovs (Russian) and Asamoahs (Ghanaians). And then there's Corta Helio, originally from Brazil, sometimes regarded as upstarts, sometimes regarded as the Fifth Dragon, and the focus of the novel.
I'm not sure whether making business based on family automatically makes it more cut-throat, but it's certainly the consequence here. Because moving in on someone's territory isn't just threatening profit, it might be threatening family. It turns these businesses into mini-kingdoms, such that dynastic marriages become important all over again. And when things get vicious, they get really vicious.
This is a vicious novel. There are deaths - deliberate and accidental; there is backstabbing and sabotage and espionage, betrayal and deceit, and much woe. Of course there's also joy and discovery and life, but I rather feel that they're overshadowed by the brutality of life. That brutality is a fact of life as soon as you arrive, or are born: you're fitted with a chib, a pane in the corner of your eye that shows how much you're spending on the Four Essentials: water, air, data, and carbon. Yes, you pay for all of them; after all, this isn't a free world. It's a corporation. And if you can't pay, you don't breathe. Almost makes James SA Corey's vision of inhabited asteroids seem socialist by comparison.
The Cortas are the focus of the story; the point of view skips between a number of them (and one hanger-on, Marina). From the 80-year-old matriarch to her youngest granddaughter, and a number of members of the family in between, they provide a range of views on events and people. Privileged, yes, since these are people who don't need to worry about their chib counting down - but that's the story that's being told here. I did appreciate Marina, a new migrant who provides a much-appreciated outsider's view, as a counterpoint. The Cortas (Portuguese for 'cut', apparently) have made their wealth from helium-3, which Earth uses as fuel basically in lieu of oil. Adriana, who set up the business, provides some of the backstory by way of a 'confession', which I really liked as a storytelling device; it's still an info-dump that narratively it makes sense, and there's a lot of character development within it too. Her children are variously estranged, greedy for power, oblivious, or seeking to live their own life away from the business. Her grandchildren are living the result of a generation of profit: an exceptionally privileged life, but also bargaining chips for the dynasty. I'm not sure I especially liked any of them that much... or, I would warm to one, and then they'd go and do something repulsive or ruthless or alien, and I'd be left thinking "how could you do that?", and it hurt. Which I guess means I did grow attached. Certainly by the end of the novel I was attached.
The last thing that should be mentioned as fascinating about this novel is the language. It's a good thing McDonald provides a glossary, because he's made a good effort to create a world where 21st-century-English is not simply the default. The families speak their respective native tongues; "Globo" is I think based on English, although now that I reflect on it I think that's just my assumption; at any rate, McDonald says "the vocabulary cheerfully borrows words from Chinese, Portuguese, Russian, Yoruba, Spanish, Arabic, Akan." As it ought. At the start I struggled to get into the rhythm of it, but - as with any novel where there's new words, whether they're made up (Elvish), technical (engineering), or multilingual - I just got used to it after a while. And of course, it makes sense that that's what a language would be like. I love that McDonald is making the effort to imagine a genuinely multicultural future (given his previous books this doesn't surprise me).
I understand this is the first in a duology. By golly I hope so.
fairymodmother's review against another edition
3.0
I feel like this book was good, but that it missed several opportunities for greatness. It's very obviously the set up book for the series, stuffed full of world-building and explaining the who's who of Luna. The end was fascinating, but the rest just felt...pedestrian, which is surprising given the concept.
CONTENT WARNING: (list of topics)
Things that were awesome:
-The world. Or I guess moon? The concept of the tunnels, dusters, corporations, the frontier-meets-opulence imagining of society was super cool.
-The complexity. There are moving parts all over the place in this book. It never stays still.
-The kids. The children we follow in this story are definitely going to do something epic when their superhero backstories end and they manifest as Moon Man or whatever it is they're about to do.
-The diversity. I was very glad to see that McDonald had been forthright in how the obvious people on the moon, like Americans and the Chinese, weren't the only ones by far, and that as always, a bit of of individual exceptionalism mixed with education and desperation sometimes yields greatness large enough to change a landscape. I thought that was well done. I'm a bit iffy on the "everyone is bi" thing as I think it actually turns into erasure at some point, but whatever, it was nice to see approximately the same amount of time dedicated to same sex couplings as opposite sex, as well as ace folks and people with different pronouns invented just for the moon.
-The action sequences. Very tense and dramatic.
Things that were just meh:
-The feuding. I get it, this is in fact a corporate espionage-meets-mafioso story but it was just...idk...normal. And the shit they pull as the book goes on is like...I really don't think people dependent on a closed environment would do things like that. It sacrificed plausibility for the cool factor and most of the time for me plausible but imaginative is way cooler than people leaping from bombs or whatever it is they're doing in Hollywood these days.
-The characters. I don't care about any of them except the kids, and we got very little time with the kids. They're all dumb and/or trash, and the Moon eats space trash for...I actually don't know how the moon determines what time breakfast is, but the point is that I don't have much sympathy for idiots doing idiot things in lethal situations.
-The law. I very much want you to picture Judge Dredd saying that. It's...well. It's not well thought out lol. There are no laws, only contracts. Well, except that of course that means there's all of contract law. But no one cares about contract law. Except that everyone abides by it. Except that...etc. Miss me with this juvenile interpretation of law and anarchy. Societies come to consensus in the absence of written rules, and that consensus forms LAWS. Sorry, teenage anarchists, real anarchists know that there is no such thing as no law, there is only a lack of central government. Everything else is inevitable.
-The minutiae. I didn't want or need that much detail about Adriana. I didn't want or need that much detail about how people had sex. I didn't want or need to know about every water fountain and meal. Push it out the airlock and then talk to me about the things that make it obvious we're on the moon.
-What was up with Wagner? I...what? I did not get what was going on with him and his "friends" and why this was at all relevant to the world.
-The end. It just...ends. Not quite a cliffhanger, more like feeling that you got to the top of the stairs only to realize you're just at the landing and have to climb more to get to where you are going.
-Repetition. I'm reading a lot of books that focus on spit lately. I don't think I needed quite so many reminders that in low grav spit flies further, people jump harder, Earth-born people have more mass etc. I got it, I really did. I was able to keep that in my head pretty well throughout.
It was enjoyable, fun, and the writing was good. I don't know that I'll continue and I'm certainly not pressed to do so immediately, so I'm rounding my 3.5 stars down. If you like crime family dramas and space ships, this one may well be for you!
CONTENT WARNING: (list of topics)
Spoiler
body horror, sexual assault, child abuseThings that were awesome:
-The world. Or I guess moon? The concept of the tunnels, dusters, corporations, the frontier-meets-opulence imagining of society was super cool.
-The complexity. There are moving parts all over the place in this book. It never stays still.
-The kids. The children we follow in this story are definitely going to do something epic when their superhero backstories end and they manifest as Moon Man or whatever it is they're about to do.
-The diversity. I was very glad to see that McDonald had been forthright in how the obvious people on the moon, like Americans and the Chinese, weren't the only ones by far, and that as always, a bit of of individual exceptionalism mixed with education and desperation sometimes yields greatness large enough to change a landscape. I thought that was well done. I'm a bit iffy on the "everyone is bi" thing as I think it actually turns into erasure at some point, but whatever, it was nice to see approximately the same amount of time dedicated to same sex couplings as opposite sex, as well as ace folks and people with different pronouns invented just for the moon.
-The action sequences. Very tense and dramatic.
Things that were just meh:
-The feuding. I get it, this is in fact a corporate espionage-meets-mafioso story but it was just...idk...normal. And the shit they pull as the book goes on is like...I really don't think people dependent on a closed environment would do things like that. It sacrificed plausibility for the cool factor and most of the time for me plausible but imaginative is way cooler than people leaping from bombs or whatever it is they're doing in Hollywood these days.
-The characters. I don't care about any of them except the kids, and we got very little time with the kids. They're all dumb and/or trash, and the Moon eats space trash for...I actually don't know how the moon determines what time breakfast is, but the point is that I don't have much sympathy for idiots doing idiot things in lethal situations.
-The law. I very much want you to picture Judge Dredd saying that. It's...well. It's not well thought out lol. There are no laws, only contracts. Well, except that of course that means there's all of contract law. But no one cares about contract law. Except that everyone abides by it. Except that...etc. Miss me with this juvenile interpretation of law and anarchy. Societies come to consensus in the absence of written rules, and that consensus forms LAWS. Sorry, teenage anarchists, real anarchists know that there is no such thing as no law, there is only a lack of central government. Everything else is inevitable.
-The minutiae. I didn't want or need that much detail about Adriana. I didn't want or need that much detail about how people had sex. I didn't want or need to know about every water fountain and meal. Push it out the airlock and then talk to me about the things that make it obvious we're on the moon.
-What was up with Wagner? I...what? I did not get what was going on with him and his "friends" and why this was at all relevant to the world.
-The end. It just...ends. Not quite a cliffhanger, more like feeling that you got to the top of the stairs only to realize you're just at the landing and have to climb more to get to where you are going.
-Repetition. I'm reading a lot of books that focus on spit lately. I don't think I needed quite so many reminders that in low grav spit flies further, people jump harder, Earth-born people have more mass etc. I got it, I really did. I was able to keep that in my head pretty well throughout.
It was enjoyable, fun, and the writing was good. I don't know that I'll continue and I'm certainly not pressed to do so immediately, so I'm rounding my 3.5 stars down. If you like crime family dramas and space ships, this one may well be for you!
sarko1031's review against another edition
4.0
Starts pretty bold - with a character index taking up the first few pages in the place of proper introductions - but take the time to reference it and get engrossed and this is certainly a rewarding read, gratuitous zero f gender neutral sex aside. Incredibly enjoyable world-building and characters.
angelgrrl's review against another edition
4.0
This was a fun near-future sci-fi read. (Not “fun” as in comedic though.) I really enjoyed the interweaving of Adriana’s flashbacks with the rest of the story. That was a heck of a way to end the book!
Some parts were confusing. I didn’t get a good sense of Wagner’s character and the wolves, but based on the title of the second book maybe it will be more fully explained soon. There was a glossary at the end, but some of the non-English words I couldn’t pick up through context; thankfully reading it as an eBook meant I could long-tap on words and see what they meant. (But why did the Brazilian Cortas use Korean terms for their leadership structure? I feel like I must’ve missed something.)
Some parts were confusing. I didn’t get a good sense of Wagner’s character and the wolves, but based on the title of the second book maybe it will be more fully explained soon. There was a glossary at the end, but some of the non-English words I couldn’t pick up through context; thankfully reading it as an eBook meant I could long-tap on words and see what they meant. (But why did the Brazilian Cortas use Korean terms for their leadership structure? I feel like I must’ve missed something.)
justine_ao's review against another edition
4.0
"The might and magic of money is not what it allows you to own; it is what it allows you to be. Money is freedom."
Truer words were never spoken. People left Earth looking for a new kind of freedom and frontier, not wanting to be constrained by old ideas. On the moon, anything goes, for a price: offer, acceptance and consideration. The only law is the law of contract, enforced by courts and if necessary in bloody trials by combat. In effect, everything is freely available, but nothing comes without a price.
Of course it shouldn’t be a surprise then that dynastic corporate families would rise to power in this environment and that blood feuds would fester and rage as hotly as they ever did on Earth. Environments may change, but people don’t.
If this book was set on Earth instead of the moon, it would be a good, old-fashioned story we have all read before about wealthy families fighting each other for more money and more power, with typically bloody results and lots of collateral damage. What makes this one new and fresh is McDonald’s fantastic world-building, his wonderful use of almost-here technology, and most importantly, and an amazingly diverse cast of characters that bring the story vibrantly to life.
The only downside, and I feel fair warning people about this in advance:
Cliffhanger ending! So, if you don’t like those, I advise waiting for the next book to come out before embarking on this one. Other than that, I would definitely recommend this one.
Truer words were never spoken. People left Earth looking for a new kind of freedom and frontier, not wanting to be constrained by old ideas. On the moon, anything goes, for a price: offer, acceptance and consideration. The only law is the law of contract, enforced by courts and if necessary in bloody trials by combat. In effect, everything is freely available, but nothing comes without a price.
Of course it shouldn’t be a surprise then that dynastic corporate families would rise to power in this environment and that blood feuds would fester and rage as hotly as they ever did on Earth. Environments may change, but people don’t.
If this book was set on Earth instead of the moon, it would be a good, old-fashioned story we have all read before about wealthy families fighting each other for more money and more power, with typically bloody results and lots of collateral damage. What makes this one new and fresh is McDonald’s fantastic world-building, his wonderful use of almost-here technology, and most importantly, and an amazingly diverse cast of characters that bring the story vibrantly to life.
The only downside, and I feel fair warning people about this in advance:
Cliffhanger ending! So, if you don’t like those, I advise waiting for the next book to come out before embarking on this one. Other than that, I would definitely recommend this one.
diannataivas1312's review against another edition
5.0
''Siromaštvo rasteže vreme, siromaštvo je lavina. Jedno malo klizanje izaziva sledeće''
''Kada bi se svi ponašali u skladu sa onim što osećaju, gradovi bi se od jutra do mraka pretvorili u mrtvačnice''
Borba zmajeva -pseudonistički nazvanim pet imučnih porodica koje su vođe života, kompleksa, industrija ali i opstanka na Mesecu.
Adrijana Korta je moćna žena sa petoro vrlo različite dece. Opstanak njene imperije dovodi se u pitanje kada se na zabavi koja spaja moćne porodice pojavi špijunski dron i poljulja bezbednost svake od moćnih porodica. Nepoverenje stvara procep u komunikaciji i saradnji.
Adrijana nije samo oličenje moći nego je i majka a nema ništa opasnije nego kad majci zapretite odvajanjem od deteta. No, ta eksplozija nije jedina koja će pokrenuti lavinu prave mesečeve ''igre prestola'', koja je igra samo po nazivu, sličnosti sa samim knjigama Martina, nema, osim u surovosti i načinima kako se svaka porodica prepliće i bori za moć,prevlast ali i opstanak.
U slučaju Meseca-opstanak je moguć samo kroz moć.
Ijan je vrlo slikovito dočarao svaki detalj napredne tehnološke ere na mesečevom tlu, kako ume samo Endi Vir u svojoj Artemidi . Retko se prepliću po neke seksualne, ali ne preterano vulgarne i sirove scene, one su tu čisto kao epitet ekscentričnosti života na stranom , hladnom kamenom telu, odvojenom od ljudskosti, jer je ljudskost najteže pronaći tamo-logičan sled, zbog odvojenosti od zemaljske civilizacije.
Prvi deo je pravi zaplet kome ne manjka adrenalina. Početak jeste malo kompleksan dok se popamti mnoštvo likova, ko kom zmaju pripada i ko ima kakve osobine, težnje i slabosti, ali je za kraj ovog prvog dela i nužno da se upoznamo sa ovim sitnicama.
Priznajem na prvih stotinah stranica, iako me je držalo samo tehnološko pokriće i mesečev ''život'',bilo je teško staviti konačan sud . Sada kada je knjiga završena jedva čekam da pročitam ostatak ovog pravog VAN ZEMALJSKOG rolerkostera.
''Sve je u sitnicama, Lukase. U kafi i muzici. Luninoj omiljenoj haljinici. U tome da mi Rafa saopštava rezultate svojih rukometnih ekipa, bili oni dobri ili loši. U zvuku vode izvan moje spavaće sobe. Puna Zemlja. Vagner je u pravu; možeš da se izgubiš kada gledaš u nju. Toliko je opasno: ne usuđuješ se da pogledaš zato što će ti ugrabiti pogled i podsetiti te na sve od čega si odustao.“
''Moć i magija novca nije u onome što ti dopušta da poseduješ; već u onome što ti dopušta da budeš. Novac je sloboda.''
''Kada bi se svi ponašali u skladu sa onim što osećaju, gradovi bi se od jutra do mraka pretvorili u mrtvačnice''
Borba zmajeva -pseudonistički nazvanim pet imučnih porodica koje su vođe života, kompleksa, industrija ali i opstanka na Mesecu.
Adrijana Korta je moćna žena sa petoro vrlo različite dece. Opstanak njene imperije dovodi se u pitanje kada se na zabavi koja spaja moćne porodice pojavi špijunski dron i poljulja bezbednost svake od moćnih porodica. Nepoverenje stvara procep u komunikaciji i saradnji.
Adrijana nije samo oličenje moći nego je i majka a nema ništa opasnije nego kad majci zapretite odvajanjem od deteta. No, ta eksplozija nije jedina koja će pokrenuti lavinu prave mesečeve ''igre prestola'', koja je igra samo po nazivu, sličnosti sa samim knjigama Martina, nema, osim u surovosti i načinima kako se svaka porodica prepliće i bori za moć,prevlast ali i opstanak.
U slučaju Meseca-opstanak je moguć samo kroz moć.
Ijan je vrlo slikovito dočarao svaki detalj napredne tehnološke ere na mesečevom tlu, kako ume samo Endi Vir u svojoj Artemidi . Retko se prepliću po neke seksualne, ali ne preterano vulgarne i sirove scene, one su tu čisto kao epitet ekscentričnosti života na stranom , hladnom kamenom telu, odvojenom od ljudskosti, jer je ljudskost najteže pronaći tamo-logičan sled, zbog odvojenosti od zemaljske civilizacije.
Prvi deo je pravi zaplet kome ne manjka adrenalina. Početak jeste malo kompleksan dok se popamti mnoštvo likova, ko kom zmaju pripada i ko ima kakve osobine, težnje i slabosti, ali je za kraj ovog prvog dela i nužno da se upoznamo sa ovim sitnicama.
Priznajem na prvih stotinah stranica, iako me je držalo samo tehnološko pokriće i mesečev ''život'',bilo je teško staviti konačan sud . Sada kada je knjiga završena jedva čekam da pročitam ostatak ovog pravog VAN ZEMALJSKOG rolerkostera.
''Sve je u sitnicama, Lukase. U kafi i muzici. Luninoj omiljenoj haljinici. U tome da mi Rafa saopštava rezultate svojih rukometnih ekipa, bili oni dobri ili loši. U zvuku vode izvan moje spavaće sobe. Puna Zemlja. Vagner je u pravu; možeš da se izgubiš kada gledaš u nju. Toliko je opasno: ne usuđuješ se da pogledaš zato što će ti ugrabiti pogled i podsetiti te na sve od čega si odustao.“
''Moć i magija novca nije u onome što ti dopušta da poseduješ; već u onome što ti dopušta da budeš. Novac je sloboda.''
carolehto's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
vanessa_librorum's review against another edition
5.0
¡Qué ganas de leer la segunda parte!
En este podcast comento lo que me ha parecido la novela:
http://www.ivoox.com/s04e01-volvemos-como-huracan-audios-mp3_rf_16900177_1.html
En este podcast comento lo que me ha parecido la novela:
http://www.ivoox.com/s04e01-volvemos-como-huracan-audios-mp3_rf_16900177_1.html