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3.69 AVERAGE
3.69 AVERAGE
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
With a literal bang at the beginning, a slow middle ambling into a moderately fast-moving finish, and a main character a little difficult to connect with, this book shouldn't work. But work it does. The difficult main character had me rooting for her almost right away, despite her quick, harsh words and demeanor. Margriet de Vos' merchant husband, who, after going off to fight, has returned as a revenant to Bruges. He and other men have been returning to the town to draw out their relatives to a dire fate. The men had been fighting the Chatelaine, a woman with hell's power at her command and Prince Philip as her human backer. The Chatelaine has been creating beasts with hell's power, and the revenants are part of the consequence of fighting her beasts.
Margriet discovers her husband has done wrong by her and their daughter, so when the revenant departs to return to the Chatelaine, Margriet convinces her daughter to come with her to retrieve his wealth to ensure Beatrix's future is not compromised. The women are accompanied by Claude, a transgender man who is a mercenary and has his own issues with the Chatelaine.
These three are the core of the group that end up taking on the Chatelaine and their quest seems doomed to failure, but Margriet cajoles, urges, snaps at and just keeps pushing everyone along with her. And it's Margriet, and the other people on the quest, with their different personalities and skills and desires, who make this story really come alive, and kept me reading till the last page.
Margriet discovers her husband has done wrong by her and their daughter, so when the revenant departs to return to the Chatelaine, Margriet convinces her daughter to come with her to retrieve his wealth to ensure Beatrix's future is not compromised. The women are accompanied by Claude, a transgender man who is a mercenary and has his own issues with the Chatelaine.
These three are the core of the group that end up taking on the Chatelaine and their quest seems doomed to failure, but Margriet cajoles, urges, snaps at and just keeps pushing everyone along with her. And it's Margriet, and the other people on the quest, with their different personalities and skills and desires, who make this story really come alive, and kept me reading till the last page.
adventurous
challenging
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Vers strange book, I cannot say that I didn't like it, but I am not so sure that I liked it so much, but at last I read all its 348 pages, which is already something.
I didn't even like the characters so much, with Claude the only exception, but I have to admit that all along the pages I was wondering where the author was going, and still I was surprised in the end. A remarkable book in many ways.
Libro veramente strano, non posso dire che mi sia piaciuto, ma nemmeno che non mi sia piaciuto, considerato che ho letto tutte le 348 pagine, ed é giá qualcosa.
Neanche i personaggi, con l'eccezione di Claude, mi stavano particolarmente simpatici - e nel frattempo non smettevo di chiedermi dove voleva andare a parare l'autrice - e comunque, nonostante tutto, sono rimasta molto sorpresa dal finale, quindi direi un libro notevole.
I didn't even like the characters so much, with Claude the only exception, but I have to admit that all along the pages I was wondering where the author was going, and still I was surprised in the end. A remarkable book in many ways.
Libro veramente strano, non posso dire che mi sia piaciuto, ma nemmeno che non mi sia piaciuto, considerato che ho letto tutte le 348 pagine, ed é giá qualcosa.
Neanche i personaggi, con l'eccezione di Claude, mi stavano particolarmente simpatici - e nel frattempo non smettevo di chiedermi dove voleva andare a parare l'autrice - e comunque, nonostante tutto, sono rimasta molto sorpresa dal finale, quindi direi un libro notevole.
dark
emotional
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
inspiring
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
adventurous
lighthearted
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes