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Mortal Fire (Engelska) Inbunden – 11 Juni 2013

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Sixteen-year-old Canny Mochrie's parents go away on a vacation, so they send her off on a trip of her own with her step-brother Sholto and his opinionated girlfriend Susan, who are interviewing the survivors of a strange coal mine disaster and researching local folklore in 1959 Southland, New Zealand. Canny is left to herself to wander in a mysterious and enchanting nearby valley, occupied almost entirely by children who all have the last name Zarene and can perform a special type of magic that tells things how to be stronger and better than they already are. With the help of a seventeen-year-old boy who is held hostage in a hidden away house by a spell that is now more powerful than the people who first placed it, Canny figures out why she, too, can use this special magic that only Zarenes should know, and where she really came from. Printz Honor author Elizabeth Knox has created another stunning world of intrigue in Mortal Fire.

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Utgivare : Farrar Straus Giroux (11 Juni 2013)
Språk : Engelska
Inbunden : 436 sidor
ISBN-10 : 0374388296
ISBN-13 : 978-0374388294
Läsarålder : 12 - 18 år

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"I love this book with all of my heart, which is not that surprising, since Elizabeth Knox wrote it. I love all of her books. Mortal Fire and its heroine, Canny, are that rare thing: real magic."--Kelly Link, author of "Pretty Monsters"

"Knox fans (and we are legion) who've been longing for another visit to the Southland of the Dreamhunter Duet should fall upon "Mortal Fire" with cries of glee. This book is finely wrought magic from start to finish. It has brains; it has heart; it has people to fear and to fall in love with, and it all takes place in a totally beguiling world full of natural beauties, glittering puzzles, and earthy problems. It's a rich and satisfying read."--Margo Lanagan, Printz Honor Award-winning author of "Tender Morsels"

"A remarkable book."--Holly Black, "New York Times" bestselling author of "Tithe"

"""Knox returns to the world she so vividly created in the Dreamhunter Duet for this standalone novel. . . The prose is lush and descriptive, the characters are drawn with finesse, the plot is a series of riddles nested within one another like Russian dolls." -- "The Horn Book"

"Intense, complex." -- "Kirkus Reviews"

"Absorbing." -- "School Library Journal"

I love this book with all of my heart, which is not that surprising, since Elizabeth Knox wrote it. I love all of her books. Mortal Fire and its heroine, Canny, are that rare thing: real magic. "Kelly Link, author of Pretty Monsters"

Knox fans (and we are legion) who've been longing for another visit to the Southland of the Dreamhunter Duet should fall upon "Mortal Fire" with cries of glee. This book is finely wrought magic from start to finish. It has brains; it has heart; it has people to fear and to fall in love with, and it all takes place in a totally beguiling world full of natural beauties, glittering puzzles, and earthy problems. It's a rich and satisfying read. "Margo Lanagan, Printz Honor Award-winning author of Tender Morsels"

A remarkable book. "Holly Black, New York Times bestselling author of Tithe"

Knox returns to the world she so vividly created in the Dreamhunter Duet for this standalone novel. . . The prose is lush and descriptive, the characters are drawn with finesse, the plot is a series of riddles nested within one another like Russian dolls. "The Horn Book"

Intense, complex. "Kirkus Reviews"

Absorbing. "School Library Journal""

"Knox fans (and we are legion) who've been longing for another visit to the Southland of the Dreamhunter Duet should fall upon Mortal Fire with cries of glee. This book is finely wrought magic from start to finish. It has brains; it has heart; it has people to fear and to fall in love with, and it all takes place in a totally beguiling world full of natural beauties, glittering puzzles, and earthy problems. It's a rich and satisfying read." --Margo Lanagan, Printz Honor Award-winning author of Tender Morsels

"A remarkable book." --Holly Black, New York Times bestselling author of Tithe

"Knox returns to the world she so vividly created in the Dreamhunter Duet for this standalone novel. . . The prose is lush and descriptive, the characters are drawn with finesse, the plot is a series of riddles nested within one another like Russian dolls." --The Horn Book

"Intense, complex." --Kirkus Reviews

"Absorbing." --School Library Journal

Om författaren

Elizabeth Knox is the author of the Dreamhunter Duet, which Stephanie Meyer called "like nothing else I've ever read." Dreamquake was a Printz Honor novel. Elizabeth lives in Wellington, New Zealand.

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5 stjärnor		38%
4 stjärnor		35%
3 stjärnor		14%
2 stjärnor		14%
1 stjärna 0% (0%)		0%

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clover18

Five Stars

Granskad i Storbritannien den 2 december 2017

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Wonderful book. Arrived quickly.

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Granskad i USA den 21 januari 2016

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For people who are looking for an easy read, with pleasant and likable characters, this is not a book for them.

Now for the stuff I liked. The characters are complex, and non-comedic and highly dysfunctional relationships abound. Canny Mochrie (her real first name is Agnes) is pretty cold for most of the story (you find out there is a good reason for that, if you stick it out), maybe more than a tad odd (or at least has terrible communication skills), and she is also excessively smart. The depiction of magic is intriguing, because rather being blatant spells left, right, and center, it takes a while for a reader (and the characters) to figure out that the magic is a thing. Unlike a lot of YA fantasy novels that I have read, the characters are made to dwell on things that characters in other books would gloss over. Also, there is mystery, which is solved through sheer persistence rather than classic Nancy-Drew-ing. Set in an alternate world in 1959, the recent history of that particular portion (apparently it is supposed to be like New Zealand) is woven into the story. Mortal Fire is very different from a majority of YA fiction.

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Quickbeam

Flashes of brilliance in an overlong cloud of meander

Granskad i USA den 4 oktober 2013

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First off I want to say I don't think this is a 3 star book. It is both a 5 star book in places and a zero star book in others. I found Mortal Fire to be a maddeningly slow read. It took me 2 weeks to finish and I can usually read a book in a day or two.

I'd like to start with the positive because I think Knox is a fascinating writer. She has given us a woman of color as a protagonist and that happens far too rarely. She paints a picture of culture and ethnicity that rings very true. Knox also has raised the bar on literary depiction of magic. I felt her descriptions were brilliant. As a sign language interpreter, I saw startling similarities in her drawing of signs with the hands to the joy of the deaf world in the use of their visual language. The canon of magic in this book is without peer.

Unfortunately, the book has a glacial pace that never really altered. Of the 436 pages of my advance reader copy, I think a decent editor could easily remove about 150 pages. I also really never came to care about the Zarenes, Marli, Canny's family or even Ghislain. With as much volume as this book had, I didn't feel the depth of character or any warmth for any of them. They came across as flat and utility devices. There was a remoteness in Knox's portrayals that I could not get beyond.

I did find the plot coherent from beginning to end and I did like the ending. I just cannot recommend this book as there was too much filler to fight through to get to the story. It was a difficult book to read and a bigger challenge to review. I know few young adults who would find this an enjoyable read.

Edited to add: the cover art is gorgeous.

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Just Trying to Help

It could have been great, but it seems to trip over its own shoelaces.

Granskad i USA den 7 oktober 2013

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I really liked the beginning of this book. Canny comes across as being a patient person who is very thoughtful. She helps her team to the math national tournament for the second year in a row, which is a very nice way of portraying her as being very brilliant without just saying it outright.

On the other hand, within the first chapter we get into the fact that she can see "runes" floating that no one else can see. Somehow, with all her brilliance, it doesn't occur to her that this means there is magic in her world and that she is magical as well. She's never tried to copy down these runes or anything of that nature, which would SEEM to be the choice for someone so intelligent.

I felt that the book was kind of peppered with these inconsistencies. When you read it you may see it as "human nature": we are all contradictory at times. Or you may see it as "characters not being true to themselves". Unfortunately, I fell into the latter group.

Overall this is how the book goes. Sometimes we get a great piece of writing which sends a message indirectly but clearly. Other times, you just think "ok, now, how does that make sense?" This can be confusing at times. I think perhaps the book needed a bit more work before being published.

It could have been great, but it seems to trip over its own shoelaces. Maybe there is so much going on that there are too many loose ends and any given moment.

I would only recommend this book to a real book worm. If you've got a reluctant reader on your hands, then, stay away.

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♫ Trouble ♫

Difficult

Granskad i USA den 17 september 2013

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Canny is a character who is pretty hard to understand and therefore, to be interested in or to care about. She does seem to have one stubborn streak and that is visiting her friend who has polio and is living in an iron lung. But very little is said about this once she is taken on a trip with her brother and his -fiancé - to do research for the summer.

Her mother is interesting, but generally unlikable, as well.

And then there is her magic, something that she refers to as extra. Things have something extra. It is fairly difficult to understand and if you give up trying to figure it out, then you will miss an important part of her story.

Admittedly, I was pretty put off from this novel right from the first page because I couldn't figure out where I was. At first I thought it was 1950s Britain but it was slightly wrong. But once I went over the book jacket and info from the author, at least I could place it geographically, if not in time.

This would probably be appealing to teenagers who like fantasy stories or books like Un Lun Dun . I would keep it around because I know teenagers who would like it. However, I had to laugh when I saw that Booklist said this on one of those books you go back to re-read and see what you might have missed. Uhm, no.

-Gertrude

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