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Het Heksenalfabet (2012)

by Caitlin Kittredge(Favorite Author)

3.6 of 5 Votes: 4

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Uitgeverij Moon

series

Iron Codex

review 1: Looking back, I cannot believe I finished this book.The plot. I've read it a million times, and yet it was all over the place. Lots of pointless things happen. I love it when a book doesn't fit into one genre, but this one felt like it wanted to be everything, but ended up as nothing. Somehow, it was a crowded plot, but it also went nowhere. The pacing was very slow. The amount of walks that happened in the middle of the book . . .The characters were all stereotypes. Aoife started promising but fell into a "nothing" character category. I can't describe her personality because it constantly changed, but not in a good way. Cal. The whole time you want to murder him. The author did her job a little too well there. The Cal twist in the end was fantastic, but afterwards it was ... morelike his character completely changed. Dean was supposed to be the typical mysterious, attractive, suave, savvy, witty guy that likes Aoife for her personality. Aww.Picking up this book, I was led to believe it was a story with steampunk and madness. I was so excited by the encounter with the nightjar. But instead, the book takes place in a mansion, and nothing happens but fairies. Nothing in the story is explained. A lot of Lovelace is left to the imagination. In a book like this, the setting should be powerful, but I felt nothing.I'm extremely proud of myself for finishing this book. I wouldn't recommend The Iron Thorn to anyone EXCEPT for a young reader. I feel like had I read this when I was nine or ten, I would have enjoyed it more. It's very simplistic. So I would recommend it to a young, new reader as an introduction, but absolutely no one else.
review 2: Un mundo dividido: por un lado, los Racionalistas que solo creen en la ciencia, que persiguen como la Santa Inquisición a los herejes que creen en la magia y los personajes de cuentos de hadas y encierran a los que tienen sueños y visiones en manicomios. Además, la locura es hereditaria y se manifiesta al cumplir los 16 años. Ifa (como suena el nombre Aoife) es una estudiante en la escuela de ingeniería y está a punto de llegar a esa edad. Tiene antecedentes que la preocupan: su madre Mariza lleva años encerrada en un manicomio, su hermano Conrad escuchaba voces y escapó después de cortarle la garganta a Ifa (obvio, no la mata). Sin embargo, cuando recibe carta de Conrad pidiendo ayuda(!!), escapa del colegio (??!!), de la ciudad y se dirige a la casa de su padre, al que no conoce, arrastrando a su mejor amigo (que obviamente, cree que está loca). Por el otro lado, dos grupos se enfrentan: los cuidadores de la puerta entre los dos mundos y los seres sobrenaturales: las brujas, hadas, gouls y otras etnias. Ifa descubre que tiene el poder de manipular la energia vital de las máquinas y es engañada (ella, que se manda la parte de lo inteligente que es) para abrir esa puerta, desatando una masacre sangrienta. Tengo que reconocer que la historia es interesante, pero es muy larga y repite una y otra vez lo malo que es la locura cuando, evidentemente, corre por sus venas. Me salteé la segunda mitad. Ni loca pienso leer una segunda parte! less

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