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Der Sturm Beginnt (2014)

by Garth Nix(Favorite Author)

3.55 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

3570155188 (ISBN13: 9783570155189)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

cbj Verlag

series

Troubletwisters

review 1: This book is a good mystery book that is fun reading at night or in the morning. My favorite thing is the mysteriousness of it. I like how you don't really know what is happening until the very end. This book is perfect to read to mystery seekers. If there is another book or even a series i would totally read it. I am not one who likes mysteries, but i like this book. I didn't think i would like this book. I was surprised to like this book. Reading this book showed me that i might like mysteries. I might read more mysteries.
review 2: Strange events cause twins Jaide and Jack to have to move from their somewhat-exploded house to their grandmother's home in Portland, Victoria. Their Grandmother is weird and the longer they're in town the more weird stuff seems t... moreo happen. Soon the twins will find out the meaning behind their grandomother's nick name for them: troubletwisters.First up I'm not the target market for this book. This book is middle grade and I'm in my thirties, but I won a copy and I've been wanting to read something by Garth Nix for ages so figured here we go.Sadly this book had one of my greatest fiction pet-peeves: the trope of the protagonist being kept in the dark by others with no more of a reason than the plot just isn't ready to divulge it yet. 'Not now,' says Grandma X. 'Here, drink some memory erasing hot chocolate,' she says. 'You'll find out when you're ready to know.' Are you kidding me? Please tell me I'm not the only person who hates this junk. True enough at the end of the book we receive a bit more of an answer as to why secrets couldn't be revealed earlier, but even that answer seems to have a rather heavy dose of the-author-needs-a-reason-so-here-it-is. The book even ends warning us there's more of this to come in the following books.I think overall this book could have been shorter. This first hundred or so pages plodded along with lack of answer after lack of answer, then we even got a dose of the old 'thinking the person obviously helping you is a bad guy' move. This is all right in my opinion if the reader genuinely thinks they might be a bad guy, but when the character is blatantly helping (despite being a douche about answering questions) it feels rather cheap.However, once the action kicks in things get good. The slow lack of plot becomes a quick moving river of action and a certain amount of velocity kicks in. I'm certain I read the last two thirds in half the time it took me to read the first third.The powers and ideas in the story are really cool concepts, and I can see this being something the target audience could really get into. If they can get past the start. less

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