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Černá Labuť Vzlétá (2010)

by Lee Carroll(Favorite Author)

3.48 of 5 Votes: 2

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English

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Romance

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Motto

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Black Swan Rising

review 1: This is an interesting story involving the many 'supernatural' or Fey persona(e. Poor Garet and her Father are having a bad time financially. The gallery isn't pulling in enough and their townhouse is too heavily mortgaged. Out in the rain after meeting their financial adviser,she finds herself infront of an antique shop. The owner offers her a small job that takes her to the ends of NewYork and back.
review 2: When I started this book, I expected a romance-tinged modern fantasy novel, probably only passably written, probably terribly fluffy.I am pleased and surprised to say that I was wrong, at least on those last two scores. Yes, the book isn't a Weighty Tome, but it is well written and, what's more surprising, truly imaginative. It's rare for me to come ac... moreross a fantasy novel that plays with old stories and tropes in a way that feels truly new. This one did. Some aspects - the romance, for instance - seemed a trifle forced at times, and in certain cases character development was lost in the quest for plot development, but to balance that out, there were times when I was left reeling, mentally, at an image or situation or action that it hadn't ever occurred to me to imagine, and which I had never read elsewhere. I can't write more here without spoiling the novelty of the scenes, but the visions presented in the book left me wishing that I had more imagination, to be able to come up with such things on my own. And the authors did an excellent job of mashing up history and fairytales from the Western tradition, achieving a new fairytale that settles comfortably into the continuum and already feels broken in, as though it had been around for ages.If asked, I would generally say that, at least as far as fiction goes, I'm often dubious of the idea of author collaborations. But if books like this - a collaboration between an author and a poet - were more frequently the outcome, then my reservations would cease. I can't presume to know which aspects of story and description were attributable to which of the authors, but I'll put it this way: the book had the sweep-you-out-of-yourself imagery of the best poetry, written with the vigor and wonderful word choice of the best novels. It may not go down in the annals of Great Literature, but it's a darn good read. less

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