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De Ogen Van Kronos (2009)

by Marie Rutkoski(Favorite Author)

4.29 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

9047701887 (ISBN13: 9789047701880)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Lemniscaat

series

The Kronos Chronicles

review 1: I really enjoyed this book, I grabbed it when I was at the library because Marie Rutkoski wrote one of my recent favorites; "The Winner's Curse". There's always a danger in reading more of an author after you love one of their books so very much, sometimes it's great but mostly it's a big let down. This book, however, was amazing. It was so different and fun, Petra, our young heroine, reminded me of Arya from Game of Thrones, and feisty, brave young girls are always fun to root for. I loved this reimagining of the tale of the famous clock tower in Prague, I'm sure we've all heard the legend of the man who was blinded after completing the clock so he could never build anything so beautiful again and I love that Rutkoski took this idea and ran with it and expanded on it in s... moreuch a marvelous unique way. I loved the characters, there was such a great array of them, from the brilliant scholarly metal spider who was Petra's constant companion, to the little Gypsy boy with more sass in his pinky finger than I have in my entire body, the prince who is insane and beguiling, and Iris who was so loud and grumpy yet so lonely and kind.I really can't wait to get my hands on the next book.
review 2: I found this to be a thoroughly enjoyable middle grade fantasy novel. The plot was gripping if not particularly original [girl on quest to avenge her father plot line], I was invested in the protagonist's success, and the major characters were interesting. The novel was well-paced. I was able to fly through it in my free time. The one area I felt it was lacking was in world building. There's no explanation of how the system of magic works and the exact time period in which this takes place isn't made clear until well into the book [two blink-and-you'll-miss-it mentions of Queen Elizabeth I]. Overall, I thought it was a good opener to the series. I will be continuing on. less

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