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Před Bouří (2013)

by Robin Bridges(Favorite Author)

3.63 of 5 Votes: 3

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Levné knihy

series

Katerina

review 1: So this has tons of elements that I would usually love in a story: Magic, witchcraft, Imperial Russia, a Mr. Darcy-type character, vampires, all that stuff. This book just didn't do it for me. At all. I think I read about a quarter of it and gave up. I skimmed through the rest and everything that I thought was going to happen did.It wasn't even that the story was necessarily bad. It's that the writing was so bad. It was obviously the author's first book. Maybe it was just the pacing. At one moment the protagonist, Katiya, would be in one place, then a sentence later she was somewhere else. No real movement in the book. It was the same with emotions. There was no exploration of feelings, just a statement: "I felt anxious." Ok, well, that's boring to read. How did she feel a... morenxious? What did she do because she was anxious? Make it more interesting, dangit!And then all the names were confusing. Before the book even begins there's a little blurb telling readers how names were given in Russia and how to determine what a person's proper name is and what their nickname is. So, clearly, someone had pointed out to the author that referring to a single person with three or four separate names/titles was confusing. Instead of just editing her book to make it less confusing, Bridges wrote a small paragraph before the book even began basically saying, "This is going to be confusing. Refer back to this page every time a new character is introduced." I was confused the entire time I was reading. I could not remember who was who because they were all referred to by different names every time they were mentioned. And, like, ten people were introduced at a time. Not a good way to go, let me tell you! Not only were the names confusing but because so many people were introduced together I got confused by who did what anyway.So the idea was there. This book could have been awesome. Pacing and writing made it no so much. Pity.Sexual Content: MildLanguage: MildViolence: ModerateDrugs/Alcohol: Mild (I think; I don't really remember)
review 2: As a young child, Katerina learned she was different, that she can bring things back from the dead - moths, cats, and more. She knows she must hide her abilities from the world, but finds it increasingly difficult. Set in the late 1800s in imperial Russia, Katerina finds herself mixed up with all manor of supernatural creatures as they try to save the Tsar and his family from those who would destroy them.This is an interesting combination of historical fiction and fantasy. Although a bit light on the history, the reader gets a good picture of the Russian court in the late 1800s. I'm not a huge fantasy fan, and this one is not a gripping page-turner, but certainly adequate. Katerina is a strong female hero and the suspense builds slowly to the climactic confrontation with the evil entities. Of course, there's a love triangle, and (of course) the story continues in the next two books. WHY is everything a trilogy these days????Still, a nice story for fans of historical fantasy. less

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