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Este primeiro livro centrase em dois personagens Kate Winters e Silas.
Um livro que é literalmente uma receita com muitos ingredientes que no fim formam algo delicioso:
Kate é uma menina que cedo ficou sem os pais, que foram presos e levados pelos guardas de Albion, tendo sido educada pelo tio Artemis Winters.
Kate não sabe que é um dos Dotados, até que Silas, um perigoso assassino que todos conhecem e temem, vem à cidade e lança uma armadilha para capturar potenciais Dotados que esteja escondidos.
Os Dotados são seres com a rara aptidão de ver através do véu que separa a vida da morte.
Por causa desta rara capacidade, estão literalmente a ser caçados e torturados numa série de experiências.
Silas é conhecido por ser um assassino bastante experiente e difícil de matar, Mas o que ninguém sabe é o quanto Silas deseja vingarse de uma mulher misteriosa que em tempos o enganou e lhe destroçou a vida e a alma.
Mas o que Silas não espera é que Edgar esteja a viver com Kate e o seu tio.
Edgar, um jovem rapaz que háanos atrás apareceu sem nada, sem família ou amigos, e que Artemis Winters acolheu, sem no entanto desconfiar da missão que Edgar possui.
Porque Edgar tem um passado obscuro, Um passado que Kate nem desconfia, Mas que Silas conhece. Um passado que poderá trazer a morte ao próprio Edgar e a quem o rodeia,
Este livro foi FABULOSO,
Não sei se deveria estar na secção infantil que foi onde eu o descobri,
Penso que deveria estar ao lado da já famosa trilogia dos Jogos Da Fome, Mas esta é a minha opinião!
Publicado pela Editora Civilização já desde Fevereiro de, só me resta admitir ANDO A DORMIR!!!
Quantos mais livros espetaculares, como este, estão à vista e eu sem os ler
Wintercraft is a debut novel, which has had quite a lot of buzz leading up to it's publication date.
The cover is awesome and I was very much looking forward to reading this book which is being marketed as an alternative to vampires and angels, and I was definitely up for something refreshing and new.
Although Wintercraft is a solid debut, with good writing and a flowing plot, it didn't blow me away.
The landscape in Wintercraft is vibrant and descriptions of places and scenes are well thought out, unfortunately I didn't feel the same about the characters.
Kate is a young girl with a gift, She can see into the 'veil', the boundary between worlds and see through spirits of others, I found Kate's character to be rather flat, I didn't really get a sense of who she was until around a hundred pages from the end, which is when the book kicked into gear for me with regards to excitement and energy.
Much of the book we see Kate running, hiding and getting caught, or escaping, running, hiding and getting caught again, which was rather repetitive.
Edgar, Kate's best friends' role was that of rescuer and not much else,
The character which stood out by far was that of Silas, the evil element to the story.
However, he wasn't evil enough, instead I found myself feeling sympathetic towards him and his plight as a man brought back from death but living with no soul.
He wishes for death and thinks that Kate and her gift are the key to getting what he wants.
He is the most colourful character of all and his cold, harsh exterior and violent nature, which we really don't see that much of, hides a small part that is still good.
For me, the true evil in Wintercraft is found in Da'ru, a member of the High Council,
I also feel that this book would be more suitable for younger teens because although the main protagonist, Kate, is around fifteen, she is quite a young fifteen and didn't have the same maturity I have found when reading other young adults books with the same aged protagonists.
Verdict:
Sadly Wintercraft didn't engage me as much as I hoped it would, I wish the characters were more developed, as I prefer my books to be quite character driven, and didn't really think that the plot alone was substantial enough to carry the book.
However, Wintercraft is a fun fantasy and I'm sure many fantasy fans will enjoy it, I raced through this novel! It was so good that I could not put it down, It was very fresh for me as it was more fantasy and I haven't read from this genre since reading Garth Nix's Abhorsen series.
Kate is living with her uncle and helping him run his little bookshop, They know about the Wardens but having seen them in a long time, However, Kate's uncle gets some information and is getting ready to take Kate and hide when the Wardens invade the town and Kate, her friend Edgar and her uncle must hide in the cellar.
There, Kate brings a dead bird back to life, discovers she is one of the skilled and that is where her trouble begins.
I loved Silas Dane! He was the perfect evil character, A man brought back from the dead and living with no soul, Silas thinks Kate can help him die.
He is completely mysterious and dark and I loved that! He gave me chills every time he entered the scene.
Kate, the main character, was okay, She was your typical heroine who was both brave and strong and gullible and naive all at the same time.
She didn't really annoy me but didn't have me cheering for her either,
The descriptions of the Night Train, the Station and the city under attack by blackbirds was so detailed and alive! I felt like I was right in the middle of all of it! The book is very dark and full of magic and mystery and worth every minute! I found myself saying "just one more chapter" and then after that chapter thinking "well, I can't stop now"! It reminded my of Garth Nix's Abhorsen series Sabriel, Lirael and Abhorsen so if you liked those books, pick this one up! When I read the book description, "graveyard city of Fume" was the point where I decided to buy it.
I have a thing for graveyards they're quiet, they can tell a lot of stories, and they can be serene and dangerous at the same time.
I always visit a graveyard when I come to a new city, So I was hoping for a lot of descriptions,
And I got them, This book focuses on its setting on the wintry streets, the tunnels below the graveyards, the magic, There are characters too, and one or two interesting plotlines, but the setting is the main focus, Which is just what I wanted, It may not be right for you, you'll have to know yourself to decide that,
" Fume had clusters of tall towers huddled together like whispering old men and streets of grand homes with black slate roofs all shimmering at once, built upon the bones of Albion's ancestors.Our main character is Kate, She's sympathetic, compassionate and she loves books, which is great, but she also stays a bit generic, She's thinking things through, which feels a bit too much as though the author is explaining the scene through Kate's thoughts rather than playing it out.
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Then there's Kate's uncle, who is cool but not in this a lot, And there's her best friend who is obviously supposed to be really
interesting to Kate, He is interesting, but I couldn't vouch for the chemistry,
And then there's our bad guy, and here's where I ran into a small problem, This small problem being called "having the wrong pairing", I don't know if it's just Kate's lack of chemistry with Edgar, or that her and the other one genuinely are a better fit, but I knew from the meeting onward that I would be in for an unsatisfying ending.
"Silas had the presence of ten men, Power and threat exuded from him as clearly as fear leaked from the people down below, and his eyes shone with faint light, their irises bleached gray.Plotwise there's not all that much or rather, not all that much that is surprising once you've met all the main players.
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Maybe it's because of the multiple viewpoints you get too much information to be surprised,
Still, there's a lot of room left for the sequel, which is great, And apparently there's more Silas in the sequel, which is, you know, . . FANTASTIC!
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