Capture Die Glasbücher Der Traumfresser (Miss Temple Ihre Gefährten, #1) Rendered By Gordon Dahlquist Disseminated As Paper Copy

is a hefty volume overpages in hardcover whose elegant, fluid prose is of consistently high quality throughout: complex, bold and even witty.
Frankly, sitelinkThe Glass Books of the Dream Eaters would be a tremendous achievement even if it weren't also a ripping good yarn, This is Dahlquist's first published novel, and he writes with an assurance beyond his years and experience,

Dahlquist establishes a trio of disparate, unlikely but likeable protagonists for his story: diminutive but strongwilled Celeste Temple, raised a child of privilege on a tropical island before being transplanted to London Cardinal Chang, a scarred mercenary of the London streets and CaptainSurgeon Abelard Svenson, personal physician to the Crown Prince of the Duchy of Macklenburg.
Svenson is in London for the Prince's wedding to the beautiful Lydia Vandaariff, Each character and I have only named a fraction of the host of individuals crowding these pages is unique and interesting, Swapping viewpoints with aplomb, Dahlquist advances the story through each successive pair of eyes,

Temple, Chang and Svenson find themselves united in opposition to a vast and shadowy conspiracy the best kind, at least for fictional purposes.
Britain's rich and powerful are doing extremely uncharacteristic things an atmosphere of bold licentiousness quite at odds with Victorian propriety prevails on the train to Harschmort where we first meet Miss Temple, and things get stranger from there.
There is a mysterious Process, alchemical or scientific in nature, which seems to involve sheets of strange blue glass the Glass Books of the title.


This book occupies much the same spot in my mental catalogue as Susanna Clarke's sitelinkJonathan Strange and Mr, Norrell not that they're very similar in detail, but they do both treat of a Victorian England colored with strange happenings, and they do share a delight in the precise use of the English language in all its complex glory, something of a rarity in these dark days.


sitelinkThe Glass Books of the Dream Eaters is not by any means a perfect book, nor one for all audiences, The violence in Dahlquist's decadent Victorian world is frequent, graphic and often cartoonish as is the sex, But I was, as local music critic Charles Mudede says in quite another context, "at once disturbed by the violence and drawn to the beauty" sitelink"It's Tricky," the Portland Mercury March,, p.
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While I was finishing my second reading of this novel during a vacation in Port Townsend, Washington, not far from Dahlquist's origins, I was delighted to discover, entirely serendipitously, that he has also written a sequel, sitelinkThe Dark Volume, in which at least some of the characters from his first book make another appearance.
. . I'll be picking that one up too, I do believe, Die drei Helden des Buches, die Plantagenbesitzerin Miss Temple, der Auftragskiller "Kardinal" Chang und der Leibarzt des mecklenburgischen Prinzen, Doktor Svenson, kommen auf unterschiedliche Weise mit der Geheimgesellschaft der Traumfresser in Kontakt, die ein Verfahren entwickelt hat, mit dem man Erinnerungen und Emotionen von Menschen auf blaue Glasbücher übertragen kann Not one to shy away from long books, I found both the title and insideflap description of this book to be quite intriguing.
Unfortunately, those were the only redeeming qualities of thispage book, The editors must have fallen asleep reading their copy as many times as I did and just didnt want to admit it, This book needs an editor, Creatively chopping it in half and selling it in parts as they did with the trade paperback version is NOT editing, The book is simply WAY too long, Even the sentences drag on and on and on, . . To approach eight hundred pages successfully, the only thing readers should be complaining about is that the book is so heavy that forced breaks for your arms to recover are a nuisance.
Here, I just wish that I hadnt bothered to finish it, The entire text is so heavily bogged down with irrelevant detail after irrelevant detail, Quickly, it became an absolute chore to read,

It would have been an intriguing story if it had stronger characters like the main character, Miss Temple, for example she is ayearold who seemed like a spinsterishyearold virginal nun it was amazing how many times I had to remind myself of her actual age when she bent down without spraining a joint that weren't so utterly unbelievable.
And the mix of real places with fictitious ones wouldn't have been so infuriating if it had only once mentioned the name of the land they were supposed to be in England seems most likely.
Either way, these potential improvements hardly matter the book has been published, I've never fallen asleep while reading more even textbooks are more stimulating reading than this, The best part of the book Having finished it, The only explanation for all the extraneous detail is showmanship and to add to the odd tone but all it did was drag out a plot that would have been much stronger had it been genuinely more suspenseful.
This is one of the books that I genuinely regret wasting my time with, Please dont waste yours. This is what The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen should have been,

The Glass Books basics are thus:unconnected characters Miss Temple, a recently transplanted heiress from across the ocean, Cardinal Chang, a local assassin who isn't actually Chinese, amp Svenson, a doctor in the entourage of visiting Macklenburg aristocrats are thrown together in their attempt to overthrow a mysterious Cabal of villains.
Their motives start out as personal each of them has lost someone they care about but quickly morph into a more widespread social conscience as they band together for the sheer joy of thwarting The Cabal.
Said villainy is OTT bizarre involving blueskinned women, alchemy, glass memory portals, mind control, amp oversexed femme fatales, but there's an endearing whimsy to their dark plans the more personal violations are by far the creepier of their theatrics, while the sweeping world takeover is goofball goodvsevil fun.


While the author goes out of his way to refrain from pinning his story in England proper, there's a blatant Englishness/alternaBritain feel.
It also offers hearty nods to penny dreadfuls, HG Wells/Jules Verne, amp steampunk though detailed bullshit mechanical explanations are avoided THANK YOU, There's a lot of Bloodsmoor Romance in the dense language, sly humor, amp shameless warping of purity amp morality, . . and also a lot of The Fate of Fenella in the way

each chapter feeds on itself, building needlessly intricate plots with hidden motives amp side characters.
Dahlquist clearly has a love of language the prose is thick amp beautiful, walking a fine line between erudite neoVictorian litfic amp snarky homage.


I really liked allprotagonists because they each gave me feels particularly Chang, amp I was glad the author resisted foisting a needless love triangle upon everyone.
While there is definitely a romantic connection brewing betweenof them, the third person finds their own love interest later in the story, But romance is the least of the plot the focus remains on The Cabal amp our heroes' adventures therein,

Overall, it's a definite,star read. The writing amp characters deserve a, but the Cabal plots amp counterplots became the weakest part of the whole, They're confusing. They're tangled. They're unnecessarily dragged out though the finale in the airship was great, So for that, I rounded down, . . but I'll definitely pick up the sequel, Nicely done, Mr Dahlquist. : Διαβάζοντας μετά από χρόνια τοο μέρος της σειράς, λέω να ρίξω λίγο φως στον παρεξηγημένο κόσμο του Dahlquist μιλώντας για τοο βιβλίο, το οποίο ωστόσο διαβάζεται και ως standalone.

Πρόκειται για ένα μυστηριώδες βιβλίο που σε σαγηνεύει τόσο με τις αρετές όσο και με τα προβλήματα του. Η ιδιαιτερότητα του έγκειται στο γεγονός ότι κάθε κεφάλαιο πρόκειται για ετεροχρονισμένη αφήγηση των γεγονότων από την πλευρά ενός εκ των τριών πρωταγωνιστών. Με τον τρόπο αυτό ο αναγνώστης βρίσκεται αντιμέτωπος με ένα παζλκομματιών, που μπορεί να κουράζει μεν στην αρχή αλλά στην πορεία κορυφώνει το μυστήριο και την αγωνία.

Βρισκόμαστε στη Βικτωριανή εποχή κι όλα αρχίζουν όταν η Σελέστ κορίτσι από σπίτι με γαλλικά και πιάνο βρίσκεται μεταμφιεσμένη σε μια μυστηριώδη έπαυλη, έχοντας ακολουθήσει τον παρολίγον μνηστήρα της στην προσπάθεια να ανακαλύψει το λόγο που την παράτησε εν μια νυκτί. Αυτό που βρίσκει ωστόσο ξεπερνά και τις πιο απίθανες προσδοκίες της: ένα μπαλ μασκέ στο οποίο συμμετέχουν άτομα της υψηλής κοινωνίας, πολιτικοί και στρατιωτικοί λογής εθνικότητας. Τα πράγματα δεν είναι ωστόσο όπως φαίνοναι και στην προσπάθεια της να ξεφύγει από φρουρούς που την ανακάλυψαν η Σελέστ χάνεται στους διαδρόμους της έπαυλης όπου και ανακαλύπτει πως η συγκέντρωση είναι η βιτρίνα ενός άρρωστου παιχνιδιού συνωμοσίας κι εξουσίας. Μαζί της ένας επαγγελματίας δολοφόνος κι ένας εξόριστος γιατρός, οι οποίοι βρέθηκαν για δικούς τους λόγους παρόντες στα αιματηρά γεγονότα της έπαυλης, αναγκάζονται να συμμαχήσουν για να βγουν ζωντανοί από αυτήν την ιστορία. Και το ανθρωποκυνηγητό ξεκινά. Σκηνές βγαλμένες από τα Μάτια Ερμητικά Κλειστά, σκοτεινοί διάδρομοι και ομιχλώδη σοκάκια μια άγνωστης πόλης, θέτουν την ατμόσφαιρα μιας περιπέτειας με πέπλο μυστηρίου που αντλεί στοιχεία ατμοπάνκ φαντασίας, πολιτικού θρίλερ και γοτθικού τρόμου.

Τι κι αν το διάβασα πριν τόσα χρόνια, η κλειστοφοβική του ατμόσφαιρα ακόμη με κυνηγάει.
½

Eines dieser Bücher, die formidabel anfangen, sich irgendwann verlieren und am Schluss nicht mehr wissen, wann es Zeit ist aufzuhören.
A fascinating book which demanded my full attention and quite a lot of time, but was well worth it, It's quite difficult to explain what it's about without giving away crucial details of the plot the nature of the mystery at the Die Glasbücher der Traumfresser's heart isn't revealed until a significant way through, but it's at turns thrilling, scary, and erotic, and most of all compelling.
A big, juicy, labyrinthine novel, full of suspense and intrigue one to really get your teeth into, Quite brilliant. Sweet agony

Ambientato in epoca vittoriana La setta dei libri blu è un romanzo fantasy steampunk in cui tre personaggi una gentil donzella, un dottore e un misterioso Cardinale Chang incappano in un oscuro complotto che coinvolge dei libri di vetro blu.
I tre hanno motivi personali e soggettivi per opporsi a questo complotto, decisione che li porterà a gravitare intorno ad alcuni luoghi nonchè personaggi chiave, fino allo scioglimento della tensione, se non del mistero, dato che ci aspetta un secondo volume che completerà la storia il seguito verrà pubblicato in lingua originale il.
., il titolo è The Dark Volume,

I pregi di questo romanzo sono una bella ambientazione, una bella idea di partenza, un ottimo stile e dei personaggi veramente interessanti.
D'altra parte Dahlquist è estremamente prolisso e la trama un po' macchinosa, Il fulcro dell'azione sembra non giungere mai, venendo posticipato di capitolo in capitolo, Il complotto rimane oscuro a parte occasionali brandelli di informazione fino all'ultimo capitolo, dove tutto si accavalla confusamente,
Il finale è buono, classico direi, Chiude il romanzo e spiega tutto pur lasciando ovviamente intuire che la storia continuerà, It's been a long time since I read this, but I remember picking it up and thinking, this is really weird, but not in a bad way.
It's kind of steampunk, grown up version of sitelinkHis Dark Materials, but with less deicide, I thought that there was only this one, but then I discovered that it's the first of three, Then I scare up a hard cover copy of the second book for, and it's time to revisit this, Once I've read some Stephen King, .