Reseña de ARC: The Singer's Crown: The Author's Cut

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The Singer's Crown: The Author's Cut 

by 

Elaine Isaak

589 pages

Published July 2nd 2019 by Rocinante (first published October 11th 2005)

ASIN: B07RL81CB5 

Lenguaje: Inglés

BLURB: When his uncle murders his family to take the throne, Prince Kattanan DuRhys is the only royal left alive. . . at a terrible cost. Stripped of his manhood, Kattanan travels as a court singer from one wealthy patron to the next. Given as a courtship gift to the young Princess Melisande, Kattanan feels the stirring of emotions he thought were denied him. But her jealous fiancée has other plans--and the sinister magic to carry them out.
Must Kattanan sacrifice his song to win his kingdom, and the woman he loves?

My rating: 2.8 stars 

The wimpiest and lame protagonists of all. The secondary are a bit better and more interesting.

This is a medieval fantasy.

The story opens up as many stories of a bloody royal succession, the murdered family, and with the youngest prince to whom they forgive his life but at the same time neutralize to prevent it from being a threat of succession - they castrate him.

Reseña de ARC: The Avant-Guards Vol. 1

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The Avant-Guards, Vol. 1 

by 

Carly Usdin

Noah Hayes (Illustrator)

112 pages

Published September 3rd 2019 by BOOM! Box (first published August 28th 2019)

ISBN: 1684153670 (ISBN13: 9781684153671)

Series: The Avant-Guards #1-4 

BLURB: As a transfer student to the Georgia O’Keeffe College for Arts and Subtle Dramatics, former sports star Charlie is struggling to find her classes, her dorm, and her place amongst a student body full of artists who seem to know exactly where they’re going. When the school’s barely-a-basketball-team unexpectedly attempts to recruit her, Charlie’s adamant that she’s left that life behind…until she’s won over by the charming team captain, Liv, and the ragtag crew she’s managed to assemble. And while Charlie may have left cut-throat competition in in the dust, sinking these hoops may be exactly what she needs to see the person she truly wants to be.

Plot - 2 stars

Art - 3 stars

It is not what I expected.

What's up? New girl comes to college, and is chased by another girl who waits for a member to form a women's basketball team.

But in reality, it leaves the impression that she is pursuing her for more personal reasons.

Reseña de ARC: The Dragon's Banker

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The Dragon's Banker 

by 

Scott Warren

255 pages

Published September 25th 2019 by Scott Warren

ASIN: B07TX1SJKF

Edition Language: English 

BLURB: Finance: The lifeblood of any country’s beating heart and the life’s work of Sailor Kelstern — Merchant Banker. While wizards brood in their towers and great warriors charge into battle Sailor is more interested in the price of ore, herbs, and alchemicals carried by the trade ships. But when a spell of bad fortune and bitter rivalry leaves him scrambling to turn a profit on little more than winds and whispers, one such whisper catches Sailor’s ear— a dragon has been seen in the west. Sailor soon finds that the dragons are very real, and not at all what he expected. And they practice a very different sort of economy — one of subterfuge and fire.

With bonus novelette: Forego Quest .  What if you were the hero of every song, story, and legend? What if you didn’t want to be?

My rating: 3.3 pecuniary stars

Master Sailor Kelstern is a banker who goes through difficulties after losing the fortune of a nobleman who is not at all satisfied with that; but that is nothing when faced with the challenge of satisfying a dragon (which is not supposed to exist) towards a new era of change towards paper money.

Kelstern is an interesting character, he is not the hero we are used to, and yet he is no stranger to risk his own skin when necessary. But where he is most comfortable is behind a desk with his esteemed account books, and developing strategies to earn money for his clients and his bank.

Reseña de ARC: Manga Classics: Jane Eyre

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Manga Classics: Jane Eyre

 by 

Chan Crystal S., 

 SunNeko Lee (Art)

Basada en la obra de Charlote Bronte. 

329 pages

Published August 1st 2016 by Udon Entertainment (first published July 12th 2016)

ASIN: B07GL3K51T

Edition Language: English

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Jane Eyre is the story of an orphan girl, despised by her relatives for being poor, and ending in an orphanage of the time, with cold and hunger. Then she will end up going as a girl's governess in Thornfield Hall, there her employer is a temperamental and strange man named Rochester.

This is a classic of literature, and is even considered feminist by many of the character's ideas (which are from believed come from Charlotte Brontë's autobiographical material). The relevant thing about Jane is that a woman who rebels against injustices, and whose bad circumstances fail to undermine her own inner strength, refusing to be trampled by others or to give in to her own convictions.

Mis dramas favoritos 2019

Mis dramas asiáticos favoritos vistos este año:

Oh My Venus (2016)

(la he visto varias veces para subirme el ánimo)

Las química entre los actores principales es fantástica. Los secundarios son estupendos.

¿De qué va? Una abogada pasada de peso (para estandares coreanos, no para los nuestros en realidad) rompe con su novio de toda la vida justo cuando cree que él le pedirá matrimonio, y por casualidad conoce a un entrenador famoso por convertir a una estrella gordita en una superestrella. Claro que dicho entrenador es perseguido por los papparazzi y no le conviene que su familia caiga en el escándalo que rodea esa imagen.