Reseña: Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness 1) by Tamora Pierc

Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness 1)

 by Tamora Pierce

249 pages

Published December 7th 2010 by Turtleback Books (first published September 1st 1983)

Titulo en español: Alanna la guerrera

ISBN: 0606361030 (ISBN13: 9780606361033)

Series:Song of the Lioness #1, Tortall (Chronological Order) #4

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Tenia curiosidad por este libro que aparece de repente en comentarios de otros libros, y, también porque sale en un fanfic que lei. La historia es sencilla, asi como el lenguaje, y la novela es cortisima, en buena parte porque al parecer el manuscrito original era para adultos, pero por instancia de los editores fue dividida en 4 partes y puesta a nivel de los niños.

Reseña: Theo Paxstone and the Dragon of Adyron

Theo Paxstone and the Dragon of Adyron 

by 

James Turner

 412 pages

Published October 8th 2017

ASIN: B076B6MCPB

Edition Language: English 

BLURb: Young Theo Paxstone aspires to a better life. A mechanic at a steam mech repair shop, he slaves away under the sharp eye of the ruthless Master Grimes, along with dozens of other orphan boys. The biggest and meanest of them, Grant, has in it for Theo and his best friend, Ollie, the shop’s parts-spotter cockatoo.

When the largest dragon ever seen descends out of the night sky and sets the royal tournament aflame, Theo escapes to help. He saves a crippled steam knight, Sir Bentham, from the blaze, assisted by Bentham’s pugnacious squire, Riley.
Together, they decide to hunt the monstrous dragon down — before it can kill again.
But nothing is as it seems, and Theo soon finds himself caught up in an adventure that will turn his entire world upside down...

My rating: 3.5

 Situado en una suerte de mundo post-apocaliptico fantástico , con máquinas a vapor, caballeros y reinos, dragones y toda suerte de criaturas peligrosas, y con mecha (esto un robot que funciona a vapor piloteado por un caballero que es un noble).

Theo Paxstone es un huérfano que con 13 años de edad trabaja como aprendiz en un taller de chatarra bajo las órdenes de un abusivo maese Grimes. No recuerda padres ni vivir en la calle, sólo el taller y todos los otros chicos que viven como él, arreglando y puliendo maquinaria para venderla. 

Pero los sueños de Theo son de caballeros, de su héroe Sir Drake, y de manejar un robot inventado por él mismo, y vivir aventuras según el código de honor.

Reseña: Blade Singer

Blade Singer 

 by  

Aaron de Orive

Martha Wells

 202 pages 

Published June 13th 2014 by Cloak & Dagger Studios 

 Manuel "Manny" Boreaux, a troubled adolescent from Texas, is magically transported into the body of a goblin pickpocket in an alternate world inhabited by faerie creatures. Manny must quickly adapt to the danger all around him and try to find a way to get back home, a feat complicated by the pickpocket's association with a notorious gang of thieves. But when Manny uncovers a plot to assassinate a young king, he must enlist the aid of an elf cavalier and a cat burglar to thwart a Sidhe witch's scheme to ignite a civil war between humans and the Fae.

My rating: 3.5 

 bookshelves: teen-protagonist, adventure, fantasy, sword-and-fantasy, fae-or-fey-or-faery, elfos, seelie-unseelie-court, ya-juvenil

Manny Boreaux is a seventh grade student whose parents died in a car accident six months ago. He lives with his aunt, but finds himself in denial and resentment, making bad decisions. His going to a bookstore chasing memories, leads him magically to an adventure where he is in a parallel world full of magic, guards using rapier, fay beings, and where suddenly he is a thief that is becoming a goblin.

I picked this book for curiosity because is co-authored with Martha Wells (Raksura books).

This is like the Musketeers with faery races .

An entertaining page-turned, but feels more like a novella than a novel. Despite being a stand-alone novel, a second installment is clearly pending.