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martes, 30 de enero de 2024

Reseña: "A Kind of Spark" by Elle McNicoll

A Kind of Spark

A Kind of Spark by Elle McNicoll

 
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Reto Popsugar #29: Un libro con un personaje neurodivergente.

Adeline is 11 years old and autistic. She lives in Juniper, a small Scottish town whose inhabitants feel as if they are from Edinburgh itself.

Addie is starting a new school year, but her longtime friend has left her behind for the mean, rich girl. And her teacher clearly doesn't want her in her class. Her biggest supporter is her older sister Kadeen who is in college, and who is also autistic although her personality is very different from Addie's (who prefers to read about sharks and take refuge in eating her lunch at library). But one of those educational outings that schools are so fond of leads her to realize the history of the women who were executed for being 'witches' in her village. She feels impacted by the story and decides to do something so that they are never forgotten.

domingo, 24 de mayo de 2020

Reseña: Túneles (Tunnels #1)

{Comentario en Castellano | Review in Inglés}


Túneles (Tunnels #1)

by 

Brian Williams

Traductor: Adolfo Muñoz García.

448 pages
Published November 19th 2007 by Puck 
ISBN: 8496886034 (ISBN13: 9788496886032)
Series: Tunnels #1

SINOPSIS: Will comparte con su padre una afición muy extraña para un chico de catorce años: pasa su tiempo excavando, buscando tesoros perdidos en las entrañas de la tierra. Así descubre que, bajo el mismo Londres, existen túneles que no constan en ningún mapa y puertas olvidadas durante siglos. Pero… ¿adónde llevan? Cuando el padre de Will desaparece misteriosamente, el joven decide aventurarse en su búsqueda, desafiando la oscuridad y el temor a lo desconocido. Con la sola ayuda de su amigo Chester, se dirige hacia un mundo fascinante y a la vez aterrador, un mundo lleno de sorpresas, con sus propias leyes, extraños personajes… y terribles amenazas.

3.5 don't-forget-your-torch stars


La gracia de este libro para mi es que es el primero que tenía en mi lista de TBR , desde 2011. YAY; uno menos.

Bien flaco favor le hicieron los publicistas a este libro comparándolo con la serie Harry Potter queriendo subirse a su popularidad. Desde ya les digo que no se le parece en nada. NO hay magos, ni seres de mitologia de cuentos por aqui; asi que tampoco se asemeja a Artemis Fowl II, pese a los subterráneos.

jueves, 14 de mayo de 2020

Reseña de ARC: The Fantastical Exploits of Gwendolyn Gray (Gwendolyn Gray, #2)

 +Digital ARC gently provided by Netgalley and editors in exchange for an honest review+
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The Fantastical Exploits of Gwendolyn Gray (Gwendolyn Gray, #2)

by 

B.A. Williamson


384 pages
Published April 28th 2020 by North Star Editions/Jolly Fish Press
ISBN13: 9781631634352
Edition Language: English
Series: The Chronicles of Gwendolyn Gray #2

BLURB: Heroes never return from adventure unchanged, and Gwendolyn Gray knows this better than anyone. She faces a new darkness within herselfwith no help or comfort from her friends Sparrow and Starling. On top of that, the City is only getting worse. When the Faceless Gentlemen return to menace her again, Gwendolyn escapes to the lands of the Fae. But even the dreamlike Faeoria holds dangers that even she could never have imagined. Gwendolyn must learn to master her magic and manage her internal struggles if she ever hopes to defeat the villainous forces that control the City, find Sparrow and Starling, and save the people she loves.


3.3 spread-your-imagination stars



“Everyone is born different. None of us are born to fit in.”

When the heroine of a story defeats the bad guys, derailing their evil plans, the story ends with a happy ending, right? Well, Gwendolyne hoped it would be like this, not even caring that anyone knew what she had been through or done, or was she? However, she feels depressed and misses her friends and fellow adventurers. Her world continues to be mostly gray and it continues to follow the same operating laws, not like the world of pirates and adventure. Like all the kids, maybe she expected a radical change and not a small change here and there, like her friends from school who want to hear stories now. And I think Gwendolyn fails to acknowledge her parents' love for her.

But the gray men have not yet given up on reordering the world as it should be.

Gwendolyn is once again haunted by enormous powers and must jump to another world to escape and seek help.

sábado, 26 de enero de 2019

Reseña: Watersnakes (novela gráfica)

 +Digital arc gently provided by Netgalley and editors in exchange for an honest review+

Watersnakes 

by 

Tony Sandoval

Lucas Marangon (traductor)


144 pages
Published November 20th 2018 by Magnetic Press (first published January 1st 2008)
Original Title: Le Serpent d'eau
ISBN: 1942367759 (ISBN13: 9781942367758)
Edition Language: English 
BLURB. Mila is a solitary teenager ready to put another boring summer vacation behind her until she meets Agnes, an adventurous girl who turns out to be a ghost. And not just a regular ghost, but one carrying the essence of an ancient fallen king and a mouth full of teeth that used to be his guardian warriors.

My rating: 1 of 5 stars

Pedi este libro en Netgalley solamente por la portada. Para que vean .

Trata de una chica adolescente que conoce a otra en sus vacaciones. Una chica extraña que usa máscaras , roba y asegura que es un fantasma y solamente ella puede verla. Desde el principio Mila esta obsesionada con los dientes de la chica-fantasma. Es bastante fetichista y perturbador. Luego la cosa se complica con una fantasia de seres en el mar y blah, mucho enredo y cualidad de pesadilla, a saltos.

No la recomiendo.

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