Reseña: Sun, Moon, Dust

 Sun, Moon, Dust 

by 

Ursula Vernon

 

Relato corto

Publicado por: Uncanny Magazine Issue 16: May/June 2017

My rating: 4.5 stars

La última voluntad y herencia de una abuela es una espada enjoyada que deja a su nieto. La espada es mágica y alberga 3 espiritus que se encargan de enseñar el arte al portador de la espada por varias generaciones y generaciones. Sin embargo , el joven no es más que un apacible granjero cuya mayor ambicion es tener un cultivo bueno para no pasar hambre.

Ursula Vernon (A.K.A. T. Kingfisher) es una de mis autoras favoritas, tiene enorme imaginacion y buena pluma. Siempre es un deleite leerla.

Reseña: Artemis Fowl (Artemis Fowl #1)

Artemis Fowl (Artemis Fowl #1)

by 

Eoin Colfer

280 pages

(first published April 26th 2001)

ISBN: 1423124529 (ISBN13: 9781423124528)

Series: Artemis Fowl #1  

 BLURB: Twelve-year-old Artemis Fowl is a millionaire, a genius, and, above all, a criminal mastermind. But even Artemis doesn't know what he's taken on when he kidnaps a fairy, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit. These aren't fairies of bedtime stories; these fairies are armed and dangerous.
Artemis thinks he has them right where he wants them...but then they stop playing by the rules.

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Artemis Fowl es un antiheroe de 12 años, un genio criminal que viene de un legado familiar de gente dedicada a hacer ganancias por cualquier medio necesario, y aunque de vez en cuando hacen algo legitimo, se aburren y vuelven al mundo criminal. Cuando inicia la historia, Artemis hace años que se maneja solo junto a su fiel guardaespaldas Butler (de un largo legado de Butler que han servido a los Fowl). Su padre lleva años desaparecido, probablemente por la mafia rusa, y su madre vive en un estado de depresion recluida en su pequeño mundo en su habitacion. 

Asi que Artemis conspira con encontrar una gran ventaja para hallar a su padre y obtener mucho, mucho dinero. Sus investigaciones le han llevado a descubrir que existe un mundo secreto de hadas y decide apoderarse de su oro... facil ¿verdad? Pues no. Pero eso no amedrenta a este villano que tiene planes sobre planes en marcha.

Reseña: Diez negritos

Diez negritos 

by 

Agatha Christie

223 pages

Published June 22nd 1983 by Editorial Molino (first published November 6th 1939)

Original Title: Ten Little Niggers

ISBN: 8427200153 (ISBN13: 9788427200159)

Edition Language: Spanish 

 

SINOPSIS: Diez personas reciben sentadas cartas firmadas por un desconocido Mr. Owen, que las invita a pasar unos días en la mansión que tiene en uno de los isltoes de la costa de Devon. La primera noche, después de la cena, una voz los acusa, de ser culpables de un crimen. Lo que parece ser una broma macabra se convierte en una espantosas realidad cuando, uno por uno, los diez invitados son asesinados en un atmósfera de miedo y mutuas recriminaciones. La clave parece estar en una vieja canción infantil: «Diez negritos se fueron a cenar, uno se ahogó y quedaron nueve. Nueve negritos trasnocharon mucho, uno no despertó, y quedaron ocho...»

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Reto popsugar 2019 #29. Un libro que viste leyendo a alguien en una serie o película(*)

“I remember a text that hung in my nursery as a child. ‘Be sure thy sin will find thee out.’ It’s very true, that. Be sure thy sin will find thee out.”

Unas cartas enviadas por un señor Owen , quien ha adquirido recientemente la Isla del Negro, reune a 10 personas diferentes en dicha isla. Por trabajo, vacaciones o para relacionarse. ¿Qué podia salir mal? Una isla en medio del mar, desconocidos aislados con un pasado con sus yayas, cuando mucho unos dias perdidos.

Pero una vez alli las rarezas pasan a convertirse en un juego de eliminación.

Reseña de ARC: Kidnapped by Vampires (The Z Team #2)

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Kidnapped by Vampires (The Z Team #2)

by 

D.E. Daly

 64 pages

Published January 15th 2019 by West 44 Books

ISBN: 1538381893 (ISBN13: 9781538381892)

Series: The Z Team #2 

Language: English

BLURB: The Z Team is pretty sure nothing else is coming out of the old railroad station. They're ready to retire. However, when people start going missing in town, the Z Team gets back together to fight their next challenge, which are vampires.

My rating: 2.6 vampires on the railroads stars

Level: 9-12

The Z Team is a party of 3 middle schoolers who are clearly influenced by our remembered Buffy the Vampire Slayer (though here is named as 'Sunny the Monster Masher') in a light version of Eerie Indiana it seems.

The Zephyr Terminal is again the focus of supernatural problems, and the friends Chloe, Malik y Justin have to find it before something worst may happen to their close ones.

It's a cheesy adventure, with preteen and teens problems of homework, tests, and sisters not listening to younger siblings. And of course vampire lore thrown in the mix.

Reseña: Blart: The Boy Who Didn't Want to Save the World Blart: The Boy Who Didn't Want to Save the World

Blart: The Boy Who Didn't Want to Save the World

by

Dominic Barker

319 pages

Published February 1st 2006 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (first published 2006)

ISBN: 074758074X (ISBN13: 9780747580744)

Edition Language: English

Series: Blart #1

BLURB: Blart is not an average boy. He lives on a pig farm with his grandfather and doesn't care about being heroic or famous or legendary, but he does know that if you want to catch a pig you have to sneak up behind it and take it by surprise. So when a great wizard visits and explains that humankind depends on Blart joining his quest, Blart says no - until the wizard threatens his pigs. Reluctantly, Blart embarks on a very epic quest stuffed with brilliant characters: a feisty princess who likes dragons, a warrior who's a big softie at heart, a disaffected dwarf, and evil Zorab, trapped in a mountain, waiting for his minions to dig him out...

My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Shelves:  adventure-and-action, anti-heroe, fantasy, magia, parodia, read, teen-protagonist, witches-wizards

Blart is a 14-year-old swineherd, coward and selfish and ugly , who is taken by force by a magician to stop a supervillain.

‘My name’s Blart. I look after pigs and I’m with Capablanca who doesn’t.’

I was going to give it 3 stars until it got pretty boring and dumb from the middle almost to the end.

Imagine a parody of The Hobbit in a basically Python-esque way, with a Dudley Dursley at its worst as the protagonist.

Reseña: Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach

Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach 

by 

Kelly Robson

240 pages

Published March 13th 2018 by Tor.com

ISBN: 1250163854 (ISBN13: 9781250163851)

Edition Language: English

BLURB: Discover a shifting history of adventure as humanity clashes over whether to repair their ruined planet or luxuriate in a less tainted pass.
In 2267, Earth has just begun to recover from worldwide ecological disasters. Minh is part of the generation that first moved back up to the surface of the Earth from the underground hells, to reclaim humanity's ancestral habitat. She's spent her entire life restoring river ecosystems, but lately the kind of long-term restoration projects Minh works on have been stalled due to the invention of time travel. When she gets the opportunity take a team to 2000 BC to survey the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, she jumps at the chance to uncover the secrets of the shadowy think tank that controls time travel technology.

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Reto Popsugar 2019 #40: sugerencia de un reto anterior (de un autor favorito tuyo)

Historia nominada al Nebula.

De Kelly Robson solamente conocia "Las Aguas de Versalles", una entretenida fantasia histórica, y esta vez nos trae una historia post-apocaliptica con mensaje ecológico y anticapitalista.

When the plague babies had moved to the surface six decades earlier, in 2205, they’d been determined to prove humanity could escape the hives and hells and live above ground again, in humanity’s ancestral habitat. First, they’d erected bare-bones habs high in the mountains, scraping together skeleton funding for proof-of-concept pilot projects. For the first few ecological remediation projects, the plague babies donated their billable hours, hoping to lure investment and spark population growth.

Reseña: Violeta se fue a los cielos

Violeta se fue a los cielos 

by 

Ángel Parra

188 pages

Published 2006 by Catalonia

ISBN: 9568303359 (ISBN13: 9789568303358)

Edition Language: Spanish

BLURB: Ángel Parra relata anécdotas y recuerdos inéditos sobre su madre. Memorias íntimas que sirvieron de base al director nacional Andrés Wood para llevar al cine la vida y obra de esta excepcional creadora chilena reconocida en el mundo entero.

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Reto Popsugar 2019 #5. Un libro escrito por un músico

«Los recuerdos rescatados de tan lejos son nada más que eso, imaginación única e irrepetible. Aun haciéndolos míos, no puedo responder de su autenticidad, y es eso lo que más gusta.»

Como bien dice otra reseña, estos son los recuerdos que nos deja Ángel Cereceda Parra acerca de su madre, la inolvidable Violeta Parra Sandoval. La Violeta ya no está, tampoco Ángel.

Reseña de ARC:Blossoms in Autumn

 +Digital ARC gently provided by Netgalley and publishers. My thanks and my thoughts all mine+

 

Blossoms in Autumn 

by 

Zidrou

Aimée de Jongh (Illustrator)

 141 pages

Published March 20th 2019 by Europe Comics

Original Title: L'obsolescence programmée de nos sentiments

ISBN13: 9791032805862

Edition Language: English

BLURB:  Ulysses, a widower for several years, loses his job as a mover at age 59 and loses his sense of being. Mediterranea, 62 and never married, loses her mother and officially becomes the oldest member of her family. Fate brings them together and helps them to much more than just heal

My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Graphic novel. Literatura francesa.

Art - 3.5 / 5

Story - 1 / 5

There are many things in the story that rubs me the wrong way, so... it's not of my liking. And since this is just my personal taste, well, that.

Blossoms in Autumn, -which in French is called "The programmed obsolescence of our sentiments"- is about two aging people who know each other and get together. Ullyses with 59 years old is lay off from a moving company, the loneliness and emptiness of his days is well told. While Mediterranea, with 62 years, still works in a cheese factory, she is going through her own crisis of loneliness after the death of her mother whom she cared for.

Newsflash - Life does not end at 50, or at 60. And I must say (coming from a family that mostly lives after the 90s and a hundred years) not even after that. And yes, they still have sex in some cases. I mean, my maternal grandfather was a hardworking , mean, and lecherous man until the day he died at 96 years old.

But it is Ulysses wich bother me. He repeats again and again that 'he hate reading'. STRIKE ONE. I don't know if that hints at problems like dyslexia? but srly? not good.

Reseña: Best Laid Plans: An Omegaverse Novel Best Laid Plans: An Omegaverse Novel

Best Laid Plans: An Omegaverse Novel 

by 

E.M. Denning

224 pages

Published March 13th 2019 by Independently published

ISBN: 1090305060 (ISBN13: 9781090305060)

Language: English 

 BLURB: In a world where omegas rule, alphas must provide. Maxwell Moore is a successful omega who loves his job as CEO of his family’s automotive company. After successfully navigating the company through an economic slump, he wants nothing more than to keep doing what he loves, but his alpha brother, Howard, has other plans. Faced with the threat of being forced into a marriage he doesn’t want, Maxwell comes up with a plan.
Diagnosed as infertile when he was a teen, Chase Grant is a lonely, unmatched alpha with no hope of getting the life he’s always wanted. Working a menial, but fulfilling job at an animal shelter, he doesn’t expect things to change for the better. When he’s approached by a dashing older omega with a mutually beneficial proposal, Chase can’t think of a single reason to say no.

This book also contains a little angst, a fetch-loving canine, a dash of mpreg, and some naughty knotting.

My rating: 2.7 of 5 stars

Esta es una novela en un Omegaverse (o sea los hombres quedan preñados) de Alphas, Betas y Omegas , pero sin ser cambiaformas. Es un género que me he acostumbrado ver en cambiaformas, y especificamente en ultimamente en fanfics de Teen Wolf. con gran angst y gritos mortificantes. Si bien hay novelas que han explorado el tema con guerreros y magia. 

Este esta situado en un mundo contemporaneo, aunque despues de un periodo de abuso de los Alphas, el poder se encuentra en manos de los Omega. Sin embargo la presión no ha cedido del todo para que los Omegas queden adquieran una pareja y queden preñados. Una vez más cuando hay un desbalance de poder, algunos sufren .

Reseña: Yasmina and the Potato Eaters: Part 2

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Yasmina and the Potato Eaters: Part 2 

by 

Wauter Mannaert

 72 pages

Expected publication: April 17th 2019 by Europe Comics

Original TitleYasmina et les mangeurs de patates

ISBN: 139791032808139

Edition Language: English

Series: Yasmina and the Potato Eaters #2

 Sinopsis: Eleven‐year‐old Yasmina and her dad lead a modest life in a small city apartment. Luckily, the food-loving Yasmina can whip up just about anything in the kitchen, with an assist from her edible herb books and her friends from the community garden. That is, until the day the garden disappears, bulldozed and replaced by a field of potatoes that are both experimental… and completely addictive! The only solution is for Yasmina to track down and eradicate the source of the problem. A fun and colorful tale for all ages.

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

The second and final installement of the story of this courageous and asertive young girl fighting against a big company to help her father, friends, and the city.

That of 'you can not eat only one' takes a new look in this story .

For this girl to advocate for community gardens, and for growing vegetables on the terraces of buildings comes to bring a very relevant issue. Not only about pesticides and food with non-natural aggregates, but also because of the scarcity of good food that we are facing, especially with the shrinkage of agricultural land.