Reseña: La redención de Cristobal Colón

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
by
Orson Scott Card

BLURB: In one of the most powerful and thought-provoking novels of his remarkable career, Orson Scott Card interweaves a compelling portrait of Christopher Columbus with the story of a future scientist who believes she can alter human history from a tragedy of bloodshed and brutality to a world filled with hope and healing.

Año 1a edición: 1996
 
My rating: 4 of 5 stars


3.5 ESTRELLAS OBSERVANTES


"Who am I, she thought, if I dare to answer prayers intended for the gods?

Reseña: Farscape 1: The Beginning of the End of the Beginning (Novela Gráfica)

Farscape 1: The Beginning of the End of the Beginning
by
Rockne S. O'Bannon
Keith R.A. DeCandido , 
Tommy Patterson (Illustrator)

Año Publicación: 2009

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


**After Peacekeeper Wars**

All Scapers miss this serie, a wild ride in space, with eccentric characters and many last minute plot twists.

Reseña: Cold Comfort Farm

 COLD COMFORT FARM

by

Stella Gibbons


Año 1a edición: 1932

BLURB: When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in deepest Sussex. At the aptly named Cold Comfort Farm, she meets the doomed Starkadders: cousin Judith; Amos; their sons, Seth and Reuben; and Aunt Ada Doom. But Flora loves nothing better than to organize other people.



My rating: 2 of 5 stars


2,5-2,75 aun no me decido.

¿Saben qué? Vean la pelicula mejor (la de 1995). De todos modos.


"There have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort!”




When Flora Post lose her parents, she really didn't feel sad, instead she decided to live with relatives. The chosen ones? the Starkadders in Sussex.

Reseña: A intrepid trip to Love

An Intrepid Trip to Love
by
Charlie Cochet

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Blurb: Tristan ‘Trip’ Hagan is a Husky shifter who was born to be the Hagan Clan’s next Alpha, a position of honor and nobility, a position he never wanted and was all too happy to pass onto his younger brother. But when they discovered his brother couldn’t have pups, the responsibility of continuing the Hagan Alpha line fell back to Trip. Under the weight of the Hagan Council’s demand to fulfill his duty, Trip settled down and produced an heir, but after years of struggling to uphold his family’s traditions, Trip found the courage to do what no other Hagan Alpha had done in the history of the clan: he came out.
 Five years later...

3.5 canine stars.

Huskies shapeshifters? oookay.
Cute and funny.
Lost me at the end.

Btw ... spiders are the doom of alphas XD





(Art by www.tanidareal.com)

Reseña:Pilgrimage: The Book of the People

Pilgrimage: The Book of the People
 by
Zenna Henderson

255 pages

Año 1a edición: 1961

Blurb These are the People.
Marooned on this planet by the crash of their interstellar vehicle in the distant past, The People are never free of a sense of strangeness in this world and a yearning for the home they have half-forgotten.

These are the chronicles of their arrival on this world, their estrangement from it, and their ultimate acceptance of their poignant exile.
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

“There aren’t any endings,” the Francher kid said. “Only new beginnings. When you going to get started?”


Lea está a punto de tirarse por un puente cuando es rescatada por Karen, quien casi a empujones y sin dejarle salida la lleva con ella a una reunión-conferencia-congreso donde empiezan a contar sus experiencias y revelan que son The People.

Reseña: "Ciudad de Ilusiones" (Ciclo Hainish #3)

Ciudad de Ilusiones
by
Ursula K. Le Guin

146 páginas

Año 1a edición: 1967

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



Se jugaba entero a esta creencia: que un hombre honesto no puede ser engañado, que la verdad, si el juego se jugaba hasta las últimas consecuencias conduciría a la verdad.

Reseña: Queen of Air and Darkness

Queen Of Air And Darkness And Other Stories
by
Poul Anderson

 Año 1a edicion: 1971.
144 páginas aprox.

My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Hugo y Nebula Award for Best Novella (1972)


My rating is just for Queen of Air and Darkness.

We live with our archetypes, but can we live in them?

Reseña: "Vessel"

Vessel
by Sarah Beth Durst
424 páginas
Año 1a Publicación: 2012

Blurb: Liyana has trained her entire life to be the vessel of a goddess. She will dance and summon her tribe's deity, who will inhabit Liyana's body and use magic to bring rain to the desert. But when the dance ends, Liyana is still there. Her tribe is furious--and sure that it is Liyana's fault. Abandoned by her tribe, Liyana expects to die in the desert. Until a boy walks out of the dust in search of her.

 
 
My rating: 3,5 de 5 estrellas.

On the day she was to die, Liyana walked out of her family’s tent to see the dawn.

Reseña: Some Girls Bite (Chicagoland Vampires, #1)

Some Girls Bite by Chloe Neill

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


They killed me. They healed me. They changed me.

A Merit le cambia la vida, literalmente, el ataque de un vampiro en el campus de su universidad.

Reseña: "Planeta de Exilio" (Hainish 2)

Planeta de exilio by Ursula K. Le Guin

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


3,5

Esta novela corta forma parte del ciclo Hainish, que tengo la intención de leer por completo.

La idea inicial es que dos pueblos diferentes han vivido sin juntarse por diez años planetarios, veinte generaciones, 600 años terrestres. Ahora se ven enfrentados a un invasión que puede exterminarlos por completo.