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It also made me realise that I had somehow forgotten that fantasy just means it's set in an imaginary world - that fantasy doesn't actually have to involve magic or mythical creatures. Milan Novak erwartet von seinem zweiten Sohn Johnny, den vermutlichen Mörder zu richten. Obwohl der Täter noch nicht gefunden & überführt wurde, vermuten Milan und seine Clanmitglieder, dass die Tat durch ein Mitglied eines verfeindeten serbischen Clans, erfolgte. Welcome to Ranadon, a world where two suns bear down on a land of a hazardous nature, where earthquakes and volcanoes are the norm. After an unknown period, one of the suns will disappear and bring about a harsh time known as the Age of Shadows. At the centre of the story is the protagonist Dirk Provin, currently living on the island of Elcast, and when the Lion of Senet, the most powerful man in Ranadon chooses to visit Elcast, Dirks life is about to be turned upside down. The book's great strength is a fascinating, dynamic plot. A little slow at the beginning, once it gets going it never lets up. And it has something to SAY about religion versus spirituality and organized religion's failures to live up to it's goals. (Had it been written 30 years later, I'm pretty sure it would have been Evangelical Christianity that would have taken the most hits, but here it's the Catholic Church hierarchy). This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( July 2013) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)
Of course, Ryan's family, especially his parents, are forces in his life from which he is always hiding his true self, his true feelings, in fear of being unloved and rejected. The prince turned away, his attention already on another guest. Dirk watched him smiling and joking, wondering how such evil could exist in such a splendidly benign figure as Antonov Latanya Having said that, the minds-eye visuality in Fallon's books grabs you immediately. But when the story really took off, after all the scene-setting, it honestly felt like a *bang* in my head. The 'light bulb' moment when you, as the reader, are almost... permitted... to view the end game, while still watching how the characters reach it. Suddenly I saw all the parts come together, and I started to second-guess at the parts that weren't quite making sense yet. But that is the brilliance of Fallon's novels: she leaves out just enough info to keep you hungering for more, while giving your mind a work out to discover the political and social machinations permeating her books.
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I thoroughly enjoyed reading this gritty suspense-thriller set in the multi-ethnic organised crime world of western Sydney. It was a compulsively readable, punchy story which challenged my sheltered white Anglo perspective on the world and had me - almost! - cheering on one set of brutal gangsters over another. I also loved the lower-octane interludes in which the author explored the close-knit multigenerational family life of the Croatian protagonists, in which baka (the family matriarch) Branka is a prolific grower of vegetables and constantly cooking Croatian delicacies for the extended family. Die in der kroatischen Grammatik verwurzelten Satzstrukturen bewirken bei mir Assoziationen zu dem, mir bekannten Sprachgebrauch & Ausprache, befreundeter Kroaten. Hierdurch gewinnt die Geschichte ebenfalls an Authentizität. It took a while for this book to grab me. The beginning seemed bog-standard fantasy; a young boy raised in obscurity who suddenly learns he's the son of a king? Yawn. Dirk is just fascinating. If I recall correctly, Jennifer Fallon's premise for him was "How many bad things can a character do and still be sympathetic?" That surprised me, because even though he's thinking ten times faster than everyone around him, there's obvious logic in all his decisions and I was rooting for him the whole time. Dirk is my favorite male character under 30.
The Lion Of Senet is a fantasy book wthiout magic elements and you hardly see a battle scene in the book. conversations between main characters are almost about politics. Usually I would be familiar with fantasy books include magic, battle scenes, wizards etc.This is a little bit extraordinary for me to see a fantasy books set in a non-magic exist world.(I have seen some of fantasy books have similar setting for example: The Fording Knife by K.J Paker, The Ten Thousand by Paul Kearney) In my experience, they are great as the same as The lion of Senet. The world has two suns and to those live in Ranadon that they're used to The fact. And try to stay out of trouble with the ladies. Remember, they all have fathers and brothers and some of them have armies. ”..." I like that the author didn’t pull punches. Not one character is Mary or Gary Stu. Dirk while brilliant in some ways is completely stupidnaïve in others. The Prince Antonov who is basically the main bad guy is really very brilliant but he also so incredibly cruel and possibly guilty over his past so unwilling to accept that he might have made a mistake. Don’t you? I mean, how do you know that the High Priestess doesn’t just make it up as she goes along? It’s illogical just to accept her word as fact.” Yes, most of the characters are revoltingly young, but not in a devastatingly exasperating way. Okay, so you do want to kill each and everyone of them at some point in the story (Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler—not his/her/their real name—in particular. I hope she dies and excruciatingly painful death and stuff) but it has little to do with their age and a lot to do with their acting like total (choose all that apply) asses/self-centered idiots/narrow-minded fools/greedy, conceited nitwits. They all have delightfully realistic flaws and it's bloody delicious. Yeah, okay, their behavior might have something to do with their being distastefully young and naïve and stuff, but it wasn't so bad as to induce me to commit suicide, so there.Political maneuvering and machinations and scheming galore! Treacherous religious freaks aplenty! Theology vs. science, yay! I thought it was all gloriously stupendous stuff, but it might explain why some People of the Erroneous Opinion (PofEO™) thought the book was tedious as fish. Plus, there is nada zilch zip and absolutely no magic whatsoever in this world, which might have put some PofEO™ off, too. Which might in turn explain why they read the book wrong and stuff. But hey, their judgment is obviously inaccurate so it doesn't count and stuff. To Antonov and Belagren, everything is a game. Before you get too enamored of your new friends, you might want to ask yourself what your role is, because, Dirk Provin, you’re a piece being moved about the board at their whim, just as surely as I am, you can rely on it.”
It is one thing to be well-versed in the issues revolving around sexuality and gender identity. It is quite another thing to read a first-hand account of the deeply emotional, personal story of someone who identifies as (FTM) transgender. I had the pleasure of actually meeting Ryan Sallans, the author of this autobiographical work, at a conference I attended in Nebraska during the fall of 2012. At the conference, he had only scraped the surface of his story and when I stopped by later to chat and buy a signed copy of his book, he was pleasantly calm and collected. No stranger could ever guess the physical/emotional struggles this man endured.A tense, sinuous, fast-moving debut where hard answers are given to questions of honour and justice.’ Johnny wants to be with Amy and Sasha, but he also wants to prove himself to his father. Johnny has a plan which just may enable him to meet the expectations of both. In the meantime, can he keep his family safe? The story's action is interspersed with contemplative moments, such as when grandfather Laurent recounts that "… a great war leaves a country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves." [ citation needed]
Second Son chronicles Ryan's battle with his family, his romantic partner, and his body. He unblinkingly focuses on the empowerment he achieved as he underwent gender reassignment surgeries and traces his evolution into manhood.I enjoyed the characters, although I felt that, the connections between them were a little too instant or unexplainable in some ways. There was some duality in the traits of the characters, where they acted one way because of their values, then acted totally another way because it helped the plot. I found Tia's consistent hatred to be wearing on me after a while, but I guess that it was also true to how the character would have felt. Maybe it just pushed buttons. The only other criticism I have is that when I started reading, the names felt 'clunky' in my mind at times.
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