The Familiar: A Novel
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Beiträge
3,5
Humorvoll, fesselnd, romantisch, mysteriös, unterhaltsam.
*The Familiar* von Leigh Bardugo hat mich durch den fesselnden Schreibstil und den tollen Humor wirklich begeistert. Ich fand es erfrischend, dass die Liebesgeschichte nicht zu dominant war und den Hauptplot nicht zerstört hat. Sie hat sich ganz natürlich in die Handlung eingefügt und das Buch dadurch noch interessanter gemacht. Zum Ende hin blieben allerdings einige Fragen offen, was mich ein wenig unzufrieden zurückgelassen hat. Außerdem hatte ich das Gefühl, dass *The Familiar* nicht ganz den gewohnten Charme ihrer anderen Bücher erreicht. Trotzdem hat mich die Geschichte gut unterhalten, und ich würde es auf jeden Fall weiterempfehlen, besonders wenn man Bardugos Stil und eine gute Mischung aus Fantasy und Romantik mag.
Genre: Historical Fantasy Age: Adult
"Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to others lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hurts too much." It took me a while to read this story. Luckily I switched format, couldn't connect with it via audio, but oh did I by reading! "But let it be my ambition and not my fear that seals my fate." Once again, Leigh Bardugo proved, what a fabulous author she is. "He knew that he was lucky in the way that lucky people do." "So not at all." My heart. With pages 200 to 230 the book completely won me over. I must admit, I didn't care about the trials or the politics, I cared for Luzia and Santángel, their stories, their lives, their faits. "She closed her eyes, and her sigh of pleasure made him wonder, for the first time in many years, if God was real and testing him." While reading about them, their inner conflicts, I felt like every part of my body drowning in those emotions. "A master could never truly know a servant. But a servant must know his master well." The book is playing with the reader, using foreshadowing every now and then - not enough to pull one out of the story but just as much to leave one restless and worried. "If the bread hadn't burned, this would be a very different story. [...] this would be a happier story." Or "Perhaps they should have cut her hair that day. If [they had], maybe more than one of them would have returned to the shabby house [...] and lived to tell the story." The tension, the respect, the longing, the consent, the want, the need, the understanding between Luzia and Santángel are marvelous and divine. "It is not too late", he said. "If you ask me to go, I will." "Is that what you want?" "In all these many years I've never wanted anything less." Can we normalise this again? Not the »I won't be able to stop« type of lovers? "I never told you I couldn’t read." "You let me believe it." "It’s good to let a man have his illusions," Luzia said." The ending - well, read it yourself, but do read it. A satisfying conclusion to this unique story. "You are quite mad," he said. "One has to get through the day somehow."
Beiträge
3,5
Humorvoll, fesselnd, romantisch, mysteriös, unterhaltsam.
*The Familiar* von Leigh Bardugo hat mich durch den fesselnden Schreibstil und den tollen Humor wirklich begeistert. Ich fand es erfrischend, dass die Liebesgeschichte nicht zu dominant war und den Hauptplot nicht zerstört hat. Sie hat sich ganz natürlich in die Handlung eingefügt und das Buch dadurch noch interessanter gemacht. Zum Ende hin blieben allerdings einige Fragen offen, was mich ein wenig unzufrieden zurückgelassen hat. Außerdem hatte ich das Gefühl, dass *The Familiar* nicht ganz den gewohnten Charme ihrer anderen Bücher erreicht. Trotzdem hat mich die Geschichte gut unterhalten, und ich würde es auf jeden Fall weiterempfehlen, besonders wenn man Bardugos Stil und eine gute Mischung aus Fantasy und Romantik mag.
Genre: Historical Fantasy Age: Adult
"Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to others lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hurts too much." It took me a while to read this story. Luckily I switched format, couldn't connect with it via audio, but oh did I by reading! "But let it be my ambition and not my fear that seals my fate." Once again, Leigh Bardugo proved, what a fabulous author she is. "He knew that he was lucky in the way that lucky people do." "So not at all." My heart. With pages 200 to 230 the book completely won me over. I must admit, I didn't care about the trials or the politics, I cared for Luzia and Santángel, their stories, their lives, their faits. "She closed her eyes, and her sigh of pleasure made him wonder, for the first time in many years, if God was real and testing him." While reading about them, their inner conflicts, I felt like every part of my body drowning in those emotions. "A master could never truly know a servant. But a servant must know his master well." The book is playing with the reader, using foreshadowing every now and then - not enough to pull one out of the story but just as much to leave one restless and worried. "If the bread hadn't burned, this would be a very different story. [...] this would be a happier story." Or "Perhaps they should have cut her hair that day. If [they had], maybe more than one of them would have returned to the shabby house [...] and lived to tell the story." The tension, the respect, the longing, the consent, the want, the need, the understanding between Luzia and Santángel are marvelous and divine. "It is not too late", he said. "If you ask me to go, I will." "Is that what you want?" "In all these many years I've never wanted anything less." Can we normalise this again? Not the »I won't be able to stop« type of lovers? "I never told you I couldn’t read." "You let me believe it." "It’s good to let a man have his illusions," Luzia said." The ending - well, read it yourself, but do read it. A satisfying conclusion to this unique story. "You are quite mad," he said. "One has to get through the day somehow."