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Iced de Karen Marie Moning

Iced

Autor Karen Marie Moning
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en Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 feb 2014

Cine a parcurs paginile întunecate din Shadowfever va recunoaște imediat în acest nou volum acea atmosferă de disperare și pericol iminent care a consacrat universul Fever. Merită menționat că, deși Iced păstrează decorul unui Dublin devastat de entități nemuritoare, această lucrare marchează începutul unei noi trilogii, mutând atenția către personaje care au supraviețuit prăbușirii zidurilor dintre lumi. Putem afirma că, spre deosebire de Darkfever, unde exploram misterul alături de MacKayla Lane, aici suntem aruncați direct în mijlocul haosului, într-un oraș unde gheața și umbrele devin personajele principale. Suntem de părere că tranziția de la seria originală la acest nou ciclu narativ este realizată cu o precizie chirurgicală, păstrând tensiunea erotică și violența viscerală specifice autoarei. Dacă în Feverborn sau High Voltage mizele păreau adesea personale, aici simțim greutatea unei lumi întregi care se zbate sub stăpânirea Fae. Stilul rămâne tăios, cu un ritm care alternează între momente de introspecție sumbră și explozii de acțiune specifice genului horror urban. Iced nu este doar o continuare, ci o redefinire a supraviețuirii într-un peisaj unde linia dintre uman și monstruos a fost definitiv ștearsă.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780440246411
ISBN-10: 0440246415
Pagini: 493
Dimensiuni: 108 x 175 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Random House

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care caută un amestec de horror urban și fantezie întunecată. Este punctul de intrare ideal într-o nouă etapă a universului creat de Karen Marie Moning, oferind o perspectivă mai aspră și mai matură asupra consecințelor invaziei Fae. Veți descoperi un Dublin transformat, unde fiecare umbră poate ascunde un prădător antic și unde supraviețuirea are un cost moral ridicat.

Despre autor

Karen Marie Moning este o scriitoare americană de succes, ale cărei romane ocupă constant primele poziții în lista New York Times Bestseller. Recunoscută pentru complexitatea sistemelor sale magice și pentru profunzimea psihologică a personajelor, Moning a câștigat prestigiosul premiu RITA pentru cel mai bun roman de dragoste paranormal. Cariera sa este marcată de seria fenomen Fever, care a redefinit genul urban fantasy prin îmbinarea elementelor de mitologie celtică cu o atmosferă noir, contemporană. Opera sa este celebrată pentru capacitatea de a construi lumi seducătoare, dar extrem de periculoase.

Descriere scurtă

#1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Marie Moning picks up where Shadowfever leaves off with Iced, the first book in her hotly anticipated new urban paranormal trilogy set in the world of the blockbuster Fever series.
  
The year is 1 AWC—After the Wall Crash. The Fae are free and hunting us. It’s a war zone out there, and no two days are alike. I’m Dani O’Malley, the chaos-filled streets of Dublin are my home, and there’s no place I’d rather be.
 
Dani “Mega” O’Malley plays by her own set of rules—and in a world overrun by Dark Fae, her biggest rule is: Do what it takes to survive. Possessing rare talents and the all-powerful Sword of Light, Dani is more than equipped for the task. In fact, she’s one of the rare humans who can defend themselves against the Unseelie. But now, amid the pandemonium, her greatest gifts have turned into serious liabilities.
 
Dani’s exߝbest friend, MacKayla Lane, wants her dead, the terrifying Unseelie princes have put a price on her head, and Inspector Jayne, the head of the police force, is after her sword and will stop at nothing to get it. What’s more, people are being mysteriously frozen to death all over the city, encased on the spot in sub-zero, icy tableaux.
 
When Dublin’s most seductive nightclub gets blanketed in hoarfrost, Dani finds herself at the mercy of Ryodan, the club’s ruthless, immortal owner. He needs her quick wit and exceptional skill to figure out what’s freezing Fae and humans dead in their tracks—and Ryodan will do anything to ensure her compliance.
 
Dodging bullets, fangs, and fists, Dani must strike treacherous bargains and make desperate alliances to save her beloved Dublin—before everything and everyone in it gets iced.


From the Hardcover edition.

Extras

PROLOGUE
Dublin, you had me at “Hello”


Imagine a world that doesn’t know its own rules. No cell phones. No Internet. No stock market. No money. No legal system. A third of the world’s population wiped out in a single night and the count rising by millions every day. The human race is an endangered species.

A long time ago the Fae destroyed their world and decided to take ours. History says they moved in on us between 10,000 and 6,000 B.C., but historians get a lot wrong. Jericho Barrons says they’ve been here since the dawn of time. He should know, because I’m pretty sure he has, too.

For a long time there was a wall between our worlds. With the exception of a few cracks, it was a solid barricade, especially the prison that held the Unseelie.

That barricade is gone now and the prison walls are dust.

All of the Fae are free: the deadly Dark Court and the imperious Light Court, who are every bit as deadly, just prettier. A Fae is a Fae. Never trust one. We’re being hunted by voracious monsters that are nearly impossible to kill. Their favorite food? People.

As if that’s not bad enough, there are fragments of Faery reality drifting around that swallow up anything in their path. They’re tricky to spot; you can drive right into one, if you’re not careful. The night the walls fell, Faery itself was fractured. Some say even the inimical Hall of All Days was changed, and opened new portals onto our world. The drifting is the part that really gets me. You can go to sleep in your own bed and wake up in a completely different reality. If you’re lucky, the climate won’t kill you instantly and the inhabitants won’t eat you. If you’re really really lucky, you’ll find your way home. Eventually. If you’re superlucky, time will pass at a normal rate while you’re gone. Nobody’s that lucky. Folks vanish all the time. They just disappear and are never seen again.

Then there are the amorphous Shades that lurk in the dark and consume every living thing in their path, right down to the nutrients in the soil. When they’re done, all that’s left is dirt that an earthworm couldn’t live in—not that they leave those either. It’s a minefield outside that door. Walk lightly. Your parents’ rules don’t apply. Do be afraid of the dark. And if you’re thinking there might be a monster under your bed or in your closet, there probably is. Get up and check.
Welcome to Planet Earth.

This is our world now—one that doesn’t know its own rules. And when you’ve got a world that doesn’t know its own rules, everything dark and nasty that was once held in check comes slithering out of the cracks to try to take a shot at whatever it wants. It’s a free-for-all. We’re back to being cavemen. Might is right. Possession is nine-tenths of the law. The bigger and badder you are, the better your odds of surviving. Get a gun or learn to run. Fast. Preferably both.

Welcome to Dublin, AWC—After the Wall Crash—where we’re all fighting for possession of what’s left of the planet.

The Fae have no king, no queen, no one in charge. Two psychotic, immortal Unseelie princes battle for dominion over both races. Humans have no government. Even if we did, I doubt we’d listen to them. It’s complete chaos.

I’m Dani “Mega” O’Malley.

I’m fourteen. The year was just officially declared 1 AWC, and the streets of Dublin are my home. It’s a war zone out there. No two days are alike.

And there’s no place else I’d rather be.


From the Hardcover edition.

Notă biografică

Karen Marie Moning is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Fever series, featuring MacKayla Lane, and the award-winning Highlander series. She has a bachelor’s degree in society and law from Purdue University.