This Savage Song: Monsters of Verity, cartea 1
Autor V E Schwaben Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 apr 2020 – vârsta de la 14 ani
Tema centrală a acestui roman, prima parte a seriei Monsters of Verity, explorează modul în care acțiunile și mediul social modelează identitatea adolescenților. Într-o lume în care violența umană se materializează la propriu sub formă de monștri, tinerii sunt puși în fața unei alegeri morale dificile: să accepte moștenirea părinților lor sau să își definească propriul drum. Notăm cu interes cum V E Schwab construiește un cadru de tip urban fantasy în V-City, un oraș unde siguranța este un concept uitat, iar monștrii se hrănesc cu păcatele locuitorilor. Suntem de părere că forța narativă rezidă în contrastul dintre Kate Harker, care încearcă să își suprime empatia pentru a supraviețui, și August Flynn, un monstru care își folosește muzica pentru a extrage suflete, dar care luptă constant împotriva naturii sale distructive. Ritmul este unul tensionat, dictat de evadarea celor doi și de încercările de asasinat care îi forțează să colaboreze. Această abordare amintește de complexitatea lumilor din A Darker Shade of Magic, însă aici accentul cade pe natura umanității și pe prețul supraviețuirii. Părinții care au citit cu plăcere Only a Monster de Vanessa Len vor aprecia și această carte pentru modul ingenios în care inversează rolurile tradiționale de erou și antagonist, oferind o perspectivă nuanțată asupra a ceea ce înseamnă să fii „monstru”. Spre deosebire de tonul mai melancolic din The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, This Savage Song adoptă un stil mai dur, aproape visceral, care subliniază conflictul interior al personajelor. Ediția de față include și o hartă a orașului, facilitând imersiunea în geografia acestui univers fragmentat.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0062983393
Pagini: 480
Dimensiuni: 136 x 204 x 34 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: Harpercollins
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De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm acest roman adolescenților de peste 14 ani și tinerilor adulți care caută o poveste fantasy atipică, fără clișee romantice. Cititorul va câștiga o reflecție profundă asupra eticii și a modului în care alegerile personale ne definesc mai mult decât natura noastră biologică. Este o lectură densă, cu o atmosferă de tip noir, ideală pentru cei care apreciază personajele complexe și lumile urbane atent construite.
Despre autor
V E Schwab, cunoscută și sub numele de Victoria Schwab, este o autoare de succes, prezentă constant în topurile New York Times. Opera sa variază de la literatură pentru copii, precum seria City of Ghosts, până la romane fantasy complexe pentru adulți. Este recunoscută pentru capacitatea de a crea sisteme de magie unice și lumi paralele detaliate. În This Savage Song, ea aplică aceeași rigoare în construcția lumii ca în celebrul roman The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, explorând teme recurente precum nemurirea, identitatea și sacrificiul personal în fața unor forțe supranaturale.
Textul de pe ultima copertă
Kate Harker wants to be as ruthless as her father. After five years and six boarding schools, she’s finally going home to prove that she can be.
August Flynn wants to be human. But he isn’t. He’s a monster, one that can steal souls with a song. He’s one of the three most powerful monsters in a city overrun with them. His own father’s secret weapon.
Their city is divided.
Their city is crumbling.
Kate and August are the only two who see both sides, the only two who could do something.
But how do you decide to be a hero or a villain when it’s hard to tell which is which?
Corsai, Corsai, tooth and claw,
Shadow and bone will eat you raw.
Malchai, Malchai, sharp and sly,
Smile and bite and drink you dry.
Sunai, Sunai, eyes like coal,
Sing you a song and steal your soul.
Monsters, monsters, big and small,
They’re gonna come and eat you all.
Recenzii
“There are no wasted words here, and the end result is a darkly precise narrative that feels like a shiver down the spine…this taut creation about the nature of humanity lingers long after its disquieting finale.” — Booklist (starred review)
“Schwab’s latest seems poised to grab both her adult and teen readers; the world is fascinating…the characters complicated, and the political machinations and emotional depths both charged and compelling. …Crackling with energy, just the ticket for an all-night read.” — Kirkus Reviews
“Schwab explores the natures of justice and humanity in an assuredly built world with a compelling settings and an intriguing music-based magic. And in August and his Sunai siblings, she introduces a type of monster both sympathetic and terrifying. A cliffhanger ending promises a sequel.” — The Horn Book
“Kate and August both undergo an impressive amount of character development, and fans will like them despite their flaws. Combined with the nonstop action and the author’s immersive writing style, this first purchase is sure to be a hit with older teens and fans of urban fantasy.” — School Library Journal
“Schwab has built a strange, captivating alternate America filled with offbeat, fascinating characters. …Readers looking for a dangerous and engrossing new world to fall into will find it with this fast-paced, frightening read.” — Publishers Weekly
“The pacing is fast, the narrative enthralling, but it is the depths of the novel - its acuteness of moral imagination and perception - that will stay with you afterward. My highest recommendation.” — San Diego Union-Tribune
“Gritty dialogue and realistic scenes of violence will have senior high school students who enjoy The Hunger Games and Divergent series awaiting the next book in this series.” — Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA)
“Unique, thrilling, and impossible to predict, This Savage Song is something entirely new, and fans of YA will want to seek out this dark and powerful novel. ...Schwab has written a book with moments of cruelty and bleakness that also includes high adventure and heroic achievements.” — Locus
Notă biografică
Victoria Schwab is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty books, ranging from middle grade to teen to adult. Her books have garnered critical acclaim and been featured in the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, The Washington Post, and NPR; have been translated into more than a dozen languages; and been optioned for television and film. Schwab, an avid traveler, received her MFA from the University of Edinburgh, where her thesis was about the presence of monsters in medieval art. She lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Descriere
#1 New York Times Bestseller * An Amazon Best Book of the Year
There’s no such thing as safe in a city at war, a city overrun with monsters. In this dark urban fantasy from acclaimed author Victoria Schwab, a young woman and a young man must choose whether to become heroes or villains—and friends or enemies—with the future of their home at stake.
The first of two books, This Savage Song is a must-have for fans of Holly Black, Maggie Stiefvater, and Laini Taylor.
Kate Harker and August Flynn are the heirs to a divided city—a city where the violence has begun to breed actual monsters. All Kate wants is to be as ruthless as her father, who lets the monsters roam free and makes the humans pay for his protection. All August wants is to be human, as good-hearted as his own father, to play a bigger role in protecting the innocent—but he’s one of the monsters. One who can steal a soul with a simple strain of music.
When the chance arises to keep an eye on Kate, who’s just been kicked out of her sixth boarding school and returned home, August jumps at it. But Kate discovers August’s secret, and after a failed assassination attempt the pair must flee for their lives.
In This Savage Song, Victoria Schwab creates a gritty, seething metropolis, one worthy of being compared to Gotham and to the four versions of London in her critically acclaimed fantasy for adults, A Darker Shade of Magic. Her heroes will face monsters intent on destroying them from every side—including the monsters within.
The repackaged paperback includes a map of V-City!