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It was like a nightmare, but there was no waking up. When the night began, Nora had two best friends and an embarrassingly storybook one true love. When it ended, she had nothing but blood on her hands and an echoing scream that stopped only when the tranquilizers pierced her veins and left her in the merciful dark.
But the next morning, it was all still true: Chris was dead. His girlfriend Adriane, Nora's best friend, was catatonic. And Max, Nora's sweet, smart, soft-spoken Prince Charming, was gone. He was also—according to the police, according to her parents, according to everyone—a murderer.
Desperate to prove his innocence, Nora follows the trail of blood, no matter where it leads. It ultimately brings her to the ancient streets of Prague, where she is drawn into a dark web of secret societies and shadowy conspirators, all driven by a mad desire to possess something that might not even exist. For buried in a centuries-old manuscript is the secret to ultimate knowledge and communion with the divine; it is said that he who controls the Lumen Dei controls the world. Unbeknownst to her, Nora now holds the crucial key to unlocking its secrets. Her night of blood is just one piece in a puzzle that spans continents and centuries. Solving it may be the only way she can save her own life.
From the Hardcover edition.
But the next morning, it was all still true: Chris was dead. His girlfriend Adriane, Nora's best friend, was catatonic. And Max, Nora's sweet, smart, soft-spoken Prince Charming, was gone. He was also—according to the police, according to her parents, according to everyone—a murderer.
Desperate to prove his innocence, Nora follows the trail of blood, no matter where it leads. It ultimately brings her to the ancient streets of Prague, where she is drawn into a dark web of secret societies and shadowy conspirators, all driven by a mad desire to possess something that might not even exist. For buried in a centuries-old manuscript is the secret to ultimate knowledge and communion with the divine; it is said that he who controls the Lumen Dei controls the world. Unbeknownst to her, Nora now holds the crucial key to unlocking its secrets. Her night of blood is just one piece in a puzzle that spans continents and centuries. Solving it may be the only way she can save her own life.
From the Hardcover edition.
著者について
Robin Wasserman is the author of the Seven Deadly Sins series, Hacking Harvard, and the Skinned trilogy, which bestselling author Scott Westerfeld called "spellbinding." She has a master's degree in the history of science, and is fascinated by Renaissance philosophy, religion, magic, science, and the interplay among them. She lives in Brooklyn.
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5 人中、5人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
National Treasure meets the Da Vinci Code
2012/4/11
形式:ハードカバー
I loved this book. Loved this book. I was lucky enough to get an advanced reader's copy and have been bragging about it for months. I couldn't put this book down- so much action and I was dying to know how it would end. You can read what the book is about above, I won't do a recap. What I will tell you, is this is an intelligent read that caters to both young adults and adults alike. The author did her research and I was this close to booking a trip to Prague when I finished the book. But alas, I'm just a working class shmo, so I am stuck here in Seattle. Thank God, this book was so well written and descriptive, that it helped me forget the rain outside and actually made me think about learning latin. I'm lazy- it was a fleeting thought, but hey- I had it for a quick minute. The characters were well developed and likeable- and the relationships were believable. Overall, this is in my Top 5 favorite books of all time, and definitely Top of 2012. Now, I'm going to buy her other books and a Latin Rosetta stone.
2 人中、2人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
Slow but intriguing. Book and Audiobook Review
2012/5/8
形式:ハードカバー
At a Glance:
Although the pacing was sometimes slow, I found the Book of Blood and Shadow to be intense, exciting, and intriguing. It is full of history, loaded with betrayal, and sprinkled with romance and friendship. I have never read a book like this!
The Audiobook:
Yes, yes, yes. If you're looking for a new audiobook, or you're debating between audio and hardcover, I'm going to just put my vote in for the audio. Why? Well, first of all, the reader is fantastic. She does an amazing job with voices, accents, and languages. She reads things in Latin, in Czech and of course English! :D I was seriously impressed. But the biggest reason that I would choose listening to this over reading it, is because of all the words that I didn't have to figure out or pronounce! There was a ton of Latin in this book, and Emily Card just rattles it off as if it's her second language. If I had been reading it, I would have stared at all those words and phrases, then ended up just skipping over them or mispronouncing them, so listening to the audio was perfect!
"I should probably start with the blood..."
Yeah, The Book of Blood and Shadow definitely had it's fair share of bloodiness, as you can imagine, but it wasn't nearly as bloody as I thought it might be. That's how this story begins, though, with the blood, which immediately had me fascinated. I love a good mystery, and this book was full of them. Mysteries, lies, murders and surprises at every turn. Although I had my theories, I ended up suspicious of just about everyone at one time or another! I love it when there are clues to the answer, but not such obvious ones that the hero/heroine looks like an idiot for not seeing them.
Historical Fantasy/Contemp Mystery:
Yeah, I'm a fan. Who knew? Blood and Shadow was a mix of historical fantasy and contemporary mystery. Now, I'm going to admit, I don't like a lot of detail when I'm reading. And this book had a lot of background information, details about scenery, and many internal ponderings that did slow things down quite a bit. In the middle of the book, I actually considered putting it down because it was just not moving fast enough for me. BUT, I pushed myself over that hump, and I'm SO glad I did. This story got seriously intense, and completely fascinating! I love how much it was based on historical facts, but then completely re-imagined with this entire secret society of people. I was blown away.
Characters, Friendships, Love and Lies
I love the way these relationships were set up. The friendships and romances in this book were so original. There were layers and layers of complications. Just when you thought things were going to move in one direction, they would go a completely different way. It was almost like reading multiple books in one. I wasn't necessarily a fan of all the characters, or love interests, but they were definitely well-written and complex. Whether I wanted to slap them or kiss them, they all evoked pretty strong feelings from me!
A YA Da Vinci Code?
Yeah, this book reminded me a lot of the Da Vinci Code. With the rich writing, the historical detail, the old religion, and of course, the Latin! There were mysterious old documents and writings, strange religious cults, and the fascinating, yet creepy setting of Prague. But about that YA part.....I'm not so sure. I really enjoyed reading it, but I can't imagine my daughter (Kit (17)) reading it. It was just too much (too much detail, too much history, too many slow parts). I do think that some teens will enjoy it; those deeper thinkers who love excellent, detailed writing and historical fiction. But others, I'm afraid, will just find it too slow for them. I think this one might appeal more to college age and above. I'd love to hear your thoughts on this!
Book Doppelganger:
The Da Vinci Code
-Andye
Readingteen.net
Content:
Profanity: Moderate
Sexual Content: Moderate
Violence: Heavy
Other Notables: Underage Drinking
For more details, check out The Book of Blood and Shadow on ParentalBookReviews.com
Although the pacing was sometimes slow, I found the Book of Blood and Shadow to be intense, exciting, and intriguing. It is full of history, loaded with betrayal, and sprinkled with romance and friendship. I have never read a book like this!
The Audiobook:
Yes, yes, yes. If you're looking for a new audiobook, or you're debating between audio and hardcover, I'm going to just put my vote in for the audio. Why? Well, first of all, the reader is fantastic. She does an amazing job with voices, accents, and languages. She reads things in Latin, in Czech and of course English! :D I was seriously impressed. But the biggest reason that I would choose listening to this over reading it, is because of all the words that I didn't have to figure out or pronounce! There was a ton of Latin in this book, and Emily Card just rattles it off as if it's her second language. If I had been reading it, I would have stared at all those words and phrases, then ended up just skipping over them or mispronouncing them, so listening to the audio was perfect!
"I should probably start with the blood..."
Yeah, The Book of Blood and Shadow definitely had it's fair share of bloodiness, as you can imagine, but it wasn't nearly as bloody as I thought it might be. That's how this story begins, though, with the blood, which immediately had me fascinated. I love a good mystery, and this book was full of them. Mysteries, lies, murders and surprises at every turn. Although I had my theories, I ended up suspicious of just about everyone at one time or another! I love it when there are clues to the answer, but not such obvious ones that the hero/heroine looks like an idiot for not seeing them.
Historical Fantasy/Contemp Mystery:
Yeah, I'm a fan. Who knew? Blood and Shadow was a mix of historical fantasy and contemporary mystery. Now, I'm going to admit, I don't like a lot of detail when I'm reading. And this book had a lot of background information, details about scenery, and many internal ponderings that did slow things down quite a bit. In the middle of the book, I actually considered putting it down because it was just not moving fast enough for me. BUT, I pushed myself over that hump, and I'm SO glad I did. This story got seriously intense, and completely fascinating! I love how much it was based on historical facts, but then completely re-imagined with this entire secret society of people. I was blown away.
Characters, Friendships, Love and Lies
I love the way these relationships were set up. The friendships and romances in this book were so original. There were layers and layers of complications. Just when you thought things were going to move in one direction, they would go a completely different way. It was almost like reading multiple books in one. I wasn't necessarily a fan of all the characters, or love interests, but they were definitely well-written and complex. Whether I wanted to slap them or kiss them, they all evoked pretty strong feelings from me!
A YA Da Vinci Code?
Yeah, this book reminded me a lot of the Da Vinci Code. With the rich writing, the historical detail, the old religion, and of course, the Latin! There were mysterious old documents and writings, strange religious cults, and the fascinating, yet creepy setting of Prague. But about that YA part.....I'm not so sure. I really enjoyed reading it, but I can't imagine my daughter (Kit (17)) reading it. It was just too much (too much detail, too much history, too many slow parts). I do think that some teens will enjoy it; those deeper thinkers who love excellent, detailed writing and historical fiction. But others, I'm afraid, will just find it too slow for them. I think this one might appeal more to college age and above. I'd love to hear your thoughts on this!
Book Doppelganger:
The Da Vinci Code
-Andye
Readingteen.net
Content:
Profanity: Moderate
Sexual Content: Moderate
Violence: Heavy
Other Notables: Underage Drinking
For more details, check out The Book of Blood and Shadow on ParentalBookReviews.com
1 人中、1人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
the book of blood and shadow
2012/5/1
形式:ハードカバー
Nora, her best friend Chris, his girlfriend Adriane and Chris' best friend and roommate Max all are working on a translation project for a professor. Nora is assigned to translating letters written by Elizabeth Weston over 400 years before. What she discovers is a recipe for a machine that is believed to open up channels to God.
This discovery leads to murder, secret brotherhoods and betrayal. When Chris is found murdered in his home, Adriane catatonic by his side in a pool of blood and Max the last person seen leaving the house, Nora is determined to prove Max's innocence in the murder and to put together the puzzle pieces of where Elizabeth hid the parts of the machine(Lumen Dei).
When Max contacts Nora she and Adriane sneak away from a class trip and head to Prague to meet Max. They are followed by Chris' cousin Eli who has family connections in Prague and also has family secrets he is unwilling to share with Nora. From the time they reach Prague they are faced with those trying to protect the Lumen Dei and others that are trying to find it for their own purposes. Nora soon finds that she doesn't know her friends as well as she thinks she does. Hers and Elizabeth's lives seem to mirror each others and betrayal is around the corner for her just as it was for Elizabeth.
My Thoughts:
I found myself comparing this book to a cross between The DaVinci Code and an Indiana Jones movie. It reminded me of The DaVinci Code with the secret sects protecting a spiritual being/object along with lots of supposedly spiritual connotations. It reminded me of Indiana Jones in the fact that once the object was acquired the greedy person seeking the power suffered a grizzly demise of supernatural dimensions. Not to say that being compared to these is a bad thing, but the fact that this is marketed as a Young Adult book had me scratching my head. The writing was fairly technical and also at times hard for me to slog through. If I had a hard time keeping my attention on the text I cannot imagine a teenager staying with it through to it's ending. I have to say though that I did become invested in the characters and continued to read on just to find out what happened at the end.
Pet Peeve:
Like I said, The Book of Blood and Shadow is marketed for 12 and up. I started seeing very early in the book that the author was peppering the story with words that were not common for most adults not to mention middle school grades or high schoolers. This was frustrating for me, but I began to write down each word that I either didn't know the meaning of or knew from the sentence what the author meant, but wasn't quite sure that a YA student would know the word. I then looked these words up after I finished the book. I probably should have looked them up while reading, but seriously, what Young Adult would stop reading during a story to look up a word? So here is my list of words:
Ameliorated-heard of it, but don't use it!
Iterations-never heard of it
Ensorcelled-huh?
Egalitarian-heard of
Disingenuous-heard of
Caesura-never heard
Karass-couldn't even find it when I looked it up
Vertiginous-heard of
Soporific-heard of
Ethos-heard of
Matrices-plural of matrix!
Defenestration-never heard
Inchoate-never heard
Those are just the words that stood out to me. There were other words such as detritus that I knew the meaning of, but is not really a common word. I understand an author wanting to enlighten and improve our vocabulary, but if I had to stop and look up every word then that to me would detract from the story. And once again this is a Young Adult book, stick with what they know because the unfamiliar will lose them just as it almost lost me.
This discovery leads to murder, secret brotherhoods and betrayal. When Chris is found murdered in his home, Adriane catatonic by his side in a pool of blood and Max the last person seen leaving the house, Nora is determined to prove Max's innocence in the murder and to put together the puzzle pieces of where Elizabeth hid the parts of the machine(Lumen Dei).
When Max contacts Nora she and Adriane sneak away from a class trip and head to Prague to meet Max. They are followed by Chris' cousin Eli who has family connections in Prague and also has family secrets he is unwilling to share with Nora. From the time they reach Prague they are faced with those trying to protect the Lumen Dei and others that are trying to find it for their own purposes. Nora soon finds that she doesn't know her friends as well as she thinks she does. Hers and Elizabeth's lives seem to mirror each others and betrayal is around the corner for her just as it was for Elizabeth.
My Thoughts:
I found myself comparing this book to a cross between The DaVinci Code and an Indiana Jones movie. It reminded me of The DaVinci Code with the secret sects protecting a spiritual being/object along with lots of supposedly spiritual connotations. It reminded me of Indiana Jones in the fact that once the object was acquired the greedy person seeking the power suffered a grizzly demise of supernatural dimensions. Not to say that being compared to these is a bad thing, but the fact that this is marketed as a Young Adult book had me scratching my head. The writing was fairly technical and also at times hard for me to slog through. If I had a hard time keeping my attention on the text I cannot imagine a teenager staying with it through to it's ending. I have to say though that I did become invested in the characters and continued to read on just to find out what happened at the end.
Pet Peeve:
Like I said, The Book of Blood and Shadow is marketed for 12 and up. I started seeing very early in the book that the author was peppering the story with words that were not common for most adults not to mention middle school grades or high schoolers. This was frustrating for me, but I began to write down each word that I either didn't know the meaning of or knew from the sentence what the author meant, but wasn't quite sure that a YA student would know the word. I then looked these words up after I finished the book. I probably should have looked them up while reading, but seriously, what Young Adult would stop reading during a story to look up a word? So here is my list of words:
Ameliorated-heard of it, but don't use it!
Iterations-never heard of it
Ensorcelled-huh?
Egalitarian-heard of
Disingenuous-heard of
Caesura-never heard
Karass-couldn't even find it when I looked it up
Vertiginous-heard of
Soporific-heard of
Ethos-heard of
Matrices-plural of matrix!
Defenestration-never heard
Inchoate-never heard
Those are just the words that stood out to me. There were other words such as detritus that I knew the meaning of, but is not really a common word. I understand an author wanting to enlighten and improve our vocabulary, but if I had to stop and look up every word then that to me would detract from the story. And once again this is a Young Adult book, stick with what they know because the unfamiliar will lose them just as it almost lost me.
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