Review: A Clash of Kings

A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



This second book felt even longer than the first, but I enjoyed it anyway.

The way the first book ended (and the tittle of the second book)made me think this second book was going to be full of action and battles and war strategy, and I got a little dissapointed when in the first half of the book the 4 Kings were way too passive. There was none the less a lot of clever plot lines in the battles and intelligent strategies the story.

I am really loving this saga,there are many unsolved mysteries and I hope the series doesn't end like the TV series Lost (with so many questions without answer).

Starting book 3 "A Storm of swords" right away :D



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Review: MC Escher : Pop-up

MC Escher : Pop-up by Courtney Watson McCarthy

My rating: 5 of 5 stars



I read the Italian version of this book. My understanding of Italian is far away from optimal, since I haven´t practiced it in a long time, but I enjoyed it very much.
This book was perfect for me to read since it doesn't really have that much text and the important thing of this book are the "3D" images which were wonderfully created.
The little text there is, about Escher life and art, is also very interesting.

M.C. ESCHER
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Lingua di Pubblicazione Italiano
ISBN 978-88-540-1634-7
Formato CM 31 X 33,5
Edizione 2011 - Italiano
Pagine 7 PAGINE POP-UP
ISBN 978-88-540-1634-7
Marchio Edizioni White Star®


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Review: A Game of Thrones

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



I finally finished reading this book, I've slacking in my reading lately, and it felt like I started this book ages ago(probably did), but I really enjoyed this book, despite is length.
This book is very well written, the story is quite good, and the development of characters is so awesome (despite the huge quantity of the characters) :D seriously sometimes I couldn't keep with all the names.

I hope I can read faster the next book on this series because, WINTER IS COMING!

I am not reading this edition, I have the Kindle bundle edition, but this way it counts to my 2011 Reading challenge as one book not as 1/4th of a book :D



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Review: Verde

Verde by Ted Dekker

My rating: 3 of 5 stars



Con este libro terminé la serie del Círculo, esta serie me agradó mucho pero este libro en particular no tanto.

Hubiera deseado no haber leido el prologo donde explican que la serie era en realidad un círculo y como tal no podía tener principio ni fín, esto inevitablemente arruina cierta parte del final del libro, ya que se intuye que tiene que terminar de la misma manera que Negro empieza.

Verde retoma la historia 10 años despues de donde Blanco termina, en donde las circunstancias de los "albinos" comandados por Thomas Hunter son muy adversas.

A diferencia de los otros 3 libros, Verde se centra en el mundo de Elyon y deja muy de lado la realidad de 2000 años antes que es más parecida a nuestra realidad. Siento que en cuanto el manejo de los 2 mundos este libro queda un poco a deber, ya que lo poco que pasa en el otro mundo es hasta cierto punto irrelevante.

Se introducen 2 nuevos personajes importantes Billy y Janae, esta ultima es la hija de Monique cuyo padre no es revelado en ninguna parte del libro pero que probablemente tenía algo de vampiro o shataiki. Esto es probablemente lo más raro del libro, el que el autor tratar de explicar el origen de la raza de vampiros que al final no tiene ningún impacto en el transcurso de la historia.

El final es inesperado y me dejó con sentimientos encontrados, por lo cual aún no me decido sí me gustó o no.

Creo que este es el peor de los libros de la serie, pero no tan malo como para recomendar no leerlo si ya leiste los otros 3 libros.



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Review: House

House by Frank E. Peretti

My rating: 3 of 5 stars



This is probably the darkest book of Dekker, this I think is because of his co-author Frank Peretti (I can't really tell because I have not read any book from Peretti).

Jack and Stephanie are a couple that may very well be already divorced, since they can´t stand each other and are in constant fight. They are on their way to meet a marriage counselor but get lost, a suspicious cop advices them to take a little road that finally took them to the House.

Inside the apparently deserted house there is another couple, Leslie and Randy, they seem not to have troubles like Jack and Stephanie, and the 4 of them are soon meet the 3 weird hosts of the house(Stewart, Betty and their son Pete).

They are about to have dinner when all that seemed weird and unpleasant becomes even weirder and dangerous just at the moment a can with 3 House rules appears.

The rules where made by a misterious guy named White who wears a tinmask. The 3 rules could be very well summarized in one rule "give me a dead body by dawn and I may let you live"

Up to this point I thought the book was amazing, I would ask a little more character development of the two couples, but otherwise it was a really nice beginning.


What I didn't like

- I know it was suposed to be confusing all the rooms in the basement, 

but I thought there would be somekind of reason to all that, take 

the mirrors for example, in the end they were irrelevant.

- The ending seemed a little weak, Susan being an angel was not really

 a surprise, and it should have not been for white (he himself being a demon),

 so why did he killed her?, I would let that pass and called it a nice ending 

if it wasn't for the ridicolous way Stephanie shooed the "deamons" away.

I think that after all that dark beginning of the book I was a little bit dissapointed by the "good always beats the evil" kind of ending.



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