Wonderblood
A Novel
گزارش تخلف
فرمت کتاب
audiobook
تاریخ انتشار
2018
نویسنده
Caitlin Daviesناشر
Macmillan Audioشابک
9781427295026
- اطلاعات
- نقد و بررسی
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نقد و بررسی
November 13, 2017
Strange people encounter stranger adventures while traversing a postapocalyptic America in this unsatisfying debut. In the Eon of Pain, a diseased wasteland is cleansed by the doctrine of Wonderblood, which orders the faithful to sanctify the landscape through beheadings in monstrous carnivals. Aurora, a teenage girl, is captured by Capulatio, an executioner with ambitions of becoming king. Aided by his wife, Orchid, an executionatrix and the scribe of his holy visions, Capulatio makes his way toward Cape Canaveral, Fla., seat of the king, determined to bring a new age. He also decides, despite Orchid’s objections, that Aurora will be his queen. As Capulatio begins challenging the throne, two lights appear in the sky, as if to confirm the ending of one age and the beginning of another. Told in rich, dense prose, Whicker’s fantasy feels like a blood-steeped dream: there are mummified heads and a religion based on astronauts. The story’s voice is vibrant and warm as the Florida heat; but the pacing drags under the weight of the description, and the plot meanders sluggishly, with detours that make the journey feel far longer than it should.
Julia Whicker's debut novel portrays a new Dark Ages set 500 years in the future, when a harsh religion is combined with magic and science is anathema. Narrator Caitlin Davis adopts a conversational tone that contrasts with the story's murders, beheading, and general violence. She tells the story primarily from the point of view of Aurora, a girl who is victimized by her family and later falls into the hands of self-appointed and deluded king who plots to make her his queen. Davis deftly portrays the interactions between the king's current wife, who realizes her days are numbered, and Aurora, who remains a na�ve victim. J.E.M. � AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine
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