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S'està carregant… The Taker (edició 2011)de Alma Katsu
Informació de l'obraThe Taker de Alma Katsu
   No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra.  StressedRach | Jun 2, 2023 |   Tiempo atrás, con el corazón roto, Lanore se vio obligada a esconder la vergüenza de un embarazo incómodo lejos de casa, en Boston. Pero antes de llegar al convento, cayó en las garras de un hombre a la vez fascinante y aterrador: Adair, un noble de origen húngaro, que le prometió un mundo de sensualidad y placer ignotos, de poder sin límites... Lanore creyó que si se unía a su séquito recuperaría a Jonathan. Pero ¿a qué precio? Natt90 | Jan 31, 2023 |  ) Ecate | Aug 18, 2021 |  )1  ladyars | Dec 31, 2020 | Basically, I just felt that it wasn't telling the right story in all this. The parts it dwelt upon were the parts I wasn't interested in, while the really fascinating stuff got glossed over. The characters were interesting, complex, involved, but we never got to see the parts of their conflict and change that I thought most interesting. (I found much of the first half of the book remarkably uninteresting, and then a vast space of time I would've loved to see the grind of gets passed over in a chapter break.) Maybe a fundamental problem was that I just didn't feel - and therefore believe in - the heroine's eternal love for the insipid, spineless, careless, feckless - but oh so handsome - love interest. (Yes, I did appreciate the gender-flipping aspect whereby he's the fainting gothic heroine and she's the hero caught up with dark forces, but honestly, I would've been just as irritated with the stupid irrational love if the genders had been the other way around. Witness my regular rants about Cyrano-esque romance lines.) OR perhaps it all comes back to the structure. The story-being-told-within-a-story bothers me, because then the purpose of the storytelling has to be an element of the novel, and frankly stories about storytelling seem more than a little wanky to me. Then you add in that Lanore is telling her story in chunks (though that is not immediately apparent and influences the intervening current-day narrative not at all, making it all rather contrived) and in first-person, which meant I was forever second-guessing what she was saying, but if she is supposed to be an unreliable narrator, it was never developed. Which is rather disingenuous, frankly. Also, why on earth does she use the word "swive" for sex when she's telling the story in 2011 to a modern man? I guess I feel that the author made her storytelling choices because they were easy, not interesting and useful. Call it two and a half stars, because I did finish it, and it's very readable. Just utterly not my thing. (  ) cupiscent | Aug 3, 2019 |
 PUBLISHERS WEEKLY review: "Katsu shows considerable skill in rendering a world where Adair's unspeakable evilness and Lanny's wild passion make the supernatural seem possible. The result is a novel full of surprises and a powerful evocation of the dark side of romantic love." BOOKLIST review (starred): "Katsu’s imaginative, wholly original debut is the story of Lanore McIlvrae, a young woman who is found in the Maine woods claiming she’s killed a man. When the police bring her to Dr. Luke Findley, she implores him to help her, claiming that she’s immortal and offering him proof. Lanore convinces him to help her escape police custody and begins to tell Luke her story. Raised in the Puritan community in St. Andrew, Maine, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Lanore is just a girl when she falls in love with the preternaturally beautiful Jonathan St. Andrew. Lanore and Jonathan become friends, but his feelings never match hers. The two have an affair in their teens, and Lanore winds up pregnant. Knowing Jonathan’s family won’t allow him to marry her, Lanore’s parents send her away to Boston to have the child. There she falls under the sway of a powerful man, who gives her an unexpected gift and sets in motion the chain of events that will lead her to take a life almost two centuries later. Readers won’t be able to tear their eyes away from Katsu’s mesmerizing tale." "More than a wee bit dark and super sexy, this will impress all Twi-hards who like their heroes to have graduated high school." "Spookily captivating!" Pertany a aquestes sèriesThe Taker (1)
From the author of The Hunger-hailed by Stephen King as "deeply, deeply disturbing, hard to put down"-comes a hauntingly atmospheric tale replete with alchemy, lust, and betrayal. True love can last an eternity...but immortality comes at a price... On the midnight shift at a hospital in rural Maine, Dr. Luke Findley is expecting another quiet evening of frostbite and the occasional domestic dispute. But the minute Lanore McIlvrae-Lanny-walks into his ER, she changes his life forever. A mysterious woman with a past and plenty of dark secrets, Lanny is unlike anyone Luke has ever met. He is inexplicably drawn to her...despite the fact that she is a murder suspect with a police escort. And as she begins to tell her story, a story of enduring love and consummate betrayal that transcends time and mortality, Luke finds himself utterly captivated. Her impassioned account begins at the turn of the nineteenth century in the same small town of St. Andrew, Maine, back when it was a Puritan settlement. Consumed as a child by her love for the son of the town's founder, Lanny will do anything to be with him forever. But the price she pays is steep-an immortal bond that chains her to a terrible fate for all eternity. And now, two centuries later, the key to her healing and her salvation lies with Dr. Luke Findley. Part historical novel, part supernatural page-turner, The Taker is an unforgettable tale about the power of unrequited love not only to elevate and sustain, but also to blind and ultimately destroy, and how each of us is responsible for finding our own path to redemption. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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First off The Taker is a large book with 450 pages which I did think was a bit daunting when I started reading it. With a blend of historical romance, paranormal and some sexual content.
The book starts off with Dr Luke Findley at work in the hospital when Lanore is brought in covered in blood but also a murder suspect.
The book then goes back in time and Lanore is telling Luke her story of her life from a little girl, to being immortal and being 200 years old!
During the time Lanore is telling Luke about her past she also talks about the past of another person who made her immortal. Every so often the book jumped back into the present.
Lanore was in love a boy named Jonathan the most handsome boy in the world in her eyes. She would do anything for him, to be with him for him to love her like she loved him.
The Taker was very sad, evil in places , spellbinding and heart wrenching there were a lot of surprises along the way.
I am not usually one for historical type books but as this had other elements in it too it was AMAZING. It was well written, kept me wanting more and after reading all the good reviews on it before has it didn’t let me down at all. (