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S'està carregant… Siren Beat / Roadkillde Robert Shearman, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Autor)
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. This paranormal romance is a quick, entertaining read but I found myself wishing for a bit more depth. Given that this is a novella length work though, there is a good sense of a world which can contain sirens and guardians. The male lead Chadmus performs a very Mills and Boon hero role, and I wish he were less cardboard cutout. More exploration of his nature as a selkie and grief would have fleshed him out a bit. As a strong female character, I would also have liked to learn more about who the Guardian Nancy is. All in all everything wrapped up a little too easily for my liking but I can see that there is more for the author to explore in this world. If you are after a quick read with a little bit of fun, then this is the novella for you This is a book comprised of two novelettes, Siren Beat by Tansy Rayner Roberts and Roadkill by Robert Shearman. I liked the way the book itself was put together. One novelette's cover is on the front cover and the story begins in the front of the book, but instead of the second story beginning halfway through the book and a plain old back cover, you discover something a little different! When you flip the book over in two different directions, both backwards and upside down, instead of a back cover you discover the other novella's front cover, and directly inside is the beginning of that story! No back cover at all! The endings of the stories meet in the middle of the book, and the story you are not reading appears upside down and backwards! It is unique! I won this book in a First Reads Contest on Goodreads.com. In Siren Beat, Nancy Napoleon is the guardian of the harbor town of Hobart, protecting its human inhabitants from the creatures of the sea, like sirens, cecaelia, and kraken. She used to share her territory and the guardian duties with her sister, Sylvie, but Sylvie is now gone. Called in by the local police to help them rid Hobart of a siren infestation, Nancy reluctantly accepts the aid of Cadmus, a selkie who was Sylvie's lover. What follows is a fascinating romp through the nightclubs and underbelly of Hobart, where Nancy ends up fighting more than a pair of sirens intent on mayhem and destruction. I really enjoyed this story but felt that it really could have been fleshed out more and made into a full-length book and stand on its own. I kept asking myself questions that could easily have led to further character development, additional action and intrigue scenes, and even more steamy sexual tableaux. I look forward to reading more of Ms. Rayner Roberts' work in the future. I give Siren Beat 3 stars In Roadkill, a mismatched weekend office affair between an older woman whose marriage is nothing but a shell and a younger man whose bumbling romantic endeavors leave much to be desired turns into an even more harrowing experience on their way back home when he accidentally runs something over with his car. Stopping to see what it was that was hit, they discover a creature unlike anything the world has ever seen before and have to decide what to do with it. Following along in the woman's thoughts throughout the story, witnessing through her eyes the travesty of the entire weekend encounter, I was both intrigued and repulsed with the unfolding drama. This is not my normal type of reading material at all, yet I still found it compelling, imaginative, and well-written. Mr. Shearman is obviously a very talented writer, although personally not my style of author. I give Roadkill 2 and a half stars. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
In SSiren Beat , a minor group of man-eating sirens on the docks of Hobart would not normally pose much of a challenge for Nancy, but she is distracted by the reappearance of Nick Cadmus, the man she blames for her sister "s death.Sirens and mermaids tend to be bitter. You can "t blame them, really. Their tales don "t tend to have happy endings. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Robert Shearman's story is a 1.5 stars. ( )