Midwinterblood

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De qualquer forma, é uma leitura rápida e vale a pena dar uma chance - tenho certeza de que muita gente vai gostar bem mais do que eu.

I have never read any other books by Marcus Sedgwick, but after reading this one, I'll be checking out the rest of his back catalogue in the future. The book travels back in time telling the story of Merle and Eric's previous reincarnations via short stories, which means we see their characters in many different roles and come across many different facets of their personality.It's a beautiful story with deep roots in Scandinavian history, though almost nothing in the story is literally historical. Then there is the fact that each story has at least one a very unique distinctive element and most of them are even written in different genres: there is a War Drama, and classic Horror and even a terribly sad Ghost story. How was it that Merle died in 2002 in The Airman story yet in 2011 she was a middle aged woman with a teenage son? This was a bit of an unusual YA novel, there was nothing really YA about it (except maybe the insta-love).

In The Airman they didn't even meet, Eric was married to some other woman he loved (so much for his everlasting love for Merle! It was hard to find their 'love' romantic or tragic when pretty much all the feelings involved were shallow and unbelievable. They were just two dramatic fools who made silly promises to each other and their reincarnations proved there was nothing much between them, and that they could more than live fulfilled/happy lives without one another.I sa svakom novom pričom, polako popunjavam praznine i gomilu pitanja koja su mi se stvorila u glavi. I heard of this from a friend of mine (Ming I'm looking at you) and I had honestly never heard of Marcus Sedgwick. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Još uvek je misterija kom uzrastu je ova knjiga namenjena pošto stoji na dečjem odeljku, al' definitivno nije dečja, na knjizi piše 13+, ali retki su tinejdžeri koji bi ovu knjigu razumeli na pravi način i kojima bi se dopala. It’s a circuitous book that makes sense only if you read the entire book from beginning to end, taking note of every instance of their lives, especially noting the very last vignette and the happenings of the beginning (well, it is the beginning – the beginning is the end is the beginning is the end is a Smashing Pumpkins song with some more endings).

The Unquiet Grave is a quietly sad and slightly unnerving ghost story; The Airman is a story of bravery in the Second World War concerning a downed pilot and a family who protect him; The Archaeologist is a story of a struggling group of archaeologists finding something which could make their careers; The Vampire is a dark and primal Gothic tale; The Painter is a quietly beautiful story about a friendship and the final story Midwinterblood explains the plot of everything that has happened so far. The prose is descriptive and powerful, with fragments of rough beauty jutting out from the horror contained in the intricate framework of the story. All of the plot takes place on a strange, isolated island, somewhere unspecified but presumably Scandinavian in the far North.

He endures terrible nightmares, full of blood and violence, and at the last, just as the islanders drag him to a stone table to kill him, things become clear in his mind. this was COMPLETELY amazing and unforgettable - the kind of book that as soon as you finish it, you want to flip right back to the beginning and start again. If a life can be ruined in a single moment, a moment of betrayal, or violence, or ill luck, then why can a life not also be saved, be worth living, be made, by just a few pure moments of perfection? Which made all their lives pointless, the whole point of their reincarnation was so they could be together again, they never got to be together properly in any of their lives.