The Left-Handed Booksellers of London

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The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix is a young adult historical fantasy standalone novel. But quite often they discover the key to raise some ancient myth, or release something that should have stayed imprisoned, and they share that knowledge via their writing.

But a bit if familiarity is not always bad — here it helped me stay engaged despite a rougher start. It was both amusing and engaging as I realized just how many actual British landmarks he has woven into the plot of this novel. Un jour, elle rencontre Merlin, un jeune homme étrange qui porte un gant à sa main gauche et qui lui explique pourquoi il a dû s’occuper du sort du bienfaiteur de Susan.But on reread, at a slower pace, it's definitely an enjoyable book - just likely not everyone's storytelling cup of tea. A thrilling, suspenseful romp with lots of humor and romantic tension; we haven't seen the last of Susan and Merlin. If you're looking for something light and escapist with that delightful British vibe, this is a good pick. The story took off with lots of fantastical action right from the first chapter when she met Merlin St.

Garth's books have appeared on the bestseller lists of The New York Times, Publishers Weekly (US), The Bookseller(UK), The Australian and The Sunday Times (UK). Il y a de l’action et des rebondissements, on ne voit pas défiler les pages, emportés par la découverte de ce monde surnaturel, de ses codes et de ses mystères. The Grandmother raised the flower and sniffed it again, her piercing dark eyes momentarily hooded, a smile passing across her thin-boned face like a glimpse of some small, colorful bird darting between dark and brooding trees. The characters and their sparkling dialogue are the high points in this fantasy tale for young adults. All that potential just feels a bit untapped in favor of narrow focus on Susan and her “outsider” perspective.Helping Merlin and Susan is his sister, the right handed bookseller, Vivian, and others, including even handed booksellers, with their differing strengths and gifts. There are left-handed booksellers who are all brawn and speed and rawr, and the right-handed ones, who are the brains and magic and thinkers.

Characters who know how they want to live their lives and work to build those lives with integrity and imagination. Unfortunately, there are other forces out to find Susan, and so to the rescue come the mysterious and sexy Merlin, his badass sister Vivian, and the rest of their strange, wonderful clan of warrior booksellers! The story also includes a great many references to books as might be expected in a novel about booksellers.It felt like most of the book was just to fill the pages and then the plot happend so quickly and it was just strange, like really? He is also determined to look into the murder of his mother and protect Susan from the range of powerful forces lined up against her. The story had potenial, it could've been a good book but I just found it very confusing at times, like there were pointless details and the world building kinda made no sense. Although her mother could certainly provide details, she’s inexplicably vague (there’s a hand-wavy “drugs in the 60s” line, which is a surprising line to find).

On est plongés très rapidement dans l’ambiance et l’univers, c’est bien pensé et très bien mené, le concept est, comme je le disais, très original et c’est addictif. fulfilling my 2020 goal to read (at least) one book each month that was given to me as a present that i haven't yet gotten around to reading because i am an ungrateful dick. era London, with a half-twist toward the fantastic, mingles with ancient British mythology in Garth Nix’s new urban fantasy, The Left-Handed Booksellers of London. I'm all mixed up about this book, because on the one hand I did actually enjoy it; it's just that I felt I could have loved it, if there weren't some missing pieces.But was it pleasantly entertaining and perfectly fine for a few nights after a long day of work, like a nice cup of cocoa? To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The map takes the trio to a place separated from this world, maintained by deadly sorcery and guarded by monstrous living statues.