Karen Healey (1) (1981–)
Autor(a) de Guardian of the Dead
Para outros autores com o nome Karen Healey, ver a página de desambiguação.
About the Author
Karen Healey is an author who made the New Zealand Children's Book Award 2015 shortlist with her title While We Run. (Bowker Author Biography)
Image credit: official author pic
Séries
Obras por Karen Healey
Persephone in Bloom 7 exemplares
Penelope Pops the Question 3 exemplares
The Unicorn Bell 2 exemplares
Teen Movie Times 2 exemplares
Associated Works
Willful Impropriety: 13 Tales of Society, Scandal, and Romance (2012) — Contribuidor — 81 exemplares
Monsters in the Garden : An Anthology of Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy (2021) — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares
Athens to Aotearoa : Greece and Rome in New Zealand literature and society (2017) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1981
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- Aotearoa / New Zealand
New Zealand - Locais de residência
- Christchurch, New Zealand
- Agente
- Goldblatt, Barry
Membros
Críticas
A contemporary romance retelling of Hades and Persephone, in which they both work for the same magazine publishing company. He’s head of finance, down in the basement, and she’s a new intern.
I enjoyed this. Perhaps it doesn’t offer everything I want in a contemporary romance, but it was a good I’m-home-in-bed-sick distraction -- and because I was sick, I didn’t feel a need to think analytically about it.
I enjoyed this. Perhaps it doesn’t offer everything I want in a contemporary romance, but it was a good I’m-home-in-bed-sick distraction -- and because I was sick, I didn’t feel a need to think analytically about it.
A charming revisioning of the Persephone tale as a modern-world romance. Demeter here is a narcissistic mother Persephone needs to get away from but keeps getting drawn back to; Persephone is an aspiring designer; Hades is an acrophobic co-owner of the fashion magazine Persephone's got an internship in. From a bumbling meet-cute, romance blooms. The characters are adorable; the side characters promise further adorable romances in the series.
A stitch-witch costumer hired on for a hgh-profile fantasy movie filming in New Zealand discovers the production is mysteriously cursed. This was a lovely fun read. I enjoyed the details of the filming and costuming setting, and the mystery was resolved very satisfactorily. The relationship between Our Heroine and Our Hero was also lovely. Sadly I got a bit too(?) invested in the script woes, and wished that could have been resolved too (perhaps it would have required too much coincidence) - also I now desperately want to watch the Regency space opera TV show mentioned at the end....… (mais)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 12
- Also by
- 6
- Membros
- 1,304
- Popularidade
- #19,682
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 115
- ISBN
- 67
- Marcado como favorito
- 2
- Pedras de toque
- 56
This was fun. But it was also thoughtful about things, including who is to blame when a powerful married man has an affair with a teenage girl (that would be Aphrodite’s backstory). And the way people approach and accept their disabilities. Heph’s use of mobility aids is such a matter-of-fact part of his life, but he hasn’t had the option of hiding that part of himself, whereas Aphrodite has been able to keep her learning difficulties a secret.
… (mais)