Mary C. Moore
Autor(a) de Angelus (Volume 1)
Obras por Mary C. Moore
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Mary is an offspring of the counter-culture mind-blown hippie movement that sprung up north of the Bay Area after the sixties. She roamed through the landscape with all of the other half-feral, half-naked, half-educated children running wild in the hills and forests of Northern California, like Titania’s fairies roamed through the Grecian wood or Wendy’s lost boys roamed through Neverland, dancing through buttercups, oak leaves, and wild strawberries.
She continued to roam as she grew older, through Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas, finally landing in San Francisco where she currently resides with three pesky roommates and two mellow cats, no wait switch that.
She has taken her love of adventure and turned it to the pen to write about all the strange, fabulous, and unexpected in this world.
Membros
Críticas
I've admired Mary's writing since our graduate fiction workshop at Mills in 2009. This collection is not what we workshopped, but it has the same talented voice. I became so invested in many of her characters that I did not want to leave them when their short stories ended. However, the ending of "Mer-Sea" was perfect and other endings were quite good. I simply wanted to stay in the worlds Mary created. "That Damn Shoe" and "The Mark of the Hasselti" were among my favorite stories.
A fun, engaging adventure told in a light, easy to read style. Intelligent without being pretentious.
The story is told in a first person narrative from the perspective of Sarah Connelly, a 1/2 daemon operative with SITO -- a secret organization charged with policing the activities of Homo daemonis (daemons), and Homo angelus (angels) as well as keeping their existence secret from the more familiar Homo sapiens. Sarah, unhappily stuck in an entry level position that is equal parts truant officer and social worker, is dying to get into the more exciting cases that involve danger and adventure. One day she gets her chance when she accidentally stumbles into the middle of a big case that sends her off and running with a combination of stubbornness, recklessness and just plain dumb luck.
The story unfolds in a very relaxed, natural style that highlights the well developed character of Sarah Connelly... most of the other characters are less well defined but since it's Sarah's story, and most of the time she's in the dark herself, trying to unravel a mystery, it doesn't detract much from the overall read.
For the most part the author manages to introduce Sarah's world to the reader in an easy, conversational manner that allows the story to unfold without getting sidetracked or bogged down in the larger mythology of the world it inhabits. To her credit, author Mary C. Moore has created an interesting, somewhat complex world while making it seem a deceptively easy task.
The book also touches lightly on the subjects of prejudice, and racial bias without getting mired into metaphorical parallels.
There are sexual situations though none are overly explicit.
I particularly liked the premise of the story, the fact that the angels and daemons are not supernatural creatures merely different species of humans. It gave it more of a traditional detective story flavor rather than that of a paranormal thriller.… (mais)
The story is told in a first person narrative from the perspective of Sarah Connelly, a 1/2 daemon operative with SITO -- a secret organization charged with policing the activities of Homo daemonis (daemons), and Homo angelus (angels) as well as keeping their existence secret from the more familiar Homo sapiens. Sarah, unhappily stuck in an entry level position that is equal parts truant officer and social worker, is dying to get into the more exciting cases that involve danger and adventure. One day she gets her chance when she accidentally stumbles into the middle of a big case that sends her off and running with a combination of stubbornness, recklessness and just plain dumb luck.
The story unfolds in a very relaxed, natural style that highlights the well developed character of Sarah Connelly... most of the other characters are less well defined but since it's Sarah's story, and most of the time she's in the dark herself, trying to unravel a mystery, it doesn't detract much from the overall read.
For the most part the author manages to introduce Sarah's world to the reader in an easy, conversational manner that allows the story to unfold without getting sidetracked or bogged down in the larger mythology of the world it inhabits. To her credit, author Mary C. Moore has created an interesting, somewhat complex world while making it seem a deceptively easy task.
The book also touches lightly on the subjects of prejudice, and racial bias without getting mired into metaphorical parallels.
There are sexual situations though none are overly explicit.
I particularly liked the premise of the story, the fact that the angels and daemons are not supernatural creatures merely different species of humans. It gave it more of a traditional detective story flavor rather than that of a paranormal thriller.… (mais)
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 6
- Membros
- 23
- Popularidade
- #537,598
- Avaliação
- 4.3
- Críticas
- 3
- ISBN
- 2
Also, Sarah is a "halfer" (part daemon). Angels and daemons are "othered" not only by wings, horns, and tails, but also by skin tone. The inversion of Raphaelite imagery--angels with dark complexions and daemons with fair complexions--reminded me of Ursula Le Guin's dark-skinned wizards in Earthsea. Racial differences (and differences in species) in Mary's novel are grounded in myth/religion, science, interactions between characters, and in Sarah's thoughts; this reflects the complexity of how humans experience ethnicity.
I'm so glad that this novel is finally on my bookshelf!… (mais)