Imogen Rose
Autor(a) de Portal
About the Author
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Séries
Obras por Imogen Rose
Associated Works
Lessons III: Demonic Dolls and Other Morbid Drabbles — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Sexo
- female
- Local de nascimento
- Sweden
- Locais de residência
- New Jersey, USA
- Educação
- Imperial College
- Ocupações
- Doctor and Author
- Agente
- Marc Gerald (The Agency Group)
Sasha Raskin (The Agency Group)
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Imogen Rose is the author of the bestselling YA series, the Portal Chronicles. Imogen was born in a small town in Sweden and moved to London in her twenties. After obtaining a PhD in immunology from Imperial College, she moved with her family to New Jersey, where she’s been based for the past ten years.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 13
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 358
- Popularidade
- #66,978
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 18
- ISBN
- 28
- Línguas
- 3
- Marcado como favorito
- 1
My main gripe with this book is the lack of suspense and urgency in the writing - it starts with a lot of promise as the protagonist tries to make sense of her situation. Then a few chapters in, the reader is basically handed the whole plot on a silver platter, told from another character's point of view. I found the shift in perspectives very distracting, almost lazy, the author choosing to use this third person's viewpoint to explain things rather than the let the reader unravel the mysteries through the eyes of the main character.
Instead, she goes continues about her daily life, oblivious and more concerned with making the hockey team than finding the cause or a solution to her predicament. Not only until the last pages does the plot and mystery pick up again, only to be left hanging for the next book.
I did enjoy the interactions between the characters, especially the solidarity between family members and her close friends but they ultimately lacked depth.… (mais)