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A carregar... The Light Bearerpor Donna Gillespie
  
Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro.   ) ELockett | Sep 26, 2022 |   ) Eternal.Optimist | Aug 22, 2018 | De koude, grimmige voorjaarsnacht wordt verscheurd door wolvengehuil. In de primitieve hut van Baldemar, krijgsheer der Chatten, wordt een dochter geboren. Haar naam is Auriane. De hogepriesteres voorspelt dat het kind een veelbewogen leven zal leiden. Onheil en overwinning zullen elkaar afwisselen. Auriane is voorbestemd krijgsvrouwe te worden en haar volk langs het pad der duisternis te leiden. De hogepriesteres schenkt Auriane een machtig amulet dat haar moet beschermen tegen de mysterieuze krachten die haar leven zullen beheersen. Auriane groeit op tot een felle, trotse jonge vrouw. Maar na een dramatische gebeurtenis ziet ze zich gedwongen haar volk te verlaten en ten strijde te trekken. De duistere voorspellingen, gemaakt bij haar geboorte, komen uit. De verhalen over Aurianes roemruchte daden worden tot in Rome doorverteld. Daar vinden ze een gewillig oor bij Marcus Julianus, een fameuze staatsman, wiens lot onverbrekelijk is verbonden met dat van Auriane. Verstopt onder zijn prachtige gewaden draagt ook Marcus een amulet – identiek aan het amulet van Auriane.... Auriane is een groots epos over de fascinerende, rijke wereld der Germanen, en de corruptie en decadentie van het Rome ten tijde van keizer Nero. Een verhaal over een dappere, eigenzinnige heldin die weigert zich te onderwerpen in een door mannen gedomineerde wereld. (  ) amarynt | Jul 21, 2009 |  )2  Cecrow | Dec 21, 2007 | Plot: Predictable, utterly predictable. Special girl is born with prophecies that she'll be pivotal for her people, and proceeds to live up to every stereotype possible in the setting. On the other side, special boy is found to be heir to a noble family and proceeds to be the only morally non-corrupted person in Rome. Characters: Out-of-the-box. The good ones are smart and pretty and well-trained and strong, the bad ones are smelly, drunk rapists with room temperature IQs and arrogance to boot. There's not a single character who isn't a stereotype, from the old wise hag who acts strange to the foreign prisoner who trains the heroine and falls in love with her. Plenty of noble savages around. Style: Boring prose that got tackled with the belief that occasional reversion of word order makes things sound better. Point of view changes randomly in subsequent paragraphs. Historical clichès get paraded, with every sordid bit of gossip being treated as fact, while real political twists are ignored. PS - during the rule of Nero, no such thing as "Switzerland" existed. Yes, it may be easier to give the area that label, but all it does is demonstrate that "historical novel" is a euphemism. Plus: Hard to think of something. Minus: It's a gossipy special-girl-saves-the-world (and I bet she ends up with the special Roman, while the current foreign love interest bites the dust in heroic sacrifice at some point). Much pretense to be a historical novel, but scratch the surface and the shine is gone. Summary: Not worth it, not even for laughs. (  )1 surreality | Sep 26, 2007 |
 "Throughout this monumental story, Gillespie constantly increases the excitement and intrigue. There are no flat passages in The Light Bearer, only a fast-flowing stream that erupts into a full-scale torrent at the book's conclusion. Let us hope we will see more from this sparkling new author." ----WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD "For anyone interested in this tumultuous period of Roman despotism and Germanic tribes, Gillespie's epic is an intriguing recording of everyday detail, national issues and, more impressively, overarching influences of religion and psychology." "In her phenomenal 1994 debut novel, The Light Bearer, Donna Gillespie introduced readers to the Germanic warrior and seer, Auriane, whose fate becomes entangled with the vicious intrigues and tyrannies of ancient Rome. With a keen eye for detail and mastery of the descriptive, Ms. Gillespie immerses us in a time that is both eerily familiar and breathtakingly alien... Filled with the tumult of two worlds at odds with each other, and a fallible heroine at odds with herself, this book leaves us in suspense for the third installment, but it is well worth the wait." "Gillespie's grasp of the daily social, religious and political lives of Germanic tribes and urban Romans alike, and her understanding of the way human deeds are woven by time into myth, keep The Light Bearer rooted in historical plausibility … keeps the reader engaged … The Light Bearer taps into one of the most popular themes in historical fiction today, the unsung woman who takes a hand in the shaping of history.” —The San Francisco Chronicle Pertence a Série
Her name was Auriane. She was a warrior, a priestess--and a threat to thepowers of ancient Rome. This breathtaking saga from acclaimed newcomer Donna Gillespie unveils afascinating world of pagans and slaves, warriors and nobles -- and the extraordinary life ofthe woman they called The Light Bearer. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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