I am the boy's master. He's impatient. Arrogant. Far too keen for glory. But he's one of the finest swords I've trained, and he took down this highblood alone, drugged to the eyeballs on rêvre. If what I suspect of his line is true... he could be the greatest of us, Talon." "Or the most terrible." Por fin leo algo bueno de vampiros, últimamente no me gusta el camino que había tomado. Junta lo mejor de las piezas góticas literarias de Anne Rice. Jay Kristoff además escribe una historia salpicada de sangre y oscuridad. Los vampiros se presentan últimamente como algo hermoso e immortal, olvidando la parte monstruosa. On specifics, here are a collection of the ways in which this book managed to be the single most misogynist piece of writing I’ve ever had the misfortune to experience: So this is my review, more like a recipe for a very enjoyable tale than a critique of plot or characterization. Because I have mentioned so many things that may be seen as 'standard' in fantasy novel, let me assure you that there are no standard characters nor a standard plot between these covers. It's an engrossing read in a rich world. The author cites Rice’s aforementioned Interview with the Vampire as “the biggest influence” on this story. “I’ve loved that book since I was a kid,” he says. “And one of the strong themes that permeates that text is that nothing is forever. Everything goes away on a long enough timeline.”

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Monsters rising from beds of cold earth and slipping on the façade that they were something close to human.' Fridging. Jay Kristoff seems to looooove a good fridging. This is the phenomenon of a female character dying purely for the purpose of furthering a male character’s storyline. Just about every single significant woman in the main character’s life dies to push him on his little story.

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Vulgaridad, humor negro, cinismo, seres de la noche sin piedad, una macabra representación de la violencia, el sexo y un corte de manga masivo a la iglesia. Todo encaja a la perfección con la estética y el ambiente vampírico gótico desenfrenado de esta historia, que se lleva mis cinco estrellas y unas ganas terribles de leer el segungo. That something arrives in the form of a quest. Like so many before him in popular literature, Gabe ultimately finds himself on a search for the Holy Grail, a magical object that is rumored to be able to end daysdeath, and with it, the vampire plague. Whether the Grail is real or not is a spoiler that only those who read the book will find out, but Gabe’s search for it will quite literally change his life and expand the events of the second and third books in this trilogy in new and different ways.

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Las ilustraciones que acompañan al libro le dan otro toque acorde. Hace de su lectura algo más completo. Jay Kristoff | Teenreads". www.teenreads.com. Archived from the original on 18 February 2019 . Retrieved 8 February 2016. I think probably the best thing was the way the book shows you different stages of characters' lives. It's not easy to pull that off (and I've certainly read books where by showing you so much of a character it drags the story down into the realms of boredom), but Kristoff nails it. The character growth throughout the book, especially for Gabriel, is seriously impressive. Pretty sure that's Kristoff's motto in life 😂. Gotta love him—because there is probably, IMHO, never a statement as true as this. There is no light without darkness. Life is an endless circle of positives & negatives, and one can never exist without the other. And to embrace it? That takes an immense amount of strength. It is proof that we have lived—that we are STILL living, still alive... we are survivors.The writing- I gotta give it to the author, the way he wrote it is commendable. Although the book did not work for me, I appreciated the amount of thought and work that was put in. Some of the quotes are just chef's kiss. Those aren’t generally the sorts of vampires we tend to see in much contemporary fiction nowadays, however. From The Vampire Diaries and True Blood to the Twilight franchise, recent mainstream pop culture has embraced the idea of the vampire as a version of the ultimate bad boy boyfriend, a secretly romantic figure still searching for true love after centuries of loneliness.

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Winners - Australian Book Industry Awards". Archived from the original on 4 September 2016 . Retrieved 22 December 2016.There are plenty of other really well-written characters, but there are some that are my absolute favorite. Aaron de Coste, the hater-turned-friend, teen-drama Dior, Astrid the hater-turned-lover, and Ashdrinker the dysfunctional, talking blade. I DID NOT like Aaron de Coste in the beginning. He was a complete asshole to Gabriel for a long time. They became besties, though, and Aaron went from dipship to tolerable to one of my favorite characters. The same exact thing happened with Dior, the teen with the interesting secret Gabe reluctantly had to protect who became another of his dearest friends.