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A Ladra do Demônio by Lisa Maxwell

7 reviews

bookstwokathryn's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0


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chaoticlibrarian's review against another edition

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adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0


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notalek's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional funny slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
"You can’t just go blowing up trains without consequences, you know."

alternatywny tytuł książki: even sadder and more traumatized kids hide a bit less things from each other, and this time it's the Book who is horny

alternatywny tytuł alternatywny: jeśli myśleliście, że poprzednim razem główni bohaterowie zagmatwali sytuację, to hoho.

bo naprawdę. hoho.

pierwszy tom czytałem w polskim tłumaczeniu, jednak po ten sięgnąłem w oryginale i był to naprawdę dobry wybór, bo czytało się go o wiele przyjemniej. jest on też jednak o wiele dłuższy (ponad 700 stron, ale czytałem w postaci e-booka), przez co czytanie zajęło mi dużo więcej czasu, bo ponad miesiąc.
i może to przez to, a może ta książka jest po prostu tak napisana, ale mam wrażenie, że rozłożenie fabuły jest tu dosyć ciekawe, bo właściwie nie ma tu typowego początku – rozwinięcia – zakończenia, tylko raczej w postaci: zaczynają się wydarzenia, wydarzenia się dzieją przez całą książkę, po jednym z wydarzeń książka się kończy. i z jednej strony mnie to zakończenie niezbyt usatysfakcjonowało, ale z drugiej zrobiło swoją robotę, bo wiem że niedługo zdecydowanie sięgnę po trzeci tom, by zobaczyć, jak u licha oni to wszystko rozwiążą i czy w ogóle rozwiążą. no i przyznam, że naprawdę czułem emocje podczas końcowych scen.

ale tak to książka mi się naprawdę podobała, czasem bardzej czasem mniej, ale ogólnie wrażenia pozytywne. czyta się świetnie, są śmieszne momenty, są groźne momenty, są what-the-hell momenty, są zwroty akcji, jest naprawdę wiele rzeczy.

rzeczy in question to na przykład:

– sporo ciekawych postaci. nie wszystkie lubię, nie wszystkie też zostały stworzone by je lubić, ale ciekawie się obserwuje, jak próbują rozwiązać różne sytuacje.

– a skoro sporo postaci, to też sporo perspektyw, skaczących z jednego czasu do drugiego (na szczęście w taki sposób, że na ogół łatwo było wszystko ogarnąć).

– lots of gay panic. good for them

– sporo peleryn, sukni, kapeluszy i innych przebrań, noszonych przez przeróżne osoby

– ESTA WITH SHORT HAIR

– sporo potencjału na obrazki lub animacje, które mi nie chcą dać spokoju

– i wiele innych ciekawych rzeczy!


jeden zarzut tylko który chcę napisać, to to, że czasem wydarzenia sprawiały wrażenie rozwleczonych w nieskończoność, przez co czasem czekałem tylko by zaczęło się znowu dziać coś konkretnego. ale że zdarzało się to rzadko, to nie narzekam bardzo.

i w ogóle ciężko mi teraz sobie przypomnieć wszystko, o czym mogę napisać, bo było tego TAK DUŻO, że nie wiem w sumie co mogę powiedzieć by nie zaspoilerować przypadkiem większych lub mniejszych wydarzeń, więc po prostu polecam sprawdzić trylogię Ostatniego Maga, bo dzieje się tu że hej.


(zostawiam tę książkę bez oceny gwiazdkowej, bo ciężko mi dobrać odpowiednią ich liczbę ale jest to na pewno ocena pozytywna, gdzieś koło 4–4.5⭐)










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readingwithkelsey's review against another edition

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adventurous tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

I have said it more than once, but THIS SERIES IS SO UNDERRATED! I absolutely love this series, specifically for the characters. I've seen some reviews where people mention that there are a lot of POVs in the novel - which there is. But I think the book is so much more developed because we see every aspect of the plot and the schemes unfold for readers. On top of this, you grow really attached to them. I absolutely adore every single character in this series - and hate the ones that I am supposed to. This gives a really angsty feel to the novel because you care so much about all of them. This book is so full of twists and even though it is 700 pages long, I never felt bored or like as if the pace was too slow. I felt as though every perspective was needed to paint the full picture that is this novel. This book (and the series in general) is really a joy for historical fantasy fans. It is a genre I love and will continue to love. This book offered so many twists that I cannot wait to see how it further develops. I think the way that Maxwell plays with time is so interesting and knowing that despite Esta (who can control time) is always one step behind another certain character, it keeps the stakes really high.
This book did not have the 5 star feel for me, which is fine because this is still a great series!

Also!!! There is so much diversity in this book and Lisa Maxwell did a lot of research to make sure that that comes through on the pages. 

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martharosen's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0


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syllareads's review against another edition

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adventurous mysterious
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

So I am not entirely sure what to think of this book... the rating is very careful because I did enjoy some of its aspects, and yet others left me entirely confused.

The Good Parts

We are yet again following a few of the characters from book one, and since I like the majority of them (or at least found them somewhat intriguing) I am completely fine with that. We gain a few more major spots where the story takes place since Esta and Harte managed to leave New York (which, for the first time because of The Brink, takes us out of the city through some of its main characters) and the author makes a point of addressing some of the problems running rampant in America in the 1900s.

Some of the new characters or new perspectives we gained were also fairly intriguing! I liked Cela a lot, she's a sweetheart who can and will get her way one way or the other (and I respect that), and Ruby was an interesting new character to join the POV gang as well. I'd like to see more of those two in the next book. Viola also had more than one chapter dedicated to her POV which I appreciated because I fell for our hot-headed Italian lady the second she got introduced, basically.

As always, Maxwell's writing is evocative and beautiful and (sadly) one of the main reasons I got through this book as fast as I did - because I just couldn't stop!

The Not-So-Good Parts

Oh boy... where to begin.

The plot was even more convoluted than in the first book. Not only do we have
two timelines to follow, as Esta accidentally rips herself and Harte out of America in 1902 into America in 1904, a jump that not all characters go through
, this book also introduced a big mess of a plotline to follow. The different POVs were nicely done and arranged and it was fairly easy to determine which of the characters we were looking at at the moment, but the plot itself moved far too fast in some places, and exceedingly slow in others. Every character was so vague about their motivation even when it was their turn as a POV character that I found it hard to understand where the book was headed. Motivations got mixed up, tangled (and not in a good way for me), and shoved together, only for the actual climax of the book to be completely different from what I thought it was supposed to be leading towards. 

A very small, personal gripe I have with the book is that Esta's worries about
screwing up her own timeline by not being sent to the future/changing up too many things in the past/not being able to return to the past because she got never sent to the future seemed to change every single chapter or so. She's already screwing with the timeline by simply being in the past and doing things she's probably not supposed to do! Why is she only worried about it in certain instances - she's basically already created some sort of alternate future universe from the one she remembers. It made the entire thing about the time-travel seem not very well thought-out for me



All in all: it's not a bad book, and the writing made a few things better for me (because I am, after all, a hoe for good writing and I will never be biased about this at all) but overall, I wouldn't exactly recommend this book for a lot of people. It seems not exactly well thought through and the convoluted plotlines, mixed with a lot of POV characters and their own intentions hidden from the reader even while being the one to lead the chapter, made it worse.

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