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Hello!
Today I publish a post about my #lobook initiative. Here, I share my experience about a book, beginning from the buying and finishing with my personal review. You can read more about lobook, consulting my first Lobook post here on Blurt.
AND NOW, LET'S GO!
This new episode takes a cue from the Herbie Brennan's novel, published with the title Faerie Lord (dated back to 2008 for the native version). The Italian version I read is La Guerra degli Elfi – Il destino del regno, first publication in Italy dates back to 2008 and curated by Angela Ragusa. In the image below, you can see a cover picture from which I removed a few parts, trying to avoid possible direct advertisings.
And below, some slices of the inner pages:
I purchased this book several years ago in a local bookstore and decided to reread the entire series it is part of in the last few months. Surfing the web here in Italy for the Italian version, I found an edition only (except for second-hand books) with a price equal to €10.00 about. You can find different price on your homeplace or online, someone with various offers. Maybe there is even an ebook format in Italian or English. I don't know for other languages.
TURNING PAGES
A terrible and intractable disease is scourging the kingdom, spreading far and wide. The Analogue World, the world in which Henry lives, seems immune, so Phyrgus decides to move to avoid the progression of the disease that has also struck him. But there is a problem: Viceroy Fogarty, now on the verge of dying. This will lead Henry to embark on a new adventure, forcing him to face the person he least wants to meet: Queen Aurora, an impossible love with whom unfortunately he cannot relate in a more "adult" way.
The plot of this fourth chapter has a point that I consider very convincing: the beginning, with the onset of this very intriguing disease, shrouded in a mystery aura. The novel then continues in a way that didn't manage to convince me completely, making me lose the thread several times. This is probably due to a different personal affinity, but so it is.
The writing style is the same as in the previous episodes: acceptable, with some more creative ideas but never verbose. Suitable as always for a young audience, if they are passionate about the Fantasy genre that is a little less serious than sagas like The Lord of the Rings. A reading that cannot be discouraged.
Pages: 390 about
Genre: FANTASY | YOUNG ADULT
PERSONAL RATING
For my personal rating of the book, I usually use two votes: a GENERAL VOTE, based on a more objective approach to the text (where I consider for example the author's way of writing, the plot, any errors found, etc), and an INVOLVEMENT VOTE, based instead on the effect that reading had on me (if it attracted me, if it intrigued and tempted me, if it gave me useful information, etc.). Each of the two ratings is marked with a number of stars, from one to 5.
In the case of Faerie Wars – Faerie Lord, my personal response is:
GENERAL Vote: 3/5
INVOLVEMENT Vote: 3/5
If this article has intrigued you, you can find info by searching on the web for news of the author, or contacting retailers in the books business sector. I greet you, and I hope my one is a useful opinion. I will periodically publish other posts of this kind. If you are interested in discovering new books – mainly novels – on the market, you can continue following me on the #lobook tag.
A greeting and to the next book!
