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C.J. Archer

Författare till The Watchmaker's Daughter

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Verk av C.J. Archer

The Watchmaker's Daughter (2016) 500 exemplar
The Last Necromancer (2015) 302 exemplar
The Librarian of Crooked Lane (2022) 239 exemplar
The Wrong Girl (2013) 185 exemplar
The Mapmaker's Apprentice (2016) 175 exemplar
Murder at the Mayfair Hotel (2020) 145 exemplar
The Apothecary's Poison (2017) 121 exemplar
The Magician's Diary (2017) 113 exemplar
The Palace of Lost Memories (2018) 109 exemplar
The Convent's Secret (2018) 97 exemplar
The Medici Manuscript (2023) 94 exemplar
The Charmer (2013) 92 exemplar
The Ink Master's Silence (2018) 84 exemplar
A Secret Life (2011) 84 exemplar
The Cheater's Game (2019) 73 exemplar
Honor Bound (2011) 71 exemplar
Beyond the Grave (2015) 66 exemplar
Her Majesty's Necromancer (2015) 57 exemplar
The Untitled Books (2023) 56 exemplar
The Prisoner's Key (2019) 55 exemplar
Grave Expectations (2016) 54 exemplar
The Imposter's Inheritance (2020) 52 exemplar
Possession (2012) 49 exemplar
The Kidnapper's Accomplice (2020) 49 exemplar
Ashes to Ashes (2016) 41 exemplar
Of Fate and Phantoms (2017) 40 exemplar
The Toymaker's Curse (2021) 38 exemplar
From the Ashes (2016) 38 exemplar
Veiled in Moonlight (2017) 36 exemplar
The Goldsmith's Conspiracy (2022) 36 exemplar
Murder in the Drawing Room (2021) 36 exemplar
Evermore (2012) 36 exemplar
The Spy Master's Scheme (2021) 34 exemplar
Vow of Deception (2017) 28 exemplar
The Wisdom of Madness (2018) 27 exemplar
Playing With Fire (2013) 27 exemplar
Heart Burn (2013) 25 exemplar
Courting His Countess (2013) 23 exemplar
The Echo of Broken Dreams (2018) 23 exemplar
The Whisper of Silenced Voices (2019) 22 exemplar
Murder at the Crown and Anchor (2023) 22 exemplar
Scandal's Mistress (2012) 21 exemplar
Murder at the Debutante Ball (2022) 20 exemplar
Kiss of Ash (2011) 18 exemplar
To Tempt the Devil (2012) 17 exemplar
Ghost Girl (2015) 15 exemplar
The Prison of Buried Hopes (2020) 15 exemplar
The Dead Letter Delivery (2024) 15 exemplar
The Memory Keeper (2014) 14 exemplar
Surrender (2012) 13 exemplar
Seared With Scars (2014) 12 exemplar
The Mercenary's Price (2011) 11 exemplar
The Return of Absent Souls (2020) 11 exemplar
Edge Of Darkness (1914) 10 exemplar
Redemption (2011) 10 exemplar
Banished (2015) 7 exemplar
The Sinner (2014) 6 exemplar
The Rebel (2013) 6 exemplar
My Soul To Take (2015) 6 exemplar
The Saint (2014) 6 exemplar
The Assassins Guild Box Set (2014) 2 exemplar
Strange Horizons 2 exemplar
Traitor 1 exemplar
Glass and Steele 1 exemplar

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A very trite story with a narrative that focuses on too many plot points: is it a crime and intrigue saga? Is it a romance or a fantasy with magical abilities? Maybe some social justice in the aftermath of WWI and its impact on societal norms in England? Oh wait, it's an art heist with the murkiest of motives and cardboard characters with no thread of events to connect the dots. And thus the novel is fractured, suspending reader engagement with unresolved vignettes strung together. The final chapter did no favours to bring a satisfactory ending, either.… (mer)
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SandyAMcPherson | 14 andra recensioner | Mar 15, 2024 |
Book 4 of the Glass Library series. Sylvia and Gabe are investigating her Mother's past. They discover a set of letters which hint that her Mother was being offered in marriage to the highest bidder by her father. Trying to find one of the potential suitors leads them to a mental hospital treating shell-shocked soldiers. Sylvia also finally comes to an acceptance of her paper magic and begins to learn spells.
ebook read 3/7/2024
 
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catseyegreen | 1 annan recension | Mar 8, 2024 |
I won't rate it since I didn't finish it. It started off good and I got sucked in, but somewhere, it went off the rails. I don't know if this was a me problem and I got lost in the characters. I was listening to this on audio, so that could be the case. But I realized, I didn't know who was who and then I realized I also didn't care about the mystery they were trying to solve. I decided it was just time to give up!
 
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Mav-n-Libby | 14 andra recensioner | Mar 4, 2024 |
The second book in The Glass Library fantasy series centers around the discovery of a book in code that might unlock some secrets about Sylvia's past. Sylvia came to London after the deaths of her brother and mother to try to find out about her heritage. Her mother kept the three of them moving from place to place all through her life and didn't share any information with her children about her own past. Her brother began to believe that they were the descendants of a silver magician. Sylvia wants to find out if this is true.

As a result of the influence of new friend Gabriel Glass, Sylvia is now working at a job she loves in the Glass Library which is a repository of books about magic. When a new book is discovered in the library's attic, Sylvia and her new friends try to find out the book's history and try to decipher its contents which are written in an unknown code.

This story is set in 1920 and does deal with a lot of the issues returning soldiers had. Shell shock and a sense of hedonism were just some of things soldiers brought home with them. And for women who had entered the workplace while the men were away, there is a sense of displacement as they lose their jobs and purposes when the men return. One of the characters mentions that he hadn't been sober since his demobilization, for example. Add in magic which has recently been rediscovered and which only a small percent of the population has, and this story becomes historical fantasy.

Gabriel is also in the process of ending his three-year engagement to the daughter of a magical family. He knows he made a mistake and isn't the man he was when he became engaged. However, his fiance Ivy isn't going to go quietly. Gabriel, the only son of a noble magical house, is quite a catch even though he believes that he has no magic himself.

When the book is stolen, Gabriel and Sylvia and their friends follow all sorts of clues and explore various parts of London before they manage to recover it. And an assortment of bright friends of Gabriel do manage a translation of what turns out to be medieval/early Renaissance gossip. Translating the book is sort of anticlimax since the key seems to be Sylvia discovering that she does have some sort of magic if not the silver magic her brother thought the family had.

This is the second book of a five-book series. It really doesn't stand alone well and needs to be read along with the other books in the series. I am eager to continue the series to find out what sort of magic Sylvia has and whether her budding relationship with Gabriel grows.
… (mer)
 
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kmartin802 | 4 andra recensioner | Mar 1, 2024 |

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Verk
90
Även av
3
Medlemmar
4,169
Popularitet
#6,038
Betyg
½ 3.7
Recensioner
177
ISBN
254
Favoritmärkt
3

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