Tom Alan Brosz
Författare till Zorya
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Verk av Tom Alan Brosz
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Allmänna fakta
- Bostadsorter
- Minnesota, and Silicon Valley, California
- Kort biografi
- Tom Brosz actually is a rocket scientist (sort of), having done design and engineering work in the private space industry back before the private space industry was cool.
His qualifications for writing "Roger Mantis" are that he has experience in raising children who like bugs, and in raising pet mantises for those children. Normal-sized mantises, of course.
“Castle Falcon,” his first major fictional work, is based on bedtime stories he told his children, along with the fantasy and science fiction adventures he loved when he was young.
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Zorya av Tom Alan Brosz
Det här är en av LibraryThings förhandsrecensioner.I was really surprised about this book and how much I enjoyed it. At first I was really unsure but as I read it got so much better and more interesting. I love this take on vampires and how they survive & feed. It was a cool mix of traditional vampires with a great twist. I'm looking forward to more of this!
½Det här är en av LibraryThings förhandsrecensioner.Synopsis: 'Seventeen year old Zorya lives on blood, is allergic to daylight, and can life the front end of a car (well, a small car). And nobody in polite modern American society uses the "V" word any more - the PC term in "Nightwalker."
She's a popular senior at her Night walker high school in the California Enclave, with good grades, the newest smartphone, and the latest clothes.
Them her easy life changes drastically. Zorya's flirtation with David, the only human "Daywalker' in her school, gets her exiled from her comfortable home and sent packing to her grandfather in a distant Idaho forest Refuge - without even her smartphone!
There the reluctant Zorya discovers her heritage, learns skills she never needed in high school, and eventually finds out the real reason for her exile: to be trained as a member of a secret organization of Nightwalkers and Daywalkers, with one foot in each world, dedicated to preserving the fragile peace between the races.' (From cover)
Review: This is a different, and rather refreshing, take on the classic vampire story. Background information is woven into the storyline, supporting the reason for Zorya's exile to the farm and her further interactions with paramilitary groups. The writing is compelling, the characters are intriguing, and the situations are realistic. I am hoping that Zorya's story becomes a series since I can't wait to find out what happens next in her rather complicated life.… (mer)
She's a popular senior at her Night walker high school in the California Enclave, with good grades, the newest smartphone, and the latest clothes.
Them her easy life changes drastically. Zorya's flirtation with David, the only human "Daywalker' in her school, gets her exiled from her comfortable home and sent packing to her grandfather in a distant Idaho forest Refuge - without even her smartphone!
There the reluctant Zorya discovers her heritage, learns skills she never needed in high school, and eventually finds out the real reason for her exile: to be trained as a member of a secret organization of Nightwalkers and Daywalkers, with one foot in each world, dedicated to preserving the fragile peace between the races.' (From cover)
Review: This is a different, and rather refreshing, take on the classic vampire story. Background information is woven into the storyline, supporting the reason for Zorya's exile to the farm and her further interactions with paramilitary groups. The writing is compelling, the characters are intriguing, and the situations are realistic. I am hoping that Zorya's story becomes a series since I can't wait to find out what happens next in her rather complicated life.… (mer)
Det här är en av LibraryThings förhandsrecensioner.I won this through the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program and received it on 7 December 2022.
ZORYA has some interesting concepts and could easily be the start of a series, but it's not refreshingly original either. Terms like "Daywalker" and "Nightwalker" are used instead of "human" and "vampire", and there are several Romanian (of course it's Romanian!) terms sprinkled in, and I guess I was just hoping for something fresh. Honestly, Miruna was more interesting to me than Zorya, and I would happily read a book about her. As it is, Zorya's life seems strangely lacking in important female characters: her mother is basically there to worry and serve meals, her best friends are barely described, and then there are a few random adults (teachers, trainers, etc.) who are little more than names. I found the story dragged in the middle and then the ending was so abrupt that it was rather unsatisfying. ZORYA is by no means a bad read, but if you're looking for an exciting new take on vampires, this isn't it.… (mer)
ZORYA has some interesting concepts and could easily be the start of a series, but it's not refreshingly original either. Terms like "Daywalker" and "Nightwalker" are used instead of "human" and "vampire", and there are several Romanian (of course it's Romanian!) terms sprinkled in, and I guess I was just hoping for something fresh. Honestly, Miruna was more interesting to me than Zorya, and I would happily read a book about her. As it is, Zorya's life seems strangely lacking in important female characters: her mother is basically there to worry and serve meals, her best friends are barely described, and then there are a few random adults (teachers, trainers, etc.) who are little more than names. I found the story dragged in the middle and then the ending was so abrupt that it was rather unsatisfying. ZORYA is by no means a bad read, but if you're looking for an exciting new take on vampires, this isn't it.… (mer)
Det här är en av LibraryThings förhandsrecensioner.Going into this book, I had to work really hard not to be freaked out by the concept- a boy wakes up as a giant praying mantis and from the book summary, I had a pretty good guess that this was going to be a permanent situation. I really like bugs and I love praying mantises but I think my creep-out reaction was from reading Kafka's "Metamorphosis" as a teenager and since cockroaches are the one bug that freaks me out and Metamorphosis is a creepy story, I still shudder thinking of that book. Roger Mantis is a much better book! I love the positive message and the lessons taught. It's a good allegory for life and how sometimes we are given life changing problems that aren't going to go away but that doesn't mean life is over or we should moan and cry and give up. Roger learns about his new situation and looks for the good that can come from it. Definitely a great thing to teach kids and probably a story I'll read aloud to my kids.
PS to the author- Thank you so much for not turning Roger into a cockroach!… (mer)
PS to the author- Thank you so much for not turning Roger into a cockroach!… (mer)
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wrightja2000 | 2 andra recensioner | May 7, 2019 |
wrightja2000 | 2 andra recensioner | May 7, 2019 | Statistik
- Verk
- 3
- Medlemmar
- 18
- Popularitet
- #630,789
- Betyg
- 4.3
- Recensioner
- 7
- ISBN
- 4
