Edward Carey
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Om författaren
Only thirty years old, Edward Carey has already achieved success as a playwright & as an illustrator. (Bowker Author Biography)
Foto taget av: Author Edward Carey at the 2018 Texas Book Festival in Austin, Texas, United States. By Larry D. Moore, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=74340401
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Verk av Edward Carey
Associerade verk
These Our Monsters: The English Heritage Collection of Short Stories (2019) — Bidragsgivare — 17 exemplar
Taggad
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- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Harvey, Jonathan Edward Carey
- Födelsedag
- 1970-04
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Födelseort
- North Walsham, Norfolk, England, UK
- Bostadsorter
- England, UK
- Utbildning
- University of Iowa
- Yrken
- novelist
playwright - Relationer
- McCracken, Elizabeth (wife)
McCracken, Harry (brother-in-law) - Kort biografi
- Married to author Elizabeth McCracken.
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Statistik
- Verk
- 10
- Även av
- 3
- Medlemmar
- 1,864
- Popularitet
- #13,807
- Betyg
- 3.9
- Recensioner
- 63
- ISBN
- 143
- Språk
- 14
- Favoritmärkt
- 7
Trigger warnings: Death of a child, implied Hoarding Disorder, near-death experiences, murder of a person
Score: Six points out of ten.
This review can also be found on The StoryGraph.
10 years ago, this would've been hot off the press. 10 years later, it didn't age well.
First off, as with the last book I read, I couldn't find any representation. Not one. I'm assuming representation mattered less 10 years ago than now in 2023. I understand why this is the case though, since it's set in Britain in the 1800s, specifically 1875. That doesn't excuse the fact that I struggled to get through this to the point where I forced myself to finish it; if I didn't, I would've DNF'd this. There's too many flaws. It starts with the main character, Clod Iremonger, or Clod for short, and he lives in this Victorian mansion called Heap House, but here's the catch: objects are alive. (Yes. Really. It's weird, but this is a fantasy novel.) Unfortunately, from there on, the book was incredibly slow and tedious to read, and it didn't help that I didn't connect to any of the characters. They weren't well written anyway, even if one of them, e.g., Tummis, died, I was apathetic (that's the word!) for him. The multiple POVs of the main characters, Clod, and Lucy Pennant, or Lucy for short, made this book more intriguing, but not by a lot, the ending did; it was more action-packed, as the heaps came to life, invaded the house, afterward the novel cuts to a new POV, and that's the end. Wow. I'm not disheartened that the library I borrowed this book from does not have the following two books in the trilogy, since I won't continue it.… (mer)