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Laddar... Ripper: A Novel (utgåvan 2014)av Isabel Allende
VerksinformationAmandas gåta av Isabel Allende
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. A teenage girl and her role-playing posse (which includes her grandfather) investigate a string of seemingly unrelated murders and discover a serial killer on the loose with revenge on his mind. ( ) The commentary below is spot on - I can see that this could be good but very quickly it was bogged down in minutiae and drove me nuts from impatience. I was so willing to like this book because I am still yet to finish an Isabel Allende book. I'm ashamed of myself - but can anyone recommend one of hers that I might complete? given my impatience with backstory, flashbacks and the like. Tal como predijo la astróloga más reputada de San Francisco, una oleada de crímenes comienza a sacudir la ciudad. En la investigación sobre los asesinatos, el inspector Bob Martín recibirá la ayuda inesperada de un grupo de internautas especializados en juegos de rol, Ripper. «"Mi madre todavía está viva, pero la matará el Viernes Santo a medianoche", le advirtió Amanda Martín al inspector jefe y éste no lo puso en duda, porque la chica había dado pruebas de saber más que él y todos sus colegas del Departamento de Homicidios. La mujer estaba cautiva en algún punto de los dieciocho mil kilómetros cuadrados de la bahía de San Francisco, tenían pocas horas para encontrarla con vida y él no sabía por dónde empezar a buscarla.» Ripper is a good story with interesting characters, but it fails because of the author's focus on those characters. Every character is presented with a long, intricate backstory, which puts the rest of the book on hold. Even one of the character's dog gets a backstory, for goodness sake! In one, odd moment, we get the backstory of a victim, but that's the only victim we meet. Why that one and not the others? The pacing of the book would've improved if all that had been left behind, and then I might've expected the resulting crash at the end. The murderer is this person. No, it's this person. No, actually, it's this person.
As these passages suggest, there’s a heck of a lot more Harlequin than Hammett to be found on the pages of “Ripper.” Allende does conjure up a genuinely surprising twist at the end, but by then, most smart readers will be trying to cleanse all memory of this tedious romp, perhaps by sinking down, down, down into bathtubs of powdered milk. All in all, Ripper is a curious mix: a literary banquet overflowing with morsels of Nancy Drew, mouthfuls of Agatha Christie, a sprinkle of Barbara Cartland and dashes of James Patterson and Tom Clancy. But the "genre-busting" (that publishing buzzword) combination of detective story and romantic saga is likely to intrigue Allende fans. And while there are many places where Ripper reads like a half-polished experiment, what lingers is Allende's generosity with fictional detail, her warmth and humanity. Ripper is an enjoyable, decidedly un-magical realist novel that is nevertheless unusual in its approach to crime; there are canny moments that comment on Allende's genre shift, with Amanda insisting to her grand-father that crime novels should be formulaic in order to be successful, and with tongue-in-cheek digs at critical reception: "The critics were vicious, dismissing his work as magical realism — a literary style deemed passé. Ingår i förlagsserienPrestigefyllda urval
"A fast-paced mystery involving a brilliant teenage sleuth who must unmask a serial killer in San Francisco through Ripper, the online mystery game she plays with her beloved grandfather and friends around the world"-- Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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