

Laddar... The Dark Talent: Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians (Alcatraz Versus the… (utgåvan 2016)av Brandon Sanderson (Författare)
VerkdetaljerThe Dark Talent av Brandon Sanderson
![]() Ingen/inga Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. A totally disappointing ending to ultimately a less than satisfactory YA series. While I found the premise mildly amusing, the final book in the series did little to resolve anything and 2 major characters ended up dead without even a denouement. Dreadful. Bastille is in a coma and Alcatraz and his Mother, Shasta, an evil librarian need to stop Attica, Alcatraz's father from releasing the Smedry talents on the world. This time, Alcatraz needs to infiltrate the Highbrary, also known as the Library of Congress. ( ![]() This was one of the most abrupt, brilliant, bad endings I've ever read. The ending fits with Alcatraz' character but it leaves the reader frustrated with Alcatraz (he's indeed no hero but very human and very young) and with all the loose ties hanging around. ETA having skipped the footnotes (a pain to read on a e-reader), I've missed the second ending et the very end of the book. It makes things less bleak but it still doesn't make Alcatraz a hero. If anything I have more questions after reading it. The fifth and possibly final Alcatraz book picks up where the previous one ended with Alcatraz having destroyed all of his family's talents. Now he must ally with his mother - an evil librarian - to stop his father, a Free Kingdomer whose desire to give every one on Earth a Smedry Talent which could have disasterous consequences. Smedry and his team go to the Evil Librarian's Highbrary - a.k.a The Library of Congress in an alternate universe version of Washington, DC. Unfortunately, Smedry's friend and defender, Bastille remains in stasis for the better part of the book. Smedry and Bastille's love/hate chemistry when they are together is one of the best part of the series and this book suffers from its absence (although when Bastille finally makes her entrance, it's spectacular). The book has the usual clever wordplay - including a chapter of delicious puns - but it feels like Sanderson's heart is not really in it anymore. Or it could be Alcatraz, who obstinately states this is the last part of his biography after an uncharacteristically dark ending to the book. But Alcatraz is an unreliable narrator who has lied to us before, and there are clues that this is all just a big cliffhanger leading to yet another book. How I love Alcatraz! Until this book I highly recommended them to anyone who would listen. Now, I'm not saying this is an awful book...though it certainly doesn't have a happen ending [yes...yes...we were warned]. I was glad to hear that Bastille intends to carry on because if this were the end I would have to write a very sternly worded letter to Mr. Smedry care of Brandon Sanderson. I really...really...really hope that we don't have to wait years to hear from Bastille. This was the best book in the series so far. I didn’t expect it to end the way it did. I cannot wait for the 6th book coming out the end of next year. At least in the whole series Alcatraz never lied. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
Ingår i serienAlcatraz (5)
Having broken the Smedry Talents while saving the kingdom of Mokia from the Evil Librarian army, Alcatraz Smedry infiltrates the Highbrary as part of a desperate plan to save his comatose friend, Batille. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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