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Laddar... Bitter Seedsav Ian Tregillis
  
Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken.  Natt90 | Jan 27, 2023 |  World building: A Characters: F I loved the concept of this world that Tregillis created. The Nazis created super powered soldiers. The British have demons that demand ever increasing blood prices for their help. I appreciated that magic definitely had a price, and it was not the silver bullet that would save the day. However, I did not connect with any of the characters, though I did start feeling very sorry for Will towards the end of the book. I also wish that there was more than one strong female character. Heike served as little more than a distraction, a minor plot point for Reinhardt, and another plot point to show Gretl's ruthlessness. Liv... was Marsh's wife and served no other purpose. (  ) wisemetis | Dec 26, 2022 | This is an excellent read. Set in a version of our world where magic and psi abilities exist, this tells the story of a secret unit of German soldiers and their warlock-like British counterparts. The author is an excellent writer and I found myself enjoying the prose as well as the plot. I’m not giving this 5 stars as it is obviously the start of a series and ends not quite on a cliffhanger and feeling very episodic. I can definitely see myself picking up the rest of the series at some point. (  ) Richard_Neary | Jan 15, 2022 | Really enjoyed this story - seemed to get off to a meandering start, but was never boring. Obviously setting up for a sequel as there were many unresolved points: - - - - - - - Overall, this was a really interesting, unpredictable book, and I'm looking forward to the next one in the series ( ) KrakenTamer | Oct 23, 2021 | In a remote part of Germany a doctor has been hard at work, he has had plenty of test subjects, the Great War left many orphans and foundlings, and he paid good money for them. Not many survive. An outbreak of influenza, or so he claims. The reality is very different. He has been experimenting on the children, torturing them and surgically altering them. Turning them into supersoldiers. Out of all those who ended up in his home few now remain; but they can do great things. Walk through walls, immolate buildings and people, turn invisible, and see the future. English intelligent is set on their trail almost by accident, but they don’t know what they are up against. So they turn to England’s old magics and the warlocks. Okay, if that hasn’t hooked you already then I’m not sure what will. Super-soldier Nazis and warlocks. Come on, that’s intriguing, is it not? However, if that description has you in mind of an adventure story well, I don’t think you’ll get quite what you expect. Yes, technically there are adventure scenes, battles and spies, heroes and villains. But I think that in this book Tregillis has set out to show that war is a dirty business and everyone involved gets their hands dirty, very dirty in some cases. His characters are not neatly divisible into good and evil. I suppose there are a few who we can say with are the bad guys. The doctor. Gretel. But they don’t have their “good” counterparts. We have the allies, the guys we are supposed to be rooting for, but they do their share of evil deeds. Perhaps in the name of the innocent, but really? we have all heard what the road to hell is paved with. It is a very well told story, even if I didn’t really like any of the characters. But I did understand them, and empathise with some of them to varying degrees, and that is the important thing I think. ( ) Fence | Jan 5, 2021 |
 don’t hang around, pick up a copy of ‘Bitter Seeds’ and get reading right away. I particularly enjoyed the way that Tregillis not only weaves his story into the historical background (making it all sound very plausible and part of events) but uses it to send the path of history running in a slightly different direction at times. It’s ‘alternate history’ done so cleverly that you don’t even realise you’re running down a different track. Tregillis shows that he has an eye for the spectacular, on more than one level, with scenes that show just what the clever use of a relatively minor ability can do to a tank, a group of enemy combatants and even the entire Maginot Line. It’s not just the fight scenes that make for compulsive reading. The use of these powers sends the plot in some very interesting directions with the march to victory switching between parties on a regular basis. Things move so quickly that you have to keep reading to follow it all, you don’t dare miss a word. It would be doing the book a real disservice though to paint it as a straight fight between powers though, no matter how well it is done on the page. For me, the real strength of ‘Bitter Seeds’ (and maybe where this title was born) lies in it’s exploration of occult warfare and the price that must be paid for victory ‘Bitter Seeds’ is nothing short of an awesome read Ten out of Ten Ingår i serienIngår iPriserSF Site Reader's Choice (9 – 2010)
It's 1939. The Nazis have supermen, the British have demons, and one perfectly normal man is caught in between. Raybould Marsh is a British secret agent in the early days of the Second World War. During a mission back in the Spanish Civil War, he saw something strange: a German woman with wires going into her head. She looked at him as if she knew him. When the Nazis start running missions with people who have unnatural abilities -- a woman who can turn invisible, a man who can walk through walls, and the woman from Spain who can use her knowledge of the future to twist the present -- Marsh is the man who gets to handle the problem. He rallies the secret warlocks of Britain to hold the impending invasion at bay. But magic always exacts a price. Eventually, the sacrifice necessary to defeat the enemy will be as terrible as outright loss. Alan Furst meets Alan Moore in the opening of an epic of supernatural alternate history, the tale of a twentieth century like ours but also profoundly different. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Agosto, 1939. Londres. El MI6 británico descubre la existencia de soldados alemanes con habilidades «sobrenaturales». Sus poderes son tan increíbles como mortíferos.
A partir de ese momento Raybould Marsh se convierte en el responsable de impedir la inminente invasión nazi. En un intento desesperado se reunirá con los brujos que apoyan, en la sombra, a las fuerzas británicas. Sin embargo, el precio que habrá de pagar para vencer al enemigo será muy superior al que había imaginado…