Valour ​and Vanity (Glamourist Histories 4.) 2 csillagozás

Mary Robinette Kowal: Valour and Vanity

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Acclaimed ​fantasist Mary Robinette Kowal has enchanted many fans with her beloved novels featuring a Regency setting in which magic--known here as glamour--is real. In Valour and Vanity, master glamourists Jane and Vincent find themselves in the sort of a magical adventure that might result if Jane Austen wrote Ocean's Eleven.

After Melody's wedding, the Ellsworths and Vincents accompany the young couple on their tour of the continent. Jane and Vincent plan to separate from the party and travel to Murano to study with glassblowers there, but their ship is set upon by Barbary corsairs while en route. It is their good fortune that they are not enslaved, but they lose everything to the pirates and arrive in Murano destitute.

Jane and Vincent are helped by a kind local they meet en route, but Vincent is determined to become self-reliant and get their money back, and hatches a plan to do so. But when so many things are not what they seem, even the best laid plans… (tovább)

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Tor Books, New York, 2014
320 oldal · ISBN: 9780765334169

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Babó_Buca P>!
Mary Robinette Kowal: Valour and Vanity

Ez a rész jól vitte tovább a megkezdett utat. A fordulata nagyon meglepett, nem számítottam rá, illetve Vincent és Jane kapcsolatának fejlődését is öröm volt megfigyelni. Épp nagyon szerelmesek egymásba, és ezt szüntelenül hangoztatják egymásnak. Jane nehezen lép túl a vetélésén, ami miatt Vincentnek folyamatos lelki támaszi feladatokat kell átlátnia. Mellettük még nagyon szerettem a kolostort, ahol egy határozott rendfőnök mellett badass novíciák laknak.
Nyelvezete régies, így jobban visszaadja a kor hangulatát, amely a magyar fordításban ugye kiesik. Mivel ekönyvként olvastam, így könnyen rá tudtam keresni az ismeretlen szavakra, amelyből azért volt bőven.

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Népszerű idézetek

Babó_Buca P>!

“I do not know what I want.”
“You do not need to know now.”
“I am thirty-one. We cannot wait too long to decide.”
“I am very clear about what I want.” Vincent raised her fingers to his lips and kissed them. “I want you to be happy.”

85. oldal

Babó_Buca P>!

In spite of her best efforts, Jane’s gaze was drawn irresistibly back to the celebrated poet. Had he just invented that verse while swimming in the Grand Canal?

93. oldal

Babó_Buca P>!

“[…] I have read too many novels and cannot shake the idea that if we are separated, we shall not see each other again.”
“Ah, but true love will always triumph. Is that not what the novels say?”
“Yes, but we are in the land of Romeo and Juliet.”

126. oldal

Babó_Buca P>!

All things are hard when you first begin, but become less so with practise. Practise, however, is more fun when it is a game.

142. oldal

Babó_Buca P>!

We have names for them now, at least: Coppa, Bastone, Spada, and—”
“Denaro?” The puppet player shook his head. “Those aren’t names. Those are the suits in the tarot deck.”

188. oldal

Babó_Buca P>!

Books bound in delicately tooled calfskin lined the walls, with gilt letters announcing their contents. Large, comfortable chairs stood by the windows and the hearth, waiting for readers. A library table stood in the middle of the room with some papers scattered upon it.

207. oldal

Babó_Buca P>!

“I misjudged my limits once in the years that I have been working. Once. And the circumstances there … That was a unique situation. It will not occur again.”
“What was unique? That you had been working for weeks without rest?”
“That I was showing off for a woman I wanted to court.”

229. oldal

Babó_Buca P>!

“A strong room is a room with corporeal locks that are masked by glamour. To undo the locks, one must first undo the glamour in order to see them. Undo it in the wrong order, and an alarm will sound. The illusion of noise is quite as effective as the real thing when creating an alarm.”

234. oldal

Babó_Buca P>!

Caught by the fact that the young woman had a working smock, Jane asked, “Do you assist?”
Rosa gave an aggrieved sigh, as though she had answered that question many times. “I am a fifth-generation glassmaker.”

244. oldal

Babó_Buca P>!

“What delayed you in the first place?”
The puppet player’s eyes twinkled. “The thing I least expected. An admirer stopped me. Loved puppets. Wanted to know when my next show was.”
“Could you not put him off?” Lord Byron asked.
“He was six. No. I could not.”

282. oldal


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