In the Vanishers’ Palace
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In the Vanishers’ Palace
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Verteld door:
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Nancy Wu
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Van:
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Aliette de Bodard
From the award-winning author of the Dominion of the Fallen series comes a dark retelling of Beauty and the Beast.
In a ruined, devastated world, where the earth is poisoned and beings of nightmares roam the land....
A woman, betrayed, terrified, sold into indenture to pay her village's debts and struggling to survive in a spirit world.
A dragon, among the last of her kind, cold and aloof but desperately trying to make a difference.
When failed scholar Yên is sold to Vu Côn, one of the last dragons walking the earth, she expects to be tortured or killed for Vu Côn's amusement.
But Vu Côn, it turns out, has a use for Yên: she needs a scholar to tutor her two unruly children. She takes Yên back to her home, a vast, vertiginous palace-prison where every door can lead to death. Vu Côn seems stern and unbending, but as the days pass Yên comes to see her kinder and caring side. She finds herself dangerously attracted to the dragon who is her master and jailer. In the end, Yên will have to decide where her own happiness lies - and whether it will survive the revelation of Vu Côn's dark, unspeakable secrets....
Contains mature themes.
©2018 Aliette de Bodard (P)2019 TantorEvery character is depressed and complaining all the time. Their motivations and reasons make no sense. For example the scholar gets to this library but instead of taking this oportunity to learn more about the palace and conquering her weakness of not knowing what is going on she wants to go somewhere where everybody tells her it's dangerous....that makes no sense!
Even before the library, why the hell does she not use her time to learn more about this magic script that she can almost read, wouldn't understanding the magic around her help, possibly even tell her the way to get out.
Also this dragon, it makes no sense for her to want the human as scholar since she teaches the children herself and she seems to have much more knowledge than the human. Why not something along the lines of a friend so it would make puberty easier on the children.
Then this talk with big words like filial piety wich amounts to hollow motivations and concepts that ultimatly have no bearing on the plot, they are just there to sound important.
this is a travesty
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