The Oracle Glass
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The Oracle Glass
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Verteld door:
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Linda Bruno
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Van:
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Judith Merkle Riley
For a handful of gold, Madame de Morville will read your future in a glass of swirling water. You'll believe her, because you know she's more than 150 years old and a witch, and she has all of Paris in the palm of her hand. But Madame de Morville hides more behind her black robes than you know. Her real age, the mother and uncle who left her for dead, the inner workings of the most secret society of Parisian witches: None of these truths would help her outwit the rich who so desperately want the promise of the future. After all, it's her own future she must control, no matter how much it is painted with uncertainty and clouded by vengeance.
"Take a full cup of wit, two teaspoons of brimstone, and a dash of poison, and you have Judith Merkle Riley's mordant, compelling tale of an ambitious young woman who disguises herself as an ancient prophetess in order to gain entry into the dangerous, scheming glamour of the Sun King's court. Based on scandalous true events, The Oracle Glass brims with our human foibles, passions, and eccentricities; it's a classic of the genre and unlike any historical novel you have ever read." (C. W. Gortner, author of The Confessions of Catherine de Medici)
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Unfortunately, the reader does not do justice to the beauty of the writing. She mispronounces French names, hardly gives any distinctive voices to the characters, rarely changes the pace or creates dramatic emphasis on scenes. Sometimes, this is involuntarily funny, but if you're interested in the story, you can get used to it and it's even rather droll after a while. But it could have been so much better.
My recommendation: Buy the book, read it yourself, let the characters come alive in your head.
Solid historical novel, weak reader
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Why can’t she pronounce the French names and words? It’s not that difficult…
Terrible Pronounciation!
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