Ephyra 2: En ny hær av Rut Granli - stødig og mystisk oppfølger

Eksemplar fra forfatter, mot en ærlig anmeldelse

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    - Du fikk den til å vise seg, ikke sant? sier han og er  

veldig opptatt med å rette på lua si. - Du kalte den hit, 

eller noe? Hvordan gjorde du det? Er det vanskelig?

    Han virker klønete og rar.

    - Jeg må finne den riktige følelsen, sier jeg og unnlater

den delen som handler om han og Lotte.

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Bok to i Ephyra trilogien, og selv om det er litt mye om forelskelse og følelser, var det en god oppfølger og ikke bare en tom mellomstasjon.

Invasjonen av Rut Granli - en god førstebok i en trilogi for ungdom

Eksemplar fra Gyldendal, mot en ærlig anmeldelse

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     Hele den siste måneden har vært spennnende. Jeg

kan selvfølgelig ikke gå i detalj, men det er stort, Jus-

tyna. Virkelig stort. Øynene til mamma blir store og 

glitrende når hun snakker om jobben. 

     - Hva forsker dere på? sier jeg og speider nedover 

veien. 

      - Jeg kan ikke si så mye om det, men det er et

eksperiment av dimensjoner. Banebrytende.

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Invasjonen er første bok i Ephyra trilogien for ungdom, og inneholder noen merkelige skapninger.

Do You Dream of Terra-Two? av Temi Oh - ikke forvent mye science fiction

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     'I mean, probably not. It could suggest that a viral infection

is coming on. So they'll probably keep him in the sanatorium 

until T-minus twelve, and monitor him just to make sure he can

fly tomorrow.' Poppy's brow furrowed. 'He'll probably be fine,

though,,' Juno added.

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En slik avreise skjer uten dramatikk, eller?

Anomalien av Hervé Le Tellier - en glitch?

Eksemplar fra Pax, mot en ærlig anmeldelse

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     - Jeg forstår ikke. Har det samme flyet landet to ganger?

    - Ja. Jeg gjentar: Det er akkurat det samme flyet. En av 

flymekanikerne bekrefter det: Det var denne 787-maskinen 

han utførte reparasjoner på for snart fire måneder siden: Ifølge ham

er skadene lettere denne gangen, som om flyet har oppholdt

seg bare halvparten så lenge i haglskuren, men han gjenkjenner

med absolutt sikkerhet noen av sprekkene i frontruta, enkelte

skader på randomen, osv.

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Det er ikke ofte jeg leser fransk litteratur, men det har hendt seg noen få ganger, da gjerne krim. Dette er en roman med science fiction elementer.

Jane Hawk 1: The Silent Corner av Dean Koontz - en god førstebok, men mangler trøkk

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     She didn't realize there was a second drone until she saw it com-

ing fast from the area of the fountain.

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Dean Koontz er nesten like produktiv som King i sine eldre dager. Det er som om de aldri slipper opp for inspirasjon. The Silent Corner er ikke en av Koontz nyeste, men en bok som kom ut i 2017, og er starten på en serie.

Devoted av Dean Koontz - han klarer fremdeles å fornye seg

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    "Life crushes that secret feeling out of us if we let it," Dorothy con-

tinued. "But I never allowed it to crush that feeling in me, Rosa, and

one day the miracle came to me on four paws."

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Ved siden av Stephen King, har jeg også lest en god del av Dean Koontz oppgjennom årene. Av media før i tiden ble Stephen King kalt storebror av horror og Dean Koontz lillebror. Selv om King alltid blir min favoritt, synes jeg ikke Koontz er så verst. Han har skrevet noen perler han også, og mange av bøkene hans er avhengighetsskapende. Har ikke likt alle bøkene av ham, heller, men mange.

The Blind Assassin av Margaret Atwood - spennende start, men dabber fort av

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    Thus my mother and father. How could either of them atone to the other for having changed so much? For failing to be what was expected. How could there not be grudges? Grudges held silently  and unjustly, because there was nobody to blame, or nobody you could put your finger on. The war was not a person. Why blame a hurricane?

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Kanskje ikke den første boka jeg burde begynne med av Margaret Atwood ... 

The After Wife av Cass Hunter - tenk å bo med en robot ...

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Chloe had insisted on returning to school. He'd thought she wasn't ready, but she wwas determined. 
    'It's not going to get any easier,' she said, stuffing books into her backpack. 'I'd rather just get it over with,. I'll have a day or two of everyone staring at me like I'm a freak and refusing to talk to me, and then they'll forget and I can just get on with things. Amy and Jess will look after me.'
    'As long as you're sure, said Aidan doubiously. 'Do you want me to drive you?'
    'No! said Chloe, so sharply that he recoiled a little. 'It's okay.' She softened her tone a little. ' Just let me do it. I'll be fine.'

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The After Wife virket som en spesiell og annerledes bok. Det var derfor jeg ville lese den, men dessverre ble det for mye om følelser ...

Sci-Fi ungdomsskolen av Scott Seegert og John Martin - irriterende humor

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Så sånn var det altså jeg krysset galaksen og havnet her. Jeg har gjort mitt beste for å beskrive det, men jeg lover; det var myyyyyye kulere enn jeg greier å fortelle! Men nå har jeg det i hvert fall svart på hvitt, i tilfelle hukommelsen begynner å kladde etter hvert.

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Å være den nye er ingen spøk ...

Good Morning, Midnight av Lily Brooks-Dalton - nesten poetisk om ensomhet og katastrofe ...

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    She sighed, dissatisfied.
    "Not what you wanted to hear?" he asked, mouth curved in a wistful smile, sadness lurking in the shadow beneath his eyes.
    "It's not that. It's just - it's hard."
    He nodded. "I know," he said. "But you are a scientist. You understand how this works. We study the universe in order to know; yet in the end the only thing we truly know is that all things end - all but death and time. It's difficult to be reminded of that." - he patted her hand where it lay on the table - "but it's harder to forget."

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Science fiction er avanserte greier ...

The Wind Through the Keyhole av Stephen King - skuffende

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Not long after the death of my mother, which as you know came by my own hand, my father - Steven, son of Henry the Tall - summoned me to his study in the north wing of the palace. It was a small, cold room. I remember the wind whining around the slit windows. I remember the high, frowning shelves of books - worth a fortune, they were, but never read. Not by him, anyway. And I remember the black collar of mourning he wore. It was the same as my own. Every man in Gilead wore the same collar, or a band around his shirtsleeve. The women wore black nets on their hair. This would go on until Gabrielle Deschain was six months in her tomb.

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Som regel tror man at en forfatter er ferdig med en serie, men ikke alltid ...

The Dark Tower 7 (The Dark Tower) av Stephen King - sterk serie med sterk avslutning

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Roland looked haggard and unwell, but he was squatting on his hunkers, and Jake decided that if he was limber enough to do that, he was probbly okay. He squatted beside the gunslinger, hands dangling loosely between his thighs. Roland glanced at him, said nothing, then looked back toward the prison the staff called Agul Siento and the inmates called the Devar-Toi. It was a brightening blur beyond and below them. The sun - electric, atomic, whatever - wasn't shining yet.

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Vemodig og rørende.

The Dark Tower 6 (Song of Susannah) av Stephen King - svakeste ledd i serien?

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"Tell us the story with me in it," Roland invited.
    King leaned against the kitchen counter and the top of his head caught a shaft of sun. He took a sip of his beer and considered Roland's question. Eddie saw it then for the first time, very dim - a contrast to the sun, perhaps. A dusty black shadow, something swaddled around the man. Dim. Barely there. But there. Like the darkness you saw hiding behind things when you traveled todash. Was that it? Eddie didn't think so.
    Barely there.
    But there.
    'You know,' King said. 'I'm not much good at telling stories. That sounds like a paradox, but it's not; it's the reason I write them down.'

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The Dark Tower serien har vært en sterk og overbevisende serie frem til Song of Susannah. Jeg liker serien fremdeles veldig godt, men ble ikke helt fan av denne boka ...

The Dark Tower 5 (Wolves of the Calla) av Stephen King - kanskje ikke en bok for småbarnsforeldre

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    'It's pretty much in the middle of the lot. Maybe thirty yards, but probably less.'
    'The second we hear the chimes,' Roland said, 'we run for the fence and Susannah. All three of us. Agreed?'
    'Agreed,' Eddie said.
    'All three of us and Oy,' Jake said.
    'No, Oy stays with Susannah.'

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Herlig dystert og sterk oppfølger som virkelig gjør inntrykk.

The Dark Tower 4 (Wizard and Glass) av Stephen King - en seig murstein å komme seg gjennom, men vel verdt det

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   'What purpose?' Jake asked. He had clearly been captivated by the story; his eyes shone nearly as bright as Oy's. ' And which friends?'
    'These things you must now hear,' Roland said, 'and how you judge me will come in time.'
    He fetched a sigh - the deep sigh of a man who contemplates some arduous piece of work - and then tossed fresh wood on the fire. As the flames flared up, driving the shadows back a little way, he began to talk.

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Still going strong.

The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower, bok 3) av Stephen King - den fantastiske og spesielle reisen fortsetter

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    Roland stood up. His knees popped like gunshots. 'We'll have to move camp,' he said. ' The ground here is spoiled. The other clearing, the one where we go to shoot, will -'
    He took two trembling steps and then collapsed to his knees, palms pressed to the sides of his sagging head.

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Den underligste reisen gjennom bøker jeg har vært med på, men helt klart verdt det, og det er ennå ikke over.

The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower, #2) av Stephen King - unik oppfølger PS: Ingen spoilere

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    Without thought, with the simple resolve that had made him the last of them all, the last to continue marching on and on long after Cuthbert and the others had died or given up, committed suicide or treachery or simply recanted the whole idea of the Tower; with the single - minded and incurious resolve that had driven him across the desert and all the years before the desert in the wake of the man in black, the gunslinger stepped through the doorway.

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Sjeldent å komme over sterke oppfølgere som denne.

I Am Number Four av Pittacus Lore - en stor skuffelse

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    It's terrifying to know that I'm next. But we've stayed ahead of them by moving, running. Even though I'm sick of the running I know it's the only reason we're still alive. If we stop, they will find us. And now that I'm next in line, they have undoubtedly stepped up the search. Surely they must know we are growing stronger, coming into our Legacies.

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Man forventer mer av science fiction enn dette ...

The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1) av Stephen King - det er bare å glede seg til fortsettelsen!

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   The gunslinger faded back out the door and headed for town. The smell of the desert was clear in the air. Almost time to move on.
   Almost.

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Helt annerledes enn alt annet King har skrevet.

Menneskebarnet av M.R Carey - velskrevet skrekk om ungt geni

Å vite hvilken dato det er, er betryggende på et eller annet vis hun ikke helt greier å forstå. Det er som om det gir henne en hemmelig makt - som om hun har kontroll over en liten  del av verden.     Det er først nå det går opp for henne at hun aldri har kjent den følelsen før.

Menneskebarnet er ikke "ren" skrekk ...