Abgeschickt von Martine am 27 Dezember, 2002 um 00:41:28:
Rezension der Lymond Chronicles.
Und den Absatz den ich besonders darin mag:
"... The characters cheerfully say things in Latin, French (by which I mean old French - my high school classes didn't help me much here), German, Italian - which are not translated for the reader. The plot is so serpentine that the reader must really pay attention just to keep track of what the heck is going on.
Not only that, the main character, Francis Crawford of Lymond, is uniquely talented in making people want to kill him - and that frequently included me.
In spite of those things, I have a prediction: if you're willing to give yourself over to the seductive magic of The Lymond Chronicles, you will be sucked in. The series is simply bewitching. And the opportunity to get to know its infuriating hero is not to be passed up.
Lymond is handsome, brilliant, talented, a superb athlete, a gifted musician, a leader of men, a lover of women.
Though this series is sometimes compared to Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series, Francis Crawford is no Jamie Fraser. He is a true anti-hero: a character one grows to love in spite of the fact that he is not lovable. At all. Almost the first thing that Lymond does in The Game of Kings is attempt to burn his mother's house down - and his mother, you understand, is in it at the time. ...."
Und die Rezi ist fast ohne Spoiler! Also auch für neue Leser geeignet.
Martine