Penguen Cilt: 33 Sayı: 417-429
Michelle Davidson Argyle's Monarch breaks free and spreads its wings for a read sure to thrill readers. When assassins fly into Nick's life, he must run to the one place he can be safe: the Monarch Inn. Lilian Love struggles with running the inn, worries over her grown son, and fears the inn will fail if the monarch butterflies stop migrating through their area. Nick and Lilian become reacquainted, but the danger isn't over. Nick brings his two daughters to the inn to be safe while he must leave them and Lilian for Brazil and answers, yet danger and love were closer to home than he ever could imagine. Monarch is a thriller unlike any I've ever read. The character-driven novel involves fearful realities from the dwindling monarch butterfly population to terrors in the drug trade. The characters are three-dimensional. I loved the complexity of their relationships. Argyle excels in writing great pacing, speeding it up when the action dictated it and slowing it down to stretch out the tension. The symbolism of wings and butterflies flutters throughout. Monarch shows the fragility of life and the human strength to go on. Monarch by Michelle Davidson Argyle is a thriller unlike any other with complex characters and a touching plot filled with hope, life, and love in the face of fear and danger.
2022-10-11 07:35
Amazing book, scary but MAGNIFICENT. I rated four stars just beause some parts were scary. Anyone who puts it less than four is wrong.
2022-08-30 05:28
A hybrid murder mystery and speculative fiction story, The City & The City is about two cities that occupy the same geographical space. The story is told in the traditional 1st-person POV detective-story style. The people of the two cities are conditioned from birth to 'unsee' their next door neighbours, and their behaviours are kept in check by a seemingly omnibenevolent force. I had a few problems with it. Firstly, the prose. I had the same problem in Embassytown, namely that it felt stilted and found myself re-reading many sentences. The dialogue was particularly guilty of this, and I have to wonder if it was intentionally structured this way because of the 1st-person POV narrative. The story itself is pretty good; it drags a bit in the beginning. But I gave it five stars because the concept itself trumps all other facets of the novel. I know from experience with Embassytown that Mieville likes to immerse (terrible pun, sorry) you in his worlds without much explanation, so I didn't think i'd be surprised by anything. However, from what i'd heard about this book, I was expecting some science fictional elements, but they weren't there. Easy fix: suspend my disbelief in a different way. Get abstract. The whole premise of two cities overlapping each other; but not actually seeing the other, became metaphorical. And it could be flexibly interpreted in any way you like: socially, politically, philosophically. Racial tensions? Class distinctions? Fascism and totalitarianism? Res cogitas and res extensa? You name it, you can interpret it that way. The one interpretation I was focusing on (and failed miserably, by the way) was a political one. I found out while reading this that Mieville is socialist, so I found myself looking for the parallels, and Israel was the one that came to mind. It wasn't entirely unsuccessful, but I don't think that this was any kind of allegory. That's what makes the novel so damn good. It's ambiguous enough to elude solid interpretation. (Probably this is why everyone keeps calling it Kafkaesque) As a side note: learning that one of his main interests in politics made me take note that his golden lines--the real quotable nuggets--were generally politically oriented. Doesn't matter to me. It doesn't seem like he's preaching and he's writing damn good fiction. I can't wait to sink my teeth into some more. China and I are going to become good friends this year.
2020-09-17 03:26
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