The Left-Handed Booksellers of London

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They are not just there to defend the world against ignorance by supplying us with books, but they're also ready and willing to defend us against goblins, vampires, and other eldritch creatures! The story gradually grows grander and bigger until it’s nonstop action—confronting monsters, figuring out who’s a traitor, and all that good stuff—like an avalanche. The nature of the booksellers and their abilities is original and appealing, though some of the earlier ideas touched on (shapeshifting and immortality, mostly) don't come into play later on as they perhaps could have. Garth Nix was born in 1963 in Melbourne, Australia, to the sound of the Salvation Army band outside playing 'Hail the Conquering Hero Comes' or possibly 'Roll Out the Barrel'. Como me pasó con "Magia Angelical", creo que el mundo que ha creado da para más de una historia: ofrece una sensación amplia, como si temporalmente ya hubiera estado y estará en un futuro.

Recommended for high school libraries and for readers looking for fantasy with a historical literary flair. This book uses one of my favorite Urban Fantasy tropes, where a normal person gets sucked into a secret world hidden within our own. The story took off with lots of fantastical action right from the first chapter when she met Merlin St. Art student Susan Arkshaw, a punkish eighteen-year-old from rural western England, takes leave of her loving, vague mother and heads to London to try to find the father she’s never met.Also the book is set in 1983 but it could have been set at any time other than a few specific items. The Grandmother raised the flower and sniffed it again, her piercing dark eyes momentarily hooded, a smile passing across her thin-boned face like a glimpse of some small, colorful bird darting between dark and brooding trees. I'm all mixed up about this book, because on the one hand I did actually enjoy it; it's just that I felt I could have loved it, if there weren't some missing pieces. This brief interaction sets the tone of the entire book: it follows fantasy convention in the general absence of supervising adults (adults can be present, but from a distance), bills (rent?

The story in this one is set in 1983 making it historical but is a alternate version of history in the city of London. The Left-Handed Booksellers of London gets right into the action almost from the start - we're given an introductory prologue, but then we're up and running even from the first sentence of the first chapter, into a world of booksellers and the secrets they guard. All that potential just feels a bit untapped in favor of narrow focus on Susan and her “outsider” perspective. Being someone who normally loves to find an action packed adventure while reading I was surprised to find I didn’t end up enjoying this one more as it was one long adventure story. With their complementary personalities and easy affection, the four friends are an endearing, sibling-like group; Liliath makes a fascinating antagonist.As he and his sister, the right-handed bookseller Vivien, tread in the path of a botched or covered-up police investigation from years past, they find this quest strangely overlaps with Susan's.

More than six million copies of his books have been sold around the world and his work has been translated into forty-two languages. Has strong vibes of Gaiman's Neverwhere, in my view, with a mythical London existing in and around and behind the real one.I thought I had reached the big climactic battle, but it turned out there was another hour and another big battle to come. The titular booksellers (both left- and right-handed), in all honesty, could have been plumbers or hedge fund managers or astronomers or greengrocers.

The Left-Handed Booksellers of London was an enjoyable urban fantasy romp in an alternate 1980s-London which left me wanting more from this clever and fascinating world of magical secret service booksellers. It's plot forward, not a lot of characterization or world building beyond the series of dangers the characters face, often in a row like a gauntlet. On est plongés très rapidement dans l’ambiance et l’univers, c’est bien pensé et très bien mené, le concept est, comme je le disais, très original et c’est addictif.Overall, this is a captivating and memorable tale that will please longstanding Nix fans and other lovers of intelligently written fantasy. The tropes have been somewhat ‘modernized,’ with Merlin a bit gender-bendy, Susan embracing her DocMartens and coveralls, and and the “family” of booksellers containing a mix of socioeconomic and racial backgrounds, blood relations notwithstanding. Jacques, an attractive left-handed bookseller who killed her 'uncle' whom she was visiting to obtain information in her attempts to locate her father.