4.5Oh.my.god.Seriously this was one of the best books by a german author I've read so far.Plot:The plot is seriously so cool! The idea of people transforming into big cats and snakes is so awesome and also awesome implemented. But to be honest (but this is something personal) I would have chosen ...
Note: This is the original German edition of the first instalment of the Dark Reflections trilogy. It is also available in English. I especially love the bind-up’s cover: Isn't it beautiful? You should totally read it. I know you want to. And no, I'm not getting paid to advertise this book ;).I j...
Jolly ist eine Piratin durch und durch. Ihr Ziehvater Captain Bannon hat sie als kleines Mädchen auf einem Sklavenmarkt gekauft und sie mit offenen Armen bei sich aufgenommen. Doch als die Magere Maddy auf ein spanisches Schiff trifft, scheint das Unglück besiegelt. Vergiftet von Tausenden Spinne...
Nachdem ich die ersten beiden Bände der "Merle"-Trilogie noch als Hörbuch gehört habe, habe ich mir den letzten Band als Hardcover-Ausgabe gegönnt, um zu erfahren, wie es mit Merle, Junipa und Co. weitergeht. Schade, dass dies bereits der letzte Band ist, denn ich würde am liebsten noch viel mehr...
Again I am impressed with Kai Meyer's imagination. But with his story-telling not so much. While the final novel in the series was better than the second, which I really struggled with at times, I just ended up losing interest in the story. It never really grabbed me or made me care for the chara...
A cool breeze off the sea was blowing in her face, but she couldn’t shake the smell of the hotel basement. She closed her eyes, but the sun was still burning bright red through her eyelids. Forcing herself not to show any weakness, she looked ahead again, and was irritated to see Contessa di Sant...
Very much bigger. Ten figures of stone—each at least four hundred feet high, although that was a rough estimate, and they might actually have been even a little higher—standing around a gigantic hole in the landscape. That was what it was, in fact: a hole. Not a crater, not a deep valley. The clo...
She had intended to ask the way to Castello Carnevare there, but that proved unnecessary. The clan’s fortress rose on a peak above the village, a medieval colossus of yellowish-brown rough-hewn stone walls, looking about as homey from the outside as a collection of monuments. The winding road led...