Heute mal wieder eine englische Rezi für euch :)
Hier der Klappentext:
Diamond City is an action-packed young adult fantasy by debut author Francesca Flores about a girl who perseveres through poverty, violence, and loss to achieve a future for herself.
Good things don't happen to girls who come from nothing...unless they risk everything.
Meet Aina Solís. Pulled off the streets when she was twelve years old, Aina was trained to become one of the most powerful and dangerous assassins in Sumerand, a kingdom founded by immigrants, built by magic, and still reeling from an industrial revolution that’s led to all-out civil war. Fearless and willing to risk everything—and with nothing left to lose—Aina is ready to leave her wretched past behind and accept a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: to kill a wealthy industrialist named Kouta. But this career-defining move won't come easy. She will have to act against her boss Kohl, who doesn't tolerate his assassins working against him. What will be the price for her betrayal? Meanwhile, the closer Aina gets to her target, the more she craves an answer to the questions an assassin is never meant to ask: Who wants Kouta dead? And why was Aina chosen for this mission?
Now, in a city full of dark forces and hidden agendas, old rivalries and a whole new world of enemies, it's up to Aina to unravel a conspiracy that could rewrite Sumerand's history and her own future. Is it too late to save her city—and herself? Is courage born or is it bred? And what must Aina sacrifice for a second chance to begin a better, brighter life?
Good things don't happen to girls who come from nothing...unless they risk everything.
Meet Aina Solís. Pulled off the streets when she was twelve years old, Aina was trained to become one of the most powerful and dangerous assassins in Sumerand, a kingdom founded by immigrants, built by magic, and still reeling from an industrial revolution that’s led to all-out civil war. Fearless and willing to risk everything—and with nothing left to lose—Aina is ready to leave her wretched past behind and accept a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: to kill a wealthy industrialist named Kouta. But this career-defining move won't come easy. She will have to act against her boss Kohl, who doesn't tolerate his assassins working against him. What will be the price for her betrayal? Meanwhile, the closer Aina gets to her target, the more she craves an answer to the questions an assassin is never meant to ask: Who wants Kouta dead? And why was Aina chosen for this mission?
Now, in a city full of dark forces and hidden agendas, old rivalries and a whole new world of enemies, it's up to Aina to unravel a conspiracy that could rewrite Sumerand's history and her own future. Is it too late to save her city—and herself? Is courage born or is it bred? And what must Aina sacrifice for a second chance to begin a better, brighter life?
Meine Meinung:
To be honest, when I saw this cover I decided to read this book. It gave me the impression of adventure, sci-fi and a girl in between. I really like how all the colors blend together. Also the left part of the diamond looks really fascinating.
The writing style was fluent and easy to read. The book was written from the view of the author, but mostly the view of Aina was focused.
In the first chapter we meet Aina as a little girl. I liked her at that moment. Thereafter, is a little time jump to a quite grown-up Aina, which is working as an assassin. It was not so easy to like her then. However, during the story I got to know her better and I loved to watch her develop and change to a better self. She had a bad childhood and prooved in the end, what can be accomplished nevertheless.
Teo was a really nice guy and it would always be great to have him as a friend. He is always there for the people, who matter to him. Further it was nice to see how he was clinging to his hopes and believes.
Ryuu was also a nice character, which I liked from the beginning. He was a good example to show, that not all Steels need to be bad or emotionless. It was really nice to also have a different view on this world. Furthermore, the relationship to his brother and their family-history was described really nice and gave a good impression, why Ryuu became, who he is.
To my shame, I was not such a big Raurie-fan. I didn't dislike her, but I also didn't got warm with her a lot.
However, I liked the big friendship which somehow - really somehow, because it just happend and I didn't see that coming - developed between this four. It was nice to see that in this brutal world, where everyone seemed quite alone.
When I started the book I was not really sure, what storyline I should expect. For sure, I read the short-plot, but I honestly had no certain expectations. For some reason - probably my cover-fantasy - I expected something like a dystopy or something with sci-fi. In some parts it was for sure dystopian, but not so much, that I would count it as dystopy. I rather see it as a story in a foreign world, which could have also played somewhere in our past. The topics vary a lot. It includes the conflicts with religion and growing industrialization. The life of a assassin vs. the idea of valueing in life.
I liked this parts in the story, where you got to think and decide for yourself, what you would do in that situation and how oneself would decide to live.
The end of the story is a little bit open and I would have really liked to read some more pages, how things turned out for Aina. Nevertheless, it was a hopefull ending.
Fazit:
Nice story, with a lot of philosophical questions, a lot of emotions and of course also some nice action-scenes - I give the book 4 out of 5 stars :)
Autorin: Francesca Flores
Verlag: WEDNESDAY BOOKS
Sprache: Englisch
Veröffentlichung: 28. Januar 2020
ISBN-10: 1250220440
ISBN-13: 978-1250220448
Seiten: 400
(Daten beziehen sich auf die Print-Ausgabe)
Vielen Dank an Netgalley und den Verlag für das Reziexemplar <3
Thank you to Netgalley for the review copy <3
Keine Kommentare:
Kommentar veröffentlichen
Wenn du auf meinem Blog kommentierst, werden die von dir eingegebenen Formulardaten (und unter Umständen auch weitere personenbezogene Daten, wie z. B. deine IP-Adresse) an Google-Server übermittelt. Mit dem Abschicken deines Kommentars akzeptierst du, dass der von dir geschriebene Kommentar und die personenbezogenen Daten, die damit verbunden sind (z.B. Username, E-Mailadresse, verknüpftes Profil auf Google/ Wordpress) an Google-Server übermittelt werden. Mehr Infos dazu findest du in meiner Datenschutzerklärung und in der Datenschutzerklärung von Google.