Sin embargo, terminé leyéndolo ahora, en pleno 2024, como otro de esos libros que acumulamos hasta que decide dejarse leer.
Lo que encontrarán a partir de ahora son los siguientes puntos:
- Sinopsis
- Ficha técnica
- Ideas principales (a criterio personal)
- Mi experiencia
Hello community! I hope you are happy and flying like the chickens(?) on my cover. Today I bring you the review of a book that I luckily acquired through amazon kindle, back in 2019, when it was offered for free to get more reach. For lovers of foreign books on low budgets, like me, this is wonderful.
However, I ended up reading it now, in the middle of 2024, as another one of those books that we accumulate until it decides to let itself be read. So now...Let's fly!
What you will find from now on are the following points:
- Synopsis
- Technical sheet
- Main ideas (at my personal discretion)
- My experience
Se alzarán juntos o caerán solos.
El pueblo de Uztar ha mirado el cielo con asombro y esperanza desde tiempos remotos. Nada en su mundo es más venerado que las aves rapaces y nadie es más respetado que los cetreros que las llevan en el puño. Brysen se esfuerza por ser un gran cetrero, mientras que su hermana melliza, Kylee, posee dones ancestrales pero quiere librarse para siempre de la cetrería. Ya casi lo ha logrado, pero una guerra se aproxima a Seis Aldeas, con un ejército rebelde que no deja nada a su paso, excepto sangre y el cielo vacío. No habrá cetrero ni ave a salvo de esta invasión.
Juntos, los mellizos deben emprender una expedición a las traicioneras montañas, para atrapar a la casi mítica águila fantasma, asesina solitaria y el ave rapaz uztari más temida de todas. Cada uno va por sus propias razones: Brysen, por el chico que ama y la gloria que tanto anhela; Kyle, para reparar el pasado y proteger el futuro de su hermano. Pero ambos son perseguidos por aquellos que solo buscan una cosa: poder.
Con este libro, Alex London lanza una vertiginosa saga sobre los recuerdos que nos acechan, las historias que nos persiguen y los lazos de sangre entre nosotros.
Information acquired from Amazon
The people of Uztar have long looked to the sky with hope and wonder. Nothing in their world is more revered than the birds of prey and no one more honored than the falconers who call them to their fists.
Brysen strives to be a great falconer―while his twin sister, Kylee, rejects her ancient gifts for the sport and wishes to be free of falconry. She’s nearly made it out, too, but a war is rolling toward their home in the Six Villages, and no bird or falconer will be safe.
Together the twins must journey into the treacherous mountains to trap the Ghost Eagle, the greatest of the Uztari birds and a solitary killer. Brysen goes for the boy he loves and the glory he's long craved, and Kylee to atone for her past and to protect her brother's future. But both are hunted by those who seek one thing: power.
In this first young-adult fantasy novel in a trilogy, Alex London launches a soaring saga about the memories that haunt us, the histories that hunt us, and the bonds of blood between us.
- Lanzamiento: 30 de mayo 2019
- Casa editorial: Puck Editorial
- N° de páginas: 352 páginas
- N° de capítulos: 37
- Tipo de Saga: Trilogía
- Género: Fantasía juvenil
Alex London nació en 1980, se graduó como filósofo en la universidad Columbia en el 2010 y actualmente es un activista de los derechos humanos. Ha realizado reportes desde refugios y zonas de conflicto, además de sus trabajos como bibliotecario en la biblioteca pública de Nueva York.
Adicional a esto, se conoce más por escribir cuentos infantiles, teniendo más de 30 entregas. Se ha enfocado en niños que transitan la secundaria (entre los 11 y 13 años), con algunas de las entregas que se destacan en su página bajo los títulos Search & Rescue, Dog Tags; Tides of War y Battle Dragons.
Su incursión en la literatura juvenil o young adult tuvo un buen recibimiento con un libro del género cyberpunk titulado Proxy, el cual se llevó premios como Best Fiction For Young Adults y un puesto en Rainbow List por englobar el género queer de manera innovadora (esto queda a la interpretación de varias reseñas que investigué ya que no he leído esta entrega).
Proxy abrió paso para que la trilogía de Ligados al Cielo tuviera un gran recibimiento con su primer libro, cuyo título original es Black Wings Beating. La saga fue selecta en el NBC Today Show Pick, Kirkus Best Young Adult Fantasy selection, así como en el Rainbow list del 2020.
- Release: May 30, 2019
- Publishing House: Puck Editorial
- Number of pages: 352 pages
- Number of chapters: 37
- Type of Saga: Trilogy
- Genre: Young adult fantasy
☆゜・。。・DATA SHEET
Alex London was born in 1980, graduated at Columbia University as a philosopher in 2010, and is currently a human rights activist. He has reported from shelters and conflict zones, in addition to his work as a librarian at the New York Public Library.
In addition to this, he is best known for writing over 30 books dedicated to children's stories. He has focused on middle school readers (between 11 and 13 years old), with book titles that stand out on his page like Search & Rescue, Dog Tags; Tides of War and Battle Dragons.
His journey into young adult literature was well received with a cyberpunk book titled Proxy, which won awards such as Best Fiction For Young Adults and a spot on the Rainbow List for its innovative approach to queer genre (this is up to the interpretation of several reviews that I researched since I haven't read this book).
Proxy paved the way for the Heavenbound trilogy to be well received with its first book, Black Wings Beating. The saga was selected in the NBC Today Show Pick, Kirkus Best Young Adult Fantasy selection, as well as the Rainbow list of 2020.
"El viento del mundo era salvaje y se burlaba de las expectativas de la humanidad. Pero no era el viento lo que te llevaba. Era la inflexión del ala y la extensión de las plumas. Lo lejos que podías volar y cómo regresar a casa dependía de ti"
Búsqueda de la Libertad ☆
☆ El poder de la Verdad
☆゜・。。・PRINCIPAL IDEAS
"The wind of the world was wild and mocked the expectations of mankind. But it wasn't the wind that carried you. It was the bend of the wing and the spread of the feathers. How far you could fly and how you got home was up to you."
Liberty Pursuit ☆
The guiding thread of our heroes is to perpetuate their freedom. This is reflected in the synopsis and is something that will be constantly present in the decisions that the protagonists make in each challenge that their journey poses to them through the chapters.For Kylee, freedom means being apart of any debt, falconry, and in a very hypothetical case, her brother. The relationship between twins is a different field that I will touch on later. However, what this character brings up is how difficult it is to stop censoring yourself in favor of protecting others. It's something that will be very relevant from the first minute of each chapter told through her eyes.For Brysen, freedom is being able to break away from prejudice and choose one's own destiny. Something particular about this heroe path is that I think it highlights how parents are the ones who most affect the way we act on the world and define ourselves. You can also see this with Kylee, but it is Brysen's attitudes that stands out the most. For him, the judgment of an abusive father was a sentence that seemed to force him to act from the gut and not with rationality. This is the way in which he becomes consistent with what he was told as a child.
☆ Power in truth
This idea is very, very subtle, and is conveyed through the hollow language; the language of birds. Relevance is given at crucial moments, at the beginning and climax of the story, and it is also worked on in conjunction with one of the main characters. However, this character is not the only one who knows about it.I found this idea one of the most interesting points in the context of bird worship, the conflict of beliefs that exist around them, and their conclusion in the handling of "the truth".Within this universe, the hollow language comprises phonemes that certain people can make (onomatopoeia) and that grant the power of understanding. The birds of prey will do the "will" of those who handle their language. However, each sound will make the birds act in a very different way and that is the remarkable point. It highlights how hard "the truth" can be and how, depending on its implementation, instead of helping, it can lead to serious consequences.I won't go into much detail as it would lead to spoilers, but! Once you reach a certain part of the book, there will be an interesting section about it.
Hemos llegado al meollo del asunto 🦉 Mi experiencia leyendo este libro y mi opinión más personal.
Me gusta ser bastante neutral con las reseñas, ya que, la idea no es hacer una crítica basada exclusivamente en la experiencia. Lo que verás a continuación tendrá aspectos de más personales y puede que sean diferentes a los tuyos. Esto no es una verdad absoluta y tampoco quiere decir que desacredito el esfuerzo del autor. Lo importarte es que te invita a aventurarte con tus medios leer el libro.
Tiene una trama innovadora con personajes curiosos y que, de no ser por uno de sus protagonistas actuando como una piedra en el zapado, permitiría que el hilo conductor del argumento avance con mayor fluidez e inclusión de muchos otros aspectos del universo. No obstante, ocurre algo tedioso: se da tanta importancia al egoísmo de este personaje que al menos yo me sentí como en una partida de rol en la que hay un jugador que solo se opone a todo y toma los caminos más complicados para hacer eterna una quest. 🤦♀ Es a esto a lo que recrimino muchas de las incognitas del problema político del trasfondo. Pudo haber tenido mucha más inmersión de no ser por ese pequeño error de prioridades. En líneas generales, los personajes secundarios y la forma en la que te develan el universo es lo que impulsa a seguir leyendo hasta el final.
Esto me hace pensar que, como escritores, la revisión de esos personajes que amamos es de suma importancia. 🤔 Pero estaré realizando una segunda parte del review para poder abarcar esto sin que la lectura se haga eterna.
☆゜・。。・MY EXPERIENCE
We've reached the heart of the matter 🦉 My experience reading this book and my most personal opinion.
I like to be fairly neutral with reviews, since the idea is not to make a critique based exclusively on experience. What you will see below will have more personal aspects and may be different from yours. This is not an absolute truth and it does not mean that I discredit the author's effort. The important thing is that it invites you to read the book.
I give the book 3 stars, and I must say that it took me the whole week to think about it. However, both on Goodreads and on other platforms dedicated to literary reviews, there are no major differences with this.
It has an innovative plot with curious characters and that, if it weren't for one of its protagonists acting like a tiny rock inside a shoe, would allow the plot's thread to advance more fluidly and with the inclusion of many other aspects of the universe. However, something tedious happens: there's so much importance given to the selfishness of this character that at least I felt like I was in a role-playing game in which there is one player who only opposes everything and takes the most complicated paths to make a quest eternal. 🤦♀ This is what I blame for many of the unknowns of the political problem of the background. It could have been much more immersive if it weren't for that small error in priorities. In general terms, the secondary characters and the way in which they reveal the universe to you is what drives you to continue reading until the end.
This makes me think that, as writers, the revision of those characters that we love is of utmost importance. 🤔 But I will be doing a second part of the review to be able to cover this without the reading becoming eternal.
¡Gracias por leer!
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Portada y sinopsis del libro sacados de Amazon Kindle (SPN)
Página de Alex London para mayor información del autor (aquí)
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Thanks for reading!
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Alex London's page for more about the author (here)
