Buongiorno a voi booklovers, ecco a voi i 13 libri (una rilettura) + un manga che ho letto ad aprile!
ROMANCE:
LACRIME E STELLE, NAIKE ROR
TRAMA:
Nella battaglia per la vendetta l’amore tra due nemici si rivelerà la più affilata tra le armi.
Trixie Montgomery ha vissuto infinite vite, e ha ricevuto altrettante seconde occasioni. Ha ingoiato bocconi amari, digerito pesanti compromessi, e senza mai rinnegare il suo passato è riuscita a conquistarsi un futuro privilegiato all’interno delle Lancaster Industries e nella vita di Jaxon York, presidente della holding e suo migliore amico.
Tutto sembra filare liscio, finché Trix non si troverà di fronte al bivio che cambierà la sua e molte altre esistenze, ponendola tutto a un tratto di fronte alla scelta di annientare o salvare il suo peggior nemico.
Ad aspettarla al varco predisposto dal destino tentatore, c’è la persona più impensabile e pericolosa: Archie Lancaster, storico nemico di Jaxon, e l’unica persona in grado di minare tutte le seconde occasioni di Trix.
L’uomo a cui è legata da una passione travolgente e feroce, da un sentimento intraducibile agli altri e da un segreto ingombrante, in grado di stritolare la vita di chiunque.
A passi cadenzati, come condotti dalla potente musica di un’opera lirica, Trix e Archie si avvicineranno l’uno all’altra, delicati o irruenti, allineati o distanti. Ma un contorto meccanismo di menzogne e sotterfugi li avvolge nelle sue spire intricate, e in più un cinico nemico è pronto ad abbattersi su di loro senza esclusione di colpi.
La disperazione prenderà il sopravvento, le lacrime di dolore sovrasteranno quelle di stupore e di gioia, o questo amore irrazionale sarà alla fine illuminato dal candore delle stelle
RATING: QUATTRO STELLE
TI ASPETTO A CENTRAL PARK, FELICIA KINGSLEY
Knight Underwood ha tutto: un elegante loft nell’Upper East Side, una fila di donne alla porta e il lavoro dei suoi sogni. O quasi. È l’editor che detiene il record di bestseller pubblicati dalla Pageturner Publishing e la promozione a direttore editoriale è dietro l’angolo. Purtroppo, non ha fatto i conti con quella che è destinata a diventare la sua spina nel fianco: Victoria Wender. Anche lei è un’ottima editor e le case editrici di tutto il Paese hanno fatto a gara per averla: non solo ha scommesso sul romance, ma ha trasformato la sua autrice di punta, Miranda Stoller, nella regina delle vendite. Victoria è appena atterrata a New York dal Texas ed è pronta a rivoluzionare il catalogo della Pageturner per consolidarne il traballante bilancio. Ma… non con l’aiuto di Knight! Lui non ci sta ad arrivare secondo, detesta il romance, ed è deciso a riprendersi il posto che gli spetta in ogni modo, lecito o meno. Victoria non è una che si ferma al primo ostacolo, è del tutto immune al suo fascino ed è pronta a fargli sudare tutte le sue costose camicie. Tra sabotaggi e schermaglie, però, Knight e Victoria vengono a conoscenza di un segreto che potrebbe mettere a rischio le loro carriere. E da rivali giurati potrebbero doversi alleare per salvare la casa editrice. Non è impossibile, dovranno solo sopportarsi per un po’… o no?
RATING: QUATTRO STELLINE
DUE CUORI IN AFFITTO, FELICIA KINGSLEY
ROMANCING MR. BRIDGERTON, JULIA QUINN
Colin Bridgerton is tired of being thought nothing but an empty-headed charmer, tired of everyone's preoccupation with the notorious gossip columnist Lady Whistledown, who can't seem to publish an edition without mentioning him in the first paragraph. But when Colin returns to London from a trip abroad he discovers nothing in his life is quite the same - especially Penelope Featherington! The girl haunting his dreams. But when he discovers that Penelope has secrets of her own, this elusive bachelor must decide...is she his biggest threat - or his promise of a happy ending?
INNAMORATI PAZZI, FELICIA KINGSLEY
BOOK LOVERS, EMILY HENRY
TRAMA:
One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn't see coming...
Nora is a cut-throat literary agent at the top of her game. Her whole life is books.
Charlie is an editor with a gift for creating bestsellers. And he's Nora's work nemesis.
Nora has been through enough break-ups to know she's the woman men date before they find their happy-ever-after. That's why Nora's sister has persuaded her to swap her desk in the city for a month's holiday in Sunshine Falls, North Carolina. It's a small town straight out of a romance novel, but instead of meeting sexy lumberjacks, handsome doctors or cute bartenders, Nora keeps bumping into...Charlie.
She's no heroine. He's no hero. So can they take a page out of an entirely different book?
RATING: QUATTRO STELLE
FANTASY:
SONG OF SILVER, FLAME LIKE NIGHT, AMELIE WEN ZHAO
TRAMA:
In a fallen kingdom, one girl carries the key to its forgotten past – and the demons that sleep at its heart…
Once, Lan had a different name. Now, she goes by the one the Elantian colonizers gave her when they invaded her kingdom, killed her mother, and outlawed her people’s magic. She spends her nights as a songgirl in Haak’gong, a city transformed by the conquerors, and spends her days scavenging for remnants of the past. For anything that might help her understand the strange mark burned into her arm by her mother, in her last act before she died.
No one can see the mysterious mark, an untranslatable Hin character, except Lan. Until the night a boy appears at the teahouse and saves her life.
Zen is a practitioner – one of the fabled magicians of the Last Kingdom, whose abilities were rumoured to be drawn from the demons they communed with. Magic believed to be long lost. Magic to be hidden from the Elantians at all costs.
Both Lan and Zen have secrets buried deep within. Fate has connected them, but their destiny remains unwritten. Both hold the power to liberate their land. And both hold the power to destroy the world.
RATING: QUATTRO STELLE
SEVEN FACELESS SAINTS, MK LOBB
TRAMA:
In the city of Ombrazia, saints and their disciples rule with terrifying and unjust power, playing favorites while the unfavored struggle to survive.
After her father’s murder at the hands of the Ombrazian military, Rossana Lacertosa is willing to do whatever it takes to dismantle the corrupt system—tapping into her powers as a disciple of Patience, joining the rebellion, and facing the boy who broke her heart. As the youngest captain in the history of Palazzo security, Damian Venturi is expected to be ruthless and strong, and to serve the saints with unquestioning devotion. But three years spent fighting in a never-ending war have left him with deeper scars than he wants to admit… and a fear of confronting the girl he left behind.
Now a murderer stalks Ombrazia’s citizens. As the body count climbs, the Palazzo is all too happy to look the other way—that is, until a disciple becomes the newest victim. With every lead turning into a dead end, Damian and Roz must team up to find the killer, even if it means digging up buried emotions. As they dive into the underbelly of Ombrazia, the pair will discover something more sinister—and far less holy. With darkness closing in and time running out, will they be able to save the city from an evil so powerful that it threatens to destroy everything in its path?
RATING: DUE STELLE
LIES WE SING TO THE SEA, SARAH UNDERWOOD
TRAMA:
In the cursed kingdom of Ithaca, each summer brings the hanging of twelve maidens, a gift to the vengeful Poseidon. But when Leto awakens from her death on the shore of a long-forgotten island, its enigmatic keeper Melantho tells her that there’s only one way the curse can be broken. Leto must kill the last prince of Ithaca . . .
In Lies We Sing to the Sea, debut author Sarah Underwood delivers a thrilling and breathtaking tale that will enthral readers from the very first page as they are transported to the cursed shores of Ithaca.
A reclamation of a story from thousands of years ago, Lies We Sing to the Sea is about love and fate, grief and sacrifice, and, ultimately, the power we must find within.
RATING: DUE STELLE
CURSED, KK ALLEN
Katrina Summer always knew she was different. Her fiery temper seems to perpetually land her in hot water, making her an outcast among her peers. When tragedy strikes and she’s sent to live with her only remaining family in the tiny coastal town of Apollo Beach, Katrina starts counting down the days until her eighteenth birthday.
Only then will she finally be free.
As Katrina learns the legends of her Ancient Greek ancestors, secrets from her heritage are exposed—secrets that her mother purposefully concealed. Her only solace is found in Alec Stone, the gorgeous guy next door. With his devastatingly charming smile, his persistent flirtation, and a love that sparks from the flames of friendship, he offers her a much-needed escape from the turmoil.
If only she wasn’t cursed.
As powerful forces threaten the lives in Apollo Beach, Katrina can’t escape the evocative world of mythological enchantment and evil prophecies that lurk around every corner.
RATING: DUE STELLE
SCI-FI:
CAKE EATER, ALLYSON DAHLIN
TRAMA:
She has a million followers on social media.
She uses her fashion-forward eye to pick the perfect angle and filter on every photo.
She’s iconic.
She’s a trend-setter.
She’s Marie Antoinette, the year is 3070, and she’s arrived in the Franc Kingdom to marry the prince, secure an alliance, and rake in likes from her fans.
Versailles is not the perfect palace Marie’s seen on The Apps. Her life is a maze of pointless rules, and the court watches her every move for mistakes. Her shy husband Louis is more interested in horses and computer-hacking than producing heirs. Versailles seems like a dream full of neon-lit statues, handsome android soldiers, and parties till dawn. Under the surface, it’s a creepy den of secrets: surveillance in Marie’s bedroom, censored news feeds, disappearing courtiers.
When Marie and Louis become king and queen long before they’re ready to rule, any efforts to aid their suffering subjects are stamped out by the mega-corporations of the First Estate. Between riots in Paris and image-wrecking social media firestorms, Marie can’t afford to lose her head. Using her social media savvy and Louis’ hacking knowledge, they try to fix their reputations and change their kingdom for the better, but the royals may find it’s already too late. They’re ruling over the end of an era.
RATING: QUATTRO STELLE
FICTION:
TOMORROW & TOMORROW & TOMORROW, GABRIELLE ZEVIN
TRAMA:
On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn't heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster, Ichigo. Overnight, the world is theirs. Not even twenty-five years old, Sam and Sadie are brilliant, successful, and rich, but these qualities won't protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of their hearts.
Spanning thirty years, from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Venice Beach, California, and lands in between and far beyond, Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is a dazzling and intricately imagined novel that examines the multifarious nature of identity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play, and above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love. Yes, it is a love story, but it is not one you have read before.
RATING: TRE STELLE
TRAMA:
Il romanzo comincia seguendo le due protagoniste bambine, e poi adolescenti, tra le quinte di un rione miserabile della periferia napoletana, tra una folla di personaggi minori accompagnati lungo il loro percorso con attenta assiduità. L'autrice scava nella natura complessa dell'amicizia tra due bambine, tra due ragazzine, tra due donne, seguendo la loro crescita individuale, il modo di influenzarsi reciprocamente, i buoni e i cattivi sentimenti che nutrono nei decenni un rapporto vero, robusto. Narra poi gli effetti dei cambiamenti che investono il rione, Napoli, l'Italia, in più di un cinquantennio, trasformando le amiche e il loro legame. E tutto ciò precipita nella pagina con l'andamento delle grandi narrazioni popolari, dense e insieme veloci, profonde e lievi, rovesciando di continuo situazioni, svelando fondi segreti dei personaggi, sommando evento a evento senza tregua, ma con la profondità e la potenza di voce a cui l'autrice ci ha abituati. Si tratta di quel genere di libro che non finisce. O, per dire meglio, l'autrice porta compiutamente a termine in questo primo romanzo la narrazione dell'infanzia e dell'adolescenza di Lila e di Elena, ma ci lascia sulla soglia di nuovi grandi mutamenti che stanno per sconvolgere le loro vite e il loro intensissimo rapporto.
RATING: CINQUE STELLE
GRAPHIC NOVEL / MANGA:
ICE GUY & COOL GIRL, VOL.1
TRAMA:
Himuro, a descendant of a yuki onna, causes a disturbance to those around him. When his condition attracts the attention of his co-worker, an unlikely romance blooms. A romantic comedy of an icy guy paired with a girl with a cool personality.
RATING: QUATTRO STELLINE
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