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All the Windwracked Stars

By Elizabeth Bear

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| Others | 9780765318824

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<DIV><P>It all began with Ragnarok, with the Children of the Light and the Tarnished ones battling to the death in the ice and the dark. At the end of the long battle, one Valkyrie survived, wounded, and one valraven – the steeds of the valkyrie.</P><P>Because they lived, ValContinue

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萌角色拯救故事

因為寫法非比尋常，讀者要不是很喜歡就是很討厭這本小說，
最吸引人的應該就是對角色的描寫(特別是男角)還有那令人難忘的細節
故事很突然地開始，以一副讀者已經很清楚整個故事的方法去寫，令人看了三個CHAPTER仍然一頭霧水，
有些地方一直在等作者進一步解釋卻等不到，人物關係吸引但希望有更多空間發展啊，
然後故事很平淡地完了。
想清楚的話故事本身原本不太複雜，但寫法卻很複雜，對我來說是個新體驗，
特別是剛看完非常按部就班又四平八穩的Heart's Blood後看這本，根直是完全相反的存在啊...
除了幾乎所有角色的名字我都不懂得讀之外，也有很多我不懂的詞(毆)，有時就算懂字面上的意思也不明白整句的意 ... (continue)

因為寫法非比尋常，讀者要不是很喜歡就是很討厭這本小說，
最吸引人的應該就是對角色的描寫(特別是男角)還有那令人難忘的細節
故事很突然地開始，以一副讀者已經很清楚整個故事的方法去寫，令人看了三個CHAPTER仍然一頭霧水，
有些地方一直在等作者進一步解釋卻等不到，人物關係吸引但希望有更多空間發展啊，
然後故事很平淡地完了。
想清楚的話故事本身原本不太複雜，但寫法卻很複雜，對我來說是個新體驗，
特別是剛看完非常按部就班又四平八穩的Heart's Blood後看這本，根直是完全相反的存在啊...
除了幾乎所有角色的名字我都不懂得讀之外，也有很多我不懂的詞(毆)，有時就算懂字面上的意思也不明白整句的意思，
女主角Muire身為VALKYRIE因臨陣退縮在LAST DAY大戰後是同族的唯一生還者，同時也有一匹VALKYRIE的坐騎 Kasimir活下來，另外還有叛徒Grey Wolf (Mingan) (大概是類似北歐神話中LOKI之類的角色)，再加上海蛇，因他們還活著世界也就活下來沒有滅亡，人類開始發展科技並繁榮起來，但二千年後也因過度發達的科技面臨滅亡的命運，
要面對兩次世界滅亡的女主角令故事氣氛滿絕望的(泣)
當他在追捕Mingan時意外遇到漂亮又年輕的19歲少年Cathoair，他有著Muire以前最愛慕的VALKYRIE領袖Strifbjorn的靈魂，而Strifbjorn也好像跟Mingan有過一段情，一直在等作者進一步寫Strifbjorn但卻沒有，所以三人之間有很多空白位讓讀者自己想像，這也是其中令讀者煩惱的一處(泣)以為作者會這樣這樣安排故事但現實上作者卻作出其他安排。
角色是全本書最吸引的地方~在酒吧1對1格鬥外因生活困苦也是個男妓的Cathoair，因動物都已絕種，被Thjierry製造出來的，像人一樣行動的動物人造生物，貓女Selene及老鼠魔法師Cristokos ; 最萌的還是跟女主角一樣孤寂Grey Wolf (Mingan) 啊~~~
最喜歡Mingan跟普通人類Gunther之間的描寫，雖然不多但卻很可愛 :
Gunther Watsen had been the first person Muire met when she returned to Eiledon........She could have bought a mapchip, too. But it was just as easy to turn to a gangling young man buying coffee ice cream from a stand in the tree-shade by the Green and ask.
He looked down on her from a towering height, and smiled in a way that rearranged his features engagingly over the bones. Bown hair, uncut in recent memory, blew across his eyes and into his mouth when he spoke.
Muire thought he might be a little too aware of his own quirky and androgynous beauty. But he was nevertheless polite, and at least his teeth were crooked. "Of course. Down Park to University, turn right. The campus is up the hill: there's a stair at University and Boulevard."
"I just crossed Boulevard." she said, as his ice cream, dripped over his knuckles.
"It's a circle. It makes a big loop around the Green. You...Must be new in town?"
"I've been away a long while," Muire answered. The best she could do: Waelcyrge did not lie, unless---until---they grew tarnished."Thank you for your help---"
But he fell into step beside her, twisting his long wrist awkwardly and craning his neck in the opposite direction until he could suck the ice cream off his fingers. "I'm going that way. I'll walk with you," he said, seemingly unperturbed by the dust on her clothes, her greasy plaits, or the rucksack dragging her shoulders down. "Are you a student? Or have you taken a job at the University?"
She should have shut him down, and she knew it. But he was as awkward and eager as a puppy dog, self-conscious to the point of stammering and somehow still seeming entirely genuine.
"No," she said. "Neither. I'm an artist. I have a fellowship."
"Oh," he said. Still waging left-handed war with the melting ice cream, he reached out and pressed an only slightly sticky fingertip to the pad of her reader. It chirped when it had scanned his print, and he said,"Look me up. I'm Gunther Watsen. I'm an assistant to Professor Thorvaldsdottir."
And for some reason, Muire looked at him wiping hair out of his eyes and said,"I will."

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