NOTICE PLAYBACK: What follow me a little know that I have already read the novel (and even listen to the audio in English). This was my heart stroke last year and I'll speak from the editions we reported Bragelonne make it look unveiling the cover.
As ever (sniff I have the song in his head now) when it was released in French I could not resist the urge to re-read in our language. Both curiosity for translation but also for the pleasure of re-re-discover this story that always takes me so much.
Translation hand, I am very satisfied, you really find the charm and atmosphere that were set up in VO. I groaned two or three words only (Pens that the term seems a bit pejorative in this context, but "shit" in the mouths of Meg is still innocence incarnate).
I still takes the time to talk to you more thoroughly in this novel.
The important thing in this novel are the characters. Not even Simon and Meg. Indeed, the author deliberately chooses not to develop or implement them before, because what matters here is the world. What happening there, the actions that take place. No players in these actions.
To give you an idea, Asia is the character that I find the most developed, but it is also a character that will not take part in the rest of the series (read you will understand why I say that).
Meg basically embodies this naivety that goes with innocence and has nothing to do with the intellectual ability. It represents a form of hope and a bridge between two worlds that look similar but are yet so different.
The author is adept rather complex mythologies and have always found some risk taking in these novels. Scarlet Letters is no exception. Reversing the situation, taking the side of Others without forsaking the humans, Anne Bishop takes against the foot of all that can be read urban fantasy lately. It's refreshing and while some will be destabilized, we end up taking the crease and follow with pleasure the discovery of this particular world.
I really liked this new reading that I enjoyed throughout. I took my time to taste every word, every sentence and make new deductions, new thinking.
I still love and I hope that this is also your case. If you have not yet had the opportunity to read it, do not wait!