Benvenuti nel mio salotto :-) Qui parleremo di uomini, amicizie, vita quotidiana, make-up, libri e ovviamente British style. Seguitemi anche su Google+ come Deborah Gorrino; su Facebook come Deborah Gorrino (Cereal Killer) o come Kerry Debritgirl; su Twitter come @DebbieDebbyGo o come @Kerry; su Instagram come @Mokuren75.
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lunedì 23 giugno 2025
I libri di Kerry: L’assassino cieco di Margaret Atwood
giovedì 19 giugno 2025
La vegetariana di Han Kang
venerdì 13 giugno 2025
Sotto la porta dei sussurri di T.J. Klune
lunedì 26 maggio 2025
The Girl with No Soul by Morgan Owen
Morgan Owen is really fantastic for at least three reasons:
- she’s fantastic because she is a fantastic writer;
- she’s fantastic because she writes fantasy novels, that are fantastic, of course;
- she’s fantastic because she is very kind and very sweet and so kind to answer all my questions on Instagram. And here you have her profile address: https://www.instagram.com/sailor.crossing?igsh=MTIyaDVob2RjcnUxcg==.
Her debut novel, released in 2022 and published in Italy in 2023, is titled The Girl with No Soul
and in fact it is a dystopian novel disguised as a young adult fantasy fiction. The plot revolves around the adventures of a girl with no soul who goes around the streets of Providence, succeeding in being unnoticed thanks to this feature, and who steals memories for the Countess.Iris, that’s the name of the protagonist, has neither a soul nor a past, that prevents her to feel those emotions that she desperately longs for, such as the love for a mother or for a partner or the melancholy for someone who is not here anymore. These souls are really important in Providence because they provide the identity card for any of the inhabitants, and if a soul is judged corrupted by the Order, it might be reformed, purified or, even worse, destroyed. Thanks to the study of the anatomy of the soul, centuries ago in Providence they found out that the soul could be divided into five parts, and they have five corresponding aristocratic houses that all together form the Order.
Thanks to the Eyes of the Obscura, the most powerful house, all the souls are spied and controlled constantly…
We’ll follow the adventures of Iris and of other young heroes in this mean dictatorial world. I assure that you’ll hold your breath till the end.
The protagonist is really charming and you can’t help falling for her, thanks to her fighting character, proud and very sweet as well; also the people she will bump into during her adventures will prove friendly and interesting.
The story is fluent, but there is a lot of food for thought: would we be ourselves without our souls? Would we make the same choices and love the same people, or not?
I’d like to praise the author for the characters’ names chosen: they’re all wonderful and evocative.
The story is original and well planned.
I’ll tell you more: I’ve even appreciated the final thanks, which touched me, and which show the great humbleness of this young writer. And that’s the reason why I’ve already ordered this book in its English version, together with its sequel, The Boy with the Haunted Heart. I’m looking forward to re-reading this wonderful novel in its original language, and to learning what will happen next.
Au revoir, mes amis! ;-)
domenica 25 maggio 2025
I libri di Kerry: La Senzanima di Morgan Owen
martedì 20 maggio 2025
L’Amante perduta di Shakespeare di Felicia Kingsley
sabato 10 maggio 2025
I libri di Kerry: The Buried Giant di Kazuo Ishiguro
Il Gigante Sepolto, o in lingua originale, The Buried Giant, tocca i cuori nel profondo, come Ishiguro sa magistralmente fare. La storia è quella di Axl e Beatrice, una coppia di anziani coniugi, che vivono in una Bretagna in cui è da poco morto Re Artù e subito prima della definitiva conquista da parte dei Sassoni. Chiunque viva a quel tempo in quei luoghi, dimentica. Le persone dimenticano grandi fatti della storia così come vicende personali; ma a tratti ricordano frammenti della loro vita.