The Book With No Name: The International Bestseller (The Bourbon Kid Trilogy)

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I usually have a hard time liking books with multiple POVs because my head spins at the vast differences in plot and setting for each POV. But this book skirts that zone and I loved the switching between POVs, it really added so much tension and import to the scenes as the story progressed. Most importantly, how do all these people come to be linked to the strange book with no name? The anonymous, ancient book that no one seems to have survived reading? There's only one way to find out what happens when you listen the book with no name… When they were orphaned, Magdalen and Norah learn the bitter truth of their legitimacy. Their parents were unmarried at the time of their birth and as such, in the eyes of law, they are illegitimate children; in other words, they are nobody’s children and have “no-name”. In the absence of law or any other person to help them, Magdalen makes it her cause to remedy the wrong done to her and her sister, Norah by any means. Magdalen is an unconventional Victorian woman, but a true Wilkie Collins heroine: a strong and brave woman who defies gender roles and sets out to save the day. She reminded me a lot of Marian Halcombe from Collins' most famous novel, The Woman in White.

The Bourbon Kid series is a horror/thriller series by an anonymous British author. [1] The series began with The Book With No Name, which was originally published in 2006 through Lulu.com, but has since been re-released through Michael O'Mara Books. The books center on a supernatural serial killer only known as the "Bourbon Kid". The first book in the series was initially written with the intent to make it a Western novel, with the author choosing to move the series to present day partway through the book. [1] Gorn: Some of the murders are insanely violent, and the novel doesn't shy away from describing them in all their gory details.I would say with flying colors it does so, and that No Name might be the best Wilkie Collins novel that flies under the radar of popularity. Wilkie Collins diceva sempre: “Fateli ridere, fateli piangere, ma soprattutto teneteli sulla corda”; e devo dire che anche in questo romanzo ci riesce alla grande.

Tan solo un par de personajes me gustaron realmente, entre los que destaco sin duda al MARAVILLOSO Capitán Wragge, por su mera presencia, las 700 páginas de este libro merecen la pena, ¡Porque menudo personajazo! Épico y divertidísimo. The current Mr and Mrs lived together as husband and wife, finally made legal when the first wife died. Before they could make a plan for the girls, both parents die, Andrew is killed in a local train crash and the mother dies in childbirth.I listened to this as a free audio from LibriVox. It's read by volunteers, and I'm sad to say the quality wasn't always good. One of the narrators actually sounded a bit like Janice from Friends ... Detective Miles Jensen is called to the lawless town of Santa Mondega to investigate a spate of murders. This would all be quite ordinary in those rough streets, except that Jensen is the Chief Detective of Supernatural Investigations. Maybe one of the best readings this year, I think this novel should be more valued and that it should be occupying the place it deserves, among the masterpieces to be read and reread over and over again. Norah is a complete contrast to Magdalene. Her journey through their misfortune is one of patience and endurance. With her goodness and righteous conduct, she wins the battle with dignity. So Norah is a Victorian heroine. Both these characters were likable in their own way, but Magdalen was the better heroine for me despite all her sins. Her character had such colour and vibrancy so that the connection readers feel with her is instantaneous.