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When Barry Fairbrother dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils…. Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry on the town’s council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations? Blackly comic, thought-provoking and constantly surprising, The Casual Vacancy is J.K. Rowling’s first novel for adults.

• Sales Rank: #105602 in Books
• Published on: 2012-09-27
• Released on: 2012-09-27
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.50" h x 1.50" w x 6.38" l, 1.85 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 503 pages

From Publishers Weekly
On the face of it, Rowling's first adult book is very different from the Harry Potter books that made her rich and famous. It's resolutely unmagical: the closest thing to wizardry is the ability to hack into the amateurish Pagford Parish Council Web site. Instead of a battle for worldwide domination, there's a fight over a suddenly empty seat on that Council, the vacancy of the title. Yet despite the lack of invisibility cloaks and pensieves, Pagford isn't so different from Harry's world. There's a massive divide between the haves and those pesky have-nots—the residents of the Fields, the council flat that some want to push off onto Yarvil, the county council nearby. In tiny Pagford, and at its school, which caters to have and have-nots alike, everyone is connected: teenager Krystal Weedon, the sole functioning member of her working-class family, hooks up with the middle-class son of her guidance counselor; the social worker watching over Krystal's troubled mother dates the law partner of the son of the dead Councilor's fiercest Council rival, who also happens to be the best friend of Councilor Barry Fairbrother; Krystal's great-grandmother's doctor was Fairbrother's closest ally; the daughters of the doctor and the social worker work together, along with the best friend of Krystal's hookup; and so on. When Fairbrother—born in Fields but now a middle-class Pagforder and one of the few people who can deal with the obstreperous Krystal—dies suddenly, the fight gets uglier. Rowling is relentlessly competent: all these people and their hatreds and hopes are established and mixed together. Secrets are revealed, relationships twist and break, and the book rolls toward its awful, logical climax with aplomb. As in the Harry Potter books, children make mistakes and join together with a common cause, accompanied here by adults, some malicious, some trying yet failing. Minus the magic, though, good and evil are depressingly human, and while the characters are all well drawn and believable, they aren't much fun. Agent: The Blair Partnership. (Sept. 27)

From Booklist
J. K. Rowling has said that she considered writing The Casual Vacancy under a pseudonym. Had she done so, Rowling probably would have learned what it’s like to be a midlist author—unpublicized, unnoticed, and unhappy. Like many midlist titles, this one is perfectly fine, but in no way outstanding. Set in Pagford, a picturesque West Country village, this very British book has a clever, if arcane, centerpiece: a casual vacancy, an opening on the village council. When Barry Fairbrother drops dead of an aneurysm, his death sets off a chain reaction. A strong supporter of keeping a poor council estate as part of Pagford (he grew up there), Fairbrother is opposed by a smug, controlling businessman (Vernon Dursley, writ small) who wants to rid the village of the “undesirables.” Fairbrother’s demise causes a crisis at the council and in the personal lives of many, including a teenager to whom he gave a helping hand. As everyone knows, Rowling is very good at creating worlds, and here she effectively shows the stifling (for some) and satisfying (for others) constraints of village life. Somewhat less successful are her characters, who wouldn’t seem out of place in a British soap opera: not surprisingly, it’s her several teen characters, the tortured and the torturers, who jump most from the page. As for her prose, well, that was never Rowling’s strong suit, and it lumbers more than it soars. To give credit where it’s due, one of the world’s richest women wrote her book and is willing to take the critical lumps when she didn’t have to do anything more than stay home and count her money. She must like to write. --Ilene Cooper

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Praise for THE CASUAL VACANCY:

"I had come under the spell of a great novel....A big, ambitious, brilliant, profane, funny, deeply upsetting and magnificently eloquent novel of contemporary England, rich with literary intelligence....This is a deeply moving book by somebody who understands both human beings and novels very, very deeply."―Lev Grossman, Time

"A vivid read with great, memorable characters and a truly emotional payoff....Rowling captures the humanity in everyone, even if that humanity is not always a pretty sight."―People

"This book represents a truckload of shrewdness.... There were sentences I underlined for the sheer purpose of figuring out how English words could be combined so delightfully....genuinely moving."―Washington Post

"A positively propulsive read."―Wall Street Journal

"An insanely compelling page-turner....The Casual Vacancy is a comedy, but a comedy of the blackest sort, etched with acid and drawn with pitch....Rowling proves ever dexterous at launching multiple plot lines that roar along simultaneously, never entangling them except when she means to. She did not become the world's bestselling author by accident. She knows down in her bones how to make you keep turning the pages."―The Daily Beast

"There are plenty of pleasures to be had in The Casual Vacancy....Parts of the story would be tonally of a piece with any Richard Price or Dennis Lehane novel, or an episode of The Wire."―Parade

"Rowling knows how to write a twisty, involving plot....She is clearly a skilled writer."―The Huffington Post

"The Casual Vacancy is a complete joy to read....a stunning, brilliant, outrageously gripping and entertaining evocation of British society today."―The Mirror (UK)

"Rowling has written a grand novel...a very brave book."―The Bookseller (UK)

"A study of provincial life, with a large cast and multiple, interlocking plots, drawing inspiration from Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot...The Casual Vacancy immerses the reader in a richly peopled, densely imagined world...intelligent, workmanlike, and often funny."―The Guardian (UK)

"The Casual Vacancy, JK Rowling's first adult novel, is sometimes funny, often startlingly well observed....Jane Austen herself would admire the way [Rowling] shows the news of Barry's death spreading like a virus round Pagford."―Telegraph (UK)

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1362 of 1440 people found the following review helpful.
Brilliant, Disturbing, Not for Everyone
By Simply Keith
Having read some of the more negative views, I have to say this: Would you have ranked "1984", "The Bluest Eye", "The Grapes of Wrath", or "Great Expectations" so badly? Guess what, some of the best stories aren't fun-filled light reading! Some of the best works are disturbing, even sad. So, if your view of literature is that a book can only be worthwhile if you can breeze through it having a fun adventure, then don't bother with this book. This is something else entirely.

That said, "The Casual Vacancy" is a disturbing character study. It is written in third-person omniscient point of view. It does require some effort to handle a story with some 18 or so viewpoint characters, so this book will be at too high a reading level for some. I normally don't like the omniscient POV, but this story had to be told that way and Rowling handles it with expertise.

So, what is this book about? It is about pain and cruelty and why people become cruel. There are no traditional protagonists or antagonists, just people going through life. Rowling explores the various ways that people become cruel, angry, or jaded with each main character showing a different form of cruelty and a different reason for it. And, this book is about the people that get hurt by other people's pain and anger.

This isn't an easy book to read, probably the reason so many have reviewed it negatively. But, this is a brilliantly written book, just not for everyone.

This novel is written with a seldom-seen narrative structure. In this structure the story begins with a simple, perhaps commonplace, connection between a group of people (in this case, someone dies, which has some effect on each of these characters). The narrative then explores how each character's life led him or her to be present for that connecting event and then the character moves on past the single event. As this structure is used for a character study, the connecting event may not even be particularly important. Instead, we see a collection of interconnected characters as the main thrust of the novel, rather than a single story unfolding. In this case, we follow how the death at the beginning of the novel affects approximately 18 characters.

I highly recommend this book to those who want to read something thought-provoking and actually about the real world. But, if you want some light reading that you don't have to think about, then stay away from "The Casual Vacancy".

To those who reviewed it negatively because it wasn't like Harry Potter, I can only ask whether they were paying attention. Rowling explored many of these themes, hidden behind the window dressing of fantasy, in those books. That is why Harry Potter was not just another of the countless stories about magical children. She continues this exploration in "The Casual Vacancy", but without the magic and without the restrictions of children's literature.

Edited to add: I realize that Rowling has described this as a dark comedy. I don't know why she has said that. Perhaps she had intended this to be a comedy, and there are some satirical scenes, but it grew into something else as she developed and revised it. Whatever the case, I saw very little that was humorous in this book. I did greatly appreciate the book, but I don't know why she would claim it was a comedy, dark or otherwise.

335 of 353 people found the following review helpful.
From someone who has read this book and appreciated it as a stand-alone novel, drawing no comparisons to Harry Potter.
By Gini
I am an avid reader, however I never make reviews of the books I read on amazon, this is the first one I am posting. I felt that I needed to do something to try and fight back against all these unwarranted 1 star reviews (which I have read through, and find their points appalling).

The first thing is that even when people are saying that they are not comparing this novel to Harry Potter, they clearly are. Harry Potter is a fantasy series that is heavily plot driven and was originally targeted at children. The Casual Vacancy is a book based on several months in one setting focusing on the lives of a group of people. So my first piece of advice is read the blurb. J. K. Rowling clearly defined what this book was about from the very beginning; so if you are not someone who will enjoy this genre of novel, even if you do love Rowling, don't read it. It is not comparable in anyway to Harry Potter, so why are people who obviously do not like books dealing with current issues and want to read about some hero overcoming evil bothering to read it at all.

Secondly I have read a lot of people complaining about the characters because they are not likeable. I, however, found them very entertaining and am sad to have parted with them. They are not likeable in the sense that I approve of their actions and I think they are good people, but they are extremely vivid characters that you feel like you know and can envisage perfectly. The characters are all quite self-centred and fail to think about anything other than their own betterment. Why is everyone whining about this? Am I the only person who has had any experience with people in the real world? Many, many people are like this. Their world revolves around "the self", they are wrapped up in a tight little bubble of "me, me, me" and do not see the ways in which they could improve the lives of others. So even if they are unlikeable, their concerns and attitudes (after learning of their personal life circumstances) are actually quite realistic.

It is through these characters and their self-centredness that Rowling explores many current issues that are very contentious and I feel like she does this very well and very realistically. Not every protagonist is made of sunshine and rainbows, and when Rowling released this book she made it clear that it was not about a hero on a mission. This book is about everyday people dealing with everyday issues and their lives in a small town. Even if the characters are not likeable they all have something that can be related too. She deals with issues like abuse, neglect, health issues, marriage and relationships, first loves, suicide, people on both ends of the socioeconomic spectrum and many others. If such topics are not ones that interest you then this book is not for you. I feel that too many people have picked this up simply because she is J. K. Rowling; so make sure that you are interested in the matters she is dealing with here before reading it. Perhaps a pen name would have invited better feedback because then people would have read this book because of the story, rather than the author.

Despite the very different type of tale this is to Harry Potter it still carries Rowling's wonderful way with words. She describes things vividly and callously and she makes the town and the people come to life. After reading this book I feel like I know Pagford so well that I should stop by there next time I am in England, even though it is a fictional town. This is how well she describes it. She uses her usual humour to make boring situations interesting and descriptions of plain things exciting.

I feel that J. K. Rowling should be given the full credit she deserves for writing this book. It is an individual entity and deserves to be judged as such. Readers need to stop comparing this to Harry Potter or J. K. Rowling and just take it for what it is. So please, rather than reading it because of the author and then giving poor feedback because it wasn't for you, acknowledge what this book is actually about before you pick it up.

Personally, I found it to be a very interesting read and it has provided me with many things to think about regarding today's society in Western countries.

1752 of 1890 people found the following review helpful.
Peyton Place meets PG Wodehouse. (Yes, I read it. No, I haven't read HP.)
By just another bookworm
Throwing in my two cents as one of the few people on the planet who hasn't read the HP series. (My kids were the perfect age as the books came out: young enough to love them, old enough to read for themselves.) I pre-ordered THE CASUAL VACANCY and inhaled it the minute it hit my Kindle mainly (I will admit) because it's a remarkable moment of publishing history, but I was quickly drawn into the story. The characters are people I already know, because they are the people we all already know. In the end, I liked this book on its own merits. And I liked it a lot.

Rowling is a terrifically strong writer; you can't fault her on craft, and I like that she doesn't feel the need to do any acrobatics or post a billboard - THIS WAY TO THE BRILLIANT WRITER - on every page, as is the irritating case in a lot of literary fiction. If you're able to set aside the JK ROWLING of it all, you'll love or hate this book on the strength of what it says about people. Folks. Relationships that are the opposite of magic. Politics that are petty. The youthful compulsion to crusade - at any age - and the crusty compulsion to squash the crusading of others.

Early on, it's noted that Samantha "enjoyed [Miles'] pomposity with precisely the same spirit as she liked, on formal occasions, to wear a hat," and Rowling is able to enjoy the faults of these characters the same way. These are the characters Franzen would write if he had more tenderness and less literary dyspepsia. Observations about resonant, everyday dynamics - conversational currency, backhanded charity, the lie of self-sacrifice - are made with more wry than sly and not a whiff of self-righteousness.

This is a quiet book; some will say cozy, but I think there's enough edge to prevent that. I loved the dry Britcom humor. A thousand little understated zingers make THE CASUAL VACANCY a pleasure to read in the way that the Mapp and Lucia books are a pleasure. As life unravels for the people of Pagford, we have a goldfish bowl view, but that understated tone keeps things from going totally soapy.

A book that kept coming back to me as I read was Joseph Heller's Something Happened. I can't think of another instance where an author from whom so much was expected took on the profoundly risky task of reminding us that there is nothing more human than the mundane.

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They say Black Dow's killed more men than winter, and clawed his way to the throne of the North up a hill of skulls. The King of the Union, ever a jealous neighbor, is not about to stand smiling by while he claws his way any higher. The orders have been given and the armies are toiling through the northern mud. Thousands of men are converging on a forgotten ring of stones, on a worthless hill, in an unimportant valley, and they've brought a lot of sharpened metal with them.

THE HEROES

For glory, for victory, for staying alive.

First Law Trilogy
The Blade Itself
Before They Are Hanged
Last Argument of Kings

Novels in the First Law world
Best Served Cold
The Heroes
Red Country

• Sales Rank: #74884 in Books
• Brand: Abercrombie, Joe
• Published on: 2011-10-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.25" h x 1.50" w x 6.00" l, 1.35 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 592 pages

From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. This blood-drenched, thought-provoking dissection of a three-day battle is set in the same world as Abercrombie's First Law Trilogy (The Blade Itself, etc.), but stands very well alone. Union commander Lord Marshal Kroy coordinates the fight with the aid of a motley group of incompetent, self-important officers. The strangely sympathetic Col. Bremer dan Gorst is officially a royal observer who nurses a burning desire to kill or be killed. Leading a much smaller army against the Union is Black Dow, whose grip on the throne of the Northmen is tenuous and based on fear and brutality. Calder, a slippery and cunning egotist, advocates peace while plotting to take Black Dow's place. Abercrombie never glosses over a moment of the madness, passion, and horror of war, nor the tribulations that turn ordinary people into the titular heroes. (Feb.)
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From Booklist
When he�s not writing large-scale fantasy novels, Abercrombie moonlights as a freelance film editor, a skill that undoubtedly contributes to his forte of crafting cinematically vivid action and crisp, witty dialogue. His latest novel revisits territory well trodden in his First Law trilogy, which opened with The Blade Itself (2006), and traverses an imaginary landscape reminiscent of a medieval Europe populated by citizens of the Union Empire and its tribal enemies to the north. Here the story concentrates on a sometimes violent, sometimes bafflingly strange three-day battle taking place on and around an insignificant Northlands hill crowned by monolithic burial stones called The Heroes. While the battle looms as only one stepping stone in a larger campaign by the Union�s Lord Marshal Kroy in preventing the North�s Black Dow from seizing more lands, the clash of key adversaries will prove decisive. Yet the premise here is less important than the multiple political intrigues, scandals, and jealous feuds enacted by Abercrombie�s parade of colorful characters. One of Abercrombie�s most masterfully executed and compellingly readable novels to date. --Carl Hays

Review
"Lord of the rings as directed by Kurosawa" --- Wall Street Journal.

"Magnificent, richly entertaining." --- Time

"Abercrombie never glosses over a moment of the madness, passion, and horror of war, nor the tribulations that turn ordinary people into the titular heroes." --- Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

"The Heroes is an indictment of war and the duplicity that corrupts men striving for total power: bloody and violent, but never gratuitously so, it's imbued with cutting humour, acute characterisation and world-weary wisdom about the weaknesses of the human race. Brilliant." --- Eric Brown, The Guardian (UK)

"Delivered in Abercrombie's trademark witty style ... This is an action-packed novel full of brutality, black humour and razor-sharp characterisation." --- Dave Bradley, SFX (5 star review)

"It's an excellent tale and arguably Abercrombie's best book yet ... Its pace really showcases his talent for differently voiced and realistically motivated characters ... any genre fan can enjoy what's one of the best fantasy books of the past year." --- SciFi Now (5 star review)

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208 of 214 people found the following review helpful.
Was that a tear in my eye?
By Tim Himes
The Heroes embodies everything I like about the fantasy genre right now.

I was an English major once upon a time, and used to read plenty of serious literature. But as I've grown older, I have less patience for that kind of fiction. Writers of genre fiction, and fantasy in particular, haven't forgotten that great books are ultimately about great storytelling. It's about putting interesting characters in tight spots and seeing what happens. Everything else is secondary.

And The Heroes is a bloody great story. It's tightly focused on a single battle over a three-day period. The action is well done, but it's mainly the very flawed characters making good and bad decisions in desperate situations that make the story so entertaining. Each chapter has a point-of-view character, and the tone and style change, sometimes subtly, sometimes dramatically, as the story shifts between them. (The dialog and language of the northmen is just one example, and Abercrombie deliberately draws some humor out of this.) Each chapter reads like a well-honed short story, with a mini story arc for that particular character. I found each of the points of view interesting and entertaining -- there wasn't a single chapter where I found myself skimming to get to the next good bit, because every page is a pleasure.

There is a theme here (the nature of heroism), but it's not heavy handed and adds some emotional depth to the story. I even had a tear in my eye at one point. But mostly the book struck me as honest, funny, touching, and vastly entertaining.

81 of 87 people found the following review helpful.
Need MORE. More books, faster damn it!
By Norma Harnack
SOME VERY SMALL SPOILERS BELOW -

The book - Set in the world of the First Law Trilogy and Best Served Cold. Familiar faces return but have relatively small parts. The return cast includes: Calder, Scale, Black Dow, Shivers, Gorst, Bayaz, and a few others. Gorst it turns out, is one hell of a character. Trying to redeem himself after an incident in Styria involving the King, his blood-lust rivals that of some of my old favorite characters.

When I first read "The First Law Trilogy," I was completely blown away. This author has reinvented the Fantasy/Sci-Fi genre. Gone is the stereotypical "young sissy, in small town is attacked by unknown forces, distant uncle who raised him is killed, sissy inherits great magical powers/artifact/ability from said uncle, sissy becomes an ultra-mega bad ass at everything, raises army of do-gooders who don't ever die and eventually defeat the super duper evil army of trolls, orcs, and plum smugglers."

We all know the routine, and Mr. Abercrombie finally broke the tedious traditional fantasy outline. I'm not sure if he's the first to do this, but I hope he's not the last.

"The Heroes" is a great novel. Being set only over the course of three days is not as big an issue as some reviewers are making it out to be, as a lot of what has happened between novels is explained. Though I didn't care much for the outcome of the North, I still highly recommend this novel, even to those who have never read an Abercrombie Novel.

Of course reading the first four books that are set in this world will greatly improve your appreciation for this amazing story.

I know everyone will hate me for saying this but I do miss, with a fierce passion, Logen Ninefingers/The Bloody-Nine.

Joe Abercrombie now has a contractual obligation to produce four new books set in the First Law world. One book will be a stand-alone like this and BSC, while the other will be a trilogy. I can only hope that my favorite character makes an appearance in these upcoming novels.

The bottom line - Excellent book set in a amazing world that is populated by characters with depth.

68 of 75 people found the following review helpful.
Abercrombie adds another grand chapter to his world
By Matthew D. StPierre
There's no need to go into the premise of the book, which both other reviews and the solicitation material already describes. "The Heroes" follows Abercrombie's previous titles chronologically, so for any potential readers reading this, as no doubt other reviewers have stated, start with "The Blade Itself" and work your way here. You'll be glad you did, assuming you like what you read. In the event you don't like what you read, I imagine you'll be quite displeased. But like it or not, it's good stuff. And it's gotten better.

The essentials, for purpose of review and questions of potential readers:

- Abercrombie has made steady progress as a writer. His writing is more technically sound and is overall tighter. Words are worth more. His voice and the voices of his characters have become more sure. His ability to juggle multiple characters and an increasingly-numbered cast has likewise improved.

- "The Heroes" displays Abercrombie's improved ability to weave character arcs. While this has not been necessarily suspect, it was a slight problem in the initial trilogy, in which many, many characters came through as flat, and only a handful of characters had arcs and growth to speak of. This was less of a problem in "Best Served Cold," due to improvement as an author and his shift to a very tight cast of characters, and indeed, BSC had some brilliant character work and character arcs to show for. With "The Heroes," we find Abercrombie juggling a huge cast and keeping up with most all of them, whether major, mostly-minor, or minor-minor POV characters, and they all have character arcs, fleshed out from start to finish. While some of his peripheral characters remain flat characters, used to flavor a particular scene through previous mention of who they are, Abercrombie has raised some of them to three-dimensional status, with wants and small character arcs of their own, despite our never getting inside their heads. This is a vast improvement over "The First Law."

- Abercrombie is sticking with the same direction he's been going in. Previous readers will recognize why the situation is as it is. And previous readers will see as the story progresses certain similarities to how Abercrombie's previous stories have progressed. I don't intend that to mean him following the same gameplan of story construction, but rather the overarching happenings in the world. But no worries: Abercrombie is continuing the forward direction he started at the end of "The First Law" and continued with in "Best Served Cold." He continues to build and progress his world setting with this second stand-alone novel.

Of course, everyone's subjective thoughts will be different. Subjectively, I'm not sure I enjoy Abercrombie's return to using a first-person italicized thought-process for one of his major characters. While I felt it worked fine with Glokta in the trilogy (and don't currently remember if it was present in BSC), I didn't think it worked very well in this novel. But that is, again, a subjective, and therefore moot, point. Different strokes for different folks, and all that.

Overall, looking at the novel objectively per the points above, it's Abercrombie's best work to date. It's a unique read, with a fitting structure to it, and does its predecessors proud.

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The spellbinding and revealing chronicle of Nazi-occupied Paris
On June 14, 1940, German tanks entered a silent and nearly deserted Paris. Eight days later, France accepted a humiliating defeat and foreign occupation. Subsequently, an eerie sense of normalcy settled over the City of Light. Many Parisians keenly adapted themselves to the situation-even allied themselves with their Nazi overlords. At the same time, amidst this darkening gloom of German ruthlessness, shortages, and curfews, a resistance arose. Parisians of all stripes-Jews, immigrants, adolescents, communists, rightists, cultural icons such as Colette, de Beauvoir, Camus and Sartre, as well as police officers, teachers, students, and store owners-rallied around a little known French military officer, Charles de Gaulle.

WHEN PARIS WENT DARK evokes with stunning precision the detail of daily life in a city under occupation, and the brave people who fought against the darkness. Relying on a range of resources---memoirs, diaries, letters, archives, interviews, personal histories, flyers and posters, fiction, photographs, film and historical studies---Rosbottom has forged a groundbreaking book that will forever influence how we understand those dark years in the City of Light.

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• Published on: 2014-08-05
• Released on: 2014-08-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.75" h x 1.50" w x 6.50" l, .0 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 480 pages

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"Ronald C. Rosbottom's rigorously researched and deeply compelling book, When Paris Went Dark, examines the relationship between the occupiers and the occupied, specifically how the vanquished Parisians either fought against or adapted to the conditions imposed by their Nazi rulers....Rosbottom strikes a perfect tone that is neither too scholarly nor too familiar and produces a chronicle that edifies as it entertains."―Malcom Forbes, Minneapolis Star Tribune

"A well-rounded overview....The strength of Mr. Rosbottom's book lies in the details he has culled from memoirs, letters, papers, films, plays, songs, and diaries that illuminate the experience of both the occupiers and the occupied."―Caroline Moorehead, Wall Street Journal

"A profound historical portrait of Paris for anyone who loves the city."―Dallas Morning News

"A riveting account of one of the most resonant hostage-takings in history: the 1,500 days when a swastika flew from the Eiffel Tower. Ronald Rosbottom illuminates every corner of a darkened, heartsick city, exploring the oddities, capturing the grisly humor, and weighing the prices of resistance, accommodation, collaboration. The result is an intimate, sweeping narrative, astute in its insight and chilling in its rich detail."―Stacy Schiff, author of Cleopatra, A Great Improvisation, and Véra

"When Paris Went Dark recounts, through countless compelling stories, how Nazi occupation drained the light from Paris and how many of its residents resisted in ways large and small. This is a rich work of history, a brilliant recounting of how hope can still flourish in the rituals of daily life."―Scott Turow, author of Identical

"Ronald Rosbottom has recreated the Parisian world during the dark days of the German occupation like no previous writer I know. His secret is two-fold: first, exhaustive research that allows him to recover what we might call the importance of the ordinary; and second, a shrewd grasp of how memory works, often in strange ways."―Joseph J. Ellis, Ford Foundation Professor Emeritus at Mount Holyoke College, author of Founding Brothers, American Sphinx, and Revolutionary Summer

About the Author
Ronald C. Rosbottom is the Winifred L. Arms Professor in the Arts and Humanities and Professor of French and European Studies at Amherst College. Previously, he was the Dean of the Faculty at Amherst, Chair of the Romance Languages Department at The Ohio State University, and taught at the University of Pennsylvania. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.

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Excellent history of Paris in World War II
By Kenneth B. Strumpf
This was an excellent and very comprehensive telling of the story of Paris under German occupation. By and large the book takes a chronological look at the event. It begins with a brief discussion of the early part of World War II followed by the German attack and the stunning collapse of French resistance. The French decision to not defend Paris was not a foregone conclusion, they could have fought, but in fact not a single shot was fired in anger at the Germans as they took the city. This decision would haunt the psyche of Parisians perhaps to the present day, as the author makes clear. The bulk of the book is taken up with a narrative of how both the occupied and occupiers dealt with first the German victory and later the looming German defeat. The chapter on how Germans dealt with being occupiers was very interesting, it's a topic not usually covered in books about the war. The chapter on the roundup of French Jews in 1942 was heart-breaking. The author repeatedly emphasized that this was almost entirely a French effort, with little German involvement. The grinding length of the occupation is a theme frequently brought up. It ground down both occupied and occupiers. The various resistance movements as well as the pathetic Vichy government are covered in detail. Finally, the book ends with a discussion on how France processed, and continues to process, both the fact of defeat and the later liberation. The various attempts to rewrite history to serve the political agendas of the many French political factions was fascinating.

One particularly interesting theme of the book is the whole concept of what was meant by "collaboration" and "resistance". These terms turn out to be far more ambiguous than they appear at first glance. Was a waiter who served tea to a German officer at a cafe a collaborator or merely someone trying to get by? What about a French prostitute who sold her services to German soldiers? Or a Vichy minister motivated by patriotic impulses to serve in the Petain government, like future President Francois Mitterrand? Resistance turns out to be equally difficult to define. It's one thing to describe someone who shot a German soldier on a Parisian street as a resister, but what about a man who refused to speak to the German officer billeted in his home? As the book makes clear this is a question that troubles France to this day.

I really can't recommend this book highly enough. The writing is fluid and highly readable. The author makes use of a variety of sources and uses many anecdotes to humanize the topic. Even the footnotes are interesting. I learned a lot that I didn't previously know despite having read quite a bit about France during the war. For instance, the Parisians didn't really seem to mind the occupation very much during the first year or so, although they wished for a swift British capitulation in the hopes that this would persuade the Germans to leave. Also, Paris had a mini-civil war in the months just following the liberation, with many dying in the process. I never knew this. It's hard to believe that at this late date there is still more to learn about World War II but this book proves it for me.

29 of 30 people found the following review helpful.
Clear Headed Analysis and a Deft Touch
By Matt Isch
Of the dozens of good books about the Occupation of Paris during World War II over the last couple of years, none is better than When Paris Went Dark. Mr. Rosbottom, a professor at Amherst College, has tackled one of the most complicated moments in the long history of the City of Light with clear-headed analysis and a deft touch. The stories of the heroes and villains of the Occupation have always been told in stark relief, but Mr. Rosbottom adds much appreciated shades of feldgray. More;interestingly, he speaks of aspects of the Occupation that have been downplayed or overlooked altogether by other historians. He is particularly interested in the German soldiers and civilians who flocked to the city during the course of the Occupation to ogle the den of culture and corruption and says that for the most part, they were as intimidated by the Parisians as the Parisians were with them. Chief among the Germans in this category is one Adolf Hitler who made his one-and-only one-day tour of the city shortly after the Occupation began and saw a city that was mostly deserted and devoid of the bustle that had always defined it. ;I loved the way Mr. Rosbottom concludes his story: "If reading this book has made you more curious about Paris and its violent midcentury history, and if you can admire her almost unreal self-confidence, them I am pleased. If, on the other hand, the information in these pages has made you more suspicious of her charms, more critical of her adaptation to the 'plague,'then that, too, would please me. For either way, or both ways, you would have thickened your knowledge so that the next time you confront Paris, either in person or imaginatively, you will have more respect for her resiliency as well as for the hope that she still offers those seeking to escape the depravations of ignorance and cultural violence." (8/28/2014)

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... of Paris from 1940 to 1944 gave me an excellent sense of what it must have been like living ...
By John
Ronald Rosbottom's story of the Nazi occupation of Paris from 1940 to 1944 gave me an excellent sense of what it must have been like living in almost Orwellian existence because of the total control the Third Reich had over its citizens by creating an atmosphere of fear and suspicion in the city. It's astounding that Paris was taken by the German forces with no resistance. Hitler is photographed with the Eiffel Tower in the background, and other photos show a city with empty and eerie-looking street scenes, conveying the scene of a ghost town.

Der Fuhrer's respect and admiration for Paris before and during the occupation is well covered. However, as the Nazis begin their retreat from the allied forces in 1944, he demands from his generals that Paris be burned to the ground, a command that, fortunately, was not carried out. There is much detail about the French collaboration with Germans in sending the Jews to the concentration camps and the fraternization of French women with the Germans.

This book brings to the surface the shame and embarrassment the French people must feel regarding this sad and humiliating period in their history. However, it's a story that is important to tell, and Ronald Rosbottom's has done an excellent job in doing that. This is a must read for those wanting to learn about this bleak and depressing time in the history of a revered capital city of a great nation.

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One of the most acclaimed and original story collections of the last decade, Peter Orner's first book explores the brief but far-reaching occasions that haunt us.

The discovery of a murdered man in a bathrobe by the side of a road, the destruction of a town's historic City Hall building, and the recollection of a cruel wartime decision are equally affecting in Orner's vivid and intimate gaze. The first half of the book concerns the lives of unrelated strangers across the American landscape, and the second introduces two very different Jewish families, one on the East Coast, the other in the Midwest. Yet Orner's real territory is memory, and this book of wide-ranging and innovative stories remains an important and unique contribution to the art of the American short story.

• Sales Rank: #983341 in Books
• Published on: 2013-04-23
• Released on: 2013-04-23
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.25" h x .75" w x 5.50" l, .48 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
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Praise for ESTHER STORIES (2001)

"There's startling intimacy in every story of Peter Orner's debut collection."―Judy Doenges, Washington Post

"I was stunned by a sentence or two in every one of the works in Esther Stories." ―Rick Moody, The Hartford Courant

"A luminous debut collection. . . .Like Amy Bloom and Charles Baxter, Orner has a gift for revealing how the tragic and the mundane occupy equal berths in our limited mental space."―John Freeman, Chicago Tribune

"Some of Orner's very short stories are the best of that form that I have read since Isaac Babel's."―Andre Dubus

"If the short story were in need of a future, it has been found in Peter Orner."―Dennis Lehane

"These are stories of unusual delicacy and beauty, and this is a remarkable collection."―Charles Baxter

"Orner doesn't simply bring his characters to life, he gives them souls."―Margot Livesey, New York Times Book Review

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Peter Orner is the author of two other books, The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo, and Love and Shame and Love. Some of the stories in Esther Stories first appeared in Atlantic Monthly, Epoch, North American Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Southern Review, among other periodicals. One was reprinted in The Best American Short Stories 2001, and another in The Pushcart Prize XXVI. Orner was born in Chicago and now lives in San Francisco.

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Love and Remembering and Love
By David Marquette
Re-reading ESTHER STORIES (2001) more than a decade after its original publication, I continue to be astonished by the tender worldliness, quiet passion, understated wisdom, and luminous poetry of Orner's first collection. So does Marilynne Robinson, who provides an insightful "Foreword" to the new paperback edition. These 34 precise and economical stories are dense with details (names, places, dates, smells, tastes), scattered with things--especially with books and photographs, with love's debris. The narrator of the title story looks at a photograph of his Aunt Esther, and sees someone who wants to be seen and not just looked at, "someone [he] would have loved had [he] been there." Orner does not just look at his characters, he sees them, sees their souls, lovingly re-imagines their stories and shares his revelations, his characters' simple, aching stories, with us in language we can understand and remember. These are stories about love and remembrance in America, stories about remembering to love and remembering to remember. These are stories that deserve to be taught in schools, next to stories by Poe and Hawthorne and Malamud and Roth to illustrate the art of short American stories. These are stories that should be shared by families who care about loving and remembering and about knowing each other's stories. And of course they should send you back to Orner's last haunting book, LOVE AND SHAME AND LOVE (2012), and forward to his next and most mature collection so far, LAST CAR OVER THE SAGAMORE BRIDGE (August 2013). One or more of these stories is sure to convince you that Orner has been eavesdropping on your family.

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An excellent collection of short stories by a talented writer
By KVA
The chief thing I noticed in this book was the ability of its author to create an atmosphere which gives substance to the lives that take shape within it. He is simply marvellous at that. The lives themselves are often ones of "quiet desparation" but well worth our notice. The result is a kind of comment on the condition of living today.

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What a find!
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Just as my attention span is getting shorter and shorter.
Peter Orner is saving me. Perfect short stories at, sometimes,
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• Sales Rank: #313618 in Books
• Brand: Brand: Little, Brown and Company
• Published on: 2013-09-30
• Released on: 2013-09-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.75" h x 1.50" w x 6.50" l, 1.40 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 416 pages

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James Patterson has had more New York Times bestsellers than any other writer, ever, according to Guinness World Records. Since his first novel won the Edgar Award in 1977 James Patterson's books have sold more than 300 million copies. He is the author of the Alex Cross novels, the most popular detective series of the past twenty-five years, including Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider. He writes full-time and lives in Florida with his family.

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This latest Michael Bennett story is a prime example. There are pages and pages about the children and the family which I feel are written at a level suitable for eary teens. Then suddenly we leap to obscenely violent episodes, then presto chango we're back with the family in the witness protection program (or a very watered-down version of it) and it's not at all convincing. It's fluffy page-filling at best. I checked and i think that I could skip almost every family chapter and not only would it not really affect the story, but I would probably enjoy the whole thing a whole lot more.

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. . . or barely there
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But this is the first time I've ever felt cheated of the price of admission.

I read this on Kindle, where it ends at 90%. It took only a couple of hours to hit 45% and I'm a slow reader. The Amazon site says there are 416 pages in the book. Really? How many reams of white space? Half the kids don't make it to breakfast, let alone into whole sentences. One of the twins, Bridget, is completely absent til literally the last page.

Several reviewers mention characters doing stupid stuff. Yes. No spoilers, but with this super-killer on the loose, it's hard to believe that family members -- adult family members -- would take stupid/silly chances. Yes, as readers we know that SuperKiller has to find the family. But if the authors had taken the trouble to make it believable and complicated and interesting the book would have lasted another hour.

So -- not good news, folks. It's too short and what's here is not that good. It's like a drive by, a quick one. We see the people we've grown to like, but we don't get to visit.

I wish I could give it a five, really.

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Read Michael Bennett's previous books... this one is not worth it!
By Lal
Why does this happen? A great fiction series like Michael Bennet gets stuck between the hype of the success and the rush to publish another book.
What happened here? This book has nothing to do with the previous ones which were written in a serious well crafted manner. The plot in this book has been used so many times there is a point where you don't know if you want to laugh or cry because its so predictable.
I hear Mr Patterson is one of the most prolific contemporary authors.... with books like this one any one can do that.
More respect to you readers please.

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Sharp, sarcastic, and efficiently lethal, John Charming would feel right at home having drinks with Dean Winchester and Harry Dresden. DARING, the second book in the Pax Arcana series, is just as addicting as the first.
Something is rotten in the state of Wisconsin.
Werewolf packs are being united and absorbed into an army of super soldiers by a mysterious figure who speaks like an angel and fights like a demon. And every Knight Templar -- keepers of the magical peace between mankind and magickind -- who tries to get close to this big bad wolf winds up dead. No knight can infiltrate a group whose members can smell a human from a mile away...no knight except one.
John Charming. Ex knight. Current werewolf. Hunted by the men who trained him, he now might be their only salvation. But animal instincts are rising up to claim John more powerfully than ever before, and he must decide if this new leader of wolves is a madman...or a messiah.
Pax Arcana CharmingDaringFearlessIn Shining ArmorLegend Has It
Short Fiction in the Pax Arcana world: Charmed I'm SureDon't Go Chasing WaterfallsPushing LuckSurreal EstateDog-GoneBulls Rush InTalking Dirty

• Sales Rank: #238760 in Books
• Brand: James, Elliott
• Published on: 2014-09-23
• Released on: 2014-09-23
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.25" h x 1.00" w x 5.50" l, .0 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

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"The Pax Arcana books are seriously good reads. Action, humor, and heart with unexpected twists and turns. If you are (like me) waiting for the next Butcher or Hearne--pick up Elliot James. Then you can bite your nails waiting for the next James, too."―Patricia Briggs, New York Times #1 bestselling author of the Mercy Thompson series

"Second stellar entry in [the] Pax Arcana series.... James should be on your must-read list!"―RT Book Reviews on Daring

"Loved it! Charming is a giant gift basket of mythology and lore delivered by a brilliant new voice in urban fantasy. Elliott James tells stories that are action-packed, often amusing, and always entertaining."―Kevin Hearne, author of Hounded on Charming

"I loved this book from start to finish. Exciting and innovative, Charming is a great introduction to a world I look forward to spending a lot more time in."―New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire on Charming

"James's world is rich and complex and well worth diving into."―Richard Kadrey on Charming

"In a saturated literary realm, James's tale stands out for the gritty, believable world he builds...This is masculine urban fantasy in the vein of Jim Butcher and Mark del Franco."―Booklist on Charming

"This debut introduces a self-deprecating, wisecracking, and honorable-to-a-fault hero who can stand up to such established protagonists as Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden and Seanan McGuire's October Daye. Combining action and romance -- with an emphasis on action -- this is a top-notch new series opener for lovers of urban fantasy."―Library Journal (Starred review) on Charming

"Grab some snacks and settle back as splendid debut author James serves up a Prince Charming tale yanked sideways...James's reluctant hero faces threats and danger with a smart-ass attitude that keeps the narrative fast-paced, edgy and amusing. Mark this name down -- you will undoubtedly be seeing more from James!"―RT Book Reviews on Charming

About the Author
An army brat and gypsy scholar, ELLIOTT JAMES is currently living in the Blue Ridge mountains of southwest Virginia. An avid reader since the age of three (or that's what his family swears anyhow), he has an abiding interest in mythology, martial arts, live music, hiking, and used bookstores.

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
A solid follow up.
By Collin J. Earl
I thought long and hard about this review. So here it goes.

Let me say this. I loved the first book. The world is clever, the writing fun, and even though i hate the fist person narrative. Mr. James does it well. When I bought Daring, I was looking for more of the same. I got it. Kinda of.

Pros - more of the characters we love, John, Sig, Cho, Parth and Molly. The world is expanded and we get to know more about John's past. All good things. We even get some new characters that are very likable. John is a great lead. Enjoyed the added complexity of secondary love interest (I hope she makes a return and their relationship is further developed) For the most part, the good was really good. Not much to say about that.

Cons - the pace was completely jacked up and the foreshadowing was sort of lame. The use of disregarded side character was disproportionate to the amount of time we focused on them and their usefulness to drive home plot points. Why are spending a bunch of time getting to know characters just to have you kill them off before anything really comes of their relationship with John or the other main characters? it doesn't make any sense. Further, John makes some pretty stupid decisions in this book. For someone that has lived for a long time, he doesn't make the best of choices when for example interrogating someone you expect to be a traitor. Dumb. Also getting to know John's past in a less information dump type of style would have been nice, but this is less a con and more a stylistic thing for me.

Overall - if you liked the first one, you like this one. Just look past is flaws and you'll do alright.

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loving the Pax Arcana Series
By D. Klecan
I'm loving this series and the hero, John Charming. Self deprecating hard-working, sensitive, John C.and the Pax Arcana are becoming one of my favorite sci-fi/fantasy series. I've reread the entire series and short stories in anticipation of book three coming out this summer. This has provided me with a better perspective to write the following review:

The first book reminds me of a favorite TV show. Like the first season, you meet and fall in love with quirky characters and the interesting world of the Pax Arcana. In summary, book one is basically John Charming and his merry Scooby Doo group kicking butt and killing monster. In volume one the flavored monsters of the day are vampires.

All the short stories take place before Book 1 and after John has been kicked out of the Club knighthood. John is a sensitive, caring person who can't help himself. He is out there defending the humans race from all the things that go bump in the night. Each short story features a new monster. The short stories add to john's mythos and are worth you time and dime.

Daring, Book 2, however, is a different story. It reminds me of that time in a TV show were the producers and writers don't listen to their fans and start adding new story lines, new characters and complicated underlying conspiracies. The fan asks itself, Why? Why ruin a good thing? I was just beginning to get into this show! "Daring' briefly touches upon the characters from the first book and then introduces us to a handful of new characters, that although seem interesting as they are wolves and knights, are not at all likable and seemed to get killed off indiscriminately.

If you are a fan, this second book seems to be a necessary part of your collection as it provides a detailed account John's back story.... growing up and training as a knight. Thankfully the preview of the third book featured in the back hints of the return of the original Scooby-Doo monster-bashing group that we have come to know and love. So I'm sticking with it.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Not necessary for you to have read the first book
By Pabkins
Hits the mark for the snappy one liners

Daring is the second novel in the Pax Arcana urban fantasy series. Enjoyable and mostly face paced these books have been full of snarky humor. Indeed you’ll get a snappy chapter title everytime. The lead character John is full of piss and vinegar and if he isn’t giving that to another character then he’s giving it to you via his inner dialogue.

Not necessary for you to have read the first book

Because of the way this book starts up, with one of the most entertaining recaps I’ve come across in a series book before, I really don’t think you need to have read the first book. John himself gives you his “Ten thing that people who didn’t read the first book really ought to know.” It’s funny, and thorough at the same time and didn’t annoy me at all the way a normal recap at the front of a book would. Also, this new book Daring takes John in such a completely different direction from the first book with an entirely different storyline from the previous book that I don’t believe it is dependent on it what so ever. Plus a whole new set of characters x2 (more on that later). So if you haven’t already you’re fine to start here. Though I’d say I did enjoy the first book a lot more so then this one and I’ll be sure to share my reasons.

Things are getting rather touchy feely..err hairy

In Daring, John starts off turning himself over to the Knights in exchange for their word to leave in peace all of his friends he made during the course of Charming. They take him, torture him, and of course he subsequently escapes (he says he’s gonig to escape right when he surrenders himself so don’t harp to me about that being a spoiler…it really isn’t…what kind of book would it be if the main character spend the entire time in captivity (a differently book completely). Anyways he winds up taken in or perhaps a willing hostage not quite hostage of the new up and coming Werewolf Clan that the Knights want to see eliminated.

I have to mention here, because it was just that cool, that the first part of the book has an amazing chapter that is made up entirely of chronological flashbacks that take place while John is being tortured, oh sweet pain how it makes you nostalgic right? These flashbacks take us through John’s childhood catching you up to modern day. It gives you some really cool background on how John grew up, his personality and ethics as well as how the society of Knights operates. It was one of the most enjoyable uses of flashbacks I’ve run across lately.

Kumbayah, tai chi and being at one with your inner monster

So yes, somehow John finds himself thrown in with this werewolf clan. He’s agreed to go through their “initiation” but what he really ends up in the middle of is some kind of inner peace camp for newly turned werewolves. Folks are split up into groups of five and plunked down in a forest reserve with nothing but some sleeping bags, minimal survival gear and a lead werewolf who acts as their “counselor” and guide to being a new wolf. It’s like freaking group therapy to the max and John doesn’t like being in touch with his feelings nor anyone else’s. I found this portion of the book to be very entertaining. Not only is he supposed to make peace with the fact that he’s a werewolf but he’s learning about this clan that the Knights want to pit him against. Somewhere along the way some bid baddy comes out of the forest and starts killing wolves and John is called upon by the clan leader to help solve the nasty mystery – and hey John’s always up for killing some monsters right?

Then it’s as if we are reading book 3 instead of book 2

SPOILER ALERT!
So you’d think after the Forest, camping and solving a big nasty problem that would likely be the end of the book right? Well no, not in this case. Instead we move onto “part 3″ which is really more like a second book entirely. I have a bit of a peeve when it comes to novels and that is when all of a sudden you’re left feeling like you’re reading what should or could be another book. For all intents and purposes it still follows the main story arc of the series and where “the big picture” is going but you’re on a different “major” sub storyline now and yet you’re still within the same book. Catch my drift? That’s what happens with Daring.

The first small part of the book that folds neatly into the first half is John’s captivity by the Knights, the rest of that first half of the book is John meets the wolves and goes on some big bad hunt and decides if he wants to integrate. Then the second half of the book jumps you to another storyline almost a year down the line when he’s pretty much integrated and a member of this clan and helping on major operations and is sent out on another mission for some other big bad hunt. Yes these two major parts tie together but we’re given an almost entirely new set of characters in the second half of the book other then John himself. So all the character I spent the first half of the book acquainting and attaching to aren’t in this second half. I found that very annoying. I don’t mind when a few new characters are introduced at various times in a book but it was like POOOM all new characters at the start of Daring (ones that are all different from CHARMING) then POOM again second half of DARING gives you another whole new set of characters. It stole a lot of the gusto away from the second half for me even though this second half was much more action packed and gritty then the first. It just didn’t work for me as well and ended up lowering my overall enjoyment of the entire book.
END SPOILER

Leaving off on the right foot.

Even with the hiccups the second half of Daring left me with – I was still satisfied with how things wrapped up in Daring and it leaves me wondering how and where things are going to go from here.

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Kidnapped by a handsome man with rabbit ears, Alice Liddell finds herself abandoned in an odd place called Wonderland and thrust into a "game," the rules of which she has yet to learn. Alice, ever the plucky tomboy, sets off to explore and get the lay of this strange land, intent on finding her rude kidnapper and giving him a piece of her mind (and her fist). But little does she know that she's wandered right into the middle of a dangerous power struggle involving just about all of Wonderland's attractive, weapon-happy denizens. And the only way for Alice to return home is to get acquainted with the lot of them?! How in the world will she manage that and still manage to stay alive?!

• Sales Rank: #155971 in Books
• Published on: 2012-06-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.00" h x 1.25" w x 6.00" l, .95 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 368 pages

About the Author
QuinRose is a Japanese game developer that produces dating-sim games for girls, including the bestselling Alice in the Country of Hearts. Many of their other productions are also loosely based on works of fiction.

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
Rabbit vs. Hare
By Zack Davisson
The story continues in Alice in the Country of Hearts, Soumei Hoshino's manga adaptation of Qunirose's otome "dating sim" game inspired by Lewis Carol's original Alice in Wonderland. Seeing just how many times removed this manga is from the source material should set the proper expectations. "Alice in the Country of Hearts" ("Hato no kuni no Alisu") makes no attempt to be faithful to Carol's vision. Aside from a few of the character prototypes and some names, there is little here that is the "classic" version of the story.

Volume 2 starts with a tea party (what else?) given by Blood Dupre (the Mad Hatter) and attended by Elliot March (the March Hare), Boris (The Cheshire Cat) and the Gatekeepers (Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum). Although initially resistant to the dangerous mafia leader, Alice finds herself warming up to Blood Dupre. Aside from his declaration in volume 1, Dupre is also drawn as irresistibly towards Alice as all of the inhabitants of Wonderland.

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Aside from random violence, volume 2 reveals some of the secrets of the Country of Hearts, and what is the fundamental difference between Alice and the Wonderland inhabitants. Some of the details of "those with duties" and the faceless ones are also revealed, and what exactly Julian is repairing in his clock tower. "Alice in the Country of Hearts" has always been darker-edged, but the tone of volume 2 becomes even darker.

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There seem to be some improvements made in the translation for volume 2, but it still has its clunky areas. Some of the language, like when Eliot March suddenly refers to Alice as a "little slut" seemed out of tone with the rest of the series. I haven't read the original Japanese, so I don't know what word was used and maybe its intention was to be jarring. Somehow the "flow" of the language is missing, that sort of intangible element that comes from having writing abilities rather than just translation abilities.

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By Crystal_Dark
This was a great volume and had a lot of really fun scenes. I really like Boris and the friendship him and Alice are developing. This volume also has a really interesting bonus chapter at the end that I hope to read more about.

Contains Chapters 12 - 24
Alice 12.) Adaptation
Alice 13.) Doubt
Alice 14.) Disjointing Flower
Alice 15.) Crooked Love
Alice 16.) Sweet Dream Taste
Alice 17.) Declaration
Alice 18.) Let's Go Comfortably!
Alice 19.) Whereabouts
Alice 20.) Twilight
Alice 21.) Knight
Alice 22.) Coming Uneasiness
Alice 23.) Desire
Alice 24.) Letter of Invitation

Bonus Alice: Alice in the Country of Joker

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By YodaMom
Twisted and exciting this tale of Alice goes to the dark side of manga. The Cat
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