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When Evie Walker goes home to spend time with her dying father, she discovers that his creaky old house in Hope s Fort, Colorado, is not the only legacy she stands to inherit Hidden behind the old basement door is a secret and magical storeroom, a place where wondrous treasures from myth and legend are kept safe until they are needed again Of course, this legacy is not without its costs There are those who will give anything to find a way in.With the help of her father, a mysterious stranger named Alex, and some unexpected heroes, Evie must guard the storeroom against ancient and malicious forces, protecting the past and the future even as the present unravels Old heroes and notorious villains alike will rise to fight on her side or to do their best to bring about her defeat.At stake is the fate of the world and the prevention of nothing less than the apocalypse. Free Read Discords Apple author Carrie Vaughn For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr This is one I d call a potentially good book We ve talked about it before, a good idea with poor execution Let me say here that these are my impressions and feelings about this book Some may like itthan I but all I can do here is give you my take and recommendation.or lack thereof.The book disappointed me As I started it I liked the idea behind it and it started to draw me into the story But, as I read the book slowly slid down my own scale from a 4 to a 3 and then a 2 by th This is one I d call a potentially good book We ve talked about ...This is my 3rd Carrie Vaughn book, and although I liked it well enough, I don t know if I will continue withof Vaughn s work I really enjoyed After the Golden Age, which was the first book of hers that I d read, but I wasn t a fan of her first Kitty Norville book, or this one To be fair, I think this book was decent, but it needed a fair bit of polish This is something of an epic book It s got a LOT of ideas, and a lot of history and mythology backing it, but the length of the book req This is my 3rd Carrie Vaughn book, and although I liked it well enough, I don t know if I will continue withof Vaughn s work I really enjoyed After the Golden Age, which was the first book of hers that I d read, but I wasn t a ...Evie Walker is a writer, a graphic novelist, living in L.A in a world where militias run the cities of the U.S and the world is on the brink of nuclear destruction When she receives word that her dad, Frank, is sick, she climbs in her car and races off to Colorado to take care of her last surviving parent Her mom was killed in a terrorist attack at the Pike Place Market in Seattle five years earlier and Evie is terrified of losing her dad.Upon arriving at Franks s home, previously the home o Evie Walker is a writer, a graphic novelist, living in L.A in a world where militias run the cities of the U.S and the world is on the brink of nuclear destruction When she receives word that her dad, Frank, is sick, she clim...After her mother s murder, Evie Walker left her small hometown and began writing comics Her stories about a US military ops team are very popular, particularly since they feed into the culture of paranoia and armament that the US has become in the wake of repeated terrorist attacks But when her father is dying of cancer, Evie returns to the home she left, and finds it is far larger than she remembers Because underneath her house lies the Storeroom, the repository of mythic items from all ages After her mother s murder, Evie Walker left her small hometown and began writing comics Her stories about a US military ops team are very popular, particularly since they feed into the culture of paranoia and armament that the US has become in the wake of repeated terrorist attacks But when her father is dying of cancer, Evie returns to the home she left, and finds it is far larger than she remembers Because underneath her house lies the Storeroom, the repository of mythic items from all ages and places From the Golden Fleece to Cinderella s slipper, it s all in a Midwestern cellar guarded by a dying old man Now Evie is the Storeroom s keeper, and she must protect it from the greed of all manner of monsters, fairies and gods Her only ally is Sinon, the Greek sol...A compelling story with some interesting twists, told in the light hearted manner of Carrie Vaughn as she also does with her Kitty Norville series.That said, I enjoyed it She had some great ideas in this book and it was a quick paced read I just felt it could have been muchepic The ideas would have worked in a larger scale and done so nicely This was a good taste of what that could have been like, and it was worth reading.I found myself thinking of American Gods often, and The Passage A compelling story with some interesting twists, told in the light hearted manner of Carrie Vaughn as she also does with her Kitty Norville series.That said, I enjoyed it She had some great ideas in this book and it was a quick paced read I just felt i...This is my first time reading one of Carrie Vaughn s books, and it wasn t a bad start either It wasn t what I expected, but then, I didn t know what to expect so I was bound to be surprised.Evie Walker leaves the city which, like all the other cities in America, has been divvied up by local militias who have started fighting each other instead of terrorists to go home to her family s house in the country, to be with her dad who s dying of cancer From the moment she arrives, she detects som This is my first time reading one of Carrie Vaughn s books, and it wasn t a bad start either It wasn t what I expected, but then, I didn t know what to expect so I was bound to be surprised.Evie Walker leaves the city which, like all the other cities in America, has been divvied up by local militias who have started fighting each other instead of terrorists to go h...Discord s Apple is a solidly written book The protagonist is well characterized and has an interesting background I found the near future sliding into chaos setting very interesting The storeroom which is central to the book s plot is also a nice idea and worth writing about.Despite all of that, the book didn t seem to come together quite right I never found myself drawn into the story the events of the book feltlike a play than an accounting of real events in another time ...When choosing books to read, I m less picky about genre than I am about certain other criteria First and foremost good storytelling and originality A lack of originality has all but turned me away completely from certain genres high fantasy , and the presence of originality has made me love certain books in genres that run the risk of getting repetitive post apocalyptic fiction It s rare i...Review courtesy of AllThingsUrbanFantasy.blogspot.com I was ready to love this book I m a long time lover of Greek mythology, I thought Carrie Vaughn s previous book, Voices of Dragons, was excellent, and I m a fan off her Kitty Norville series too By all accounts I should have loved DISCORD S APPLE, instead I found a flat protagonist, a confusing world, and too many separate stories that failed to come together in a satisfying way The description of DISCORD S APPLE leads you to believe that Review courtesy of AllThingsUrbanFantasy.blogspot.com I was ready to love this book I m a long time lover of Greek mythology, I thought Carrie Vaughn s previous book, Voices of Dragons, was excellent, and I m a fan off her Kitty Norville series too By all accounts I should have loved DISCORD S APPLE, instead I found a flat protagonist, a confusing world, and too many separate stories that failed to come together in a satisfying way The description of DISCORD S APPLE leads you to believe that the plot is about a woman, Evie Walker, who discovers a secret and magical storeroom, a place where wondrous treas...Good idea, but it just doesn t work.I like Carrie Vaughn, but I don t like this book At times, this book is trying to weave together too many plot threads immortals, gods, Arthur, Troy, end of the world, comic books, and a secret room It s just too much and nothing really seems to gel The characters are shadows Even the comic book plot, which is supposed to stand in for Evie s development and be homage to an old sci fi show from the 1980s Honestly, it wasn t that bad of a show, but Jessi Good idea, but it just doesn t work.I like Carrie Vaughn, but I don t like th...

Discords Apple
  • English
  • 25 November 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 299 pages
  • 0765325543
  • Carrie Vaughn
  • Discords Apple