- Gebundene Ausgabe: 240 Seiten
- Verlag: HarperCollins (26. Mai 2009)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0061718165
- ISBN-13: 978-0061718168
- Vom Hersteller empfohlenes Alter: Ab 12 Jahren
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 21,7 x 14,6 x 2,3 cm
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- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 169.315 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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“Abounds with originality and introduces us to rich characters…is sure to introduce [Harrison] to a whole new generation of readers.” (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette )
“An amusing and entertaining jaunt of an urban fantasy.” (Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA) )
“With a Kim Harrison novel, I expect action, humour, worldbuilding, strong female characters, true friendships, and a bit of realistic romance. I found it all right here.” (Melissa Marr, New York Times Bestselling author of Wicked Lovely and Ink Exchange )
“Harrison injects her young adult debut with style and originality. Rocking good fun, packed full of twists and turns.” (Kelley Armstrong, New York Times bestselling author of The Summoning )
“An amusing and entertaining jaunt of an urban fantasy.” (Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA) )
“With a Kim Harrison novel, I expect action, humour, worldbuilding, strong female characters, true friendships, and a bit of realistic romance. I found it all right here.” (Melissa Marr, New York Times Bestselling author of Wicked Lovely and Ink Exchange )
“Harrison injects her young adult debut with style and originality. Rocking good fun, packed full of twists and turns.” (Kelley Armstrong, New York Times bestselling author of The Summoning )
Kurzbeschreibung
My name is Madison Avery, and I'm here to tell you that there's more out there than you can see, hear, or touch. Because I'm there. Seeing it. Touching it. Living it.
Madison's prom was killer—literally. For some reason she's been targeted by a dark reaper—yeah, that kind of reaper—intent on getting rid of her, body and soul. But before the reaper could finish the job, Madison was able to snag his strange, glowing amulet and get away.
Now she's stuck on Earth—dead but not gone. Somehow the amulet gives her the illusion of a body, allowing her to toe the line between life and death. She still doesn't know why the dark reaper is after her, but she's not about to just sit around and let fate take its course.
With a little ingenuity, some light-bending, and the help of a light reaper (one of the good guys! Maybe . . . ), her cute crush, and oh yeah, her guardian angel, Madison's ready to take control of her own destiny once and for all, before it takes control of her.
Well, if she believed in that stuff.
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Madison Avery ist ein Mädchen, geht zur Schule, hat einen Vater und ist tot - getötet von einem dunklen Reaper, der sie nun verfolgt. Aber warum? Madison riss dem Reaper den Stein vom Leid, der ihr einen Körper gibt. Doch der dunkle Reaper will ihn zurück. Ein Wettlauf mit der Zeit beginnt. Doch Madison ist nicht allein - da sind ja noch die guten Reaper und Timekeeper und Schutzengel...
Plot:
Madison is a girl, she goes to school, has a father and she's dead - killed by a dark reaper, who pursuits her. But why? Madison ripped off the Reapers stone, which gives Madison a projection of her body. Still the dark reaper wants his stone back. A race against time stars. Still Madison is not alone - there're the light reapers (good guys, or not..), the timekeepers and guardian-angels...
Rezension:
Ich möchte gar nicht lange um den heißen Brei reden. Das Buch ist klasse geschrieben, mit Witz und, vor allem, ist es im Jugendslang geschrieben, was die Jugendlichen und Jung-erwachsenen natürlich besonders anspricht. Die Geschichte ist ebenfalls gut durchdacht, auch wenn sie ruhig etwas länger hätte sein können. Nichts desto trotz hat Kim Harrison eine gute Geschichte da hingelegt, die sich meines Erachtens gut für Leute eignet, die nicht soooo gut in Englisch sind oder, als Nebenlektüre, für Schüler bis zur 8ten Klasse. Das sollte kein Problem sein und zusaätzlich lernt man da auch noch etwas bei (man erweitert den Wortschatz enorm.)
Review:
I don't want to talk as long as I can. This book is great, written with much fun, and, very important for children and young adults, it's written in the todays-slang. The story is well thought-out, if the story could be a bit longer then 220 pages. However it doesn't care, Kim Harrsion has written a brilliant story.
Fazit:
Ein schöne, flotte Geschichte, an der man sich nicht lange aufhalten muss und die viele Höhepunkte aber auch Tiefpunkte hat und uns zeigt, wie schön das Leben doch sein kann.
Result:
A nice, quick read, one's doesn't have to spend much time and which has many tops but also lows. It shows us, how beautiful life could be, if we make use of it.
Madison Avery ist ein Mädchen, geht zur Schule, hat einen Vater und ist tot - getötet von einem dunklen Reaper, der sie nun verfolgt. Aber warum? Madison riss dem Reaper den Stein vom Leid, der ihr einen Körper gibt. Doch der dunkle Reaper will ihn zurück. Ein Wettlauf mit der Zeit beginnt. Doch Madison ist nicht allein - da sind ja noch die guten Reaper und Timekeeper und Schutzengel...
Plot:
Madison is a girl, she goes to school, has a father and she's dead - killed by a dark reaper, who pursuits her. But why? Madison ripped off the Reapers stone, which gives Madison a projection of her body. Still the dark reaper wants his stone back. A race against time stars. Still Madison is not alone - there're the light reapers (good guys, or not..), the timekeepers and guardian-angels...
Rezension:
Ich möchte gar nicht lange um den heißen Brei reden. Das Buch ist klasse geschrieben, mit Witz und, vor allem, ist es im Jugendslang geschrieben, was die Jugendlichen und Jung-erwachsenen natürlich besonders anspricht. Die Geschichte ist ebenfalls gut durchdacht, auch wenn sie ruhig etwas länger hätte sein können. Nichts desto trotz hat Kim Harrison eine gute Geschichte da hingelegt, die sich meines Erachtens gut für Leute eignet, die nicht soooo gut in Englisch sind oder, als Nebenlektüre, für Schüler bis zur 8ten Klasse. Das sollte kein Problem sein und zusaätzlich lernt man da auch noch etwas bei (man erweitert den Wortschatz enorm.)
Review:
I don't want to talk as long as I can. This book is great, written with much fun, and, very important for children and young adults, it's written in the todays-slang. The story is well thought-out, if the story could be a bit longer then 220 pages. However it doesn't care, Kim Harrsion has written a brilliant story.
Fazit:
Ein schöne, flotte Geschichte, an der man sich nicht lange aufhalten muss und die viele Höhepunkte aber auch Tiefpunkte hat und uns zeigt, wie schön das Leben doch sein kann.
Result:
A nice, quick read, one's doesn't have to spend much time and which has many tops but also lows. It shows us, how beautiful life could be, if we make use of it.
Format:Taschenbuch
Madison's dead. Well, sort of.
See, there was this dark reaper who scythed her, for reasons she still hasn't figured out, and technically she should be long gone. But when he came back to destroy her soul as well as her body, she was able to steal an amulet from him that's allowed her to keep walking around and breathing (even though she doesn't really need to), and appearing alive to anyone who doesn't know any better.
Unfortunately, the owner of that amulet wants it back - badly. And the light reaper assigned to help Madison adjust to her new pseudo-life may not be able to protect her from him.
As Madison struggles to hold onto her life and to save those she cares about who end up targeted as well, she discovers there's a whole lot about this life and death thing she doesn't know, and uncovering those secrets may be the only way she can hope to survive.
ONCE DEAD, TWICE SHY is a fast-paced and engaging read from start to finish. Madison makes an enjoyable narrator, stubborn and sarcastic but with a lot of heart, and enough smarts to get her through some very sticky situations. Harrison has created a fascinating and unique world of reapers and other afterlife figures, though at times readers may find all the information a little hard to follow.
With plenty of suspense and humor and a little romance, this book will appeal to paranormal fans of all ages.
Reviewed by: Lynn Crow
See, there was this dark reaper who scythed her, for reasons she still hasn't figured out, and technically she should be long gone. But when he came back to destroy her soul as well as her body, she was able to steal an amulet from him that's allowed her to keep walking around and breathing (even though she doesn't really need to), and appearing alive to anyone who doesn't know any better.
Unfortunately, the owner of that amulet wants it back - badly. And the light reaper assigned to help Madison adjust to her new pseudo-life may not be able to protect her from him.
As Madison struggles to hold onto her life and to save those she cares about who end up targeted as well, she discovers there's a whole lot about this life and death thing she doesn't know, and uncovering those secrets may be the only way she can hope to survive.
ONCE DEAD, TWICE SHY is a fast-paced and engaging read from start to finish. Madison makes an enjoyable narrator, stubborn and sarcastic but with a lot of heart, and enough smarts to get her through some very sticky situations. Harrison has created a fascinating and unique world of reapers and other afterlife figures, though at times readers may find all the information a little hard to follow.
With plenty of suspense and humor and a little romance, this book will appeal to paranormal fans of all ages.
Reviewed by: Lynn Crow
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Young Adult Urban Fantasy - but good.
27. Mai 2009
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Madison Avery is dead, but that won't stop her from trying to live a normal life for a high school girl. At Prom, Madison's willful ways lead to her physical death at the hands of a handsome dark angel. The fact that her strong will gives her a chance to survive beyond death seems only fair. But now she has to figure out how to exist and what the rules are.
Kim Harrison's Once Dead, Twice Shy is a well-written entry in the ever-growing and ever-popular young adult urban fantasy genre. Harrison, with her The Hollows series, is a force of nature in the urban fantasy market -- she's one of the best -- so her foray into YA work is more intriguing than surprising.
The first thing that I liked about Once Dead, Twice Shy is that Harrison didn't just re-create the Hollows for her new series. In fact, she didn't even develop an entirely new world where magic, werewolves, and vampires live -- this is our world. Kim Harrison used traditional ideas about guardian angels and twisted them a bit. In essence, Madison is caught in an on-going conflict between two different schools of thought about freedom of choice and fate.
Madison and the supporting cast are all interesting characters. I got a bit annoyed with some of them occasionally, but Kim Harrison has always been able to create characters who sometimes annoy me and yet still manage to keep me interested in their stories! I'm an adult male with my own teenage daughter, and while I may not be able to relate completely to Madison Avery, I think that many young readers will.
Harrison doesn't try to do too much in this first book. She doesn't have to because the world it's set in is our own world. That's welcome because it decreases the amount of information that a reader who is new to urban fantasy will have to absorb. I also want to give Kim Harrison credit for not falling back on her successful characters from the Hollows. While Madison Avery is feisty and tough (like Rachel Morgan), she's definitely her own character. And Once Dead, Twice Shy is definitely a good book.
Kim Harrison's Once Dead, Twice Shy is a well-written entry in the ever-growing and ever-popular young adult urban fantasy genre. Harrison, with her The Hollows series, is a force of nature in the urban fantasy market -- she's one of the best -- so her foray into YA work is more intriguing than surprising.
The first thing that I liked about Once Dead, Twice Shy is that Harrison didn't just re-create the Hollows for her new series. In fact, she didn't even develop an entirely new world where magic, werewolves, and vampires live -- this is our world. Kim Harrison used traditional ideas about guardian angels and twisted them a bit. In essence, Madison is caught in an on-going conflict between two different schools of thought about freedom of choice and fate.
Madison and the supporting cast are all interesting characters. I got a bit annoyed with some of them occasionally, but Kim Harrison has always been able to create characters who sometimes annoy me and yet still manage to keep me interested in their stories! I'm an adult male with my own teenage daughter, and while I may not be able to relate completely to Madison Avery, I think that many young readers will.
Harrison doesn't try to do too much in this first book. She doesn't have to because the world it's set in is our own world. That's welcome because it decreases the amount of information that a reader who is new to urban fantasy will have to absorb. I also want to give Kim Harrison credit for not falling back on her successful characters from the Hollows. While Madison Avery is feisty and tough (like Rachel Morgan), she's definitely her own character. And Once Dead, Twice Shy is definitely a good book.
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30. Mai 2009
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Madison's dead. Well, sort of.
See, there was this dark reaper who scythed her, for reasons she still hasn't figured out, and technically she should be long gone. But when he came back to destroy her soul as well as her body, she was able to steal an amulet from him that's allowed her to keep walking around and breathing (even though she doesn't really need to), and appearing alive to anyone who doesn't know any better.
Unfortunately, the owner of that amulet wants it back - badly. And the light reaper assigned to help Madison adjust to her new pseudo-life may not be able to protect her from him.
As Madison struggles to hold onto her life and to save those she cares about who end up targeted as well, she discovers there's a whole lot about this life and death thing she doesn't know, and uncovering those secrets may be the only way she can hope to survive.
ONCE DEAD, TWICE SHY is a fast-paced and engaging read from start to finish. Madison makes an enjoyable narrator, stubborn and sarcastic but with a lot of heart, and enough smarts to get her through some very sticky situations. Harrison has created a fascinating and unique world of reapers and other afterlife figures, though at times readers may find all the information a little hard to follow.
With plenty of suspense and humor and a little romance, this book will appeal to paranormal fans of all ages.
Reviewed by: Lynn Crow
See, there was this dark reaper who scythed her, for reasons she still hasn't figured out, and technically she should be long gone. But when he came back to destroy her soul as well as her body, she was able to steal an amulet from him that's allowed her to keep walking around and breathing (even though she doesn't really need to), and appearing alive to anyone who doesn't know any better.
Unfortunately, the owner of that amulet wants it back - badly. And the light reaper assigned to help Madison adjust to her new pseudo-life may not be able to protect her from him.
As Madison struggles to hold onto her life and to save those she cares about who end up targeted as well, she discovers there's a whole lot about this life and death thing she doesn't know, and uncovering those secrets may be the only way she can hope to survive.
ONCE DEAD, TWICE SHY is a fast-paced and engaging read from start to finish. Madison makes an enjoyable narrator, stubborn and sarcastic but with a lot of heart, and enough smarts to get her through some very sticky situations. Harrison has created a fascinating and unique world of reapers and other afterlife figures, though at times readers may find all the information a little hard to follow.
With plenty of suspense and humor and a little romance, this book will appeal to paranormal fans of all ages.
Reviewed by: Lynn Crow
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Target Audience is 14 year old girls
18. Juni 2009
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Normally I don't read YA, but I do read Kim Harrison. Love her Hollows series.
Barely made it past the first four chapters, especially because the story starts in media res (in the middle of things). Madison spends the first few chapters more worried about what people think of her and her social status than focusing on the weird yet important stuff. I really hate dumb and shallow heroines, but Madison finally realizes she might die again if she doesn't figure out something with the supernatural stuff she's got.
The last half of the book is good Harrison without too much teenage baggage.
What really drops the book down to three stars is authority issues. Madison is 17. At that age you're more worried about birth control, as opposed to being grounded because your Dad comes home at 6pm and you have a boy over un-supervised. At 17 you don't have a 10pm curfew, and you are allowed to date. This makes sense only if the target audience is younger than 17, and you are writing for them.
So might be great book for young adults, but as an adult who likes Kim Harrison, I wish she'd written a more interesting, more wise heroine.
Barely made it past the first four chapters, especially because the story starts in media res (in the middle of things). Madison spends the first few chapters more worried about what people think of her and her social status than focusing on the weird yet important stuff. I really hate dumb and shallow heroines, but Madison finally realizes she might die again if she doesn't figure out something with the supernatural stuff she's got.
The last half of the book is good Harrison without too much teenage baggage.
What really drops the book down to three stars is authority issues. Madison is 17. At that age you're more worried about birth control, as opposed to being grounded because your Dad comes home at 6pm and you have a boy over un-supervised. At 17 you don't have a 10pm curfew, and you are allowed to date. This makes sense only if the target audience is younger than 17, and you are writing for them.
So might be great book for young adults, but as an adult who likes Kim Harrison, I wish she'd written a more interesting, more wise heroine.
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