Series: The awakeners Volume 1 - Salicande
Author: Pauline Alphen
Pages : 519
Genre: Literature Youth Fantasy
Publisher: Hachette
Description:
In a secluded valley, growing up Claris and Jad. They are twins, understand each other without saying anything, and live in a world where talking about the past is forbidden. A Salicande Indeed, no one talks about the time before, nor their mother, who disappeared mysteriously.
What has happened? Is there a link with these mysterious gifts whose children seem to have inherited? With the Great Disaster and the collapse of civilization before the time?
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I would first like to thank the forum Livraddict and editions Hachette allowing me to discover this book I really enjoyed it.
Both warn you, by opening this book you will enter another world. A country that will seem unreal and part of a distant past, yet he is supposed to represent our world in 250 years. The Time Before
ended in 2189, after the Great Catastrophe. The people then jumped back into the past by banning any technology to stop the slaughter of man over nature. Indeed, they have reached the limits and have lost much (many species of animals and plants, conversion of forest to desert, disappearance of natural resources etc. ...).
the present tense, the past is taboo and therefore is not discussed. Those who knew him can only remember and younger have no idea what the time before, nor even why it is not mentioned.
Claris and Jad are twins and yet completely different. Their mother disappeared when he was only three years and this loss has had a singular effect on each. Claris think his mother died and refuses any allusion to it. Jad him, she dreams of every night and is convinced she redo surface sooner or later.
The Twins are connected by a psychic link that enables them to communicate without needing to speak, and they are complementary. They also have other gifts they know, like the reader.
The characters are very well described, they are well worked and it looks all know, although they are rather numerous. They all have a well-defined character and are interesting in their own way.
I appreciated having an omniscient point of view, I think it allows an understanding of history and it is easier to appreciate each character seeing the story through the eyes of each of them.
As for history, it is full of mystery, it reveals little things throughout the book, which helps keep the reader spellbound. And even once the book is closed, it knows only part of the story and many questions remain unanswered, it will then read more, I will hasten to do, especially for this purpose less surprising.
Only small negative point, I found a fairly long stay of Twins and Borges in the mountains. It does not much going on and I almost get tired of reading. But fortunately I continued and I do not regret it.
Rate:
I would first like to thank the forum Livraddict and editions Hachette allowing me to discover this book I really enjoyed it.
Both warn you, by opening this book you will enter another world. A country that will seem unreal and part of a distant past, yet he is supposed to represent our world in 250 years. The Time Before
ended in 2189, after the Great Catastrophe. The people then jumped back into the past by banning any technology to stop the slaughter of man over nature. Indeed, they have reached the limits and have lost much (many species of animals and plants, conversion of forest to desert, disappearance of natural resources etc. ...).
the present tense, the past is taboo and therefore is not discussed. Those who knew him can only remember and younger have no idea what the time before, nor even why it is not mentioned.
Claris and Jad are twins and yet completely different. Their mother disappeared when he was only three years and this loss has had a singular effect on each. Claris think his mother died and refuses any allusion to it. Jad him, she dreams of every night and is convinced she redo surface sooner or later.
The Twins are connected by a psychic link that enables them to communicate without needing to speak, and they are complementary. They also have other gifts they know, like the reader.
The characters are very well described, they are well worked and it looks all know, although they are rather numerous. They all have a well-defined character and are interesting in their own way.
I appreciated having an omniscient point of view, I think it allows an understanding of history and it is easier to appreciate each character seeing the story through the eyes of each of them.
As for history, it is full of mystery, it reveals little things throughout the book, which helps keep the reader spellbound. And even once the book is closed, it knows only part of the story and many questions remain unanswered, it will then read more, I will hasten to do, especially for this purpose less surprising.
Only small negative point, I found a fairly long stay of Twins and Borges in the mountains. It does not much going on and I almost get tired of reading. But fortunately I continued and I do not regret it.
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