[Livro] Artificial, de Jadah McCoy

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Título em Português: --
Série: The Kepler Chronicles #1
Autor(a): Jadah McCoy
Editora: Curiosity Quills
Páginas: 226
Data de Lançamento: 04 de Abril de 2016

Sinopse:

She struggles to feel human.

In 2256, the only remnants of civilization on Earth’s first colonized planet, Kepler, are the plant-covered buildings and the nocturnal, genetically spliced bug-people nesting within them: the Cull. During the day, Syl leaves her home in the sewers beneath Elite City to scavenge for food, but at night the Cull come looking for a meal of their own. Syl thought gene splicing died with the Android War a century ago. She thought the bugs could be exterminated, Elite city rebuilt, and the population replenished. She’s wrong.

Whoever engineered the Cull isn’t done playing God. Syl is abducted and tortured in horrific experiments which result in her own DNA being spliced, slowly turning her into one of the bugs. Now she must find a cure and stop the person responsible before every remaining man, woman, and child on Kepler is transformed into the abomination they fear.

He struggles not to.

For Bastion, being an android in the sex industry isn’t so bad. Clubbing beneath the streets of New Elite by day and seducing the rich by night isn’t an altogether undesirable occupation. But every day a new android cadaver appears in the slum gutters, and each caved in metal skull and heap of mangled wires whittles away at him.

Glitches—androids with empathy—are being murdered, their models discontinued and strung up as a warning. Show emotion, you die. Good thing Bastion can keep a secret, or he would be the next body lining the street.

He can almost live with hiding his emotions. That is, until a girl shows up in the slums—a human girl, who claims she was an experiment. And in New Elite, being a human is even worse than being a Glitch. Now Bastion must help the girl escape before he becomes victim to his too-human emotions, one way or another.

~ Recebemos este eARC directamente da editora Curiosity Quills. Thank you! ~

Opinião:
Este é um livro bastante bom. Eu não estava à espera de gostar tanto. Bom trabalho, Jadah McCoy!

Artificial é o primeiro livro de uma estória distópica; a Terra como nós a conhecemos não existe. Humanos criaram os androids, que por sua vez evoluíram e nos ultrapassaram, criando algo para destruir-nos como uma praga. Sylvia, ou Syl, é humana e vive nos esgotos com os outros humanos – a que chamam a “cidade” de Elite. Eles caçam durante o dia, e escondem-se nos esgotos à noite, fugindo dos Cull – algo semelhante a insecto, meio-humano-meio-qualquer coisa estranha, criada pelos androids para matarem os humanos. É uma morte horrível.

O que a Syl não sabe é que existe uma outra cidade – chamada de New Elite – onde os androids vivem “pacatamente”. Se um android tem sentimentos é chamado de Glitche, e supostamente devem ser destruídos, tal como qualquer simpatizante dos humanos. Syl é capturada e levada para New Elite, onde lhe fazem várias experiencias. Ela não sabe o que lhe fizeram e precisa de ajuda. A única coisa que sabe é que não pode voltar para Elite e viver com os outros humanos, porque ela pode se tornar num desses Cull e matar toda a gente. Em New Elite, ela conhece B4st10n – ou Bastion – um Glitche.

Eu não vou avançar mais em relação ao plot. Terão que o ler e se sentirem envoltos nesta estória fantástica. É bastante cativante, e faz-nos querer continuar a ler e descobrir o que mais irá acontecer a Syl, e se ela será capaz de resolver as coisas. Eu quero muiiiiito continuar a seguir esta estória!

Title: Artificial
Serie: The Kepler Chronicles #1
Author: Jadah McCoy
Publisher: Curiosity Quills
Pages: 226
Publication Date: 4th April 2016

Synopsis:

She struggles to feel human.

In 2256, the only remnants of civilization on Earth’s first colonized planet, Kepler, are the plant-covered buildings and the nocturnal, genetically spliced bug-people nesting within them: the Cull. During the day, Syl leaves her home in the sewers beneath Elite City to scavenge for food, but at night the Cull come looking for a meal of their own. Syl thought gene splicing died with the Android War a century ago. She thought the bugs could be exterminated, Elite city rebuilt, and the population replenished. She’s wrong.

Whoever engineered the Cull isn’t done playing God. Syl is abducted and tortured in horrific experiments which result in her own DNA being spliced, slowly turning her into one of the bugs. Now she must find a cure and stop the person responsible before every remaining man, woman, and child on Kepler is transformed into the abomination they fear.

He struggles not to.

For Bastion, being an android in the sex industry isn’t so bad. Clubbing beneath the streets of New Elite by day and seducing the rich by night isn’t an altogether undesirable occupation. But every day a new android cadaver appears in the slum gutters, and each caved in metal skull and heap of mangled wires whittles away at him.

Glitches—androids with empathy—are being murdered, their models discontinued and strung up as a warning. Show emotion, you die. Good thing Bastion can keep a secret, or he would be the next body lining the street.

He can almost live with hiding his emotions. That is, until a girl shows up in the slums—a human girl, who claims she was an experiment. And in New Elite, being a human is even worse than being a Glitch. Now Bastion must help the girl escape before he becomes victim to his too-human emotions, one way or another.

~ We received a digital arc from the publisher Curiosity Quills. Thank you! ~ ~

Review:
This is a really good book. I wasn’t expecting to enjoy it so much. Good Job, Jadah McCoy!

Artificial is the first instalment of a dystopian story; Earth as we know now doesn’t exist. Humans had created android, but those androids had evolved and surpass us, creating something to destroy us like a plague. Sylvia, or Syl, is human and lives in the sewers – they call it, Elite – with the other humans. They hunt by day, and hide in the sewers by night, running away from The Cull – something kind of bug, half-human-half-something created by the android to kill humans. It’s a horrific death.

What didn’t Syl know was that there was another city – called New Elite – where the androids lived in “peace”. If an android had feeling it was called a Glitch, and was supposed to be destroyed, as any the Human-Sympathisers. Syl is captured and taken to New elite, where she’s experimented on. She doesn’t know what was done to here and she needs help. The only thing she knows is that she can’t go back to Elite, and live with the other humans, because we might turn into one of those Culls and kill everyone. In New Elite she meets B4st10n – or Bastion – a Glitch.

I’ll not say anything else about the plot. You’ll have to read it and be immerse into this awesome story. It’s a quite captivating story and you just want to keep reading to discover what else can happen to Syl, and if she’s going to make it. I’m totally in for the next books!

SOBRE A AUTORA/ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Jadah currently lives in Nashville, TN and works as a legal coordinator. When not babysitting attorneys, she can be found juicing her brain for creative ideas or fantasizing about her next trip out of the country (or about Tom Hiddleston as Loki - it’s always a toss up when she fantasizes.)

She grew up in rural Arkansas, yet can still write good and sometimes even wears shoes! She did date her first cousin for a while but they decided against marriage for the sake of the gene pool. 

Her true loves are elephants, cursing, and sangria - in that order. If you find an elephant that curses like a sailor whilst drinking sangria, you’re dangerously close to becoming her next romantic victim - er, partner. 

She cut her writing teeth on badly written, hormone-driven fanfiction (be glad that’s out of her system), and her one true dream is to have wildly erotic fanfiction with dubious grammar written about her own novels. Please make her dreams come true.

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Pôr as mãos na massa [Abril 2016]

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Com mais livros que filmes, Março foi um mês ocupado e agora vemos o nosso tempo livre para leituras e filmes a diminuir consideravelmente, mas não será por isso que nos verão menos por aqui. Para Abril já temos algumas coisas planeadas, mas outras serão, certamente, acrescentadas. Não se esqueçam de participar no nosso desafio literário no Goodreads, que podem ver aqui :)

O que se fez em... Março
Carla D.

• [Livro] The Little Android, de Marissa Meyer
• [Livro] Sonhos Malditos, de Carina Rosa
• [Livro] The Beauty - vol.1, de Jeremy Haun, Jason A. Hurley
• [Livro] Underworld's Daughter, de Molly Ringle
• [Filme] The Intern, de Nancy Meyers
• [Filme] The Internship, de Shawn Levy

Joana V.

• [Livro] Remebrance, de Meg Cabot
• [Livro] The secrets of Sir Richard Kenyworth, de Julia Quinn
• [Livro] A Perfeição de Fiona, de Marion Chesney
• [Livro] Um Duque Glorioso, de Sarah MacLean
• [Livro] Sonhos Malditos, de Carina Rosa
• [Livro] Ligeiramente Indecente, de Mary Balogh
• [Filme] The Good Dinosaur, de Peter Sohn

Propostas para... Abril
Carla D.

• [Livro] Artificial, de Jadah McCoy
• [Livro] Escape from Witchwood Hollow, de Jordan Elizabeth Mierk
• [Filme] Anomalisa, de Duke Johnson & Charlie Kaufman
• [Filme] Macbeth, de Justin Kurzel

Joana V.

• [Livro] Mer-Charmer, de Amy Bearce
• [Livro] A Loucura de Lorde Ian Mackenzie de Jennifer Ashley
• [Livro] Uma Viscondessa Fascinante de Jennifer Haymore
• [Livro] O desejo de Lady Cassandra de Madeline Hunter

With more books read than films watched, March was a very busy month; and we’re starting to see our free time vanishing, but don’t worry, you’ll still see plenty of us in here. For April, we already have some things planned, as usual, but other will, certainly, be added to our lists. Don’t forget to join us in our goodreads challenge for April here :)

What has been done... March
Carla D.

• [Book] The Little Android, by Marissa Meyer
• [Book] Sonhos Malditos, by Carina Rosa
• [Book] The Beauty - vol.1, by Jeremy Haun, Jason A. Hurley
• [Book] Underworld's Daughter, by Molly Ringle
• [Movie] The Intern, by Nancy Meyers
• [Movie] The Internship, by Shawn Levy

Joana V.

• [Book] Remebrance, by Meg Cabot
• [Book] The secrets of Sir Richard Kenyworth, by Julia Quinn
• [Book] Perfecting Fiona, by Marion Chesney
• [Book] No Good Duke Goes Unpunished, by Sarah MacLean
• [Book] Sonhos Malditos, by Carina Rosa
• [Book] Slightly Sinful, by Mary Balogh
• [Movie] The Good Dinosaur, de Peter Sohn

Goals for... April
Carla D.

• [Book] Artificial, by Jadah McCoy
• [Book] Escape from Witchwood Hollow, by Jordan Elizabeth Mierk
• [Movie] Anomalisa, by Duke Johnson & Charlie Kaufman
• [Movie] Macbeth, by Justin Kurzel

Joana V.

• [Book] Mer-Charmer, by Amy Bearce
• [Book] The Madness of Lord Ian MacKenzie, by Jennifer Ashley
• [Book] The Scoundrel's Seduction, by Jennifer Haymore
• [Book] The Conquest of Lady Cassandra, by Madeline Hunter

[Livro] Ligeiramente indecente, de Mary Balogh

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Título em Português: Ligeiramente Indecente
Série: Bedwyn Saga #5
Autor(a): Mary Balogh
Editora: Edições Asa
Páginas: 336
Data de Publicação: 8 de Março de 2016

Sinopse:

É no campo da Batalha de Waterloo, entre os soldados feridos, que Rachel York espera encontrar a salvação para si e para as suas amigas. Ludibriadas por um falso pretendente, as quatro encontram-se agora longe de casa, na penúria e obrigadas a viver num bordel. Mas Rachel é uma jovem cheia de recursos e não se dá por vencida. A solução para todos os seus problemas – pensa – está num belo soldado moreno que perdeu a memória.Pois para poder receber uma avultada herança, Rachel precisa de um marido. Basta convencer o soldado desconhecido a alinhar no jogo. O que ninguém sabe é que o jovem é nada menos que Lord Alleyne, o benjamim da família Bedwyn. Mas, por muita boa vontade que ele tenha, nada corre como planeado ao chegarem a Inglaterra. E a situação complica-se – quanto mais não seja pela crescente atração entre os falsos noivos, numa farsa que parece ser ligeiramente... indecente.

Opinião:
Ai que bem que me soube ler outro livro da Mary Balogh :)

Neste livro temos o mais novo dos irmãos Bedwyn, Alleyne, numa missão importante. O problema é que, enquanto cumpria essa missão, é atingido na perna, no meio da batalha de Waterloo e deixado para morrer depois de bater com a cabeça ao cair do cavalo. As hipóteses de sobrevivência eram escassas. Não fosse Rachel.

Rachel, uma jovem que, por mão do destino acabou por ir viver com a sua antiga ama, Bridget e as amigas desta num bordel, onde estas últimas (juntamente com a antiga ama) exerciam a sua profissão como prostitutas. Mas não se enganem, caros leitores, ao pensarem que estas senhoras são algo menos que carinhosas, queridas, corações de manteiga que, devido a circuntâncias da vida, não viram outra saída senão vender o corpo para, quando se reformassem, pudessem juntar as suas poupanças e comprarem uma pensão respeitável onde Phyllis pudesse cozinhar (os seus pratos são sempre descritos como tão deliciosos que davam fome!), Bridget pudesse cuidar do jardim, e Geraldine (Gerry) e Flossie da casa e visitas.

Quando estas cinco senhoras são defraudadas por um homem que se fazia passar por vigário e que tentou enganar Rachel para ficar com a sua herança, todos os seus sonhos são destruídos, mas não é por isso que perdem a sua alegria de viver. Decidem, então, ir procurar por dinheiro e joías nos mortos que nesse mometo estavam esquecidos nos campos após a batalha de Waterloo. E é aí que Rachel descobre que o seu primeiro morto, além de star nu, não estava morto. Com a ajuda do Sargento Strickland, que tinha ficado sem um olho, Rachel leva-o para o bordel, onde estes senhores ficam a repousar e são tratados pelas senhoras residentes.

Foram, sem dúvida, as partes mais divertidas do livro quando estas senhoras entravam em cena. O seu humor e relaxamento e paixão pela vida e pelos seus sonhos era contangiante.

Allyene, que como tinha dito inicialmente, bateu com a cabeça, acorda sem memória no bordel a pensar que tinha ido parar ao céu, arrancando com essa frase sorrisos e risos das quatro senhoras que naquele momento olhavam para ele. Como ninguém sabe como ele se chama, quem é ou de onde é, é apelidado de Sir Jonathan Smith, pois Gerry diz, com certeza, que ele tem um nariz aristocrático e por isso merece um título.

Com os cuidados atentos de Rachel, o “anjo dourado”, Alleyne acaba por se apaixonar pela jovem que passa os seus tempos livres a ler para ele, a cuidar dele durante os seus delírios febris e que acaba por ser uma amiga – uma amiga atraente, sem dúvida, mas acima de tudo uma amiga (e só mais tarde algo mais).

Ao saber da história do roubo, e após a recuperação de Allyene e do Sargento, o primeiro sugere a Rachel que finjam ser casados para esta ter a sua herança e as jóias que lhe são devidas, e que o tio guarda até ela chegar aos seus 25 anos (ela tem 22, se não me engano). É aqui que começa a verdadeira aventura do livro, com momentos hilariantes e românticos, e frustrantes e que nos deixam querer mais e mais.

Foi um livro de que gostei bastante, que me deixou em pulgas para chegar ao fim e que depois do fim ainda me deixou a querer mais ler o último livro da saga Bedwyn. Recomendo verdadeiramente a todos os fãs do género.

Title: Slightly Sinful
Serie: Bedwyn Saga #5
Author: Mary Balogh
Publisher: Edições Asa
Pages: 336
Publication date: March 8th 2016

Synopsis:

When the four lady residents of a brothel in Brussels lose their life savings to a confidence man, their friend Rachel York, who introduced him to them, feels responsible even though all her money has been stolen too. She vows to help them recover their savings, but in order to do that she needs to get her hands on the jewels she will inherit at the age of twenty-five. And in order to do that, she needs to acquire a husband--fast. Enter Lord Alleyne Bedwyn, who is recuperating at the brothel from wounds sustained at the Battle of Waterloo. Alleyne may have lost his memory, but he has not lost any of the dash and devilry that had always characterized him as the youngest Bedwyn brother. Although he needs to go off in search of his identity, he cannot resist embroiling himself in intrigue with Rachel first--especially when doing so seems ever so slightly sinful

Review:
Oh, how good it felt to read another Mary Balogh’s book :)

In this new book, the main character is the youngest of the Bedwyn brothers, Alleyne, who has an important mission. The problem is that when he was doing such mission, in the middle of the Waterloo, he is shot in the leg and hits his head, when he falls off his horse. The chances of survival were slim – if it wasn’t for Rachel.

Rachel is a young lady who, by the hand of fate, ended up living with her former nanny, Bridget, and her three friends, in a brothel, where the four of them worked as prostitutes. But don’t fool yourselves, dear readers, by thinking these women anything else than ladies, loving ladies, sweethearts, with a soft warm heart and so, so funny. Circumstances of life forced them to sell their bodies for survival, in way that when they wanted (and could) retire, they would be able to put their savings together and have a respectable bed&breakfast, where Phyllis would cook (her cookings are always described in such a delicious way that most of the time it made me hungry!), Bridget would take care of the garden, and Geraldine (Gerry) and Flossie would take care of the house and the visitors.

When these five ladies are cheated by a man that presented himself as a vicar and that tried to trick Rachel to get her inheritance, all their dreams are destroyed, but in spite of that, they did not lose their joie de vivre. After this, they decided to go to extremes to get some money, which means going to the dead bodies left in the woods after Waterloo. And that’s where Rachel finds her first dead that, besides being naked, wasn’t dead. With the help of Sargent Strickland, who had lost an eye and was wandering in the same woods, Rachel takes him to the brothel and the ladies take care of these two gentlemen.

It was, without a doubt, the funniest moments in the book. Their humour, their relaxation and their passion for life, and most of all, the passion they had for their dreams, it was contagious.

Alleyne, who, as I said in the beginning, had hit his head, wakes up without any memory whatsoever, in the brothel, thinking that maybe he had gone to heaven, receiving smiles and laughter from the ladies that were staring at him at that moment. Considering no one knows what his name is, where he’s from or who he really is, they decide to call him Sir Jonathan Smith, because Gerry says that he has an aristocratic nose and therefore deserves a title.

Under Rachel’s care, the “golden angel”, Alleyne ends up falling in love with the young lady, who spent her free time taking care of him, reading to him, and most of all being a friend that accepted his lack of knowledge about himself – she was a friend, an attractive friend, but a friend nonetheless (and only later something else).

When Alleyne and the Sargent discover the theft the fake vicar had done, Alleyne suggest that he and Rachel could pretend to be married so that her uncle would give her the inheritance e and the jewels she is owed and that her uncle was holding until her 25th birthday (she’s 22 if I’m not mistaken). This is where the true adventure begins, with hilarious and romantic moments, frustrating and that just left us wanting more and more.

I really liked this book, I just wanted to get to the end to know what would happen but at the same didn’t want it to end. It just left me wanting to read the last book of the Bedwyn Saga even more. I truly recommend this book for all the fans of this genre.

[Filme] The Internship (2013), de Shawn Levy

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Título em Português: Os Estagiários
Realização: Shawn Levy
Argumento: Vince Vaughn & Jared Stern
Elenco Principal: Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson, Rose Byrne
Ano: 2013 | Duração: 1h 59mins

Sinopse:

Billy e Nick são vendedores cujas carreiras foram devastadas pela era digital. Na tentativa de provar que não estão obsoletos, contra todas as espectativas eles conseguem um cobiçado estágio na Google, juntamente com um batalhão de pequenos génios. No entanto, alcançar esta utopia é apenas metade do desafio. Agora têm de competir com a elite nacional de talentos da tecnologia para provarem que a carência é a principal fonte da reinvenção.

Opinião:
Numa tarde aborrecida, decidi aterrar no Netflix e ver a primeira coisa que me aparecesse à frente. E foi assim que vi The Internship. Segundo os cálculos da Netflix, o rating para este filme, tendo em conta o meu gosto, seria de estrela e meia. Não era muito abonatório, mas decidi ver qualquer das formas. E ainda bem, porque tive uma tarde bem passada e o filme foi giro.

E é praticamente isso que tenho a dizer. The Internship acima de qualquer outra coisa – um pouco à semelhança do The Intern (até no nome se vê esta semelhança) – é uma estória de aprendizagem. Nós não sabemos tudo, há sempre alguém que sabe algo que nós não sabemos, da mesma forma que nós sabemos algo que esse alguém não sabe. E é através da partilha de conhecimento e no trabalho de equipa que evoluímos e nos tornamos melhores seres humanos. E, essencialmente, que nunca devemos desistir dos nossos sonhos. Pode não ser num futuro próximo, mas se batalharmos e nos focarmos no que queremos, iremos lá chegar.

É de forma divertida, leve e sem desprendimentos que The Internship se desenrola e se torna num filme agradável e que me entreteve numa tarde aborrecida.

Title: The Intership
Director: Shawn Levy
Writers: Vince Vaughn & Jared Stern
Stars: Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson, Rose Byrne
Year: 2013 | Duration: 1h 59mins

Synopsis:

Two salesmen whose careers have been torpedoed by the digital age find their way into a coveted internship at Google, where they must compete with a group of young, tech-savvy geniuses for a shot at employment.

Review:
On a boring afternoon, I decided to go to Netflix and watch the first movie showed up. And I watched The Internship. According to Netflix’s calculations, this movie’s rating should be one and half star. It wasn’t a good start, but I decided to watch it anyway. And I’m glad I did, because I actually had a great afternoon and it was a funny movie.

And that’s pretty much what I have to say. The Internship is, above else – a bit like The Intern (even the name is similar) – a learning story. We don’t know everything; there is always someone who knows something we don’t know, as much we know stuff other people don’t know. We learn and become better human beings by sharing our own knowledge, and working in teams. And, basically, we should never give up our dreams. It may not become real in the near future, but if we fought and focus on what we want, we will get there eventually.

In a funny and light way that The Internship goes on, and becomes one pleasant movie, which entertained me on a boring afternoon.

[Livro] Sonhos Malditos, de Carina Rosa

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Título em Português: Sonhos Malditos
Série: --
Autor(a): Carina Rosa
Editora: Smashwords inc.
Páginas: 22
Data de Publicação: 14 de Fevereiro de 2016

Sinopse:

Teresa tem premonições desde criança. Depois de ter previsto as mortes de toda a sua família, incluindo a de Henrique, o seu melhor amigo de infância, Teresa refugia-se no seu dom. Mas a maldição que a marca vai persegui-la. Num dia cinzento, em que os seus próprios livros de feitiços parecem amaldiçoá-la, Teresa é salva por um jovem aparentemente desconhecido. Mas as semelhanças entre este estranho e Henrique levam-na de volta ao passado, quando tinha ainda muito a perder. Teresa conhece os destinos daqueles que lhe são próximos. No entanto, dá por si a apaixonar-se por este novo homem, cujo passado lhe é menos estranho do que imaginava. Na luta para alterar as malhas do destino deste jovem, que sabe ser fatal, Teresa descobre que a sua súbita aparição não foi fruto do acaso.

Opinião:
Sonhos Malditos é o segundo conto que leio da Carina Rosa, e cada vez mais penso que é uma escritora a seguir. Este conto é um pouco diferente daqueles que ela costuma escrever, pois é de fantasia/sobrenatural – mas não é por isso que deixa de ser bom.

Foi uma lufada de ar fresco e só tive pena que acabasse tão depressa – e que não se soubesse mais sobre o início do conto.

Tanto Teresa como Henrique (seja em que versão for), são personagens interessantes que nos fazem querer saber mais sobre eles, talvez se tivesse sido desenvolvido um pouco mais nesse âmbito tivesse dado uma pontuação mais alta.

Como o conto, a crítica será pequenina pois não há muito mais a dizer. Foram páginas de entretenimento que me deixaram a querer mais.

Title: Sonhos Malditos
Serie: --
Author: Carina Rosa
Publisher: Smashwords inc.
Pages: 22
Publication date: February 14th 2016

Synopsis:

Teresa has been having premonitions since she was a child. After foreseeing the deaths of all her family, including Henrique, her childhood best friend, Teresa takes refuge in her own gift. But the curse that she is branded with will never leave her. On a grey day, when her own books seem to curse her, Teresa is rescued by a young man, apparently unknown. But the resemblances between this stranger and Henrique take her back to the past, to a time when she still had a lot to lose. Teresa knows the destinies of those that are close to her. However, she finds herself falling in love with this new man, whose past is not as strange to her as one might have thought. In a struggle to change the fate of this young man, whom she knows is fatal, Teresa finds out that his sudden appearance was not by mere coincidence. (synopsis translated by the blogger)

Review:
Sonhos Malditos is the second short story I’ve read by Carina Rosa. And every time I read something of hers I think that she is an author whose career I should (and will) follow. This particular short story is a bit different then her usual stories, because it deals with the supernatural/fantasy – but that doesn’t make it any less good then her other short stories.

It was a breath of fresh air and I was only sad that it ended so quickly – and maybe that we didn’t know a bit more about the beginning of the story.

Teresa and Henrique (whatever version of him) were very interesting characters that made us want to know more about themselves, maybe if the short story hadn’t been a short story (or at least not that short) I would have given this a higher score.

As the short story, this is a short review, because there’s not much more to say. It was an entertaining read, which left me wanting to know more and read more stories writing by this author.