A Tempestade

The Fury #2

by Alexander Gordon Smith, Pedro Sette-Câmara (Translator)

Além de se manterem a salvo da bestialidade da Fúria, Cal, Brick, Daisy e os novos companheiros precisarão enfrentar a força do homem da tempestade, uma figura gigantesca que aos poucos suga o mundo com sua enorme boca. Capaz de encobrir o sol de poeira e de pesadas nuvens, transformando o dia em noite, a criatura não traz nada além de vazio e destruição. Diante do redemoinho do caos, os jovens tentarão descobrir como eliminar essa força devastadora usando os poderes que guardam dentro de si. Mas, para isso, terão de despertar suas chamas contra a escuridão do destino sombrio que os aguarda. Nessa angustiante história de perseverança em meio a um cenário de horror, os amigos descobrirão que a arma contra a iminente submissão da humanidade ao abismo do nada pode ser mais simples - e poderosa - do que imaginam.

Genres: Young Adult, Horror, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Paranormal, Horror Thriller

320 pages, Paperback

First published April 30, 2013

About the author

Alexander Gordon Smith is the author of the Escape from Furnace series of young adult novels, including Lockdown and Solitary. Born in 1979 in Norwich, England, he always wanted to be a writer. After experimenting in the service and retail trades for a few years, Smith decided to go to University. He studied English and American Literature at the University of East Anglia, and it was here that he first explored his love of publishing. Along with poet Luke Wright, he founded Egg Box Publishing, a groundbreaking magazine and press that promotes talented new authors. He also started writing literally hundreds of articles, short stories and books ranging from Scooby Doo comic strips to world atlases, Midsomer Murders to X-Files. The endless research for these projects led to countless book ideas germinating in his head. His first book, The Inventors, written with his nine-year-old brother Jamie, was published in the U.K. in 2007. He lives in England.

http://us.macmillan.com/author/alexan...

Reviews

[Lorre · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Storm was a good ending to this duology.

Our group of teenagers and kids have been through some horrors in the first book and their situation doesn't get any better in this second book. It becomes very clear what they have to do and it is beyond frightening... but it's their only option. I was constantly frightened for them and was wondering how they would ever make it out of this alive.

The ending was a bittersweet one... happy and sad at the same time.

[angel · Rating 5 out of 5]

um livro espetacular que fechou a duologia de uma forma muito boa e com uma escrita fenomenal. infelizmente, o fim da daisy me deixou muito triste e impactada e eu gostaria que tivesse uma forma de todos sairem bem e vivos mas tem que ter aquela tristeza de final de livro. daisy uma pimpolha incrivel que eu amo de paixão. obrigada por esse final, foi delicioso de ler.

[Rynn Yumako · Rating 3 out of 5]

Once again, just like in the first installment, the horror, the atmosphere was spot-on. The parts where London was being destroyed by the beast gave me chills, the description of the "nothing" that was left after its destruction was eeiry and horrifying.

Sadly though, just like in the first book, the characters didn't really feel anything special to me, apart from maybe Rilke, who was just delightfully crazy. I was really looking forward to characters and relationships similar to the ones in the author's Furnace series, but here those parts felt kind of pushed aside in favour of the more disturbing happenings. But after about the middle of this book the friendship parts were a bit more pronounced, it definitely played a huge part in defeating the monster, and the ending went in the right direction. I loved how the author ended this series, definitely a touching and heartwarming choice after so much horror.

I enjoyed this duology, Alexander Gordon Smith just has a way with words; his stories suck you in, his scenes just feel crystal clear and you can picture practically everything that is going on. (Even when you don't particularly want to, because now you can't look out your window in fear of the possibility of a blackhole-monster. oops.)