King Of Shadows

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King of Shadows by Susan Cooper | Goodreads

Now as a child reader, or perhaps more precisely, as an older Middle Grade reader, as I believe King of Shadows is suitable from age eleven or so onwards, I would likely have simply taken and accepted the above mentioned reasons as to why Nat Field has to be switched with his namesake and Elizabethan counterpart Nathan Field as a basic and yes, even logical given (that because the historic, Elizabethan Nathan Field is ill with the bubonic plague, he might easily infect and likely kill William Shakespeare and thus destroy his literary legacy and fame). However, my adult self is of course a bit more jaded, cynical and fond of basic logistics. And if Shakespeare catching the plague from Nathan Field would kill him and thus prevent him from penning many of his most famous plays, then these plays should really by simple logic and deduction not even exist in the present day (but they in fact do, yet are deemed as threatened and in need of rescuing). It wasn't torture, but it also wasn't bliss. I never shook with excitement, got butterflies in my stomach and it definitely wasn't a topic I would discuss with friends. Susan Cooper is a genius writer who describes things such as smell, noise, feeling, tastes so richly, it made me feel like I was in the scene with Nat. (Although, sometimes there are things that I don’t want to imagine...) There are lots of scenes that are difficult to imagine in this book because she writes about an old period but the letters make me see the scene, when I close my eyes.Legacy · 2. Vehicles and Mechs · 3. Legendary Places · 4. Ninjago's Most Wanted · 5. The Digiverse and Beyond · 6. The Elemental Masters · 7. Beasts and Dragons · 8. Rise of Garmadon · 9. Prophecy of the Green Ninja · 10. Greatest Battles

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An epic story with an MMO feel to the adventure, in excess of 175 quests to challenge the bravest of souls and custom armour, weapons, mounts, potions and items. This is the adventure map that raises the bar that adventure maps should be judged by even further.... After the Githyanki drove him from the Astral Plane, the King of Shadow was still able to somehow return to Faerûn, and the Sword Coast North, where he began to extend his influence from the Mere of Dead Men. All of this because the ill-smelling smog of this volcanic island is playing games with the memories of the visitors, making them question the reality before their eyes and their own recollections of the past. See Michael Quinn, “Celebrity and the Semiotics of Acting,” New Theatre Quarterly 22 (1990), 154–61, esp. 155. And like I said, it's very very good. There's a heartrending moment when Nat almost falls in love with Shakespeare and Cooper conveys this hero worship with kindness and a light, nonjudgemental touch. There's a lot of warmth throughout the text, Nat and his love of his work, and Cooper and her patent love for Shakespeare.I especially enjoyed how real the King of Shadows felt to me. All the details made sense and really created the atmosphere of the 1600’s. I could barely put the book down at the end of each lesson, it always left me on tenterhooks. I particularly admire how historically correct it is. (Most of the characters were real people in the Elizabethan era.) This book made me cry one chapter, laugh the next, which is very rare since I don't often get very emotional whilst reading books. When he wakes, Nat finds himself in 1599, an actor at the original Globe - and his co-star is none other than the King of Shadows himself: William Shakespeare. Although there were a couple violence issues, the King of Shadows is impeccably written: all the scenes come alive in a way I have very rarely seen. The characters are strong and believable and the plot twisted many times which kept the story interesting.