The Spear Cuts Through Water

Sobre el libro

The Spear Cuts Through Water is a 2022 fantasy novel by Filipino-American writer Simon Jimenez. The novel contains a frame story about a grandchild listening to stories of the Old Country; it also tells the story of two men who journey across the Old Country with a dying goddess. It is Jimenez's second novel. The novel received critical acclaim, winning the 2023 British Fantasy Award for Best Novel as well as the Crawford Award. It was shortlisted for the 2023 Ignyte Award and Ursula K. Le Guin Prize.

De dónde sale la puntuación

Las fuentes promedian 8,4 sobre 244 valoraciones, aún pocas, así que el voto lector pesa un 57% y el resto tira hacia la media de Fantasía (8,0). De ahí sale 8,3.

Voces de lectores

Las reseñas más valoradas en Hardcover (con autoría).

• EN

  “4.25🌟 A book that takes you on a journey, through its brilliant and unique prose. The most striking part of this book is its innovative use of perspective and prose. It's unlike anything else I've read in terms of storytelling, and can take a bit of disorientation and re-reading to grasp how the story's being told- an investment well worth it in my opinion. The prose lent itself to creating a immersive and magical reading experience that left me feeling entangled with the characters and story. The stories of established characters and the relationships they had with themselves, each othe…”

  ★ 4.5/5Odyssea en Hardcover

• EN

  “I really wanted to love this book, but clearly, since it took me two months to read, something didn’t quite click. The book is written as though you’re in the audience of a play watching the story unfold on stage, with occasional fourth wall breaks. I’d never read something written this way and maybe that played into my struggle with this. Despite the bad rating, I wouldn’t tell someone to stay away from this book. There are a lot of really cool elements to it, particularly in the worldbuilding, and I could see some people finding an instant connection to the story and flying right through it.…”

  ★ 2.5/5seanD en Hardcover

• EN

  “Look, I'd been thinking of leaving my book club because we'd just had a run of duds, and I hadn't really attached to anything they picked this year. But this? This is a book that I might have passed up that has become definitely in my top three books this year. Someone in the club referred to it as a dream within a play within a myth, and that's the best I can describe it. The writing is fantastic, the mythology raw, and the romance subtle and beautiful. I love the chorus elements. I love the weave of the different narratives. I loved this book. It took me a long while to get through because…”

  ★ 5/5Valjeanval en Hardcover

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