The Spear Cuts Through Water

ファンタジーで155位

The Spear Cuts Through Water

Simon Jimenez

初版 2022原語 EN

8.38.3 / 10
スコア /10244 件の評価信頼度57%:スコアのうちこの割合が読者自身の評価です
#155 ファンタジーの200冊中 カテゴリの23%を上回る
373
ページ数
約7時間
読了時間
  • Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel

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この本について

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.

スコアの内訳

各ソースの平均は244件の評価で8.4。まだ多くはないため読者票の重みは57%にとどまり、残りはファンタジーの平均8.0に引き寄せられます。こうして8.3になります。

ソース平均評価数重み
Hardcover8.4244 100%

読者のことば

Hardcover で最も支持されたレビューです(執筆者名を明記しています)。

  • “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…”

    ★ 4.5/5Hardcover の Odyssea さん

  • “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.…”

    ★ 2.5/5Hardcover の seanD さん

  • “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…”

    ★ 5/5Hardcover の Valjeanval さん

よくある質問

『The Spear Cuts Through Water』の評価はどのくらいですか?

独立した1のソースから集めた244件の読者評価で、10点満点中8.3です。

The Spear Cuts Through Waterは読む価値がある?

読者評価は244件で8.3/10。ファンタジーの棚の23 %より上です。

『The Spear Cuts Through Water』を読むのにどれくらいかかりますか?

平均的な速さでおよそ7時間、373ページです。

『The Spear Cuts Through Water』は何位ですか?

現在のスナップショットではファンタジーの155位です。

『The Spear Cuts Through Water』はどのくらいの長さですか?

373ページ。ファンタジーのランキング入り作品の74%より短い本です。

この本が好きなら

同じ棚(ファンタジー)で、この本に最も近いスコア 8.3。