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    Wormwood

    Written by G. P. Taylor

    Narrated by Davina Porter

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    About this audiobook

    When a meteor strikes London, its inhabitants are devastated. It’s not long before corrupt individuals start taking advantage of the disaster and, with the city lying in ruins, nothing seems certain to those who dwell there. In only they knew that, held captive and tucked away in an attic in the city, there is an angel. An angel who fell to earth with the meteor, whose only hope lies in the friendship of a servant girl named Agetta. For in this dark time of treachery and deceit, escape is not likely to come easily.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateSep 14, 2004
    ISBN9781400091140
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    Wormwood
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    G. P. Taylor

    G. P. Taylor(www.shadowmancer.com) is the author of Tersias the Oracle, as well as New York Times bestsellers Shadowmancer and Wormwood. He has recently co-authored Rosie: note to self with Claire Connor.

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    • 4/5
      A dark little tale set in late-Victorian London. A metaphysical scientist receives a book that predicts a comet, Wormwood, headed for earth, and bound to set off an apocalypse. His servant-girl steals the book and dodges demons and monsters, while around her all hell breaks loose. Pretty entertaining, all told- designed for young adults of a macabre mind. Even angels commit atrocities here, and everyone in the book except, prehaps, the servant girl, has a dark ulterior motive.
    • 1/5
      I was pleasantly surprised to find that 'Wormwood' was far more enjoyable than 'Shadowmancer'. However, most things in life are better than 'Shadowmancer' and so that's really not much of an endorsement.While I liked the general idea of the plot, I felt that Taylor did not use it to its full effect. The slow descent of the comet, gradually causing London to fall to chaos, could have made for a dramatic and suspenseful story. However, Taylor seemed to largely forget about this until the climax and instead pursued numerous sub-plots which went nowhere - often petering out without resolution and never doing anything to explain the gaping holes in the main plot. The ending is also very abrupt, the entire climax taking less that twenty pages and leaving many loose ends hanging.Although less out-and-out preachy than 'Shadowmancer', the novel also had a heavy message that both science and the Kabbalah are evil, and that the ongoing search that mankind has for knowledge/power is gradually damning us all. While this did not irritate me nearly as much as Raphah's pagan bashing in the previous novel, it also did not make me warm to the novel. I don't really enjoy books that try to make me feel bad about reading them.Finally, the characters in this book are exceptionally dislikable. None of the cast - angels included - were altruistic in any way, instead going out of their way to either hurt others or further their own selfish ends. I could not get behind any of these characters at all and found myself not caring if they lived or died.In short, this was not the book for me at all. I can see little appeal in it and certainly won't be recommending it to anyone.
    • 2/5
      I've had Wormwood sitting on my bookshelf for years. I'm not entirely sure when or why I originally grabbed it, except that it implied magic. There was magic, as well as comets and demons and angels. The book had some potential. The writing wasn't bad and there were some interesting idea, but it ultimately fell flat for me. The details to the world building seemed a little off. It didn't quite seem like 1756 London. Parts of it felt too modern, like some of the dialog. Other parts made it feel like and alternate version of London, rather than historical. I also couldn't get a handle on the characters, on why they did what they did. Their motivations weren't clear and I didn't really like any of them. Agetta was the only one I could almost sympathize with, but even with her, I was confused to the point of not knowing how old she really was. Sometimes I though she was around 18, other times she seemed around 12. And her personality seemed to flip flop quite a bit, so her growth seems convenient to the story rather than natural.Ultimately, not for me.
    • 3/5
      I found this story to be hard going.
    • 4/5
      Great fun in an unusual setting of mid eighteen century London. Great plotting, some weak characters but the moral ambiguity is a welcome change. Good twists and turns and fun throughout. Flabby in some sections, some editing would be helpful but overall recommended
    • 4/5
      I had this book on my shelf for quite a while before reading it. Once it was started though, I remember being firmly stuck in it until it was finished. While it is aimed at a young adults, the story is darker, the plot better, and the writing finer than in the other books popular with this audience, that I have read. I found the locales and characters, and events all quite immersing and more believable and convincing that those in Harry Potter or His Dark Materials. The atmosphere of the time is created with such flair that you get great mental images of the scenes as you go through the book. If I were to pick something that would improve the book, I would say that it should be twice as long, so that all the characters could be developed. But this would perhaps have made it more laborious to read for some, and taken away the pace from the great storyline. While I have been through thousands of pages since I read this book, I am actually really looking forward to getting into the sequel, Tersias, which I have on my shelf at the moment.
    • 4/5
      An interesting fantasy set in London of 1756 and a near earth collision with a comet. Featuring magic and several groups of people with a variety of motives. A better read for me than Shadowmancer.
    • 5/5
      this book kind of dragged on for me, but it was interesting to some extent...It helps to know the symbolism of such things such as where wormwood comes from.