2. Vocabulary
Chain: cadena, acontecimientos Plot: trama
Spins: gira Fear: temor
Beaten: vencidos Inn: posada
Meanwhile: mientras tanto Belong: pertenecer
Defeat: derrotar Trick: truco
Randomly: al azar Clues: pistas
3. One of my favorite sagas is
The Kingkiller Chronicle,
which tells Kvothe's life,
told by him. At first they are
three books: The Name of
the Wind, The Wise Man’s
Fear and The Doors of
Stone.
Kvothe is a very human
character, because in the
books the good things that
he has done are narrated,
but the bad things too. He
is a legendary character,
the hero and the villain of
thousands of stories.
4. All people think he is dead, when actually he
lives with a false name in a remote and
modest inn, of which he is the owner.
Nobody knows who is now. Until one night
a traveler, called the Chronicler, recognizes
him and asks him to
tell him his story,the
real story, to which
finally Kvothe agreed.
5. The protagonist belongs to a troupe of itinerant artists.
In this environment Kvothe, an intelligent and cheerful
child, learns different arts. For him, the magic does not
exist; he knows that it is tricks. Until one day he meets
Abenthy, an old magician to whom he sees to call to the
wind.
This begins to show a
kind of magic called
sympathy, although
Kvothe wanted to learn
nomination, the name
of all the things.
6. One evening, Kvothe is going to play to the forest, and when
he returned he found all murdered. A few unknowns were
sat around a bonfire, but then they disappeared.
Since this Kvothe goes to the University, the only place
where he can learn everything he wants. There also he
hopes to find information about the Chandrian, some
beings of old stories.
Kvothe believes that
they killed his family.
7. In this saga many mysteries
appear, and the majority are
not solved immediately, though
the reader can find clues in any
page. These books belong to the
fantastic genre, since there are
fae beings, magic and fantastic
worlds.
Other books that I have liked
have been “Earth's Children”
(Historical fiction), “El
Informe Phaeton” (science
fiction), and “A Song of Ice and
Fire “(an Epic fantasy).
8. Memorias de Idhún is a fantasy and adventure
trilogy written by the Valencian author Laura
Gallego. The trilogy has been translated into many
languages, between them to English.
The books are; Memorias de Idhún I: La Resistencia,
Memorias de Idhún II: Tríada, Memorias de Idhún
III: Panteón
9. The books tells the story of a fantastic chain of events that
will affect two worlds: Earth and Idhún. Idhún was created
by six gods, who also created the warm-blooded races
(Humans, Celestes, Feéricos, Varu, Giants and Yams) and
the semi-divine dragons and unicorns. There is also a
seventh god, enemy of the rest, which created the cold-
blooded Szish and the semi-divine sheks, which are winged
snakes.
10. The sheks and Szish were
beaten in a war and exiled to
an old, dead world: Umadhún.
However, a powerful
necromant, Ashran, allied
with divine magic, caused a
conjunction of the three suns
and moons of Idhún, and used
its energy to kill all dragons
and unicorns so the sheks
could come back and, helped
by the Szish, rule the world
and the warm-blooded races.
11. Still, a prophecy by the gods stated that a unicorn and a
dragon would survive and defeat the sheks
After Ashran's rise, some
warm-blooded wizards escaped
to Earth. In order to kill them,
Ashran sent Kirtash, a human
(warm-blooded) but cold and
efficient assassin. Jack and
Victoria, born in Earth, will
join the Resistance (which
consists only of Shail, a young
wizard, and Alsan of Vanissar,
a warrior and prince) and try
to stop him.
12. As the story goes on, we discover that
there is a complex plot behind it, which
spins around the battle of the Gods: The
six creator gods (Aldun, Irial, Karevan,
Wina, Yohavir and Neliam) against the
Seventh god, father of the cold-blooded
races. The terrestrial beings are only
the pawns they'll use to win a godly
battle. The dragons guide the warm-
blooded races; the sheks guide the Szish.
Meanwhile, the unicorns randomly
spread magic through the world,
touching people with their horns in
order to make them witches or wizards.
13. The Six gods made a
prophecy in order to make a
dragon and a unicorn
survive the massacre, and
the Seventh god sent Kirtash
to kill them before it came
true. The Resistance will
find new and powerful
enemies as the story goes
on, such as the beautiful
fairy Gerde, who will have
an important role in the last
book.
14. I have liked this trilogy because apart from fantasy it also
has adventure and action between other topics, which fit
very well between them and in the story. To my me it turns
out a very interesting story from which a lot can be learned,
though it is a fantasy.
The End
