a.a.k Jensen Girl
Nombre de messages : 31402 Age : 36 Localisation : Belgique Date d'inscription : 02/12/2006
| Sujet: Threads: The Reincarnation of Anne Boleyn Dim 05 Sep 2010, 18:08 | |
| In 1536 a woman dies... and the story begins.When Henry and Anne meet in 1970, they presume they're meeting for the first time. They don't know they were married 434 years before. They don't know they parted on bad terms. Anne has no idea why she has a compulsion to punish Henry, a man she's only just met, and he has no idea why he can't be near her without falling in love. They don't know they are bona fide soul mates, bound to each other through eternity. They don't know that this meeting is a test... Several lifetimes ago, and hundreds of years earlier in 1536, Henry and Anne were at the mercy of influences outside their control, explosively incompatible, and caught in a marriage that ended in betrayal so shocking that Anne required lifetimes to recover. Henry, seemingly in defense of Anne (but more likely acting out of "stubborn perverseness", she observes), terrorized England and decreed widespread political murder in order to protect her. Ultimately, to Anne's horror, this once passionate husband turned on her and had her executed as well. Threads, a reincarnation fantasy, opens with Anne's execution. Her fury at her husband’s betrayal has enough momentum to survive centuries, but in Threads she learns that she has been assigned a hard task: she must review their history together through a number of past lives, and find it within herself to forgive him. This may prove difficult and take some time. The husband in question is Henry Tudor, the notorious Henry VIII. The narrator is the stubborn, volatile Anne Boleyn, who is not at all inclined to forgive. It is a very unusual love story. | |
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a.a.k Jensen Girl
Nombre de messages : 31402 Age : 36 Localisation : Belgique Date d'inscription : 02/12/2006
| Sujet: Re: Threads: The Reincarnation of Anne Boleyn Mer 16 Mar 2011, 20:30 | |
| Je l'ai lu et... c'est pas que je suis déçue, parce que j'ai beaucoup aimé. Mais c'est pas du tout ce à quoi je m'attendais. Le résumé que j'ai mis, en fait, ne reflète pas du tout le contenu du livre. On a plus l'histoire d'Anne de son point de vue, puis d'autres époques où Henry et elle se retrouvent. Mais les différentes époques ne sont pas vraiment exploitées au maximum. Et la fois où ils se retrouvent dans les années 1970, ça tient sur quoi? 10 pages? Grand maximum. Et comme, perso, je m'attendais à une histoire se déroulant dans les années 70, avec... bah une histoire structurée, sur l'approche de l'autre, ... Bah forcément, ça déçoit un peu. Parce que l'idée me plaisait tellement Maintenant, ça reste une lecture super agréable, avec des idées intéressantes (même si le principe de soulmates continuent de me rebuter). Je trouve juste dommage que le synopsis induise totalement en erreur concernant le contenu global du livre... | |
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