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Bluecrowne
Written by Kate Milford
Narrated by Liz Pearce
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
Return to the world of the bestselling Greenglass House, where smugglers, magic, and pyrotechnics mix, in a new adventure from a New York Times best-selling, National Book Award-nominated, and Edgar Award-winning author. Lucy Bluecrowne is beginning a new life ashore with her stepmother and half brother, though she's certain the only place she'll ever belong is with her father on a ship of war as part of the crew. She doesn't care that living in a house is safer and the proper place for a twelve-year-old girl; it's boring. But then two nefarious strangers identify her little brother as the pyrotechnical prodigy they need to enact an evil plan, and it will take all Lucy's fighting instincts to keep her family together. Set in the magical Greenglass House world, this action-packed tale of the house's first inhabitants reveals the origins of some of its many secrets.
Author
Kate Milford
Kate Milford is the New York Times best-selling author of the Edgar Award–winning, National Book Award nominee Greenglass House, as well as Ghosts of Greenglass House, Bluecrowne, The Thief Knot, and many more. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York. www.greenglasshousebooks.com and www.katemilfordwritesbooks.com, Twitter: @KateMilford
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Reviews for Bluecrowne
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Only very loosely connected to the first 2 books via the setting. Took a while to get to know the characters, not as enchanting as the first 2 books.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is my sort of magical -- historical, fanciful, mythological, with a little bit of wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff. Cool to know the origins of Greenglass House, and also to read about pyrotechnics and sailing adventures. Delightful.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I enjoyed this installment way more than I thought I would. It made me want to go read her Arcana books also.
The plot kept me turning pages way after I should have been asleep. I liked the mysterious plot in The Greenglass House, but the fantasy sci-fi plot of this one is way more to my liking. Try it even if you weren't thrilled with the first book. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The year is 1810, and Lucy Bluecrowne, dismayed at the prospect of being exiled from her long-time home aboard her father's ship, the Left-Handed Fate, does her best to accept these new "orders," and to reconcile herself to her new life on land. It helps that she will be living with her stepmother, Xiaoming, and her half brother Liao, and that her father has constructed the marvelous Greenglass House for her, based on all of the houses she has admired over the years, in their various ports of call. Lucy's feelings about these living arrangements are soon overshadowed however, as two nefarious characters - one a time-travelling villain more than willing to kill to get what he wants, the other a man with a supernatural talent for incendiary activities - target Liao. Can Lucy, always known for her cool head and strategic thinking, rescue her little brother? And what role will Xiaoming, who is not exactly what she seems, play in it all...?Having greatly enjoyed Kate Milford's Greenglass House and Ghosts of Greenglass House, I was eager to pick up Bluecrowne, and learn bit about the family which first built this marvelous house, and the life of Nagspeake in a different time period. Unfortunately, despite my high expectations, at first I didn't particularly take to the story. Perhaps I was expecting a bit more about the house - one of my favorite "characters" in Milford's books - or perhaps I simply was missing Milo and the other beloved characters from the earlier Greenglass House books. Whatever the case may be, although I enjoyed the first half of this one, I didn't love it. Then, picking it up after a week's break, I simply raced through the second half, finding it immensely engaging. Perhaps I just wasn't in the right frame of mind, while reading the first half. Whatever the case may be, I ended up enjoying Bluecrowne immensely, even if there wasn't enough about Greenglass House itself in it, and finished it with a desire to track down the rest of the author's books. Lucy and Liao's adventures continue in The Left-Handed Fate, which will probably be the nest one I read, but other characters appear in such titles as The Boneshaker, The Broken Lands and The Kairos Mechanism. I anticipate lots of happy reading ahead, which is a lovely way to finish a book! Recommended to Milford fans, and to anyone who enjoyed the Greenglass House books.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This is the 3rd book in the Greenglass House series and the 2nd in the Arcana series. I really enjoyed a lot of Milford’s earlier books, thought Greenglass House was okay, but didn’t finish the Ghosts of Greenglass House. This book was better than the Ghosts of Greenglass House but I still didn’t love it. This book could be read as a stand alone and isn’t completely dependent on the previous books in the series.This book is about the history of Greenglass House and follows Lucy’s story. Lucy and her brother try to make a home in Greenglass House with their mother; previous to this Lucy had spent all her life at sea with her father. It was a pretty simple story and I didn’t really like it all that much.The story takes awhile to get going and is very predictable. It was a fairly quick read, but I wasn't very excited about it and had trouble staying engaged in the story.I did enjoy the discussion about fireworks and how they work. I did not enjoy all the discussion about sailing (I have never been fond of books that talk a lot about boats).Overall this was okay but not great. If you were a huge fan of the rest of the Greenglass House novels you will probably enjoy this one as well. Personally I liked Milford’s “Boneshaker” and “The Broken Lands” a lot more.