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Raven Kennedy’s DB123049 Brillo -- Wrong Title?

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2 days 4 hours ago - 2 days 4 hours ago #2077 by dmalosh
(I reluctantly emailed BCS the following question. Not knowing if/when I'll get a response, I thought I'd share my inquiry here.)

Is Raven Kennedy’s DB123049 Brillo correctly titled?

Google tells me Brillo (Spanish) = Glow (English). According to Goodreads , Glow is book #4 in this series.

When I ask Chat GPT for the book title that matches DB123049’s annotation, it says:
“That annotation describes Glint by Raven Kennedy, which is Book 2 in The Plated Prisoner series.” (Goodreads and Chat GPT agree that book #2 is Glint.)

Meanwhile, DB123049’s annotation starts by saying "Book 3 of this adult fantasy series…”, and its MARC record reads:
=440  \0$aPlated Prisoner. Spanish.$v03.

Back to Goodreads ... book #3 should be Gleam.

According to Google, Gleam (English) = Destello (Spanish).

Could the wrong title be applied to DB123049?
Last edit: 2 days 4 hours ago by dmalosh.

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2 days 3 hours ago - 2 days 3 hours ago #2079 by Katharina
I goolged the ISBN on the NLS record and found the NYPL overdrive page . The cover for Brillo matches the cover for Gleam (#3) on Goodreads. And Fulgor  is the next book and matches the cover for Glow (#4). Google translate says "fulgor" in Spanish means "glare" but "fulgor" in Portuguese means "glow". Interestingly "brillo" in Portuguese is "shine" - which is rather similar to gleam. 

The Spanish annotation of Brillo on Folio doesn't give any good clues when translated with Google translate, but the English annotation does match the annotation in Goodreads for Gleam (#3).
Last edit: 2 days 3 hours ago by Katharina.
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2 days 3 hours ago #2080 by dmalosh
"How many synonymous words can I conjure to serve as titles for books, and then have them translated into another language...?" Ugh!

Destello (Spanish) translates from both Glint (book #2) and Gleam (book #3). Lovely.

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2 days 3 hours ago #2081 by dmalosh
Considering the title confusion and the runtime for Brillo (DB123049 = ~25 hours), I wonder if Brillo is equal to two English installments of this series...

Books #1 (DB122448) and #2 (DB122963) are ~11 hours and ~15 hours, respectively, I know that's anecdotal, but I can't help but wonder.

There's a reason I don't generally spend time cataloging non-English series...

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