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One of the grimmest books I’ve read

May 23, 2018 by MrsLangdonAlger 1 Comment

I’m going to have a really hard time reviewing this book, because it’s so damn grim. It’s also hard to full describe what the book is about without running into spoilers. So, first, I’ll just try and describe the plot. This book is set in a world where a great disaster has somehow destroyed most things outside an island community of people who now live in an extremely structured, patriarchal society. Men function in their assigned roles based on their names and what men with […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: jennie melamed

MrsLangdonAlger's CBR10 Review No:23 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: jennie melamed ·
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Well now that is some fucked up shit

March 13, 2018 by yesknopemaybe Leave a Comment

Massive trigger warnings for: child abuse, pedophilia, sexual abuse, assault, animal abuse. This book was real fucked up. Maybe the most fucked up. I have mixed feelings. Surprisingly mostly not because this book is so fucked up, but rather because I feel like it didn’t follow through and stick the landing. I feel a bit cheated by the ending, like it was an easy out. Not quite “it was all a dream” but close. If you’re going to start out with such a powerfully fucked […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Dystopian, Fiction, gather the daughters, jennie melamed

yesknopemaybe's CBR10 Review No:30 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Dystopian, Fiction, gather the daughters, jennie melamed ·
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