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kritikou_panagiota's review
5.0
Excellent read! Well written and utterly non-pretentious.
(I say the latter because in recent years many dragon-riding/dragon rider/dragon-keepers + scify books etc etc are SO pretentious, or just Eragon-wise plagiarizing Anne McCaffrey)
The Fly House is very enjoyable and detailed without flooding the reader. The characters are fleshed out and advance the plot without being just add-ins because or "reasons". Both female and male characters are empowered in a way that feels good. As for the villains and main enemy they also were successfully portrayed and had me hating,loathing and or pitying them as their role should be.
This book has me trying out more of Misty Provencher's work.
(I say the latter because in recent years many dragon-riding/dragon rider/dragon-keepers + scify books etc etc are SO pretentious, or just Eragon-wise plagiarizing Anne McCaffrey)
The Fly House is very enjoyable and detailed without flooding the reader. The characters are fleshed out and advance the plot without being just add-ins because or "reasons". Both female and male characters are empowered in a way that feels good. As for the villains and main enemy they also were successfully portrayed and had me hating,loathing and or pitying them as their role should be.
This book has me trying out more of Misty Provencher's work.
dfostermartin's review
1.0
I'm posting this review in March 2016 and I can honestly say this is one of the most memorable books I've read. I remember it being one of the worst books I have ever encountered.
I really wanted to like this book. Dystopian future+aliens+dragons! That is right down my reading alley. I could not stand it though (though clearly I am in the minority). The dragon scenes were fun, enjoyable, and action packed, but that only seemed to cover about 10% of the book. The rest of it seemed kind of...rape-y? So much of the book was Maeve being painted as a badass and then being overpowered by the other main character, Diem. An excerpt: "You need to learn obedience, Maeve Aypotu...I am the Rha of the House you are at now, so I will be the one to teach you." This is followed by a whole lot of scenes of her getting all angry and cursing a lot and him exerting his power over her. A huge chunk of the book is Diem making and taking sexual advances/actions while Maeve is saying no or cursing the whole time. I get that the idea is (maybe?) that she really secretly/subconsciously wants it, but for me it was a total book turn off. I would not recommend the book.
I really wanted to like this book. Dystopian future+aliens+dragons! That is right down my reading alley. I could not stand it though (though clearly I am in the minority). The dragon scenes were fun, enjoyable, and action packed, but that only seemed to cover about 10% of the book. The rest of it seemed kind of...rape-y? So much of the book was Maeve being painted as a badass and then being overpowered by the other main character, Diem. An excerpt: "You need to learn obedience, Maeve Aypotu...I am the Rha of the House you are at now, so I will be the one to teach you." This is followed by a whole lot of scenes of her getting all angry and cursing a lot and him exerting his power over her. A huge chunk of the book is Diem making and taking sexual advances/actions while Maeve is saying no or cursing the whole time. I get that the idea is (maybe?) that she really secretly/subconsciously wants it, but for me it was a total book turn off. I would not recommend the book.
ireadthebooks's review
The Fly House wasn't a bad book, but it wasn't a book for me. I bought it without question, having enjoyed Provencher's YA series "Cornerstone" (which I still haven't finished). This is not YA, and that's okay, but it's not a book I was enjoying.
The Fly House is about a post-apocalyptic Earth or something, where humans have been forced to become the caretakers for dragons. Apparently Pluto has life, because the Plutians are the overlords or something.
All of that was very interesting, and the plot was not what made me stop reading. The deciding factor for me was the tone and the style. This book was just too graphic, too vulgar for me. There's the scene where a girl from the present day has been cryogenically frozen and wakes up in the warehouse with a dude who has become obsessed with looking at her face. He's super creepy, watching her in her little cryo-chamber and imagining her waking up. Then when she does wake up, he touches her and calls her sweetheart and gets sexually aroused at the thought that she might be a virgin. That was ... unsettling. Then we flash to the future/dragon caretaker timeline, where the human race is on the verge of extinction and traditional concerns like love, marriage, and CONSENT have taken a backseat to basic procreation. It doesn't matter who or where or how as long as someone gets pregnant. Seriously. So Diem was raised "traditionally" which means he isn't a rapist, basically, and he doesn't want the manipulative, floozy woman who keeps trying to get him to get her pregnant (because it's a status symbol and he's a powerful clan leader, etc). Also, one of the aliens-taking-the-form-of-a-human is lusting after Diem's little sister and literally sends a surge of sexual energy at her in a field, hoping she'll forget he's an alien in the midst of all the lust he's thrown at her. And that alien's name is Phuck. I kid you not.
So yeah, that's where I stopped. The Fly House seemed interesting, and had it been done in a less vulgar style I might have enjoyed it, but this one just wasn't for me.
The Fly House is about a post-apocalyptic Earth or something, where humans have been forced to become the caretakers for dragons. Apparently Pluto has life, because the Plutians are the overlords or something.
All of that was very interesting, and the plot was not what made me stop reading. The deciding factor for me was the tone and the style. This book was just too graphic, too vulgar for me. There's the scene where a girl from the present day has been cryogenically frozen and wakes up in the warehouse with a dude who has become obsessed with looking at her face. He's super creepy, watching her in her little cryo-chamber and imagining her waking up. Then when she does wake up, he touches her and calls her sweetheart and gets sexually aroused at the thought that she might be a virgin. That was ... unsettling. Then we flash to the future/dragon caretaker timeline, where the human race is on the verge of extinction and traditional concerns like love, marriage, and CONSENT have taken a backseat to basic procreation. It doesn't matter who or where or how as long as someone gets pregnant. Seriously. So Diem was raised "traditionally" which means he isn't a rapist, basically, and he doesn't want the manipulative, floozy woman who keeps trying to get him to get her pregnant (because it's a status symbol and he's a powerful clan leader, etc). Also, one of the aliens-taking-the-form-of-a-human is lusting after Diem's little sister and literally sends a surge of sexual energy at her in a field, hoping she'll forget he's an alien in the midst of all the lust he's thrown at her. And that alien's name is Phuck. I kid you not.
So yeah, that's where I stopped. The Fly House seemed interesting, and had it been done in a less vulgar style I might have enjoyed it, but this one just wasn't for me.
marie_thereadingotter's review
Another DNF for me... at only 14%.
I won this book in a blog giveaway, and the blogger made this book sound a lot better than it actually was. All that was said was that it was about dragons, and I foolishly didn't look into the book much more than that, probably should have.
At 65 pages in, there still was no real clear story arch. The way it jumped from the "past" to the new dystopian present, well.. it wasn't done well. There also was a heavy creep factor to the new future. Where women practically throw their naked bodies at men so they can get pregnant, or where the few women are constantly in fear of being raped, then there's the older guy that watches a much younger girl sleep in her Cryo-chamber, only to get a really really creepy at the prospect of getting into her pants when she wakes up.
The dialog was bad, the characters were uninteresting. To me it seemed like the author couldn't make up her mind in what kind of story she wanted to tell, Science fiction, Dysotpian, Fantasy. It has all three, but not in a very consistent way that could make an interesting story.
I won this book in a blog giveaway, and the blogger made this book sound a lot better than it actually was. All that was said was that it was about dragons, and I foolishly didn't look into the book much more than that, probably should have.
At 65 pages in, there still was no real clear story arch. The way it jumped from the "past" to the new dystopian present, well.. it wasn't done well. There also was a heavy creep factor to the new future. Where women practically throw their naked bodies at men so they can get pregnant, or where the few women are constantly in fear of being raped, then there's the older guy that watches a much younger girl sleep in her Cryo-chamber, only to get a really really creepy at the prospect of getting into her pants when she wakes up.
The dialog was bad, the characters were uninteresting. To me it seemed like the author couldn't make up her mind in what kind of story she wanted to tell, Science fiction, Dysotpian, Fantasy. It has all three, but not in a very consistent way that could make an interesting story.
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