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colossal's review
5.0
Georgie Spider sees the future. More accurately, she sees multiple possible futures depending on choices branching from every action. When nearly all of the futures she sees show the death of Ashala Wolf and corresponding doom for the world, Georgie has to enlist help from specific people who will need to make just the right choices at the right times for Ashala to be saved. A particularly diffifcult problem when Ashala is all about being the one to save others.
Moving onto Georgie Spider's book means writing a character whose point of view encompasses multiple potential futures, which for obvious reasons, makes for a difficult narrative problem. The author solves this by simply not putting a lot of Georgie in the book, instead leaving most of the heavy lifting to Ashala, and having Georgie's actions through all the people around Ashala and Connor.
This provides a wonderful conclusion to the whole series, with resolutions to both the aingl Terence and the evil Neville Rose, as well as putting Hoffman and his goal to create Balance front and center and looking at what the world must become to attain that.
A great conclusion to a pretty consistently great series.
Moving onto Georgie Spider's book means writing a character whose point of view encompasses multiple potential futures, which for obvious reasons, makes for a difficult narrative problem. The author solves this by simply not putting a lot of Georgie in the book, instead leaving most of the heavy lifting to Ashala, and having Georgie's actions through all the people around Ashala and Connor.
This provides a wonderful conclusion to the whole series, with resolutions to both the aingl Terence and the evil Neville Rose, as well as putting Hoffman and his goal to create Balance front and center and looking at what the world must become to attain that.
A great conclusion to a pretty consistently great series.
emilyjmead's review
2.0
Though I thought this was BETTER than the two previous installments, overall I'm sadly not a fan of the series :( It just doesn't mesh well with me!
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With THE FORETELLING OF GEORGIE SPIDER, I finally felt like I was understanding this series.
Yep, it took me three books, but it felt a lot clearer and less…clouded, this time around. You’ve got plot points like freeing a detention centre, so this multi-layered dystopian focuses on SO many things you wouldn’t normally see – oppression and the topical asylum seeker debate, as well as global warming, and learning to love each other better.
Again, I wasn’t a big fan of the flashbacks, but that’s a personal preference.
We also have a return to the dual-POV style, but this time we have Georgie’s voice. Again, they didn’t connect for me and that hindered my enjoyment.
As an ending to the series, though, it did a good job in wrapping up the plot threads of the previous books, as well as reinforcing the symbolism that has become an integral part of this series.
THE SERIES AS A WHOLE:
I’m always honest in my reviews, and to be perfectly honest, this wasn’t the series for me. I was disconnected from the story from the beginning, and stumbled my way through the first book not really knowing what was happening (the flashbacks didn’t help with this). Then with the dual POVs in the next two books, I wasn’t such a big fan.
However, if you like dystopians, I’m almost certain that you’ll enjoy this, because it’s not like any other dystopians out there. Weaving together Australian history with Indigenous stories and current political issues, it’s relevant in a way that most other dystopians are not. Plus, all the teenagers have got awesome abilities, and that’s cool.
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With THE FORETELLING OF GEORGIE SPIDER, I finally felt like I was understanding this series.
Yep, it took me three books, but it felt a lot clearer and less…clouded, this time around. You’ve got plot points like freeing a detention centre, so this multi-layered dystopian focuses on SO many things you wouldn’t normally see – oppression and the topical asylum seeker debate, as well as global warming, and learning to love each other better.
Again, I wasn’t a big fan of the flashbacks, but that’s a personal preference.
We also have a return to the dual-POV style, but this time we have Georgie’s voice. Again, they didn’t connect for me and that hindered my enjoyment.
As an ending to the series, though, it did a good job in wrapping up the plot threads of the previous books, as well as reinforcing the symbolism that has become an integral part of this series.
THE SERIES AS A WHOLE:
I’m always honest in my reviews, and to be perfectly honest, this wasn’t the series for me. I was disconnected from the story from the beginning, and stumbled my way through the first book not really knowing what was happening (the flashbacks didn’t help with this). Then with the dual POVs in the next two books, I wasn’t such a big fan.
However, if you like dystopians, I’m almost certain that you’ll enjoy this, because it’s not like any other dystopians out there. Weaving together Australian history with Indigenous stories and current political issues, it’s relevant in a way that most other dystopians are not. Plus, all the teenagers have got awesome abilities, and that’s cool.
mads444's review
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
grubbytoes's review
5.0
The authors note at the end of the book ...wow, just wow. Ambelin Kwaymullina's words felt very close to home for me and hit me deeper than any of the books.
missusb21's review
5.0
maree_k's review
5.0
A great final book to the series, rounds it all out nicely. Lots more to say but will add when I have more time. But this is a great series - there is nothing else out there in the young adult market quite like it!
archytas's review
4.75
Kwaymullina really sticks the landing in the final instalment of the Tribe series. Once again themed around a key character's power set, Georgie's power of seeing into futures - effectively seeing consequences - provides a structure for a tightly paced, tense built up of threat and opportunity. It is the utopian aspects of this series which grab me - we need more writers willing to imagine us into better, not just warn us off worse.
moh's review
5.0
I love this series so much. One thing I haven't made nearly a big enough deal about in my comments on the first two books is how wonderfully vivid the animal characters are, right down to their names and naming systems.