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3.8 AVERAGE
3.8 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
medium-paced
adventurous
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
tense
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:
No
Content Warnings
Moderate: Child abuse
Minor: Pedophilia
This was an odd one for me. On the one hand, I enjoyed the characters. Snake is an interesting character, and it’s good to have a female lead in an older sci-fi book for a change. But she doesn’t really have an arc, at least not a fulfilling one. Also, I’m not a huge fan of the whole “travel on horse back” vibe and all the descriptions and references that this entails, but that comes down to personal preference. The supporting cast is good, but not great. They all seem a bit inconsequential.
So I think that it is a better book that I give it credit for but it didn’t really connect with me.
So I think that it is a better book that I give it credit for but it didn’t really connect with me.
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
“Dreamsnake” by Vonda N. McIntyre came to as a book gifted by a friend. Every time they find this book, they buy it and gift it to a reader. What a very cool habit.
I had no idea what to expect.
What an unusual world to fall into and getting to travel with Snake. She’s a healer in a post apocalyptic landscape.
This was written in the late 70s, where a nuclear war was far more feared than the pandemic we live in today. Thank you for the gift Josh.
I had no idea what to expect.
What an unusual world to fall into and getting to travel with Snake. She’s a healer in a post apocalyptic landscape.
This was written in the late 70s, where a nuclear war was far more feared than the pandemic we live in today. Thank you for the gift Josh.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
mysterious
reflective
relaxing
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
In this mythical magical story, Snake, a healer works with her dreamsnake, cobra, and rattler as she goes out for her proving. Entering the dessert, a long way from her learning community, she heals a child but loses her dreamsnake – a beautiful little new green being when one of the relatives breaks its back in fear that it will hurt the child.
From there other adventures await her as she travels the post-apocalyptic landscape. In 1978 McIntyre was well aware of nuclear threats and the remains of the testing and the blasting remain. It kills Snake’s next patient who first falls from newly broken horse but is done in by the exposure to nuclear wastings.
Still this patient, a princess of the well-bolstered and protected ‘City’, urges Snake to go seek more dreamsnakes. All this time Arevin, her would be partner from the dessert people is seeking her. Her travels through Mountainside and the injured grumpy mayor there, result in an adopted daughter – Melissa.
The snakes aren’t found where she thought they might be, from the off worlders in the ‘City’. In fact they are in the dome with a man gone mad with power in the breeding of the dream snakes. His power does not arise from respect of the healing dreamsnakes can bring but from the numbing a disrespectful and glutinous relationship can bring.
You’ll have to read the book to reach the end, but a better ecofeminist science fiction I’ve not yet read.
A page turner and full of beautiful ways of living in this beautiful world which is not yet apocalyptic!
With rave reviews from Ursula LeGuin, Marge Piercy, and Joanna Russ, you cannot go wrong here. I just want to read more.
adventurous
hopeful
inspiring
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
challenging
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:
No
Liked it much more during the beginning, middle. The scientific differences here were great and I loved them
ALSO??? EVERYONE BEING POLYAMOROUS?? THE HEALERS IN THIS BOOK?? GOOD SHIT THATS SOME GOOD SHIT I TELL YOU
ALSO??? EVERYONE BEING POLYAMOROUS?? THE HEALERS IN THIS BOOK?? GOOD SHIT THATS SOME GOOD SHIT I TELL YOU
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
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:
Complicated
Great author.