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3.8 AVERAGE
3.8 AVERAGE
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
adventurous
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Content Warnings
Moderate: Body horror, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Blood
adventurous
emotional
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This was a weird book but I was here for it. Neat, bonkers, and interesting societies & world. Plus, any book with genetics/science stuff is very much up my alley.
adventurous
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
4.5
I absolutely loved the first 80% of this book. Some events in the last fifth were harder to stomach.
However, overall this has to be my favourite fantasy book revolving around a female character. Snake is smart and warm-hearted but still fallible. Through her eyes, intimate relationships, victimhood, the way a young woman who has not made many negative experiences with people early on moves through the world, and power dynamics are cast into a light I find more truthful than most of what I've read so far. Gently, without creating utopia, McIntyre challenges common patterns of thinking.
I absolutely loved the first 80% of this book. Some events in the last fifth were harder to stomach.
However, overall this has to be my favourite fantasy book revolving around a female character. Snake is smart and warm-hearted but still fallible. Through her eyes, intimate relationships, victimhood, the way a young woman who has not made many negative experiences with people early on moves through the world, and power dynamics are cast into a light I find more truthful than most of what I've read so far. Gently, without creating utopia, McIntyre challenges common patterns of thinking.
a gentle tale of undoing exploitative and neurotic relations through mutual aid
where self-reliance is the beginning of community rather than its end
giving and receiving freely without guilt, resentment, envy, and pride
a healing of the physical, psychical, and political body
joy against dominion
//
i appreciate how vonda depicted differently gendered forms of vulnerability and shame
a bit miffed about her depiction of addiction though - why do emasculated men and child abuse victims get sympathy, but drug addicts do not?
where self-reliance is the beginning of community rather than its end
giving and receiving freely without guilt, resentment, envy, and pride
a healing of the physical, psychical, and political body
joy against dominion
//
i appreciate how vonda depicted differently gendered forms of vulnerability and shame
a bit miffed about her depiction of addiction though - why do emasculated men and child abuse victims get sympathy, but drug addicts do not?
adventurous
emotional
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
medium-paced
After first reading about this book on one of those Tor.com blog posts about women sci-fi writers I put it on my tbr pile and then kept getting side tracked. I finally sat down and read it due to a buddy read for one of my goodreads groups and it was just as good as the article said it would be. I was immediately immersed in the world from the first chapter and kept on being entranced in the world as it moved on from the initial short story and into the rest of the book. I like that Snake is determined to accomplish her goals despite adversity and has the capability to acknowledge her shortcomings in an effort to do good in the world around her.