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ginnikin's review
1.0
This is the 3rd Marley I've read in a short span of time. Enjoyment has decreased with each book.
This one sets up an interesting future of Earth, filled with chaos and politics (complete with the blind privileged and the lying bastard leader). Lies come too close, privilege doesn't protect, and everything comes crashing down. So far so good.
The ending doesn't fit this world. It's sugar coated saccharine with a grafted-on love story that just doesn't work. The 2 aren't compatible; they're "love" is told, not shown. The end of the action is anti-climactic and feels like a cheat. The dénouement "twist" is foreshadowed with the sledgehammer of subtlety and frankly stinks.
This one sets up an interesting future of Earth, filled with chaos and politics (complete with the blind privileged and the lying bastard leader). Lies come too close, privilege doesn't protect, and everything comes crashing down. So far so good.
The ending doesn't fit this world. It's sugar coated saccharine with a grafted-on love story that just doesn't work. The 2 aren't compatible; they're "love" is told, not shown. The end of the action is anti-climactic and feels like a cheat. The dénouement "twist" is foreshadowed with the sledgehammer of subtlety and frankly stinks.
unabridgedchick's review
3.0
I have it in my head that Louise Marley is considered a feminist sci-fi writer, although I can't find anything in her books that would confirm it. Earlier in the year, I read Marley's shallow The Child Goddess, and sadly, The Maquisarde is just as disappointing. Set in a future where the world is divided into corporate colonies, flutist Ebriel Serique becomes a resistance fighter when her husband and daughter are murdered under suspicious circumstances. The story becomes painfully predictable: Ebriel saves the world, overthrows the corporate baddies and learns to love again. But she only finds true happiness when she issues another child and leaves the world-saving business behind.
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