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3.24 AVERAGE
3.24 AVERAGE
This is the second time I have tried to read this book and the second time I gave up!
(But at least I was more than half way this time, so yay me for the effort!!)
The book has an interesting concept and Ms. T can surely write fancifully! Honestly it was her way with words that kept me reading past all reason and sanity.
Problem is, oh lordy, this book is SLOW!
And it tends to not so much as give you a message as slap you about the head with it, repeatedly - HARD!
I also got all wiggly when.
Look I'd recommend it for how different the story was from the normal "hero escorting damsel to safety" type story, but honestly I also recommend you have absolutely nothing better to read or it will tempt you away from this book like a sexy (consenting aged) mistress.
I say read something else, but in the end, you decide!
(But at least I was more than half way this time, so yay me for the effort!!)
The book has an interesting concept and Ms. T can surely write fancifully! Honestly it was her way with words that kept me reading past all reason and sanity.
Problem is, oh lordy, this book is SLOW!
And it tends to not so much as give you a message as slap you about the head with it, repeatedly - HARD!
I also got all wiggly when
Spoiler
Trader man person was all a flutter and moist about the loins for the little girl. He justifies it in that he "sensed" she was really older, under a spell to look younger, but I can bet my bottom dollar that a pedo would have a similar story about how he "sensed" that his victim was "mature for her age". Look at least he felt a bit squicky about it as well, but it still just...I mean yucky!Look I'd recommend it for how different the story was from the normal "hero escorting damsel to safety" type story, but honestly I also recommend you have absolutely nothing better to read or it will tempt you away from this book like a sexy (consenting aged) mistress.
I say read something else, but in the end, you decide!
Took a few pages to get into...I guess because it is a sequel? Didn't know that. It might have been helpful to read the first book before I read this one.
I do love a believable sci fi. This is the second book of a trilogy that I started a long time ago. In this book, a young girl comes into her own as the soul carrier for a woman who had been slowly dying for many years. She is supported by some and betrayed by others, but her story plays out with interesting twists and turns. Tepper gets a little preachy about environmental stuff by the end, but I agree with her, so I don't mind at all. I'm looking forward to part three.
Similar to many Tepper books in themes of environmentalism, feminism/humanism, and very future consequences of modern society. Her extrapolations are always fascinating, and horrifically, seem somewhat possible. Occasionally The Waters Rising is heavy-handed in message, but I found it to be less so than some of her other books. It also dwells less on the evils people commit, which I have found to be overwhelming at time. I made up my mind early on to ignore some of the geographical details, reading everything else closely, so I think I avoided some of the "bogged down" details other reviewers mentioned. I particularly liked her development of tension between characters, their occasionally flawed or imperfect natures, and the underlying mysteries driving them; after the first third of the book, I found it hard to put down.
I read about 3/4 of it and put it down ... I felt the whole time like I *should* be liking it but I just never had any idea what was going on or why. It was just boring, which is sad because usually I love Tepper.
I'm a solid Tepper fan, but the premise on this one went a bit far afield for me. Usually, Tepper is very good at writing human stories that just happen to take place in fantastical times and places (like the great Le Guin).
I was going along with the story, until this whole thing with eggs and cephalopod uber-races came into the mix. Then I found myself kinds of speed-skip reading the major plot points.
Another problem was that I think there was a better story in the novel to be found. Tepper teases us with a bit of "earth that was" via the Big Kill and the Time When No One Moved Around (which I love for sheer literal absurdity), but linking past to present geographies and/or tribes never really comes about--had she done that, I think it would have been a better story.
I was going along with the story, until this whole thing with eggs and cephalopod uber-races came into the mix. Then I found myself kinds of speed-skip reading the major plot points.
Another problem was that I think there was a better story in the novel to be found. Tepper teases us with a bit of "earth that was" via the Big Kill and the Time When No One Moved Around (which I love for sheer literal absurdity), but linking past to present geographies and/or tribes never really comes about--had she done that, I think it would have been a better story.