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3.49 AVERAGE
3.49 AVERAGE
Good book :) My only regret is that it went by fast. (Though the first half was a bit draggy) Can't wait to read the sequel.
This book was OK. I started listening to the second book on tape and lost interest; I think it would have been better as one more condensed volume. I did enjoy the narrator's character. For a young boy, he possessed a maturity and philosophical perspective that I found believable because of his life's extraordinary circumstances.
It was certainly a very interesting concept, and I thought certain parts of it were vividly detailed, but the plot could drag a little in some parts and it was overall a pretty dry read. Regardless, it's an engaging read and I'm anxious to get my hands on the second volume!
Re-read for book group. Even better than I remembered. Looking forward to listening to the sequel.
Somehow, perhaps from the cover, I was expecting fantasy, something like the bartimaeus trilogy. So this was unexpected and pretty material, but very good.
Y’all I put this book down six months ago it was time to bury it
This book was unpleasant. DNF about 20% in.
It is written in 18th century-type language (which isn't technically a problem if the book is actually from that time period), but I don't quite understand why Anderson decided it would be a brilliant idea to write it like some ancient, rickety man who had lived in some forest hermitage all his life. The premise is great, but it was horribly executed.
Even after reading the cover sleeve, I didn't really understand what it was about. I was several chapters into it before I even realized what the time period was, that it was actually historical fiction (not like... historical fantasy), and that it was set in Boston.
This book was confusing, the setting wasn't concrete, and the 20% or so I read was definitely 100% not worth my time.
It is written in 18th century-type language (which isn't technically a problem if the book is actually from that time period), but I don't quite understand why Anderson decided it would be a brilliant idea to write it like some ancient, rickety man who had lived in some forest hermitage all his life. The premise is great, but it was horribly executed.
Even after reading the cover sleeve, I didn't really understand what it was about. I was several chapters into it before I even realized what the time period was, that it was actually historical fiction (not like... historical fantasy), and that it was set in Boston.
This book was confusing, the setting wasn't concrete, and the 20% or so I read was definitely 100% not worth my time.
This book lives up to its title: it really is an astonishing, passionate, beautifully written novel. To talk of the plotline would be, I think, to spoil it: not because much of it is not readily apparent to the reader as it progresses, but because how Anderson unfolds the tale, how he shows the depths of Octavian's repressed trauma and reveals the hypocrisy of those around him, the blindness of racial and gender privilege. It's a fantastic, fantastic reworking of the familiar narrative of the American Revolution, and highly recommended reading; I read it through in one fell swoop, for all that it made my heart ache. I'm definitely going to pick up the second volume, should I ever be able to lay my hands on a copy. I'm terribly curious to see how Octavian becomes that eponymous 'traitor to the nation'—and of course, which nation?
this novel is a unique point of view on the American Revolutionary War from slave searching for freedom in a war declaring freedom to all men...except slaves.
Ugh. So over this book. It gave me the heebie jeebies. And not in a good way. It's written nicely, but it has kind of a gross story line.
A house full of scientists go about conducting experiments that are... a little reminiscent of The Nazi Doctors. Like they bring in a dog, are nice to it for a bit, then shove him underwater to see how long it take him to drown. I'm getting the willies just thinking about it.
A house full of scientists go about conducting experiments that are... a little reminiscent of The Nazi Doctors. Like they bring in a dog, are nice to it for a bit, then shove him underwater to see how long it take him to drown. I'm getting the willies just thinking about it.