261 reviews for:

Un pays de fantômes

Margaret Killjoy

4.15 AVERAGE

eachuisgereads's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous challenging hopeful inspiring medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Killjoy has a great gift for character voice, and it's quite a "voice-y" novel. At points, the story, the strongest part, sags, as the characters explain things in a tone clearly intended for the reader, rather than the other characters, but it's set in a genuinely interested and well-sketched worlds, with characters it's hard not to like. The MC is a journalist, and the journalistic voice is strong, a bit like a fantasy world version of George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia. If you're interested in anarchism or non-hierarchical organisation but don't particularly enjoy reading theory or non-fiction, this is a great read, but if you're very familiar with the concepts and are hoping for a strong story in that world, this might lag a little. 

This is compared often with The Dispossessed but I think that only has to them both being "about" anarchism in the loosest sense of the world. They have few similarities in tone, content or style. 

tato_gremlin's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-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

emmaopaline's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Gun violence, Homophobia, Violence, Xenophobia, Grief, War

len_schaller's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous hopeful inspiring reflective 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

yrs_trly's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous hopeful inspiring sad fast-paced

virtualmolly's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny inspiring tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

graayyy's review against another edition

3.25

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective

myceliumgirl's review against another edition

4.0

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Be it Hron or Anarres, I know where I stand. I like the Afterword of this edition. The author adresses the critiques I had while reading. The book pairs very well with "the Dispossessed" and in some areas, I think, actually expounds its ideas a lot clearer.

nerdybooks4me's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

joelmeador's review against another edition

4.0

inspiring