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diamontique's review against another edition
5.0
This book was [b]SO GOOD[/b]. It was even bertter than the prequel! I have to admit that I'm disappointed that there won't be a sequel to this one. I also loved the diction! Whenever I read it I started to think the way the characters spoke in the novel. I also enjoyed that the book was from an uncommon POV of the American Revolution.
tabithar's review against another edition
3.0
The first book about Octavian Nothing was better than the second but this one was worth reading. Don't listen to it as an audio unless your player can speed up the reader.
rhiannoncs's review against another edition
5.0
Continuing Octavian's story, in this book he ends up with Lord Dunmore's Ethiopian Regiment. Beautifully written, sad, educational - this book seriously has it all.
paintedgiraffe's review against another edition
4.0
Very moving. Bittersweet ending, leaning towards bitter, but extremely well-written.
meubanks's review against another edition
informative
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.0
constancemn's review against another edition
2.0
I wanted to like this book--it's well-researched historical fiction from an unusual perspective. Alas, it didn't work out too well...just cumbersome and tried too hard.
shiradest's review against another edition
Again, I've found the texts that I sent to myself as I read this book, intending to write the review two years ago, but lost them.
I recall enjoying the first volume, but finding the second one appropriately more disturbing, as we see him move into manhood, and the full knowledge of the horror that he and his mother have lived through, and how they are being used to perpetuate racist disinformation. My notes follow, please forgive me for not currently having the energy to arrange them better, fellow readers:
very nice ending with lots of Menace and Sinister feeling suspense to the opening scene of the astonishing life of Octavian Nothing by Mt Anderson volume two in the series of the kingdom of the Waves Kingdom on the waves. This was page 17.
P. 28 of Octavian nothing second volume I love this quote as it transpired, this is this was precisely what I did. And quote nice funny ironic ending to this chapter or scene rather
P. 30. Very nice circular problem that our hero is plunged into.
P. 61 oct. Nothing, by Anderson,. Now I know where the Spanish word catarro
P. 101 Henderson is Octavian nothing. Interesting Fable. How sad that is so cynical that either that this author believes that altruism is based either on self-pity, or on anger and the wish to use that anger in a noble way.
P. 144/145. interest and commentary of the Gathering of plantations almost like the varieties of Greek dances on the islands gospel began the blues
I recall enjoying the first volume, but finding the second one appropriately more disturbing, as we see him move into manhood, and the full knowledge of the horror that he and his mother have lived through, and how they are being used to perpetuate racist disinformation. My notes follow, please forgive me for not currently having the energy to arrange them better, fellow readers:
very nice ending with lots of Menace and Sinister feeling suspense to the opening scene of the astonishing life of Octavian Nothing by Mt Anderson volume two in the series of the kingdom of the Waves Kingdom on the waves. This was page 17.
P. 28 of Octavian nothing second volume I love this quote as it transpired, this is this was precisely what I did. And quote nice funny ironic ending to this chapter or scene rather
P. 30. Very nice circular problem that our hero is plunged into.
P. 61 oct. Nothing, by Anderson,. Now I know where the Spanish word catarro
P. 101 Henderson is Octavian nothing. Interesting Fable. How sad that is so cynical that either that this author believes that altruism is based either on self-pity, or on anger and the wish to use that anger in a noble way.
P. 144/145. interest and commentary of the Gathering of plantations almost like the varieties of Greek dances on the islands gospel began the blues
christiek's review against another edition
3.0
A but of a let down after the first. I would have liked to see more variety in the narration as we saw in the first book and it is hard to enjoy a book a whole lot when half the time the characters are sitting around waiting for something to happen. I also didn't enjoy Anderson's writing as much this time.
margaret_j_c's review against another edition
5.0
"All these things saw I; and I saw that everything hath its price, and all are in fluctuation, no value solid, but all cost as they are appraised for use; and there is use for all; and constant and relentless exchange. How much, asked Slant, is a man's life worth? A pregnant child upon the docks doth cost less than a fine dress she might wear two years later; and luxury is earned by being wrested. (And the women walk upon the lawn, arm-in-arm, as the gardener stoops before them with blooms.)
And I saw the Earth as the sun rose; and it was a world of fire, of particle, of spark, and æther consumed and exchanged, no solid place to stand; and we were creatures of fire, loops and bright coils devouring as we could in serpentine chase, exhausting until ourselves extinguished; and all shed superficies, and clutched to renew, and preyed upon all.
Within me, a small, still voice urged, It need not be thus; but what could that signify? For I am hungry, and must devour to live.
We passed down the Rappahannock, and at dawn, came to the Bay."
And I saw the Earth as the sun rose; and it was a world of fire, of particle, of spark, and æther consumed and exchanged, no solid place to stand; and we were creatures of fire, loops and bright coils devouring as we could in serpentine chase, exhausting until ourselves extinguished; and all shed superficies, and clutched to renew, and preyed upon all.
Within me, a small, still voice urged, It need not be thus; but what could that signify? For I am hungry, and must devour to live.
We passed down the Rappahannock, and at dawn, came to the Bay."
mamaorgana80's review against another edition
5.0
I don't even know where to start with this. The kind of genius it takes to write a book like this--staggering.