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wyrdwit 's review for:
I Who Have Never Known Men
by Jacqueline Harpman
40 women with no relationship to one another are imprisoned in an underground bunker and after years suddenly find their cage unlocked and captors vanished. Seemed like a really interesting premise. Unfortunately, I was really bored.
The 2 major things that stuck with me were:
(1) how unrealistic it was (believe me, I know this is sci-fi) that the main character, who was the youngest and only one who didn't remember life before the bunker, had such an unbelievable aptitude for problem solving and autodidactic learning without access to material or other people or sometimes even the basis from which to draw that knowledge in the first place.
(2) that 90% of the book was just the main character walking around by herself not finding anything.
If Harpman was trying to portray the feeling of an empty, boring life in the empty, dystopian world she created, I think she nailed it. If this was my reality, I would also be bored out of my mind.
The 2 major things that stuck with me were:
(1) how unrealistic it was (believe me, I know this is sci-fi) that the main character, who was the youngest and only one who didn't remember life before the bunker, had such an unbelievable aptitude for problem solving and autodidactic learning without access to material or other people or sometimes even the basis from which to draw that knowledge in the first place.
(2) that 90% of the book was just the main character walking around by herself not finding anything.
If Harpman was trying to portray the feeling of an empty, boring life in the empty, dystopian world she created, I think she nailed it. If this was my reality, I would also be bored out of my mind.