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scribal8 's review for:
The Robber Bride
by Margaret Atwood
Unlike many of the reviewers here I found the characters in this Atwood novel more relatable than her more speculative futuristic novels. This may be "generational" or it may be simply age.
I see Zenia's main characteristic as narcissism not a "man-eating" sexuality. She's the ultimate black-hole, sucking in all the good things others have, but is never satisfied. Sex and her looks are just part of her tool kit along with her intelligence and ruthlessness, etc.
A lot of my enjoyment of this book came from recognition: what it feels like when one of the "cool kids" takes an interest in you. What it feels like when they drop you and you see how you've been used. What it feels like when you realize your true friends may not be those you share interests with but those who don't want anything of you except for you to be you.
The absence of mothers, sisters or any woman a girl could trust growing up also resonated. And what that does to you, and how you work through it all again when you're older.....
I see Zenia's main characteristic as narcissism not a "man-eating" sexuality. She's the ultimate black-hole, sucking in all the good things others have, but is never satisfied. Sex and her looks are just part of her tool kit along with her intelligence and ruthlessness, etc.
A lot of my enjoyment of this book came from recognition: what it feels like when one of the "cool kids" takes an interest in you. What it feels like when they drop you and you see how you've been used. What it feels like when you realize your true friends may not be those you share interests with but those who don't want anything of you except for you to be you.
The absence of mothers, sisters or any woman a girl could trust growing up also resonated. And what that does to you, and how you work through it all again when you're older.....