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A review by ameserole
The Freedom Race by Lucinda Roy
3.0
I have received this ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
I'll admit that after I got The Freedom Race I was pretty excited to dive into. Heck, I was even more excited when I got a buddy to read along with. Even though I'm a smidge late to the buddy read, I honestly wasn't expecting what all went down.. to actually go down.
Now I might sound like a broken record with that statement but some of what happened just left me in shock. Not awe - shock. It hurt that children in this world would first be thankful for not being raped and then immediately jump to being lucky.
Unraped.
Lucky.
On top of all that, we have the lovely racism, slavery, and cruelty to deal with. It shouldn't be a surprise that this book is set in the south. What did surprise me was a couple of other things. For example, women can only be impregnated by their owners - no one else. Babies, of all skin types, are measured and then given a job. Measured how? Oh by the color of the skin.
Guess who gets the better jobs?
There was also this moment where our main character, Ji-Ji, was called a mule by a man and I just wanted to throat punch him. If I was in her position I probably would have committed the deed and stated that I was an actual person and not a mule. That's mostly because I'm a very stubborn and hot-headed person to begin with. I would also probably not survive in this world either.
I guess, in the end, I just have one question for you guys. How far would you run? Me? I hate running but I would knees to chest in this book and be the Forest Gump of the Freedom Race. Even if shit hit the fan and nothing made sense anymore.. I would just run. Far away from this horrible place.
I'll admit that after I got The Freedom Race I was pretty excited to dive into. Heck, I was even more excited when I got a buddy to read along with. Even though I'm a smidge late to the buddy read, I honestly wasn't expecting what all went down.. to actually go down.
Now I might sound like a broken record with that statement but some of what happened just left me in shock. Not awe - shock. It hurt that children in this world would first be thankful for not being raped and then immediately jump to being lucky.
Unraped.
Lucky.
On top of all that, we have the lovely racism, slavery, and cruelty to deal with. It shouldn't be a surprise that this book is set in the south. What did surprise me was a couple of other things. For example, women can only be impregnated by their owners - no one else. Babies, of all skin types, are measured and then given a job. Measured how? Oh by the color of the skin.
Guess who gets the better jobs?
There was also this moment where our main character, Ji-Ji, was called a mule by a man and I just wanted to throat punch him. If I was in her position I probably would have committed the deed and stated that I was an actual person and not a mule. That's mostly because I'm a very stubborn and hot-headed person to begin with. I would also probably not survive in this world either.
I guess, in the end, I just have one question for you guys. How far would you run? Me? I hate running but I would knees to chest in this book and be the Forest Gump of the Freedom Race. Even if shit hit the fan and nothing made sense anymore.. I would just run. Far away from this horrible place.