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watsonn006 's review for:
The Lie Tree
by Frances Hardinge
How long have I been trying to read The Lie Tree now? Like a year?
I know one thing. It’s been on my TBR many, many times and finally, finally, you guys are getting a review.
Let me start off by saying, there really wasn’t anything bad about The Lie Tree. It’s not often that I can actually say that about a book and The Lie Tree receives that honor today.
Set in 1865, Frances Hardinge does an amazing job of showing the issues women face. I don’t mean she just showed readers that women were more property than people. I mean that Hardinge mapped out the ways women moved through social circles in an attempt to do the things they wanted with their lives. She mapped out the “unimportance” of the female mind at this time and the obvious attempts men made to diminish women’s successes.
The story is amazing, but Hardinge creates more than a story. She creates commentary on women’s rights.
I liked to think of The Lie Tree as Pretty Little Liars in some ways as you literally expect everyone to be the one doing wrong. There was a point where I literally just decided that Faith, our main character, was our person of interest.
The hardest part for me with The Lie Tree was that it took about 130 pages for the story to really get going. Because Hardinge wanted a fully fleshed 1865 society she had to set the scene and social standing of all of the characters before things could really get going. Once the story started moving I didn’t want to put the book down.
Overall I gave The Lie Tree 4/5 stars simply because of how long it took me to get into the meat of the book.
I know one thing. It’s been on my TBR many, many times and finally, finally, you guys are getting a review.
Let me start off by saying, there really wasn’t anything bad about The Lie Tree. It’s not often that I can actually say that about a book and The Lie Tree receives that honor today.
Set in 1865, Frances Hardinge does an amazing job of showing the issues women face. I don’t mean she just showed readers that women were more property than people. I mean that Hardinge mapped out the ways women moved through social circles in an attempt to do the things they wanted with their lives. She mapped out the “unimportance” of the female mind at this time and the obvious attempts men made to diminish women’s successes.
The story is amazing, but Hardinge creates more than a story. She creates commentary on women’s rights.
I liked to think of The Lie Tree as Pretty Little Liars in some ways as you literally expect everyone to be the one doing wrong. There was a point where I literally just decided that Faith, our main character, was our person of interest.
The hardest part for me with The Lie Tree was that it took about 130 pages for the story to really get going. Because Hardinge wanted a fully fleshed 1865 society she had to set the scene and social standing of all of the characters before things could really get going. Once the story started moving I didn’t want to put the book down.
Overall I gave The Lie Tree 4/5 stars simply because of how long it took me to get into the meat of the book.