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Elmet
by Fiona Mozley
3,5 and upped it to 4 since I think I'd liked it a bit more, if I read it instead of listening to the (very good) audiobook in 2 days. I should have given this book a little bit more time and attention. But still, I really liked this book and the ending was definitely not, what I expected.
This books does tackle some important issues in an unusual setting - unusual in the way, that I didn't expect them in this setting.
I'd have loved it, when I had seen some character development in any of the protagonists, but they're manly set in stone characters and basically that's where (some) of the problems they have to face come from (at least it feels like that to me).
Nonetheless, this book is deep and did show me a world I never really thought about and made me think as well as educated me on some (British) problems, I didn't know about before.
As an afterthought: it reminded me in tone and mood a bit of the Half Bad series by Sally Green. If you're in the mood for a dark YA witch story that also deals with human darkness and society and repression combined with a bit of magic, go for it. (Maybe the Scottish accent of both audiobook narrators also had to do with my connection...)
This books does tackle some important issues in an unusual setting - unusual in the way, that I didn't expect them in this setting.
I'd have loved it, when I had seen some character development in any of the protagonists, but they're manly set in stone characters and basically that's where (some) of the problems they have to face come from (at least it feels like that to me).
Nonetheless, this book is deep and did show me a world I never really thought about and made me think as well as educated me on some (British) problems, I didn't know about before.
As an afterthought: it reminded me in tone and mood a bit of the Half Bad series by Sally Green. If you're in the mood for a dark YA witch story that also deals with human darkness and society and repression combined with a bit of magic, go for it. (Maybe the Scottish accent of both audiobook narrators also had to do with my connection...)