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A review by marindamisra
The Tropic Of Serpents by Marie Brennan
4.0
That was fun and weirdly relevant.
First the fun! Dragons! Everyone loves dragons but not as much as this girl! The naturalist need to understand the “WHY?!?!” rang more than true with me, it was the bases of my daydreams of being a middle or high school science teacher, to somehow create an environment that would spark the “why?!?” What? You don’t fantasize about what you would put on tests?!?
Anyways, this book also reads so much like The Belgariad (sp?) as in I felt like the author just plain wants to play with made up societies- which I didn’t mind except my fun brain had trouble keep names that were unfamiliar straight. I know it was all important and building up to the exciting ending but sheesh, it was rough for a while there.
And then for the naturalist part, that reminded me of Murder Bot in that she rambled about a bunch of technical stuff but I don’t feel bored.
Now for the weirdly relevant stuff.
First, I don’t know if you paid attention to the year but 2020 had been screwed up in its view on science. I mean, I want to smack anti-vac and people who don’t get their flu shots because VACCINES ONLY WORK IF A SIGNIFICANT PERCENTAGE OF THR POPULATION TAKES IT! I mean people act like they don’t have a basic knowledge of statistics, which I guess people don’t.
Then there are the masks and the social distancing which are no brainers but have become political because SOMEONE keeps blabbing over and over is very long very public statements how stupid they are and how the VP refused to wear one when visiting the Mayo Clinic and AHHHH!!!! This isn’t rocket science!!!
There was one line in this book that science can’t be separated from politics and everything couldn’t be more true.
Which brings me to climate change. My husband spent six years studying how atmospheres work around habitable planets and engrossed in that scientific communities- not the ones that get shoved in the spot light but the real scientists who actually do the work. And they all say the same thing: it’s real. But does anyone around me ask him? No! They’ll ask my brother who does tech stuff about what’s wrong with their computers but not to have a calm and clear conversation about what he knows because some stranger somewhere says something that sounds better.
I’m being a jerk, but this is what I feel is right and no one reads this blog and this is MY writing journal so I get to rant.
There. That’s out of me. I feel like I can breath now.
I didn’t finish the first book in this series. It was took painful and the author was needlessly cruel to kill her husband. Yes I’ve had it explained to me how he would hold her back after what they went through, but then she could have swung it another way.
Because I loved Jacob and when he died I felt her pain and agony.
She touched on briefly how she avoided her son because of how much he brought up this pain, but by the end when she was determined to find a way to be a mother to him in the way that she could made me want to cry because that’s how I feel all the time.
I am disabled from so many ways and am not able to be a traditional mother to my children, but she made me feel like I wasn’t alone. That there are other women out there that are like me.
When I think about the things I can do, it weighs too heavy on me that I can’t write it down.
It is just too much. All of it is- but maybe this author who created this character can’t relate to me the loneliness of a caring and supportive husband being taken away, but they did draw me into this world of mothers who are trying the best that they can.
First the fun! Dragons! Everyone loves dragons but not as much as this girl! The naturalist need to understand the “WHY?!?!” rang more than true with me, it was the bases of my daydreams of being a middle or high school science teacher, to somehow create an environment that would spark the “why?!?” What? You don’t fantasize about what you would put on tests?!?
Anyways, this book also reads so much like The Belgariad (sp?) as in I felt like the author just plain wants to play with made up societies- which I didn’t mind except my fun brain had trouble keep names that were unfamiliar straight. I know it was all important and building up to the exciting ending but sheesh, it was rough for a while there.
And then for the naturalist part, that reminded me of Murder Bot in that she rambled about a bunch of technical stuff but I don’t feel bored.
Now for the weirdly relevant stuff.
First, I don’t know if you paid attention to the year but 2020 had been screwed up in its view on science. I mean, I want to smack anti-vac and people who don’t get their flu shots because VACCINES ONLY WORK IF A SIGNIFICANT PERCENTAGE OF THR POPULATION TAKES IT! I mean people act like they don’t have a basic knowledge of statistics, which I guess people don’t.
Then there are the masks and the social distancing which are no brainers but have become political because SOMEONE keeps blabbing over and over is very long very public statements how stupid they are and how the VP refused to wear one when visiting the Mayo Clinic and AHHHH!!!! This isn’t rocket science!!!
There was one line in this book that science can’t be separated from politics and everything couldn’t be more true.
Which brings me to climate change. My husband spent six years studying how atmospheres work around habitable planets and engrossed in that scientific communities- not the ones that get shoved in the spot light but the real scientists who actually do the work. And they all say the same thing: it’s real. But does anyone around me ask him? No! They’ll ask my brother who does tech stuff about what’s wrong with their computers but not to have a calm and clear conversation about what he knows because some stranger somewhere says something that sounds better.
I’m being a jerk, but this is what I feel is right and no one reads this blog and this is MY writing journal so I get to rant.
There. That’s out of me. I feel like I can breath now.
I didn’t finish the first book in this series. It was took painful and the author was needlessly cruel to kill her husband. Yes I’ve had it explained to me how he would hold her back after what they went through, but then she could have swung it another way.
Because I loved Jacob and when he died I felt her pain and agony.
She touched on briefly how she avoided her son because of how much he brought up this pain, but by the end when she was determined to find a way to be a mother to him in the way that she could made me want to cry because that’s how I feel all the time.
I am disabled from so many ways and am not able to be a traditional mother to my children, but she made me feel like I wasn’t alone. That there are other women out there that are like me.
When I think about the things I can do, it weighs too heavy on me that I can’t write it down.
It is just too much. All of it is- but maybe this author who created this character can’t relate to me the loneliness of a caring and supportive husband being taken away, but they did draw me into this world of mothers who are trying the best that they can.