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Vita Nostra
by Marina Dyachenko, Sergey Dyachenko
I might change my mind about the star rating, maybe it's a 3.5?
I felt the story got better and gained momentum as it went along (or maybe it was the fact that my loan was about to end and the book was no longer carried by my library, so when time was up, that was it).
This book is about a young woman going off to University and finding out who she is, but it's a fantasy so she's discovering a whole new world.
I really struggled with certain aspects of the story, namely middle aged men telling Sasha what to do with her body, in a sexual context. Even the first "challenge" the strange man she encounters in the beginning coerces her into swimming naked in the sea each morning. I don't care about the context, it's icky, and the same effect could've been produced in other ways.
I did enjoy reading about Russian people from a Russian perspective.
There is another book in this series, although I don't know if it's been translated. If it was available in English at the library I would at least start reading it.
I felt the story got better and gained momentum as it went along (or maybe it was the fact that my loan was about to end and the book was no longer carried by my library, so when time was up, that was it).
This book is about a young woman going off to University and finding out who she is, but it's a fantasy so she's discovering a whole new world.
I really struggled with certain aspects of the story, namely middle aged men telling Sasha what to do with her body, in a sexual context. Even the first "challenge" the strange man she encounters in the beginning coerces her into swimming naked in the sea each morning. I don't care about the context, it's icky, and the same effect could've been produced in other ways.
I did enjoy reading about Russian people from a Russian perspective.
There is another book in this series, although I don't know if it's been translated. If it was available in English at the library I would at least start reading it.