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jaymelynnway 's review for:
What Should Be Wild
by Julia Fine
If magical realism and fantasy had a feminist child, it would be this book.
You get histories so old and twisted they've become fables. There's an endless line of women who have been owned in one way or another by the men in their lives. You get a main character who has been stunted in almost every way despite her power and promise.
Every single man in Maisy's life has tried to take some kind of ownership of her. She lives in our modern world and yet is shut away, experimented on and studied. She isn't exposed to television or anything of the outside world, barely allowed to enter the village outside of her family estate. Everything is designed to cage her because she has power and everyone who discovers it wants to use it in some way. She grows up believing her body and even her mind are an evil to be ashamed of.
And that is just the beginning of her story.
This was brilliant. Quiet, and yet powerful. The dark whimsy of it makes you uncomfortable and yet lulls you in. With unabashed sexuality and hunger, this book defines a desperation in so many women for more than what the constraints of society allow.
You get histories so old and twisted they've become fables. There's an endless line of women who have been owned in one way or another by the men in their lives. You get a main character who has been stunted in almost every way despite her power and promise.
Every single man in Maisy's life has tried to take some kind of ownership of her. She lives in our modern world and yet is shut away, experimented on and studied. She isn't exposed to television or anything of the outside world, barely allowed to enter the village outside of her family estate. Everything is designed to cage her because she has power and everyone who discovers it wants to use it in some way. She grows up believing her body and even her mind are an evil to be ashamed of.
And that is just the beginning of her story.
This was brilliant. Quiet, and yet powerful. The dark whimsy of it makes you uncomfortable and yet lulls you in. With unabashed sexuality and hunger, this book defines a desperation in so many women for more than what the constraints of society allow.