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Sister, Maiden, Monster
by Lucy A. Snyder
I feel like I didn’t understand this book, however, it was in a way that I enjoyed since I had no issue with what I lacked understanding. Not understanding the book was no fault to Snyder, I can tell she’s a very talented writer. If anything, I just didn’t understand a lot of the book because it was very bizarre and unlike anything that I had read before.
The book takes place in the real world with lots of references to current slang and even the covid pandemic. There was lots of science talk in the form of a scientist who would live stream on Youtube. I’m not totally sure if the words they used were real, but Snyder was able to make the characters sound like professional scientists. With all the science talk going on in the three sections, I would have preferred if there was no talk of aliens or new deities being the cause of the PVG virus (the pandemic in the book). Or if it couldn’t have just been science, I would have preferred Snyder to just go with the aliens, but it seems like she was trying to balance all three possibilities as definite causes at the same time.
The book follows three women who are all very different from one another, and this provides the book freedom to cover a lot of story despite being less than 300 pages. Erin, Savannah, and Mareva’s story is broken up into three parts and they do not really interact with one another until Mareva gets the focus in part three. I would have liked for them to interact more or be connected more, but I can see how each of them is given the spotlight at different phases of the pandemic, which helps progress the story along.
I greatly enjoyed all the different themes often surrounding women that this book provided. Whether it was briefly or more extensively, there were themes of corruption in politics, corruption in the medical industry, medical morals, sexuality, abuse, assault, autonomy, empowerment, violence, and sex work just to name a few. If this book had been a little longer or formatted differently, I feel like I could point out how these themes all make the book as great as it is, but for now, they show greatness through subtly and implications.
Needless to say that if Snyder ever wrote more in the post-apocalyptic world--which hopefully she might since I interpreted the ending to be open--I would 100% read it.
The book takes place in the real world with lots of references to current slang and even the covid pandemic. There was lots of science talk in the form of a scientist who would live stream on Youtube. I’m not totally sure if the words they used were real, but Snyder was able to make the characters sound like professional scientists. With all the science talk going on in the three sections, I would have preferred if there was no talk of aliens or new deities being the cause of the PVG virus (the pandemic in the book). Or if it couldn’t have just been science, I would have preferred Snyder to just go with the aliens, but it seems like she was trying to balance all three possibilities as definite causes at the same time.
The book follows three women who are all very different from one another, and this provides the book freedom to cover a lot of story despite being less than 300 pages. Erin, Savannah, and Mareva’s story is broken up into three parts and they do not really interact with one another until Mareva gets the focus in part three. I would have liked for them to interact more or be connected more, but I can see how each of them is given the spotlight at different phases of the pandemic, which helps progress the story along.
I greatly enjoyed all the different themes often surrounding women that this book provided. Whether it was briefly or more extensively, there were themes of corruption in politics, corruption in the medical industry, medical morals, sexuality, abuse, assault, autonomy, empowerment, violence, and sex work just to name a few. If this book had been a little longer or formatted differently, I feel like I could point out how these themes all make the book as great as it is, but for now, they show greatness through subtly and implications.
Needless to say that if Snyder ever wrote more in the post-apocalyptic world--which hopefully she might since I interpreted the ending to be open--I would 100% read it.