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A review by xxivo
The Free People's Village by Sim Kern
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
reflective
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
This book was really something. Honestly I don't really know how to review this, I've been staring at my screen and I don't know how to summarize the best what I felt reading the book. The book made me feel hopeless, but also gave me hope. This book made me feel empowered, but also weak and small. I laughed about jokes but also gave me high moments of tension. And it made me feel happy while I still sobbed towards the end.
This book gave me a huge range of emotions, more than what I'm used from books and that is partially why this book is such an experience.
This book is all about activism and gave me a whole new perspective on the way that operates and happens. It shows all of the struggles and all of the amazing moments it can bring when things go right. (hence me mentioning feeling both hopeful and hopeless). I don't do a lot of physical activism myself as because of my disabilities I can't leave the house much, so it was great to be able to attend protests through the book while I can't in real life. But that doesn't mean that all protests in the book were all happy and great, because they are definitely not, just like they can be in real life. And I feel this book really showed the truths that all come with it.
I also want to talk about the fictional?? world this takes place in. It is not our current version of earth so I guess that would make it fictional, but it is close in a way it easily could've been, or it's our future coming. And it's the way that it's so close to our earth, that when you're reading you don't realize it is not completely accurate. The way this was done in the book was extremely skillful and made the book an even better experience than if it would've been in the real world.
A big part of this book is all the connections the main character has with her loved ones (and less loved ones) around her. Each relationship felt totally unique and had their own struggles. I enjoyed it so so much when people were being happy together, and it made me cry very easily if things were not. I happened to care for everyone in the book in the span of the first few chapters. And then when things went down bad as always happens in books... I was a crying mess just hugging my pillow. It was intense, but the right kind of intense, full of emotions from a great book.
I will be thinking on this book for a bit longer I know for sure. And I would highly recommend for others to read this too and join me.
I received an eARC through Netgalley and this is my honest review.
This book gave me a huge range of emotions, more than what I'm used from books and that is partially why this book is such an experience.
This book is all about activism and gave me a whole new perspective on the way that operates and happens. It shows all of the struggles and all of the amazing moments it can bring when things go right. (hence me mentioning feeling both hopeful and hopeless). I don't do a lot of physical activism myself as because of my disabilities I can't leave the house much, so it was great to be able to attend protests through the book while I can't in real life. But that doesn't mean that all protests in the book were all happy and great, because they are definitely not, just like they can be in real life. And I feel this book really showed the truths that all come with it.
I also want to talk about the fictional?? world this takes place in. It is not our current version of earth so I guess that would make it fictional, but it is close in a way it easily could've been, or it's our future coming. And it's the way that it's so close to our earth, that when you're reading you don't realize it is not completely accurate. The way this was done in the book was extremely skillful and made the book an even better experience than if it would've been in the real world.
A big part of this book is all the connections the main character has with her loved ones (and less loved ones) around her. Each relationship felt totally unique and had their own struggles. I enjoyed it so so much when people were being happy together, and it made me cry very easily if things were not. I happened to care for everyone in the book in the span of the first few chapters. And then when things went down bad as always happens in books... I was a crying mess just hugging my pillow. It was intense, but the right kind of intense, full of emotions from a great book.
I will be thinking on this book for a bit longer I know for sure. And I would highly recommend for others to read this too and join me.
I received an eARC through Netgalley and this is my honest review.