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A review by caoilo
House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas
4.0
Bryce Quinlan is half-fae, half- human. Though she may not be the most interesting of her group of friends she doesn’t care. Bryce thinks she has her work, play balanced just right. That is until she returns home from partying hard to find one of her toughest friends murdered. Wolves are not easy to kill. This leads Bryce to believe demons are behind it.
Mass’s new world is creature crawling, from fae and demons to wolves and angles. It promises to be a book full of love, loss and passion.
Though I only read the extract this book seems to show not only the difference between genders or forms but also class. Within the first few pages we see how humans have become the lowest class of citizen. Humans become the plaything of every other being, not that all beings are participants in this hierarchy.
The only thing worse than being human is being a Halfling like Bryce. This is a harking to racism and the treatment of those who are of mixed race. It shows how in history other countries have colonised their neighbours. These beings found a way to enslave earth and the human race.
This can be seen in our own history by the colonisation of America, Africa, Australia, New Zealand Ireland and many other places. In more modern history parallels can be drawn to the Nazi regime.
I could feel the feminist drive in this extract. Here is Bryce and she was not afraid to dress how she wanted, do what she wanted and date whomever she liked. (Though I personally am Anti-drug use) I felt that she was not someone to be controlled by others. Having said that it was easy to see what her friendship with Danika was like.
Sisterhood is not something many books or the media portray much in the 21st century it seems that it was lost after the 1990’s so it was pleasant to see such relationships in this book.
Unfortunately, I didn’t make it to the romance part as the extract was 70 pages long though I am relieved that Bryce is not with Reid, the embodiment of narcissism.
Mass’s new world is creature crawling, from fae and demons to wolves and angles. It promises to be a book full of love, loss and passion.
Though I only read the extract this book seems to show not only the difference between genders or forms but also class. Within the first few pages we see how humans have become the lowest class of citizen. Humans become the plaything of every other being, not that all beings are participants in this hierarchy.
The only thing worse than being human is being a Halfling like Bryce. This is a harking to racism and the treatment of those who are of mixed race. It shows how in history other countries have colonised their neighbours. These beings found a way to enslave earth and the human race.
This can be seen in our own history by the colonisation of America, Africa, Australia, New Zealand Ireland and many other places. In more modern history parallels can be drawn to the Nazi regime.
I could feel the feminist drive in this extract. Here is Bryce and she was not afraid to dress how she wanted, do what she wanted and date whomever she liked. (Though I personally am Anti-drug use) I felt that she was not someone to be controlled by others. Having said that it was easy to see what her friendship with Danika was like.
Sisterhood is not something many books or the media portray much in the 21st century it seems that it was lost after the 1990’s so it was pleasant to see such relationships in this book.
Unfortunately, I didn’t make it to the romance part as the extract was 70 pages long though I am relieved that Bryce is not with Reid, the embodiment of narcissism.