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A review by woowottreads
House of Women by Sophie Goldstein
3.0
The art is all black and white, very bold and stark and gorgeous. With a few lines, Goldstein evokes wonderful mood and emotion. What we have is an science fiction tale of nuns trying to give the natives of a "backward" planet religion and civilization and culture. Each nun has a role and fills a different near archetype. The youngest, prettiest one also has a thing for their imperial male contact of a particular corporation doing things on the planet. So does one of her sisters. And we have the age-old jealousy women in love conflict, which was my least favorite part of the book. The scientist nun basically ruins everything because of a dude. Over the trope of jealous female.
That being said, the rest of the book was interesting and tragic and quite lovely to look at.
That being said, the rest of the book was interesting and tragic and quite lovely to look at.