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caseythereader 's review for:
A Country of Ghosts
by Margaret Killjoy
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Thanks to AK Press for the free advance copy of this book.
- A COUNTRY OF GHOSTS is a novella that explores a battle to escape imperialism and build an anarchist society out of what already exists.
- One of the best things about this book was the way Horacki would ask a question about the way something was done in Hron (for example, what if no one wants to pick crops) and the people would look at him like that was such a ridiculous question, and their explanation of their non-capitalist system was perfectly logical and efficacious. It's really perspective-shifting in a gentle way.
- In the author's note, Killjoy writes about how she specifically chose to write about building a utopia inside the bones of an existing society rather than in the blank slate of a new nation, since that's how it would have to go in our current reality. There's a lot to chew on in what at first glance seems like just historical fiction.
- A COUNTRY OF GHOSTS is a novella that explores a battle to escape imperialism and build an anarchist society out of what already exists.
- One of the best things about this book was the way Horacki would ask a question about the way something was done in Hron (for example, what if no one wants to pick crops) and the people would look at him like that was such a ridiculous question, and their explanation of their non-capitalist system was perfectly logical and efficacious. It's really perspective-shifting in a gentle way.
- In the author's note, Killjoy writes about how she specifically chose to write about building a utopia inside the bones of an existing society rather than in the blank slate of a new nation, since that's how it would have to go in our current reality. There's a lot to chew on in what at first glance seems like just historical fiction.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Homophobia