pagemaid 's review for:

Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All by Laura Ruby

4.0

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i don't have much actual critique for this book, it just wasn't my taste, or at least not what i was in the mood for. i had added it to my library a while back on somebody's recommendation but by the time i picked it up i couldn't remember what they had said about it so i went in blind, and wasn't prepared for the heavy onslaught of interwoven narrative threads that were each an example of the ways patriarchy oppresses women and girls. towards the end there is a quote "girls were punished so hard for their love. so hard. hard enough to break them." which pretty much sums it all up, and i can't disagree that does seem too often to be the case in the real world too (though this story features a ghost narrator it doesn't really feel like a fantasy setting and is otherwise all too realistic), but i think i'm going to have to go look for something to read next where women overcome or build a better world or just exist in a fantasy world with different rules that aren't seeking to crush their ambitions from birth. :-/