Rezensionen und Kommentare

Großartiges Büchlein (39 Seiten in meinem eBook-Reader) über das Leisesein und die Ermutigung, nicht über jedes Stöckchen springen zu müssen.

Haltung, mehr als nur ein konsequenzloses Statement.

A dystopian world where critical and individual thinking or human interaction is suppressed by continuous exposure to TV, speed and drugs.

Substitute TV with Social Media and you've got your actuality.

Difficult read for me as a non-native speaker but nonetheless a must-read.

... this IS a Doctor Who story. Me thinks the author wrote this story with the intend to submit it to the producers. The similarities are simply too obvious to think otherwise.

I love the TV show and I loved reading it only 3* because I believe the author not only got inspired but definitely copied an episode of Doctor Who. Either by "Cryogenic Chamber" (4th Doctor) or "A Christmas Carol" (11th Doctor). More likely the first.

Anyhow. It was an easy and quick read but I doubt there will be 3rd book in the Johnny Smythe series.

... and then I shall be free.

A short story about a witty but uneducated farm girl, how she got sold by her father to the local priest to take care of his sick wife, and how he, after his wife died, started to teach her to read and to write .. at an unspeakable cost for her.

The book starts easy. An all-day story about the hardships Mary's family has to live through to keep everyone fed. Word by word, line by line a story gets unveiled that will leave you just sad, shocked and helpless.

At first glance it might not be a happy end but for Mary, the rope could be THE happy end.

A brilliant book. If not for Christmas time I guess I could have read it in one day.

Loved reading it. Compared to the first "She who became the Sun" this one was not as compelling. In parts it was just too long and twisted.

Nonetheless I think this is a very good one to dive into the world of Mandates, Desires, queer Love, Loyalty and in the end creating something bigger than oneself.

As always with SciFi or dystopian stories, when there are unfamiliar names of people, places and such it takes a bit until I am in the story, not only reading it.

Can't put my feelings into words only so much. Worth the read.

A society built after a nuclear war. Male and female separated, coming together only to breed.

And a society treating women like inferior sh!t. Only to "do their duty". And if the women can't anymore, they get mistreated, children are killed if they don't suit the Elders. Inbreds, which will - eventually - extinct themselves.

So much, Sheri S. Tepper put into this story, still valid ... and unfortunately, still existent in the 21st century.

Great read.

A friend of mine recommended the book to me. Not a story I'd have picked by myself. It was on my shelf for almost a year before I started to read it. I should have started it way earlier. This is a book that made me happy. The story is captivating. A coming of age story, a love story, a thriller, a way of life unimaginable for the most of us. I got pulled in the story and couldn't put it away. I admired how sensitive the story is being told by the author. The thrill, the heartbeat, the rooting for the woman. Won't include anything that could give away the story line. Just let me say that at no point I could have guessed the outcome. After some time has passed I will watch the movie. So far, I heard good things about it.