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Slow and slower

Revisado: 01-18-25

I love that Elizabeth survived and is focused on child abuse and sexual violence. The production was not great. The pace was far too slow and the producers could have sped up the recording. The story was brutal; what happened was brutal; but the way it was told was at times not presented that way. As the narrator told of horrific events, she often didn’t sound like it was brutal. It was incongruent at times and surprising to hear in that way.

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Needed more structure

Revisado: 01-10-25

Beautifully written - simply beautiful language. And an interesting adventure. Lots of characters to keep up with and wonder about. Lark for example is a key character but is completely ethereal from start to end. I loved Rainy but wondered if he was indeed a cat after all the events.

I’m all for not spelling everything out in a story but I was more than 30% in and confused about the time before I went to reviews to learn this was dystopian and I never learned what happened or how the astronauts became oppressors or were they astronauts after all. Just a bit too much mystery.

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Life

Revisado: 03-06-24

A lovely commentary on life-wherever you are in it. All the little things that tied the story together are the bonus gift!

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Had potential

Revisado: 10-14-23

First off the narration is awful. I had to read this at 1.5 speed and even then it was slow reading. I almost never quit on books but by chapter 7 if I had not sped it up I would have.

Lots of twists and turns and I could not have guessed the end. That part was good. The story if you aren’t in medicine or the MEs office was unique and carried the plot.

There was too much detail in areas that felt unnecessary. The high school relationships for example. I can see this being a YA novel except for the content and gore.

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Good info but too much

Revisado: 10-03-23

There is terrific scholarship here. My biggest challenge is that Wilkerson tried to include everything and the kitchen sink. The book presumably about how the US is in the chains of an unadmitted caste system delves into climate change and abortion sometimes tying these to caste domination and sometimes not. Additionally, Wilkerson, I think unwittingly, alternately minimizes and uses the plight of other non dominant citizens-Natives, Latinos, and Asians-as part of her argument.

In the Afterward, she identifies the purpose of the book to identify our caste system so we can address it. I am convinced that there is one but I think she could have been a bit more direct in it and her anecdotes, though important to her and perhaps necessary for those who are not part of or around a lot of non dominant caste individuals, were not strong or well presented. In some cases, assuming a dominant caste person were reading this, they may have weakened her argument. I wonder if an editor said to her you have to make this more personal to connect. If so, they were wrong.

Glad this book is in the scholarship and hope it gets a good audience but fear it will be read by those who are already fighting to change our taste system. The facts cited are remarkable. For that alone it is worth the read. The very long read.

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Sins of the father…

Revisado: 08-14-23

I appreciated the history lesson on post-war Japan. I liked some of the characters who were trying to do the right thing. I disliked the victim mentality, petulance, and 9 lives along the way. Overly long with unusual twists.

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Beautiful in so many ways

Revisado: 07-23-23

Amazing! I got this as a recommendation from Audible. It is the best of the recommendations it has ever given and this is now definitely in my top 5 books.

It's hard to explain without revealing parts of the story but I will give some highlights of why I think it is so great. I'm a fan of mystical realism and this doesn't at all feel like it is that genre but in the end, I think that is one reason I like it. The characters though are so rich and on so many different levels - when you read it you will understand that better. And the imagery is so beautifully written. The story is not predictable in any way. Just when I thought I knew what would happen something totally different and appropriate to the story did. And I loved it and it was natural. That's it too - it's a story about a bizarre situation. That. Feels. So. Damn. Natural. I loved the hopelessness of the story and the hopefulness of it. And, and, and ....

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Terrible United States accent

Revisado: 07-11-23

The narrator should not do US accents. Every time the protagonist spoke it was cringing. Her various Brit and Cambrian accents made it “aight” though. Cute feel good story. Sweet and not too predictable. Lucy needs to learn that she hurts people too and one more “I’m sorry” especially in that accent and I might have screamed.

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Ok but not great

Revisado: 06-11-23

Performance good but I had to speed it up especially as the story dragged at times. Some characters are well developed but others fall flat And the surprise about one of them, made that character really poorly done to the point of the revelation.

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Lovely

Revisado: 05-10-23

This is why we read - to find stories that make the world a little brighter. Well done. I liked the mystery of how all these disconnected pieces at the start fit together. Great characters and good development. VanPelt left herself room for a sequel. I’m not sure how I feel about that.

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