Started: 12/20/2022
Completed: 12/24/2022
Recommendation: Mild Recommendation
Recommended By: Nobody
Completed: 12/24/2022
Recommendation: Mild Recommendation
Recommended By: Nobody
Review:
The writing is good, but I was not terribly fond of where the plot went. It is important to understand how the US government has used children to enforce "morality." This story, however, is largely told from the children's point of view and nobody gets what they want (not the government, not the parents, and surely not the children). In that sense the book sort of feels like a twisted pile of anxiety. Nothing seems to work for anyone with an impending sense that there is a general heading toward the authoritarian type of government that shows up in the Handmaid's Tale. I don't know what to say or think, but I definitely did not find this book uplifting.
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