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Title: The Book of EttaAuthor: Meg Elison
Published: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 314
Rating: 3/5
This is the second book in The Road to Nowhere trilogy.
Summary:
Set over a hundred years after the events in The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, a young woman living in Nowhere, a settlement of survivors, lives her life raiding the nearby desolate territory, sometimes coming across other people, including slavers trading women and girls.
Review:
So, the first book in this series was one of the best books I read last year and this follow up was good, but not great.
I like the darkness in this story, just like I loved it in the first book, and there's a grittiness to it that I think is fantastic. There are a lot of interesting discussions brought up in this story about women, childbearing in times when humans are dying out, gender and survival. I also do just love the world this is set in and seeing how it looked a hundred years after the first book was really interesting, and I liked how the main character in the first book has become lore in this new world.
I think that this story feels a lot less original than the first book in this series and that's one of the reasons I like it a little bit less. I think the characters are interesting and complicated, but not as interesting as I found the characters in the first one. I feel like a lot of the things in the first book that elevated it are a little lacking in this, and it makes for a much more average book.
There is still a brutality to the way this is written that has been brought on from the first book that I actually really like; there's a lot in this new world that is horrifying and hard and it makes for a very interesting setting. I will be reading the third book in this series, because I do still really like it and I want to continue exploring this world.
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