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It is accepted by you that Daunt Books has no control over additional charges in relation to customs clearance. There's a feel-good epilogue that I really, really could have done without -- it's like one of those dreadful happy endings producers insist directors tack on to movies because everyone knows we're all too infantile to cope with sadness. Finding them enthralled by tales of cruel fate and bloody revenge, she even begins to worry that they are taking her lessons to heart, and that a whole new tragedy is being performed, right in front of her. I wish the book had been a bit longer so we would've been able to see a bit more of Alex bonding - or trying to bond - with these kids, because that's at the heart of this story and I would've liked a bit more of it. I liked figuring out, step by step, what happened and why, and while I really did like some aspects of the reveals - such as the person dying not being one of the group or anyone in the school as you might expect, but Katarina, the fiancee of the man who killed Luke.
Honestly, it could have had a lot of potential, but I put this book down after I was finished reading with great disappointment.One activist tells Flock that in Smith’s Alabama county rape is epidemic, and in “The Furies” the incidents pile up, one outdoing the next in brutality. In “Harridan” by Linda Grant (3/5; ⚠ animal cruelty) revolves around an aging woman who relies on her own resourcefulness to get her own way.
Her most challenging class is an intimidating group of teenagers who have been given up on by everyone before her. A cracking, fizzing, furious and fun collection of stories by some starry authors, each titled with a gendered insult, such as Hussy, Wench, Dragon, She-Devil, Termagent, and Vituperator.A story of a woman going beyond the path laid out for her and risking herself for her people and her future despite great fear.
Some stories are historical, some are infused with the mystical and magical, some have threads of fierce commentary and some are laugh-out-loud funny.Meanwhile the island is alive with gossip about the strangers who have arrived from the mainland, armed with mysterious equipment which can reportedly steal a person's words and transmit them through thin air. That's a nuisance, because on the strength of The Amber Fury I'm going to have to get hold of them . so, rather than being a The Secret History story of a charismatic teacher leading impressionable students astray, it's more of a "hey, maybe troubled kids should be taught by specialists and not just people who happen to know the director of a reform school" scenario.
A secondary narrative strand comes from diary entries written by the most interesting and intelligent of the five kids, the deaf Mel (for Melody).Admittedly I do not know the source material very well – a situation I intend to rectify – but reading this it is actually quite amazing to see how relevant those dramatic and often horrific stories are to the emotions and thought processes of modern times…the themes of fate versus free will, vengeance versus forgiveness are weaved subtly into the plot and it is wonderful to behold. Even the dialogue used was confusing to read because whenever someone was talking, in the past perspective their lines only had 'single quote marks' on them. i mean, there were only 5 kids - but we only know a very little about them, except for the one who gets all obsessive. Collection of 15 short stories, ranging from sassy story college-like Siren on roles on seducing man, to a sex worker whose also a mum, a woman in Victorian era gotta gave up her independence just to get married, and a man who ran because his dead wife decided to haunt him because he forced her to get pregnant and she died. She is the author of more than thirty-five volumes of poetry, children’s literature, fiction, and non-fiction and is perhaps best known for her novels, which include The Edible Woman (1970), The Handmaid's Tale (1983), The Robber Bride (1994), Alias Grace (1996), and The Blind Assassin, which won the prestigious Booker Prize in 2000.
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