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Laurie Forest

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Conocimiento común

Fecha de nacimiento
20th Century
Género
female
Nacionalidad
United States of America
Lugares de residencia
Vermont, USA
Biografía breve
Laurie Forest lives deep in the backwoods of Vermont, where she sits in front of a wood stove drinking strong tea and dreaming up tales full of dryads, dragons and wands.

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My friend likes this series so I gave it a shot, but I can't stand a naive/racist heroine whose journey involves the slow realization that bigotry is bad.

I think the School Library Journal review nailed it:

"Teens will have to get through hundreds of pages of stereotypical characterizations of marginalized groups (non-Gardnerians are hateful and ultraviolent, their blood is "polluted," they mate like animals, the non-Gardnerian women are trying to steal Gardnerian men, etc.) before Elloren begins to recognize that maybe Gardnerians are the bad guys in her realm. Although unlearning prejudices is a timely theme in YA, Forest handles this issue clumsily."… (más)
 
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LibrarianDest | 26 reseñas más. | Jan 3, 2024 |
This was fantastic. Tessla was amazing. Vale was amazing. This was truly epic reading. My one and only complaint was the confessions of love between Tessla and Vale. Those few paragraphs should've been deleted. I loved how they became friends and I could believe they were well on their way to love but it would've been stronger without it. It could've been left for the epilogue.

But two paragraphs is literally my only complaint. The rest of the entire novel was utterly brilliant. It reminds me of when I read The Network series. Partly because the prequel was unexpectedly epic also. But this was just perfect fantasy. The world building is incredible and the messages of peace and harmony are the perfect balance of pushing a message without overwhelming the reader with the message. Yeah, the whole peace and harmony bit sounds kind of trite but this book really does tackle some of society's most important issues in a fair, objective and subtle manner. Without becoming a mouthpiece for the author's opinions. There's tons of great quotes about how power corrupts and the benefits of open mindedness. No character is portrayed as black and white. All of them have shades of grey. All of them are prejudiced in their own ways and it was interesting to see how the author demonstrated the contradictions in viewpoints. There's this understanding conveyed that readers will and do have their own biases, their own prejudices - but encourages them to identify their own biases and work towards overcoming them.

The friendship between Tessla and Vale was adorable. Vale was such an honourable man - even though he's somewhat of a jerk. Tessla was fiery and strong and determined. And I loved how even though they were both forced into a bad situation they were on the same page. They both understood that each of them were giving up their freedom but that they were working to make the best of it. And Vale's dedication to his friends was inspiring. And Fain! Fain was fantastic. Such a sweetie.

I only wish this was longer. I'm excited to dive into the rest of the series.
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funstm | 4 reseñas más. | Dec 1, 2022 |
Don’t let the 1-star reviews scare you away. Read this book and decide for yourself what the author is trying to do. Are there racial rants in the book? Yes, there certainly are in an attempt to show a world where hatred, lies, and mistaken beliefs mar relationships between different species. If anything, the problems in this world seemed uncomfortably similar to our own current world situation.

Saying that this book promotes racial hatred is like saying that Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle promotes unsanitary conditions in the meat-packing industry. Literature is at its most powerful when it confronts difficult issues, and this book certainly succeeded in starting a discussion.

I am looking forward to seeing what the author does with this world in volume two.
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DebCushman | 26 reseñas más. | Aug 25, 2022 |

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14
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1,723
Popularidad
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Valoración
4.0
Reseñas
42
ISBNs
93
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