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Alicia Hendley

Autor de A Subtle Thing

4 Obras 59 Miembros 28 Reseñas

Obras de Alicia Hendley

A Subtle Thing (2010) 31 copias
Type (2013) 17 copias
Type2 (2015) 8 copias

Etiquetado

Conocimiento común

Nombre canónico
Hendley, Alicia
Nacionalidad
Canada

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Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing.
I received [Type2] by [Alicia Hendley] via the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program. Having not read the first novel, [Type], I read as many reviews as I could find. What I found was that this Young Adult dystopian novel takes place in a world run by the Association of Psychologists. For the past 2-3 generations, the Association has tested every 12-year-old using the Myers Briggs Type Indicator and used the results to arrange aspects of people’s lives such as education, career paths, and marriage partners. Sophie, daughter of an Association of Psychologists member, fakes her test so that she can go to school with a friend. Over the course of the Type, she uncovers the scent of eugenics, a whiff of revolution, and experiences devastating personal losses.

I expected to be plopped right into the action as [Type] reviewers felt there were a lot of unanswered questions, or even that the first book seemed unfinished. Instead, on starting [Type2] I found myself listening in on Sophie as she grieves and assimilates her recent losses, as she waits for the plans of older revolutionaries to enfold. And then there is a great rush to the end. The apparently positive political compromise emerges almost accidentally, rather than as a result of any sacrifice on Sophie or her cohorts, so that their losses seem pointless.

I had some difficulties with gender- and age-related stereotyping. With few exceptions, females are good hearted, socially awkward, and dogged, while males are preening, striving narcissists. Adults are either tyrants or well-meaning but naïve and bungling.
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jeanned | 4 reseñas más. | May 26, 2015 |
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Alicia Hendley has a PhD in clinical psychology and she works with young adults in a counseling center at the University of Waterloo.

Type2 is a sequel to Type which I have not read. I found it quite easy to 'get on board' with this book, so it did not matter that I had'n read the first one.

For two generations - since the Social media-era - the Association and it's psychologists have been in power. Everyone is assessed at the age of twelve by Myers-Briggs personality type test. Thirteen year old Sophie has found out the truth about the Association. Children are being ended in Harmonies for being ill or for resisting typology. Sophie has joined the Group, teenage resistance, who hide in a cottage at the woods. They try to spread the truth about the Association with the help of the Tens.

Type2 is young adult and teen dystopian fiction, but adults enjoy it too.

I found this story moving too slowly for my taste. At the time I read it I was expecting a fast and action-packed novel. There was a lot of thinking and discussions, but very little actual action. I also found the ending a bit unbelievable. But I like the way Hendley tells about autism and down syndrome in the story. You rarely find those conditions in any type of fiction. I also liked the main character Sophie. She was thoughtful and brave.
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Helsky | 4 reseñas más. | May 13, 2015 |
Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing.
I received this book through LibraryThing's Early Reviewers program in exchange for a fair and honest review.

Sophie lives in a world ruled by The Association, a group of psychologists, where people are grouped according to the standards of the Myer-Briggs Personality Test. The Association is corrupt and this is the story of the resistance to their government. The novel is a sequel and, although it is readable as a stand alone, I think it would be easier to fall into the story if the preceding book had been read. The characters didn't seem very well rounded or developed and the plot felt very contrived and predictable. The pace of the story progressed too slowly for the bulk of the novel and then was too hurried as the climax and resolution happened abruptly and within a few pages. I also found the constant references to the "Social Media Age" and how bad that age was both gratuitous and irritating.

I think some of my negative reaction to this book was based on my pre-knowledge of the pseudoscience that is the Myers-Briggs personality tests and therefore my inability to accept the central conceit of the novel's world and also because I have a certain level of cynicism and weariness when faced with yet another dystopian-society-and the-teenagers-overthrowing-them novel. This novel just wasn't strong enough to overcome my objections and that irritated me even more.
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flusteredduck | 4 reseñas más. | May 4, 2015 |
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Type2 was a really enjoyable read. I liked the psychology aspect -- everyone's divided up into groups based on their Myers Briggs type, which felt a lot more realistic than, say, Divergent's factions. And it appealed to my innter psychology geek, too.

But what really grabbed me was the portrayal of people with autism, which included characters on different parts of the spectrum. The book explores ableism, both on a societal level and an individual level. And there's even a discussion about the r-slur being cruel. Honestly, I'd never encountered a novel before that talked about derogatory comments like that and why they're unacceptable, so it was great to see Type2 do that; I wish it weren't a rare thing, but I'm glad it appears here.

At first, it took me awhile to get into the story and get oriented with the world and the characters... but I chalk that up to this being the second book in a series, which I didn't actually realize until about halfway through. So, that's definitely my fault, and I look forward to rereadning this book once I've also read the first one!
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bucketofrhymes | 4 reseñas más. | May 1, 2015 |

Estadísticas

Obras
4
Miembros
59
Popularidad
#280,813
Valoración
½ 3.5
Reseñas
28
ISBNs
7

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