Grace is a hard book to review. The extremely spare prose created an atmosphere that was both bleak and menacing, which worked with the ambiguous allusions to a world ruled by violent dictatorship, sexual favours and fear. But as a dystopian, Grace was riddled with plot holes and confusing world-bui...
Wow. I am really impressed. After seeing that horrible (too)low rating I didn't expect anything but this story surprised me,in a good way. This is not the first novel I've read by Elizabeth Scott so I knew what is coming,or at least I though I did. Her writing just blew my mind(pun intended)in Grace...
So, Goodreads and I are at an impasse. It asks for a rating, and I refuse to give one. And it’s not due to a failure on the book’s behalf to elicit a response - in fact the opposite is true. I just don’t think I can translate that response into a quantifiable form. This is unusual work with a striki...
I really liked the idea of this book, and most of the execution, but it was simply too short. I needed more time to get to know the characters and believe in their motivations and changes. [June 2011]
Grace has grown up among the People, an indigenous group living in the mountains and fighting an endless guerrilla war against the man who rules their country. As the daughter of an outsider and a local man, the People have never had much use for her, so they give her to a man as his bride and train...
I enjoyed this book. It was very short and I finished it in maybe an hour or two. Definitely a YA book if you're just considering the length. But I had to wonder, why is this even considered a YA book? It had a couple of scenes that were much adult, but the author didn't go into detail much at all. ...
Set in a bleak world in the near future, Grace has been trained to give her life for the People's cause to oust ruler Keran Berj. Grace has always known this was her path, and she was prepared to die when it was asked of her. However, she always had her doubts, and when the time came she was unable ...
As a long time reader of Elizabeth Scott's books (and now a re-reader of them since I'm older), I have to say that the premise of this book both intrigued me and threw me off at the same time. I'm used to the light-hearted romances that I've read in the past. Sure, in those novels bad things may hap...
This is a really short story, but it packs a punch. As pieces of the world Grace lives in are revealed, the lives these people live become more and more disturbing. I love the awkward interactions between Grace and Kerr. This book could, under no circumstances, be described as a romance...but their ...
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