I almost didn't read this book. It has an ugly title with an uglier cover, but I read the synopsis and was intrigued.The story takes place in the future when cloning technology has been perfected. The world described is not what I think of as futuristic though. There is abundant pollution, the dr...
Definetly a 5 star read for me. The story was moving, the characters were deep, and the ending was happy. Full of ethical quandries and thought provocing questions, there is plenty to talk about. While there is no actual drug use, the story is about life on an opium plantation, and there are also...
Somewhere in the (quite) near future, there is a country called Opium located between the United States and the former Mexico, now called Atzlán. At Opium, as you can guess from the name, drugs are the main, and pretty much, only business. Matt is Alacrán, which means that he is connected to the pow...
This book was an entertaining way to look at some significant social issues cloning, drug trafficking, mind control etc…. Matt is a clone of a powerful man, so powerful that he built himself his own country between the United States and Mexico. There he does whatever he wants; he has lived for ove...
I do not love being in the desert, but I think I do love reading about other people being in the desert. Is that schadenfreude? I guess I kind of like reading anyone who really has the feel of a setting, and I think Nancy Farmer has that here. This was desolate and full of desert flowers, and jus...
I really liked the premise and the start of this book. I thought it was well paced, very entertaining and addressed some important social issues (prejudice, class consciousness, slavery). The writing was very good for the first 1/3-1/2, but then it got sloppy. I felt like after Matt met El Patron...
Matteo Alacran had been harvested from a cow. He is one of the clones of El Patron, a wealthy and very old poppy farm owner, who had carved out a stripe of landscape between the USA and Mexico to found his small drug-based kingdom Opium, where his and his fellow opium lords' word is the law: The opi...
The book gets off to such a slow start I almost gave up on it. Furthermore it has an undefinable middle-school quality: it feels as if the author is writing down, just a little.* So, stars off for that. But, and this is the biggest possible "but", it earns stars back for not being stupid in its worl...
This book has been on my goodreads shelf since pretty much the beginning of time... so why on earth have I been wasting my time with every other poorly-constructed dystopian world instead of reading this? I have absolutely no excuse: I own a copy, it's won practically every award going, and all my r...
I expected this book to be science fiction and was pleasantly surprised to find that it is science fiction but with beautiful characterizations. This is a book that might initially interest you with the its topic, harvesting clones in a future dystopian world, but will keep you reading by introduci...
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