The Gracekeepers is set in a flooded world divided into landlockers and damplings. The landlockers cling to what little land is left, controlling the food supplies which give them their power and their privilege; the damplings sail the seas endlessly, trading whatever they can find, whatever service...
I don't think I've ever read such a mess of a story. And I've read some convoluted messes. So why does the Gracekeepers gets the first place in "Most Convoluted Story" award? Well... imagine a vaguely distopyan setting in which the Planet has suffered the full consequences of global warming: The l...
I was looking for a dystopian novel that is a little different from the norm. I definitely found one. In a world that is controlled by a corrupt military and almost entirely covered by ocean, Callanish and North are hiding secrets. Callanish’s secret got her banished to a “graceyard,” a shore-side...
Ever since I've learned about Kirsty Logan, I've been interested in reading her work. Especially The Gracekeepers. It's about a traveling circus in a world covered mostly in water with very little land left, two girls with a possible romance in the works, and a bear. That premise was enough to make ...
A story in a dystopian world where people live either on the land or at sea. People from these two separate worlds don't mix or mingle- Landlockers fancy themselves supirior to the Dampling filth, and Damplings see Landlockers as snotty folk with strange tradition and a even stranger liking of the l...
Meh. That’s what I feel about this book. I had such high hopes. I love reading about possible futures for the Earth and I love seeing an author’s view of how humanity will adapt. This book was no exception. The idea of an Earth almost completely covered in water is intriguing. Unfortunately, ...
I loved, loved, loved this book. Set in the future where the seas have taken over a lot of the land, land is just islands now. There are no big cities, no big countries and no big continents, just islands. The Excalibur is a boat of circus people who travel from island to island to perform. That's h...
The Gracekeepers by Kirsty Logan tells the tale of a world covered mostly with water, and clearly divided between "landlockers" and "damplings." Everything and everyone has layers and hidden meanings. Unfortunately, somewhere, the bigger picture of the story gets lost in the details of its layers. I...
The Gracekeepers is a gentle and beautiful work of dystopian speculative fiction that doesn’t so much advance with a bang as with a whimper. Set in a far-off dystopian future, the world of The Gracekeepers is dominated by water, with land a scarce commodity (think Waterworld). The wealthy minority...
Publication Date: 23rd April 2015 from Harvill Secker. Source: Publisher Review Copy As a Gracekeeper, Callanish administers shoreside burials, laying the dead to their final resting place deep in the depths of the ocean. Alone on her island, she has exiled herself to a life of tending watery gr...
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