Kimberly Derting has created an amazing dystopian world through her book ‘The Pledge’.Ludania is a country that has been ruled by its queen generation after generation. Violence is very common and the community is divided into different classes by their occupation and the language they speak. Unders...
3 Good Things… 1. It is so beautifully written- The way that Kimberly Dertin writes is just captivating and keeps you reading avidly. 2. Narrative- I was a little sceptical about the multiple simultaneous narratives at first as, long story short, I had a bad experience with multiple narratives last ...
One of the things I love most about reading are the worlds created inside a book. I am a huge fan of anything that can take me outside of my own life and plant me firmly inside a fantastical land. Derting's The Pledge did just that for me.Ludania is a world were the class system is clearly defined...
Solid 3.5, so I'm rounding up.All the signs were there that I should love this book. Dystopian, strong female character, YA, Dystopian, Dystopian, Dystopian...so Im not really sure why we didn't click until the very end. There wasn't really anything about the book I didn't like, it just didn't hol...
Boy was that Queen the biggest bitch this side of the West, amiright?. She was an evil little thing and it was kind of unsettling. Every time, it went back to her perspective, I flinched.Charlie is an interesting character with the ability to understand every language in her country, when it is agai...
3.5 Stars! Check out this review on our blog!This was a surprise. I was not expecting The Pledge to be the dystopian that it was. This isn't a negative or a positive comment. It was just surprising to see a dystopian take a fairy tale route instead of a whole action-adventure dystopian. In fact, The...
Having been studying linguistics for years, and being interested in whatever is related to the concept of language in general, I was naturally drawn towards this book. A dystopian society divided in classes (castes, rather) through the means of languages, or rather of lackthereof, for the lowest one...
Wow. This book was um, pretty good. Really. I'm actually pretty much in surprise of how good it was. The whole country of Ludania is very medieval style: hangings for rebels, cobblestone streets, rags vs. riches, a sort-of caste system, castles, etc. But everything about it is based on language. Out...
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