It was okay. I found the premise very intriguing, but I didn't feel like it quite reached its potential. It was well-written, but the plot was disorganized; the pace confused me.
11/08- Reread in anticipation of Vol. 2. My original review stands. This one is brilliant.I thought Anderson's Feed was great. This beats Feed all hollow. Anderson here takes on the American Revolution, but gives it an unusual twist and a distinctive tone. Excellent writing, superior plotting, and a...
Some atrocities are studied as school children with such a narrow focus that the idea that the atrocity could happen again, to anyone, seems impossible. The Holocaust is one--slavery in America is another. There is a glut of fiction written using each as its background, but few stories convey any ...
In pre-Revolutionary America, Octavian is raised by a group of natural philosophers. I have no idea whether I'd have liked this as a teenager; I love it now. It is one of the most devastating critiques of racial politics in US history I've ever read, and one of the clearest depictions of personal ...
This was very intense for a YA historical fiction. Boston in the 1770s through the eyes of a young black man who has been educated in the western classics as an "experiment". He tells most of the tale and the parts he cannot tell are expressed in letters written by characters around him. It's fas...
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