Hannah Payne is used to a life devoted to God and her family. But a secret affair results in an unwanted pregnancy. Abortions are illegal in the state of Texas though that doesn’t stop Hannah. She’s caught and punished for her crime, forced to have her skin genetically altered to the color red, for ...
I think I agree with Jordan's overall message, but I'm not 100% sure. I want to believe that she thinks that organized religion and extreme right wing behaviors are wrong on many levels and that anything that limits personal freedoms (it's personal) should not be allowed. However, I think her alte...
This was a truly tremendous book. It's stuck with me in a pretty intense way in the month since I've read it. As others have said, it's not a perfect book; the last half, particularly, especially Hannah's insistence on her true love's true-ness (and his unacknowledged skeeziness!) were the rotten bi...
I received this book from Harper Collins through Nudge.“When she woke she was red.”Hannah Payne has grown up in a future America where extreme right-wing and very religious beliefs determine the way people live their lives. Unlike her younger sister, Hannah has always struggled with the limitations ...
This is a hard book to rate. It's probably around 3.5 stars for me, which is a little disappointing considering how great it started out. It seemed like everything (semi) wrapped up in the last 40 pages. It left so many loose ends and I felt like it was just rushed. Also, I felt like there was a few...
An interesting futuristic take on Hawthorne's 'Scarlet Letter'. The religious right have worked their way into the government and hold tremendous influence on U.S. citizens -- does this seem so futuristic? No, not really....many of the elements of this story are uncomfortably relevant today. The ...
Full review here: http://www.booksofamber.com/2012/11/when-she-woke-by-hillary-jordan.html-----I had seen some friends rave about this book, and so I was really excited to finally get to it last month. Unfortunately, I didn't like it.The beginning of the novel was promising. I really liked the conce...
If The Scarlet Letter and The Handmaid's Tale had a lovechild, this would be it. I've heard a few people say they thought this book was too derivative, but that wasn't my reading at all. She was riffing on these things, but it didn't feel rehashed. Instead it felt like a spiritual successor. For me ...
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