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Carolyn Geduld

Autore di Filmguide to 2001: A Space Odyssey

6 opere 31 membri 4 recensioni

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Opere di Carolyn Geduld

Who Shall Live (2021) 6 copie
Take Me Out the Back (2020) 5 copie
Who Shall Die (2022) 4 copie
The Struggle (2022) 3 copie
Bernard Wolfe (1972) 2 copie

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Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing.
Azura heeft jaren met haar dochtertje Noam in het bos geleefd. Langzaam stierven de vrouwen die hen hielpen en besluit Azura om terug te keren naar de stad die zij 5 jaar geleden heeft verlaten. Zij en haar dochter worden echter door de autoriteiten opgesloten in het 'Pure' huis waar zij gedwongen wordt om kinderen te baren, omdat sinds een pandemie de meeste mensen onvruchtbaar werden.

Het verhaal begint goed, tot het moment dat Azura in het 'Pure' huis kwam en het steeds gekker begon te worden Azura ontsnapt naar een eiland, maar zend haar dochter terug naar het 'Pure' huis.

Het hele gebeuren rond de rode vaars was belachelijk, maar okay. Toen bleek dat dat het slachten van de vaars, dan het verbranden van de karkas tot een werkend medicijn zou leiden...

Noam en twee andere kinderen werden naar het eiland gebracht, daarna verstopten een aantal mensen in zich in het 'Pure' huis, om later te ontsnappen. Zij zoeken onderdak bij een oude Rabi, die de vriend was van Azura's moeder. Dit lijkt er op te wijzen dat de autoriteiten helemaal niet zo streng waren als ze leken, want anders waren de medewerkers onwilliger om, zelfs me een omkoopsom, de kinderen het huis uit te smokkelen. Dit kon hen namelijk gevangenisstraf of zelfs het leven kosten. Wat mij vooral tegenstond was dat iedereen in het boek, de vrouwen dan, geobsedeerd werden door Vic.

Een goede start, maar teveel inconsequenties in het verdere verhaal.

(Dit is een zelfstandig te lezen vervolg op 'Who Shall Live' van dezelfde auteur)
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EdwinKort | 1 altra recensione | Nov 24, 2022 |
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Warning: Spoilers The story is about Azura and her daughter Noam, who are being trapped by authorities to force-breed since a pandemic made most people incapable of bearing children. The story started well. It intrigued to read more. It was quite suspenseful till the time Azura was in the Pure house. Then, Azura fled to island. However, sent Noam back to the Pure house. The red heifer thing sounded totally ridiculous to me, but was okay with it. However, I was very disappointed when I read that it worked as a kind of medicine. Further, Noam and other two kids are smuggled to the island once. Then, another time 6-7 people went to hide in Pure house and aslo escaped to seek refuge from Rabbi. This kind of activities does not indicate the authorities are strict at all. Even with bribes, the workers would fear smuggling out kids. As they could have been jailed and likely be killed by authorities ( As the story suggest It was going somewhat like dictatorship). Further, I do not like everyone's obsession with Vic. While the story started very nice and intense, there are many inconsistency in later stages.… (altro)
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Baban_ | 1 altra recensione | Nov 8, 2022 |
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A very short one this time.

I really don’t know what to say about this one.

As I said earlier, is it fantasy? Not really. Thriller. Nope. It’s just a fictious story. It’s a story about how lives could get intertwined with each other in tragedy and finding redemption.

couldn't really become one with the petsons involved. Characters are okay.
 
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EdwinKort | Nov 6, 2021 |
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This book was a little hard to follow. The first several chapters seemed to go together well but then it would skip chunks of time and from person to person. I read the entire book so I could fairly review it, but if I didn't have to review it, I most likely would have stopped reading about 2/3 of the way through.
 
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Grace_Church | Oct 25, 2021 |

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6
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