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Refuse
Labeled a Deviant, Antoinette is human refuse in a societyfull of perfectly happy citizens. Banished to the Solar System's most isolatedasylum, she unwittingly furthers the Rebellions plans and becomes a pawn intheir game.
But Antoinette's liaison with the rebel leader Maya and hercontact with the alien "Greys" has the Rebellion refusing to play.
But Antoinette's liaison with the rebel leader Maya and hercontact with the alien "Greys" has the Rebellion refusing to play.
218 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 1, 2017
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October 21, 2017
I am no expert in the sci fi genre, the extent of sci fi books I read being dystopian fiction. One thing I do know is that sci fi puts a mirror up to current society and social mores and takes them to their logical - and often absurd - extremes to show us just what we are.
Refuse is one of the most original, engaging and witty books in the genre I've read in a long time. Antoinette is really having a hard time - she is unable to achieve a dream of motherhood and has what to us would appear as an emotional breakdown. Under any other circumstance, this would be normal, even logical but on the colony of Psyche, where aliens expect humans to suppress the most unpleasant emotions, she is anything but emotionless. Living inside of Anty's mind is an exercise in sarcasm put to the service of survival, making you almost forget just how high the stakes are in a story where she literally falls into the role of revolutionary.
"If I'm average, humans are in trouble." Yes, they are. And Anty might be just the person they need.
I highly recommend this well-written, stylish work by writer Jennifer Roush.
Refuse is one of the most original, engaging and witty books in the genre I've read in a long time. Antoinette is really having a hard time - she is unable to achieve a dream of motherhood and has what to us would appear as an emotional breakdown. Under any other circumstance, this would be normal, even logical but on the colony of Psyche, where aliens expect humans to suppress the most unpleasant emotions, she is anything but emotionless. Living inside of Anty's mind is an exercise in sarcasm put to the service of survival, making you almost forget just how high the stakes are in a story where she literally falls into the role of revolutionary.
"If I'm average, humans are in trouble." Yes, they are. And Anty might be just the person they need.
I highly recommend this well-written, stylish work by writer Jennifer Roush.
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