The Windup Girl in Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge

Feb 23, 2017 Nadine in NY Jones rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy-and-sci-fi, dystopian-and-post-apocalyptic

Best to trust no one, even if they seem friendly. A smiling girl one day is a girl with a stone bashing in the brains of a baby the next. This is the only truth. One can think there are such things as loyalty and trust and kindness but they are devil cats. In the end they are only smoke and cannot be grasped.

I'm not even sure how I feel about this book. It was good, but I didn't like it. I suppose that averages out to 3 stars. I don't think any part of my review is a spoiler, but if you are ...more

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Apr 04, 2021 Loretta rated it it was ok

Shelves: sci-fi-and-fantasy, audiobooks

Warning! There are spoilers here.

For some reason this book was showing up in all my "you would like this" recommendation type algorithms, so I finally gave in and used an audible credit on it. It won a bunch of awards in 2009 when it was released and lots of other sci-fi type writers gave it some high praise.

I....sort of get the praise, I guess. People like an elaborate dystopia that extends certain yucky trends in today's world and takes it to the most awful extreme, and this book does that. ...more

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Sep 27, 2012 Nina rated it liked it

Shelves: fantasy, novel, bookgroup-nashville

I read this book for a meetup book group but didn't finish it in time. Still, it was compelling enough to finish even after the meetup. It's also nice to read a physical book--I've been spending too much time on the computer or with my Kindle.

Bacigalupi creates an interesting (disturbingly plausible) dystopic world full of starvation and powerful genehacks. Set in Thailand, the book points out the problems of globalization, especially when we globally share disease and famine. I also thought the ...more

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