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Despite the description that surrounds this novel, it isn't a superhero/werewolf novel, so don't think you're going to read about werewolves.
It's better than that. Much better.
While the novel isn't about werewolves, it is about superheros, or at least what makes a heroine. Carey is playing with the superhero genre for much of the book. There are references to X-Men, Wolverine in particular, and Superman. Many of the plot points are similar to those used in comics - the outsider with superpowers, ...more
It's better than that. Much better.
While the novel isn't about werewolves, it is about superheros, or at least what makes a heroine. Carey is playing with the superhero genre for much of the book. There are references to X-Men, Wolverine in particular, and Superman. Many of the plot points are similar to those used in comics - the outsider with superpowers, ...more
The different sections of this book didn't seem to go together to me, genre-wise.
There's the first, shortest, section, really an introduction, which is a gritty, dystopian, very plausible near-future in which the border region between the US and Mexico has been militarized and the citizenship of the denizens revoked. In fact, in legal terms they no longer exist and their presence is forgotten by the general public, although the soldiers use the towns as bases and take advantage of the poverty of ...more
There's the first, shortest, section, really an introduction, which is a gritty, dystopian, very plausible near-future in which the border region between the US and Mexico has been militarized and the citizenship of the denizens revoked. In fact, in legal terms they no longer exist and their presence is forgotten by the general public, although the soldiers use the towns as bases and take advantage of the poverty of ...more
Loup (pronounced Lou) is a girl raised in a secret town named Santa Olivia, and in the orphanage there, where there aren’t supposed to be any towns, next to an Army base. The people of Santa Olivia are powerless: the only jobs there are working for the Army. Waitressing, bartending, whoring for girls and women. Running a criminal syndicate, being in the syndicate, hauling garbage, maintaining the golf course for the Army officers to use for boys and men these are the only jobs. Loup’s only way t
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This one disappointed me in so many ways. It's like a cross between Christine Feehan's Game series and the movie Million Dollar Baby. Carey also throws in the tiniest taste of Zorro and the slightest veneer of religion. There was no depth to any of it and I found it unengaging. I wanted and expected more.
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I loved this book. It is extremely well written and the characters and setting just came alive for me.
Jun 16, 2009
Anita
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Literary Ames
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