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October: The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis
By Jenna · 7 posts · 145 views
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last updated Jan 20, 2017 08:21PM
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All the pieces were there for me to love this story (a creepy isolated setting, family secrets, uptight Victorian morals, a murder mystery, feminism), but it moved away from the gothic premise into a fantasy tale that I couldn't quite get into. I loved reading the beginning third and last third, and the mystery's solution was soooo satisfying, but when the Lie Tree became part of the story, I found myself plodding through. I'm really glad I did because the book as a whole was rewarding, but I wi
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Fourteen-year-old Faith Sunderly chafes under the rules of the Victorian society in which she lives. Even though females are expected to remain quiet and know their places, Faith loves science and adventure, and in another place and time, she might have become a great naturalist like her father. But after the family moves to a remote island to escape the scandal swirling around her father, she learns that everything she thought was true about him has been built on falsehoods. Even though he has
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May 09, 2016
Debrarian
rated it
it was amazing
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review of another edition
Shelves:
nature,
ya-aka-teen,
history-or-ish,
supernatural,
discussable,
adventure,
booktalkable,
scary-horror,
literary-fiction,
crime
Sep 17, 2016
elissa
marked it as to-read
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Shelves:
historicalfiction,
youngadult
Jan 29, 2017
Mark
rated it
really liked it
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Shelves:
young-adult,
fantasy
