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The Grace Year

Kim Liggett

Start date: March 22, 2020

Finish date: June 25, 2021

Why we're reading this: A very good feminist dystopian novel.
[close] A very good feminist dystopian novel.

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Oct 28, 2019 Elle rated it it was amazing

Shelves: dystopian, 5-star-reads

* Disclaimer: I received a copy of this novel from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. *

Ok...WOW! Watch out The Hunger Games, there's a new kickass dystopian in town. If you put Lord of the Flies, The Crucible, The Handmaid's Tale, and The Hunger Games into a blender, the result might give you a taste of what to expect with The Grace Year.

This was terribly dark and magnificent. I was both intrigued and disgusted as the story moved along. The pacing felt good and there didn't seem to ...more

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Jun 25, 2021 Gina rated it really liked it

Shelves: book-club, missing-persons, print-books, literary-fiction, women-s-fiction, books-i-own-read, relationships, friendship, romance, family

I have been reading this book for a long time. I started it when the COVID shutdown started in March of 2020 and read about about halfway through and then I misplaced the book so I didn’t read it for months. When I found it again, I just read from it every now and again and finally finished it tonight. I have to say that just because it took a year to finish reading it doesn’t mean anything about the quality or rating of the book. This is definitely a genre that I don’t read very often but I enj ...more

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