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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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Nov 15, 2019 Chaitra rated it did not like it

Shelves: young-adult, too-twilighty, dystopia, too-stupid-to-live

Skimmed most of the book. I think I was sold on The Handmaid’s Tale reference in the blurb, but this book is just another toxic females story. There’s an ending where supposedly women like each other, but it feels unearned. Also I hated the romance. I usually hate YA romances, but this one is especially shitty. I was going to type a rant but I’m not going to waste more of my time, I’m just going to scrub my brain off any memory of reading this.

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Jun 25, 2021 Gina rated it really liked it

Shelves: relationships, survival, psychological-fiction, teen-issues, psychology-women, social-issues, mystery, thriller, suspense, marriage

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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Nov 13, 2019 Brindi Michele rated it really liked it

Shelves: audio-books, young-adult, movie-rights-please, dystopia-sci-fi

*high 3.5 stars*

The ending saved this book, completely. It got really emotional at the end, and also brought everything together in a way that left the reader with some sliver of hope.

I was so intrigued by the story line, but disappointed in the way it all played out. Not what I was expecting at all with this one. However, the moral of this story is one that's needed SO MUCH. Women of all ages should read this. It's sad how women are so severe on their own sex, quick to place the blame on the wo ...more

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Apr 01, 2020 Lukutar ☘ rated it liked it

Well. It was interesting story and I do find stories like this intriguing. For at least me the story unfolded as pretty predictable. I did love the elements and I do think this one had pretty great potential for different kind of ending. I listened the audio version of this and I was bothered how the meanest girl always gets that squeakiest voice of them all. It was like listening some stereotypical high school drama thing at some points.

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