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Bitter Seeds (The Milkweed Triptych, #1)

Ian Tregillis

Start date: May 17, 2010

Finish date: June 6, 2010

Discussion: 2010 Reads

Why we're reading this: This is an alternate-history book recommended to us by Cory Doctorow.
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What Members Thought

Apr 24, 2010 Brad rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: paused, audio-book, listened-to, read-in-2012, sci-fantasy, goodreads-author, wwii-era-lit, false-start, imaginary-history, infuriating

It's been a while since I've been so infuriated by a read. I am pissed this morning after finishing Bitter Seeds because the book is so fucking uneven. The highs are very high, but the lows tend to be abyssal. I considered giving it five stars at a couple of points, vowed to give it one star often, and finally decided that I had better split the difference.

Here goes for the Highs and Lows:

High #1 -- The conceit of Nazi engineered superheroes whose presence change the course of the war is a winn ...more

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Aug 21, 2010 Sandi rated it really liked it

Shelves: sci-fi, fantasy, 2010

There really aren't any descriptions that can do justice to Bitter Seeds. It's quite different than any book I've ever read. It's set in an alternate WWII where the Germans have started training children to use superpowers shortly after WWI, and the English are using wizards to fight off the Germans. Atrocities are committed on both sides of the channel. Tregillis really drives home the point that war causes people to do evil and suffer the consequences of evil.

Although the Germans have superhum ...more

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