Books by Sarah Hall
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review 1: I had that "solid Granta or Tin House fare" reaction for most of this: not bad, not really memorable either apart from "She Murdered Mortal He" and "The Nightlong River," both of which I liked pretty well. "The Agency" was the only one I actively didn't like and had a pretentiou...
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review 1: Slow moving at first and then too quick at the end, this somewhat bleak tale of the lives of women, first in the cities where work is meaningless, women are not allowed to reproduce unless they win the raffle and hope is all but gone. There has been a catastrophic destruction of ...
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review 1: Some moments of beauty and magic that force you to stop, underline, reread, and linger upon the image and chain of words for a while. Of the four voices, Suze's is the most memorable and distinctive. I enjoyed "Beautiful Indifference" more, but appreciate the way Sarah Hall can ...
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review 1: Not a standout collection for me. I just didn't really connect with the stories or the characters. That being said, there were two stories I thought were better than the others: "She Murdered Mortal He" and "Vuotjärvi." My favorite line of the entire collection actually comes fro...
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review 1: While it harkens back to The Handmaid's Tale in theme and structure, this book holds it's own in the sea of dystopic fiction. The narrator isn't an 'everywoman' nor is she 'the reluctant chosen one', but rather a woman who makes the choice to leave behind safety and complacency i...
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review 1: The writing was beautiful and evocative, but I found there wasn't much forward motion and it didn't end anything like how I expected. The last 20% or so felt a bit rushed, especially the last few pages.Also, the segregation of the Carhullan women and the men bothered me. It's sta...
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review 1: I kinda liked it... but also it annoyed me a bit cos it seemed to just skim over major events and then go into enormous detail about inconsequential things... and then at the end it just... stops? Why didn't the author bother going into a bit more detail about the main event? It ...
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review 1: I feel bad for this because my life has been so hectic and I have been so distractednthat I just wasnt able to give it the focus that it needed to really appreaciate it. The writing was good, at times even great. I just know that I missed lots of little things about how the four ...
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review 1: This novel really deserves 3.5 stars. I originally started with four stars bit changed my mind. I love the authors voice. This is a book of four seemingly random stories meld together. The stories each exist within a different time period, so the reader will be going across decad...