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De Vrouwen Van Carhullan (2008)

by Sarah Hall(Favorite Author)

3.33 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

9041412476 (ISBN13: 9789041412478)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Anthos

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 was quite unsatisfying for it to resolve how it did so quickly. I almost want to go an tell the author to write it again properly.
review 2: Ugh. 1.5 stars. I gave it 2 stars to be kind, because the author has decent technical skills.The writing on the page was generally good. It was neither amazing nor horrendous.The story itself was missing. It was about a woman trapped in a dystopian society without any freedoms. It was her tale of escape, and how she found herself again. I think the... more ending was supposed to be profound but it missed the mark.The woman escape to Carhullan, a group of woman living up in the mountains. They were rumoured to be a cult, but actually were just a group of women dedicated to ensuring that their life was free from tyranny. In the earlier times it was a refuge for broken and down-trodden women, and now it was an escape from society.Where this went downhill for me was the feminist taint over everything. This was strictly a women-only affair. A small group of men lived down the hill. They were mal-nourished and really only existed so the few hetero-sexual women could get a release (include one woman who was married to one). If a boy was born in the society he was sent away at age 11 to live with the group. It was horrendous, I don't know what the author was trying to do with that bit. It seemed extremist, and couple with the amount of homosexuality amongst the women, it all seemed like extreme-feminism.It was at this point the story simply disappeared amidst bizarre torturous rituals (she was locked in a cramped dog-box for a few days before anyone even talked to her), gratuitous sex, and vulgar behaviour. Any of it may have been interesting if it were unpacked, but it was kind of rushing past so quickly that there was no time to emotionally connect. So the book just started to read like an overview of something that might be a story. less

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