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I am reading it with my girlfriend ... I'm excited to hear someone else's take on this because I found it fascinating and philosophical - but so, so dark.

This was fantastic. It's so atmospheric, with a masterful balance of hope and despair. I loved the central mystery of why the woman are being held captive. Are they even on earth? What has happened to the guards? Harpman explores the themes of love, womanhood, loneliness, community, and what it means to be human from the point of view of someone who has only experienced captivity. I know it will stay with me for a long time.

Fantastic! Great bookclub read. So many interesting themes from hope and love and sex and humanity. Highly recommend

One of the most unique books I‘ve ever read. At first I was bored to tears, yet the premise kept me hanging on…once an event happened, I was intrigued. I‘m not going into more detail than that. I will say one thing: what if you knew nothing of your past but being in a cage with 39 women…you were a child and had no reference for anything they spoke about…how would that form you as a human?
If you are into character more than plot, read this.

Daisy judges you.

This book is so good so far

This was hypnotic & quietly compelling. A speculative dystopian novel about a woman who tells us her story of having grown up in captivity in a group of 40 women. I found the images of the barren inner & outer landscape quite surreal, like a Dali painting that was transforming in front of our eyes. Through the young narrator's circumstances the novel asks deep questions about the purpose of personhood, womanhood, existence. Are we always waiting?

This was out of my comfort zone dystopia, but I couldn't put it down.

4.2⭐️ this book may be under 200 pages but it doesn‘t change how powerful it is. I went through some feels with this one, and while I would not call it a tearjerker, some parts left me feeling a little raw.

5/5 🌟

Wow!!! An interesting and sad book that will forever be etched in my mind. 💕

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I had high expectations when I borrowed this book because it was a whopping 4.23 average rating on Goodreads. When I started the book, it definitely piqued my interest and curiosity. I wanted so badly to know what is outside the bunker.

It could have been a good book if the writer altered the ending. A lot of the writings became repetitive and circled around the same idea. If I could put it into a phrase, it'll be Eat Sleep Work Repeat.

Listen, I understand this pink band is what‘s keeping an RFID in place, and that, in turn, is the reason I can benefit from Inter Library Loans but, c'mon people can we not come up with a better placement?!

"Perhaps you never have time when you are alone? You only acquire it by watching it go by in others, and since all the women have died, it only affects the scrawny plants growing between the stones and producing, occasionally, just enough flowers to make a single seed which will fall a little way off–not far because the wind is never strong–where it may or may not germinate."

“I was forced to acknowledge too late, much too late, that I too had loved, that I was capable of suffering and that I was human after all."

This story is about 40 women, the youngest being a child. The women are imprisoned in a large cage surrounded by guards. None of the women can recollect what has happened or how they ended up there. This book may not be for everyone as it‘s not very climactic, but you become invested in the characters and their quest to find answers -which pulls you through to the very end.

Starting this one this morning. I‘m only a few pages in, and I‘m already intrigued 📖

Flawless in so many ways - the writing, the concepts, the structure. It was a masterclass in so many things that a lot of dystopian fiction gets wrong. Yet at the same time the bleakness really got to me and it was quite hard to make myself read because I found myself dreading turning the pages. The amount of absurdity and how futile so many things here were, and how the moments of tenderness got swallowed up by the bizarre world was hard to read.

I got this great package in the mail today! Thanks @Eyelit - I love the socks and the pins and thank you for the book and the candy. I‘ll be sending a return package in the next couple of weeks 😉

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