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Indlæser... Saints Astray (Santa Olivia) (udgave 2011)af Jacqueline Carey (Forfatter), Susan Ericksen (Fortæller)
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Jacqueline Carey is one of my favorite authors. Her Kushiel's Legacy and Naamah trilogies, set (originally) in a reimagined medieval France, are the type of historical fantasies I’m trying to write. I was fascinated by The Sundering series, which was essentially Lord of the Rings told from Sauron’s point of view. And I read Santa Olivia, Carey’s tale of a genetically modified girl trying to escape her disenfranchised border town, in a single sitting. If all of the above weren’t true, however, I probably wouldn’t have finished Saints Astray, the sequel to Santa Olivia. Loup, the genetically modified girl, is still a fun character. She looks normal, but her father, along with more than a hundred other men, was engineered by Chinese scientists who crossed his genes with something predatory—probably a wolf. From him, Loup inherited several unnatural traits, including superhuman speed and an inability to feel fear. And because her brother died in the ring, she became obsessed with boxing. The general setting also remains intriguing. It’s present-day Earth following a mini-apocalypse—a worldwide pandemic that thinned the global population and scarred the survivors’ psyche. The United States became especially paranoid; Santa Olivia, the border town Loup finally escapes at the end of the first book, exists in a secret, militarized buffer zone between Texas and Mexico. Saints Astray doesn’t explore this history much, though, aside from the occasional stray detail. (For example, Japanese customs workers still wear breathing masks as they screen travelers’ blood.) And for most of the book, there’s minimal tension, aside from the (tiring) insecurity of Loup’s lover Pilar; by becoming professional bodyguards, the pair basically just embarks on an international road trip. None of their assignments are particularly exciting, and their dialogue is more immature than it needs to be to emphasize the girls’ youth. The last third of the story picks up a bit when Loup gets around to doing something about the friends she left behind in Santa Olivia. But this isn’t enough to save the novel from being a disappointment. Maybe Carey knew as much when she gave the book its title; Saints Astray is a rare miss from a usually great author. (For more reviews like this one, see www.nickwisseman.com) ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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HTML:Post-apocalyptic scifi meets urban fantasy in Jacqueline Carey's sequel to Santa Olivia as two girls fight to stay together and change the world. After their escape from military custody, Loup Garron and her girlfriend Pilar have a chance to reinvent their lives thousands of miles away from the forgotten and disenfranchised Texas border town and military zone of Santa Olivia. Thanks to Loup's genetically engineered gifts of strength, speed, and an innate fearlessness, as well as Pilar's unexpected skill with a pistol, they find new careers as high-priced bodyguards for a world famous British rock band. Back in the States, an investigation into the existence of Santa Olivia, also known as Outpost 12, begins in Washington, D.C. When the key witness with evidence to expose the military cover-up, their old comrade Miguel, vanishes, the case seems lost. The abandoned citizens of Santa Olivia need a champion, a voice raised on their behalf, which pushes Loup and Pilar into a hard choice. If Loup returns to U.S. soil, she'll be an outlaw. If she's caught, she'll be taken into custody again; and this time, there may be no escape. But if she and Pilar don't fight for the freedom of those they left behind, no one will. Ingen biblioteksbeskrivelser fundet. |
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Content Note: rape culture, misogyny
Plot:
Loup and Pilar made it out of Outpost 12, aka Santa Olivia – but what are a genetically modified girl and her girlfriend supposed to do when they legally don’t exist at all? Well, in Loup’s case, she quickly has a job offer: to work for an international security firm as the world’s first GMO bodyguard. She agrees, but only if Pilar gets to come, too. Meanwhile, Loup’s old friend Miguel Garza also made it out of Outpost 12 and has promised to testify in front of the senate to shed light on the outposts as well as the GMOs. But nothing is ever as easy as that, is it?
I was so excited about Santa Olivia – I didn’t know what to expect and was wonderfully surprised by what the book delivered. With Saints Astray, unfortunately, it’s quite the opposite. I was expecting so much more, but this is very much a disappointment.
Read more on my blog: https://kalafudra.com/2021/04/28/saints-astray-jacqueline-carey/ ( )