Hugh Howey (duplicate), Tim Gerard Reynolds: Shift (AudiobookFormat, 2013, Brilliance Audio)
audio cd
Published Oct. 15, 2013 by Brilliance Audio.
Part 2 of a trilogy, this one depicts how we got to all of the events in Part 1. More of a near future scenario with white guy protagonist™️ constantly failing up until he has the power over all of our lives. None of the characters are particularly sympathetic, and like the first book, some parts went on too long: could’ve been a full third shorter at least. Curious if the TV show is any good.
Excellent continuation of the Silo series.
I'm not buying the third book in this series, though I'll probably borrow it from the library, because a friend of mine wants to discuss the series.
I won't put any more money into Howey's hands, because I am PISSED about the way Howey, who wrote a fairly gender-balanced first book, silenced and disempowered the women in this one.
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So, in one of the timelines, all of the women are asleep. Literally asleep. I kept reading, though, thinking "Well, maybe this is necessary for some kind of narrative device." But, no, it's only necessary so that we can be surprised by the villainy of one of the only two women who get to wake up, the whore in the classic virgin/whore dichotomy that so many male writers rely on.
One timeline has to be from a male …
I'm not buying the third book in this series, though I'll probably borrow it from the library, because a friend of mine wants to discuss the series.
I won't put any more money into Howey's hands, because I am PISSED about the way Howey, who wrote a fairly gender-balanced first book, silenced and disempowered the women in this one.
.
.
.
.
.
*** SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER ***
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.
So, in one of the timelines, all of the women are asleep. Literally asleep. I kept reading, though, thinking "Well, maybe this is necessary for some kind of narrative device." But, no, it's only necessary so that we can be surprised by the villainy of one of the only two women who get to wake up, the whore in the classic virgin/whore dichotomy that so many male writers rely on.
One timeline has to be from a male point of view; fine, that was set in the first book. His murder of the pregnant woman, unknowing as it was, was unnecessary, but ... fine. OK.
And there was a third timeline, a timeline that continued forward from one told largely from a woman's point of view in the first book. But, no, this one, too, was given to a male voice, and ended with the violent death of a woman.
Ugh. Just, ugh.
