Sunday, April 29, 2018

Review: Only Ever Yours by Louise O'Neill

Read: Aug. 15-Sept. 11, 2017
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Format: hardcover, 406 pages
Publication: May 2015 by Quercus
Genres: dystopia, sci-fi
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Blurb from Goodreads:

"Where women are created for the pleasure of men, beauty is the first duty of every girl. In Louise O'Neill's world of Only Every Yours women are no longer born naturally, girls (called "eves") are raised in Schools and trained in the arts of pleasing men until they come of age. Freida and Isabel are best friends. Now, aged sixteen and in their final year, they expect to be selected as companions--wives to powerful men. All they have to do is ensure they stay in the top ten beautiful girls in their year. The alternatives--life as a concubine, or a chastity (teaching endless generations of girls)--are too horrible to contemplate.

But as the intensity of final year takes hold, the pressure to be perfect mounts. Isabel starts to self-destruct, putting her beauty--her only asset--in peril. And then into this sealed female environment, the boys arrive, eager to choose a bride. Freida must fight for her future--even if it means betraying the only friend, the only love, she has ever known.
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I gotta say, the blurb at the back of the book really interested me.....but the actual reading of the book.....not so exciting. This was one of those books for me.....where nothing was particularly wrong, but nothing was exciting enough to really keep my attention.

....still alive!

Hi peoples of my dead blog.

I know I haven't posted in a very long while, but bah.  I blame school for that.

School's like that, y'know?  Just sucks up all your free time and hobbies and creativity and motivation for everything until you just become a mindless homework completing robot with no emotions and....stuff.

Anyways!

I suppose now that school's over I'll have some more time!  But I'll also take this moment to mention that I'm not really back, I'm just kinda back.
Side note: Hey Gilf, you got your wish, I'm posting again!

What can I say?  I'm a mood blogger, and procrastinating has become a very close friend of mine.  I can't promise to start blogging weekly again, let alone daily, but....I'll try to post at least once a month?  Good?  Great.

Me running away from all that is school.
If I were a cat. 
 

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