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A review by dylan_tomorrow
The Winter Boy by Sally Wiener Grotta
5.0
I love stories about societies. What makes them tick. What values did they gleam from horrific missteps of the past? How were they built? How lose were they to falling apart?
How do they mold people? In this world, men and women are trained deliberately for good traits and qualitites in various way, and the most eye-brow raising training of them all the one were they have widows make men out of boys by having sex with them. By seducing them into being better people.
This is a love story of two individualists. Two people who do not ever just accept what they are told at face values. Two people for whom a lot of people have all kinds of plans.
This is the story of a society, a culture, which values communication, cooperation and excellence. A story of how it, miraculously, was created by brave women and men against all odds. About how shaky its foundations still are.
This is a story about the cost of protecting this society, and about the cost of the web of lies spun to defend it. About how, after banishing darkness it can always regrow from the light, from ignorance and fear.
This is the best book I have read this year and one of the best character-driven books I have read in a long time. Recommended to anyone who can handle a few sex scenes written just as wonderfully as the rest of this tale.
I am so looking forward to read the sequel.
How do they mold people? In this world, men and women are trained deliberately for good traits and qualitites in various way, and the most eye-brow raising training of them all the one were they have widows make men out of boys by having sex with them. By seducing them into being better people.
This is a love story of two individualists. Two people who do not ever just accept what they are told at face values. Two people for whom a lot of people have all kinds of plans.
This is the story of a society, a culture, which values communication, cooperation and excellence. A story of how it, miraculously, was created by brave women and men against all odds. About how shaky its foundations still are.
This is a story about the cost of protecting this society, and about the cost of the web of lies spun to defend it. About how, after banishing darkness it can always regrow from the light, from ignorance and fear.
This is the best book I have read this year and one of the best character-driven books I have read in a long time. Recommended to anyone who can handle a few sex scenes written just as wonderfully as the rest of this tale.
Spoiler
The Guardians are responsible for a lot of the Mwertik raids. All of their machinations in this book are to fix their mistake, Mistral's mistake. All of this shows to me that they need to evolve into a bigger organisation with less single points of failure and more safeguards against such grave lapses in judgement.I am so looking forward to read the sequel.