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Bezig met laden... Eelgrassdoor Tori Curtis
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![]() Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This book November's Sapphic Book Club read hosted by @sapphicliterature. Rating: 3,5 When Bettan gets kidnapped, her best friend Efa is ready to do everything to get her back to safety. Tori Curtis, with an amazing writing style, throws us into the world of selkies and fishwives. She uses the myth of stealing the selkie's skin as a metaphore for a rape culture. The story does a great work of showing it along with accompanying it heteronormativity; however, it was not explicit enough with condemning it and at times I was left thinking it contributes to harmfull tropes. The driving force in this story is friendship and it was refreshing to see a narrative focused on the importance of non-romantic relationships. Efa's goal to rescue her friend was her priority even after connecting with her love interest. All the main characters are relatable, interesting, and ranging in personalities. Nevertheless, all of them can be at times a bit annoying while struggling with some concepts which we assume as common truth. This makes the book a little harder to read but also shows that in the patriarchal society it is often hard to realise there's something beyond blindly going along with the injustice. I found the romantic part really scarce but it's understandable since Efa's heart was mostly set on freeing Bettan as well as she has only began realising her attraction to girls. As it is a first book in the series, I hope for the story, the relationships, and the characters to grow because there's a potential for sure. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
In Irish folklore, a selkie is a seal who can take off her sealskin like a coat and become a woman, seducing fishermen anywhere she goes. If he steals her sealskin, she is bound to his home, marrying him and mothering his children - unless she can find it and escape, leaving her family on shore forever.In Eelgrass, a lesbian reimagining of tales about women and the sea, Efa is having too much fun to worry about stories. Too young to have earned respect in her village, she spends her days roving with her beautiful and vivacious best friend, Bettan -- until the night Bettan disappears into a rainstorm, and Efa can't shake the certainty that she's been taken.Desperate to rescue her friend, Efa seeks out the fishwives, half-human fish who dwell under the tides and kill sailors with their sharp teeth and alluring songs. She doesn't expect to find Ninka, an outrageous young woman who makes her feel giddy and who might be the key to unlocking her own courage. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Actual rating: 3.5 stars
Efa and her friend Bettan are both selkies, and after Bettan's seal skin is taken, Efa sets out on a journey to find her friend and rescue her.
I have to admit, I didn't enjoy this book too much. It certainly had its positives - the almost all-female cast and the parts about the sirens were great, but the second half of the book was physically painful to read at some points.
Thing is, this book is supposed to be a calling out for rape culture by using the selkies as a metaphor, but 1) that makes it much heavier and frustrating read than I expected, 2) I don't actually think that it's doing a very good job at calling out rape culture and heteronormativity. The main character is horrified at her friend being taken and nobody else taking it seriously, but even she still holds many heteronormative and ignorant views that are not properly challenged in the book.
I am slightly more forgiving to its faults because it's a first book in a planned series, which means both the main character and the main f/f relationship have time to grow, and hopefully they will. But as a standalone book, Eelgrass wouldn't have received more than 3 stars from me. (