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Jolina Petersheim

Auteur van The Outcast

6 Werken 487 Leden 46 Besprekingen Favoriet van 1 leden

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Werken van Jolina Petersheim

The Outcast (2013) 149 exemplaren
The Midwife (2014) 112 exemplaren
The Alliance (2016) 100 exemplaren
How the Light Gets In (2019) 78 exemplaren
The Divide (The Alliance) (2017) 47 exemplaren

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I probably only read this book because I liked the author's "The Outcast." I'm not one to read books that seem like Sci-fi crossed with modern day fiction. Although, Leora's people were Old Order Mennonite, I didn't feel like the book was overtly Christian. Although, I read the preview for the sequel, I probably won't read the book.
 
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eliorajoy | 12 andere besprekingen | Jan 15, 2024 |
This author is new to me and although I haven't read "The Scarlet Letter," I know about it, so this book was a new and interesting take on it. I feel like the other reviewers have described the plot well, so i'll just say I thought this book was good.
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eliorajoy | 9 andere besprekingen | Dec 29, 2023 |
I was excited about this because I needed to read a Christian Fiction title for a class, and I was worried about finding something I’d like in a genre I never read. The Alliance is such a neat idea: a post-apocalyptic story set in a Mennonite community. It was so creative to focus on people already used to a low-tech, self-sustaining lifestyle and team them up with outsiders to their community, Englischers, to work together for survival after an EMP attack. I hadn’t even considered the complication that most of the characters were pacifists, and how that would figure into a survival story, until I started reading. That angle intrigued me too.
I started feeling lukewarm about it around 65% of the way through. Leora’s internal struggles were getting repetitive, and the love triangle was irksome too. The book ended on a cliffhanger, a guaranteed star-dropper in my book, unless you’re Laini Taylor. The drug element introduced toward the end was one plotline too many, and I didn’t buy it. I liked Moses the most, but I didn’t think his faith journey was developed enough. It felt very sudden when he started making with the God talk. The faith of the community wasn’t delved into as deeply as I would have liked, and that made it feel sort of hollow to me.
Being a longtime Walking Dead fan, and watching the protagonists in that series move farther and farther from their pre-apocalypse moral compass, this book was an interesting contrast. I liked the ideas she was playing with, and I wish I had liked the execution of them more.
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Werken
6
Leden
487
Populariteit
#50,715
Waardering
4.1
Besprekingen
46
ISBNs
41
Talen
1
Favoriet
1

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