When She Woke

from tinkerbellkk

This was an interesting look into what the future could potentially hold. With the threat of overcrowding in prisons, the government takes the approach to colour people's skin who have committed minor crimes. This allows people to continue to be punished by the public. I felt for the situation th...

from dasuzuki

I had high hopes for this book after seeing some of my favorite bloggers raving about it and my disappointment in not winning a copy of Insignia by S.J. Kincaid (which looks amazing) was somewhat alleviated when I found out I did win a copy of any book I wanted. This book started off amazingly an...

from techeditor

WHEN SHE WOKE by Hillary Jordan was a pleasant surprise for me. From what I had heard, I had expected a futuristic book about a world where abortion was a crime punishable by turning the criminal's skin red. Yes, there's that. But there's so much more to it. And Jordan's writing is superb. You ca...

from rmckeown

I had the good fortune to have Ms Jordan "visit" my book club when we read Mudbound a couple of years ago. She told us about her next novel, which then had a working title of Red. Needless to say, I have been anxiously awaiting its release. The Summer ALA Convention netted me an uncorrected proof...

from tangledthread

Hilary Jordan knows something about the meanness of the human spirit as expressed in bigotry and hatred of "the other". But she also knows how to write a character with indomitable spirit. She's done it twice now: first with Mudbound and now with When Whe Woke. Though the settings and story lines...