The Red Abbey Chronicles: Maresi (Hardcover)

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Oh my god this book is amazing. It has a classic feel to it, in the vein of writers like Le Guin, McKillip, Pattou, McKinley, etc. The writing and action are spare but lovely, and it's just...yeah...pretty wonderful.

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Living on the island of Menos, at the Red Abbey - a religious community consisting solely of women and girls, one devoted to the worship of First Mother, a sort of tripartite goddess figure - thirteen-year-old Maresi

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Translated from Finnish, this book is a combination of the horrifying possibilities in The Handmaid's Tale with ancient pagan tales. It's a wonderfully feminist, empowering, dark teen novel. Maresi is a 13 year old novice at the Red Abbey. The Abbey is located on a remote island and only women ar...

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Oh my god this book is amazing. It has a classic feel to it, in the vein of writers like Le Guin, McKillip, Pattou, McKinley, etc. The writing and action are spare but lovely, and it's just...yeah...pretty wonderful.

from AbigailAdams26

Living on the island of Menos, at the Red Abbey - a religious community consisting solely of women and girls, one devoted to the worship of First Mother, a sort of tripartite goddess figure - thirteen-year-old Maresi