The Grace Year : A Novel (Hardcover)

from LongDogMom

This was such a fast read. I flew through the pages and stayed up way too late. I liked it. It had a lot of food for thought. There's a lot of anger in this book and a desperate struggle for independence and freedom, and how cult thinking (especially misogynistic patriarchal cult thinking) can en...

from lflareads

The Grace Year by Kim Liggett pulls the reader into the depths of a world full of unfairness and frustration as a female reader. Tierney stands out among many as she wants more for her life. She is the one I cheered for throughout the pages. I am not sure I would have had the self control she had...

from kamoorephoto

‘The Grace Year' is the brutal and harrowing story about the young women of Garner County who are forced to spend their sixteenth year in a secluded encampment outside the town as they ‘embrace their magic.' They must release their powers before they marry or go off to work in the fields or labor...

from cwhisenant11

Wow! I'm speechless. So. Many. Emotions. I've heard this book compared to The Handmaid's Tale, but Tierney reminded me so much of The Mockingjay. I loved the symbolism, the language of flowers, and the fierceness and solidarity of the women. The story is purely dystopian but filled with big ideas...

from Verkruissen

When I saw that this book was described as a mixture of The Handmaid's Tale meets The Hunger Games I knew I had to read it. This book was fantastic. The time frame is hard to place because they do have modern medicine like small pox shots, indoor plumbing and printed books. But beyond that it fee...