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title: "An Unkindness of Ghosts"
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# An Unkindness of Ghosts

**Brand:** rivers solomon
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An Unkindness of Ghosts

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A story I needed to read
  

*by C***A on Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2023*

This was such a wonderful story. Loved every page. So many emotions this book illicit. Loved the characters that needed to be loved and hated the ones that needed to be hated. Glad that ....just glad.  😁

### ⭐⭐⭐ 3.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A mixed bag of good and not so good
  

*by L***H on Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2020*

I finished this book at night and I had to sleep on it before I could share my thoughts on this book. *Sigh* I was eager to read this book because I waited a while to get a copy of it from the library. I wanted to enjoy this book but I have a few gripes. Before I get into that I will address my bias. Sci-fi is not one of my preferred genres; I don’t gravitate towards it. I’m not against reading sci-fi, but it generally doesn’t pique my interest. With that said, this is very much a sci-fi novel and I was perfectly fine with that. However, for me, there were times when some of the science stuff was a little dense and I reread the passages several times to make sure I understood. Before I get into my gripes I want to address the things I do like about this book.My favorite characters are Aint Melusine and Theo/the Surgeon. I found Melusine’s character to be the most relatable. I understood her thinking and her behavior. Melusine is the women who didn’t desire children and didn’t want to care for them but you can’t escape your chosen family. She took Aster in after her mother passed and developed an affection for her. However, Melusine’s character also exhibits how women are expected/forced into nurturing roles because that is what’s expected of them even if they don’t want children otherwise. Melusine exemplifies the “mammie” caricature where she is a nanny to other people’s (white) children, she is the cook, and she’s the maid. She is expected to provide the best care for others at the expense her own autonomy. I loved the chapter told from Melusine’s perspective; that was when I was most engaged in the book.My other favorite character is Theo. He’s such a multi-dimensional character and I just found him to be interesting. He’s pious, he’s a dedicated physician, he cares for all of his patients regardless of there caste. However, he’s also white-passing and he occupies a position of power so he’s often complicit in the abuse and oppression that takes place on the ship due to his inaction. But Theo also experiences being forced into a role he doesn’t identify with. He doesn’t appear or identify as strictly masculine and he is looked down upon by the Guards because of this. I also liked the chapter told from Theo’s perspective because we got to learn a lot more about him.This brings me to other things I like about the book. The characters are complicated and dynamic and you can see that in some way they don’t fit the social norms that people in power have forced upon them. I like when authors depict characters who are multi-faceted and complicated because that’s how people are. Rivers Solomon, the author, has integrated a lot of social commentary into this world they have created. They reimagined issues such as police brutality, racism/colorism, gendered expectations, abuse, mental health, class stratification, and religiosity, and explored them in a different context. This what makes it a true sci-fi novel because the point of sci-fi is to examine current social issues through a futuristic lens. So many relevant topics are discussed in this book especially the abuse inflicted by people in power and racial stratification/discrimination. The world that Rivers constructed to address these issues is what makes this book compelling.Now onto my gripes; I’ll start with the biggest one. The ending is absolutely egregious. The ending is so rushed within the last few chapters that it’s a lot to wrap your head around. Also, the way it ended was totally unsatisfying. I did not like the ending at all. There is so much more that needs to be addressed.Another gripe I had was the pacing. Sometimes the pacing was awkward and I would kind of have mental whiplash like, “wait, when did that happen, when did she get here?” Sometimes the pacing would be slow then the main character would do something all of a sudden and it would set off a whole new chain of events. This overlaps with another gripe that I have which is Aster, the MC. I didn’t understand her decisions sometimes, she could be quite impulsive and I didn’t understand why she made those decisions. I just didn’t connect to her character.Another gripe was that overall I just had a slow time getting into this book. I had to really push myself to keep reading because in the beginning of the book I just wasn’t connecting to anything. The latter half of the book was more engaging because by then I wanted to know how everything would resolve but this book was hard to get into. I didn’t want to DNF it though because I waited a long time to read it.I finished this book initially with outrage and confusion, but after I mellowed out I really just had a lot of mixed feelings. Overall, the book addresses really important topics that are addressed creatively however, it was difficult to get into.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Dark mash-up of Wall-E and Snowpiercer
  

*by E***A on Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2023*

This was an engaging and intense SciFi.  I felt like it was a dark mash-up of Wall-E and Snowpiercer.  The story takes place aboard the spacecraft Matilda where the passengers have formed a Heavenly oriented society where those of darker skins live on lower decks.  Those in lower decks are forced to live in servitude and the most demeaning roles on the ship.  They also experience extremely harsh and inhumane discipline. It has queer neuroatypical characters.  The MC is a healer from the lower decks, Aster, who is trying to figure out the mystery behind her mother's research and the truth of how she died.  It's very dystopian and doesn't have a HEA.  It's powerful and shocking, an intense commentary on society and the future of humanity.

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