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Chargement... The Swallows: A Novel (original 2019; édition 2019)par Lisa Lutz (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreThe Swallows par Lisa Lutz (2019)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. 3.5 Couldn’t put this one down even though it was quite unpleasant. Unchecked toxic masculinity runs rampant at a boarding school until one girl starts working to take down their nasty online domain. She recruits other girls, a few boy nice boys, and a couple of teachers to help. The young women find their power and what happens next is bigger & nastier than any of them imagined and it has some shocking repercussions. What an utter load of crap. ***SPOILER ALERT****I enjoyed Lutz's "Spellman files" series & The Passenger. This book was ridiculously written from so many student & teacher's points of view each chapter it was confusing to follow. The premise is a private boarding school where the boys have a secret website where they score the girls on their blowjobs & give an award at the end of the year. A few students & teacher try to put an an end to is with disastrous results. In the age of the sniveling women who whine about sexual harassment & abuse this is not the book for them because some of the girls in the "contest" want to win the award where the others are disgusted & want revenge. I wasn't sure if this was a YA book or adult. Choppy writing, wishy-washy decisions, & incomplete stories I barely made it through reading before I started skimming. The Swallows is certainly a confronting story. Set in a boarding school for teenaged students. The depravity of the scheme (The Darkroom and Dulcinae award) set up by the boys, when it is discovered by the girls invokes the rage of the girls with an understandable desire for revenge. Miss Witt, new to the school becomes involved in trying to close down "The Darkroom". But who is to be trusted? What staff are involved or know about it? And what price will it cost to stop the abuse and reign in the power of the abusers. Lisa Lutz is brilliant at dialogue and she has created some despicable, some torn and some amusing characters in this hard to put down story. Not an amusing story, focussing on the need of women to fight for themselves in a male dominated world. whoa, this was a wild ride. i was not expecting the feminist revenge story that i got from this book. it's a rape culture, #metoo lesson with some badass women who choose to be warriors rather than victims. it was hard to remember, at times, that this takes place at a high school boarding school. both the amount of sexual activity and the general content of the story made all the students seem older to me. but this is really well written and a fast read as the chapters (each told by one of maybe 4 protagonists) are short and quick. sometimes the chapters overlapped a bit in content, so we would get the same event from a different perspective. i thought this worked really well, and that she differentiated the voices well. the issues she brings up are also really important and nuanced. the way the girls are talked about belittled, how they're diminished to their sexual prowess, the specific reduction of sexual activity just to blowjobs so only the boys are getting satisfaction, but also the power dynamic between the upper and lower classmen, the teachers and the students. mr ford is totally skeezy but she leaves the relationship between the student adam and the librarian claudine ("The adults can debate that one.") less clear (she was still the adult there, even though he manipulated her). this was great, on so many levels. i didn't expect such a powerhouse feminist read, and i hope her other books are more of the same because i'll definitely read her again. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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A new teacher at a New England prep school ignites a gender war--with deadly consequences--in a provocative novel from the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Spellman Files series. What do you love? What do you hate? What do you want? It starts with this simple writing prompt from Alex Witt, Stonebridge Academy's new creative writing teacher. When the students' answers raise disturbing questions of their own, Ms. Witt knows there's more going on the school than the faculty wants to see. She soon learns about The Ten--the students at the top of the school's social hierarchy--as well as their connection to something called The Darkroom. Ms. Witt can't remain a passive observer. She finds the few girls who've started to question the school's "boys will be boys" attitude and incites a resistance that quickly becomes a movement. But just as it gains momentum, she also attracts the attention of an unknown enemy who knows a little too much about her--including what brought her to Stonebridge in the first place. Meanwhile, Gemma, a defiant senior, has been plotting her attack for years, waiting for the right moment. Shy loner Norman hates his role in the Darkroom, but can't find the courage to fight back until he makes an unlikely alliance. And then there's Finn Ford, an English teacher with a shady reputation who keeps one eye on his literary ambitions and one on Ms. Witt. As the school's secrets begin to trickle out, a boys-versus-girls skirmish turns into an all-out war, with deeply personal--and potentially fatal--consequences for everyone involved. Lisa Lutz's blistering, timely tale shows us what can happen when silence wins out over decency for too long--and why the scariest threat of all might be the idea that sooner or later, girls will be girls. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The crux of the plot revolves around prep school boys compiling a database of their female peers' sexual aptitude, and said girls' retaliation upon discovering the database. While the book seems like it was set up to be suspenseful, there was not really anything suspenseful about it. The book also lacked a "big reveal." Too many characters and a plot devolvement to the insipid kept this from being a better book.
3 stars
Thank you to Ballantine Books for a copy of this galley in exchange for an honest review. ( )