Amy Thomson
Auteur de The Color of Distance
Séries
Œuvres de Amy Thomson
Budda Nature {novelette} 1 exemplaire
MARC Record Mothers' perceptions of respite care 1 exemplaire
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- Date de naissance
- 1958-10-28
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Relations
- Vick, Edd (husband)
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Discussions
SciFi - A woman is stranded on an alien forest planet... à Name that Book (Septembre 2010)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 7
- Aussi par
- 2
- Membres
- 875
- Popularité
- #29,266
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 17
- ISBN
- 11
- Langues
- 1
- Favoris
- 3
The first wasn't a huge deal, but kind of irritated me throughout the novel. It's not really a spoiler to the story because it is mentioned a single time and never mentioned or addressed again, and it has little to do with the plot of the novel. The protagonist recalls the fact that she was gang raped by 5 older children when she was 8 years old. That's a rather huge bomb to drop and then do absolutely nothing with. I get that the author used it as a device to explain why she was scared of linking with the aliens or whatever, but it just felt wholly unnecessary and out of place in the story.
The second point, the thing that kind of ruined the whole book for me happens near the very end of the novel, and is a spoiler to how things turn out: