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    Motherlines: Book Two of 'The Holdfast Chronicles'
    Motherlines: Book Two of 'The Holdfast Chronicles'
    Motherlines: Book Two of 'The Holdfast Chronicles'
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    Motherlines: Book Two of 'The Holdfast Chronicles'

    By Suzy McKee Charnas

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    After thirty years, Suzy McKee Charnas has completed her incomparable epic tale of men and women, slavery and freedom, power and human frailty.

    It started with Walk to the End of the World, where Alldera the Messenger is a slave among the Fems, in thrall to men whose own power is waning.

    It continued with Motherlines, where Alldera the Runner is a fugitive among the Riding Women, who live a tribal life of horse-thieving and storytelling, killing the few men who approach their boundaries.

    The books that finish Alldera's story, The Furies and The Conqueror's Child, are now available. Once you start, you won't want to stop until you've read the last word of the last book.

    Winner of the James Tiptree, Jr. Award


    At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateJun 12, 1999
    ISBN9781466821156
    Motherlines: Book Two of 'The Holdfast Chronicles'

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    • 4/5
      I read this book as a teenager. It made quite an impression on me. It was one of my favorite books from that time.
    • 5/5
      This novel is intense, and at times very strange, but also beautiful and insightful. Human communities finding hope and meaning in a post-apocalyptic world - which is cliched in a way, but Charnas doesn't handle these themes in a way that is typical at all.
    • 2/5
      Interesting concept, mediocre execution...not least because it's more of a pity party than an Amazon camp...occasionally almost interesting, but it's mostly just foppish, untaut writing; the prose is mostly kinda wierd and stupid. The characters are basically flat, boring, and unsympathetic, and that's a real drag--also, the plot is pretty cluttered with lots of petty jealousy, stupid bickering, and useless in-fighting that's difficult to care about. ("Daya licked her lips nervously. 'Maybe Emla had done it. Clever bitch. Maybe because she was annoyed with me over the bracelet.' ") On the plus side, some (but not all) of the world-building was good, and so I wanted to like it because of that, and so I suppose there was the odd moment of reprieve, here and there, from the general..unimaginativeness. Although the only real feeling I developed towards Alldera-the-supposed-heroine was a feeling of resentment for her condenscending (feminist) attitude towards Daya, the so-called "pet". (She snubbed her, and called it friendship.) And all the other little traces of woman-hating in the book--"fems"? wft is that?--really gets grating and infuriating after awhile. The hypocrisy of it all, you know... And you know what? I fucking hate this book. That's right: I honestly fucking hate it. And I mean it. Learn to have a little fun, bitch, one way or the other.(4/10)

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