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<\/h2>\nGenre: women’s historical fiction. \u2b50\ufe0fStars from Goodreads: 3.96. \u2b50\ufe0fStars from me: 3.7.<\/p>\n
<\/h2>\nThis is a story about Fleetwood, a 17-year-old wife of a noble person living in England, in the year 1692. Fleetwood is going through her new pregnancy, having miscarried several times before. She\u2019s worried that this baby won\u2019t survive too, and that her life is also in danger. She meets Alice who gives her some hope. Unfortunately, Alice might be one of those uncomfortable women who are not tolerated by people in power. This is a story about women who are trying to save and to be saved.<\/p>\n
I expected to be infuriated by the story, and I was. It could not be different with a book about women that are treated like cattle. It raised lots of questions. Was it truly that bad? How did it come to this?<\/p>\n
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Have things really changed much since then?<\/p>\n
The story is very gripping, it\u2019s hard to put the book down. There\u2019s lots of action going on.<\/p>\n
I liked it because it felt realistic and natural.<\/p>\n
The passage of time feels very abrupt sometimes. The book feels raw and unpolished at places.<\/p>\n
As I told in one of my reviews<\/a> before, I\u2019m tired of this concept. I understand that in a book about a witch hunt such element is inescapable, but I still believe that characters have to be<\/b>\u00a0more diverse in order to be plausible and interesting.<\/p>\n I find the eventual situation with the husband implausible and obscene, especially taking into account all the things we’ve read about him.<\/p>\n I wish I could learn more about Alice, but I’m also wondering about those historical times in general. If it was that bad could such brave, rebellious Fleetwoods really exist? Did they? Or was the mere thought of going against the current impossible for women then? Well, unless they were witches…<\/p>\n I\u2019d definitely recommend it to those who are looking for an adventure story with strong female characters. The Familiars<\/em> will be out in two weeks, on 19.02.19.<\/p>\n Many thanks to the publishers for the copy in exchange for my honest review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s a story about a 17-year old girl called Fleetwood who’s trying to save herself, her baby and her friend in England during the times of witch-hunts. Continue reading The Familiars by Stacey Halls<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[169,173,305,322,406,541,588,589],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The husband issue<\/h3>\n
Questions that I still have<\/h2>\n
Would I recommend the book?<\/h2>\n