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Sistersong by Lucy Holland★★★
"And a world with no magic is no world at all."
In the ancient kingdom of Dumnonia, there is old magic to be found in the whisper of the wind, the roots of the trees, and the curl of the grass.
That was...quite an interesting read, not quite what I expected the book to be like. I really enjoyed it overall, Keyne was definitely my favorite character. Sinne was so irritating throughout the entire story, however I found it extremely uncomfortable that they (view spoiler) Sinne was always a selfish child and terrible that she was the cause of Riva's pain. I was very neutral about Riva's character and overall understood her decision at the end of the book to leave her lands. With everyone there hating her, there was very little chance for a proper, good life for herself, especially since she was with child. I'm glad that Keyne got the (view spoiler), that character development throughout the story was fantastic.
Definitely not what I expected, I thought this book would be more focused on magic and family and, while it certainly was, it also included a lot more than I thought. Overall, I very much enjoyed it!
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Book Review: “Sistersong” by Lucy Holland
Rating: 4.5/5
Title: Sistersong
Author: Lucy Holland
Pages: 416
Review:
This is a retelling of the Twa Sisters ballad. If you don’t know it I suggest to look it up after reading the book, but if you do know it there are a few changes to the story, which makes it less predictable.
The story is told from the perspective of three siblings and it’s set in the ancient kingdom of Dumnonia. King Cador used to have magical abilities that came from the land, but these start to fade when Christianity slowly takes over. Each of his children possess some kind of power: Riva, the eldest, can cure others but not her own scars made by wildfire in the past, Keyne has hidden abilities and so does Sinne, the youngest. The siblings are very different from each other and have their own personal journeys and struggles.
The people from Dumnonia are getting ready for the possibility of invasion by the Saxons, there is a conflict between the old magic and the new religion, a suspicious stranger that brings conflict between the siblings and a character struggling with their gender identity.
The book is magical and atmospheric and makes me wish the writing style wasn’t as simple. I did get used to it after a few chapters and enjoyed the tale for what it was. I really liked the characters and the different relationships. There was complexity and understandable motivations that drove the plot.
The pacing is slow and for the most part feels very slice of life, which is exactly what I like. There is still enough mystery and some battles for those that prefer plot over characters.
I was expecting the ending to be more tragic, but I still enjoyed it.
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In the mid 1990s, the Reproductive Justice movement was formed by Black and indigenous women as a response to the limitations of the “reproductive rights” movement. Movement leaders argue, “rarely do we find ourselves fighting for just one aspect of reproductive justice such as abortion rights” –…
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Mythology reinterpretations! Trans characters! I love books
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76/100
Sistersong
Wonderful retelling, I wasn't familiar with the legend so I was really surprised with what happened. The writing is beautiful and it keeps you hooked as we followe the three siblings, each on their own unique story that is made into one at the end. Magic, princesses, mystery and betrayal, what else could you need in a book?
🌟🌟🌟🌟
4/5 stars
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19. most popular disliked books?
this one was sort of tricky because my taste in books and what is considered broadly popular do not normally overlap however the first book that came to mind was the chosen and the beautiful by nghi vo which i dnf'd because i thought the magic system was ill-defined (don't get me started on the demon stuff!! it was so silly i was actually embarrassed) and it's not even a reinterpretation so much as a scene-by-scene gatsby revamp with a few new things in between. in my review i said it "reflects the careless hedonistic society it seeks to examine: hollow under its shiny packaging"
other popular-ish books i didn't like or dnf'd
little weirds by jenny slate dnf
sistersong by lucy holland 2.75⭐ - if it weren't for the trans stuff i would be asleep
plain bad heroines by emily m. danforth - 2.75⭐ - builds and builds and for what? nothing
anything by grady hendrix i've read two of his books and the way some of you guys talk about him you'd think he was jesus
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Book Review: "Sistersong" by Lucy Holland (@silvanhistorian @panmacmillan @ExeterCityofLit @EasternRegional)
Book Review: “Sistersong” by Lucy Holland (@silvanhistorian @panmacmillan @ExeterCityofLit @EasternRegional)
Sistersong (Pan Macmillan UK, April 2021) by Lucy Holland
Sistersong, by Devon-based author Lucy Holland, is recommended to our readers by Ms Anna Cohn Orchard, Executive Director of Exeter UNESCO City of Literature. Published in 2021, the book was a finalist to both the British Fantasy Award for Best Novel and the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award in 2022.
Holland describes herself as living…
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Book Review: SISTERSONG by Lucy Holland
Book Review: SISTERSONG by Lucy Holland
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I do not typically enjoy high fantasy novels, but SISTERSONG was different.
A tale about the bond of three siblings during a time of war, SISTERSONG has everything.
The reader is given epic scenes, romantic conflict, and a character who struggles for acceptance. I found it immersive. What was more, there wasn’t a character I did not like.
This is a novel that portrays its…
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2022 reads // twitter thread
Sistersong
historical fantasy set in ancient Britain
\inspired by the folk-ballad The Twa Sisters.
follows the three children of the king, who has turned away from the magic of the land & is preparing for Saxon invasion
two sisters fall for the same man, a mysterious visiting stranger
meanwhile keyne is struggling to be seen and accepted as a man
#sistersong#aroaessidhe 2022 reads#this is p good! though tbh i zoned out a lot in the last few hours of the audiobook Lmao#so idk i'd recommend it if you're especially interested in the setting/narrative? otherwise idk#keyne's story was the most interesting to me#(it does contain a fair amount of transphobia/misgendering#esp at the start)#I KNOW it's the book concept so this is 100% my fault but i do not like two women fighting over a man narratives lmao#sinne definitely irritated me a lot. like she's 15 so that's fine but also. yeah.#also why do like the first 15 reviews on GR say three sisters what the fuck#IT'S NOT A SPOILER HE'S OBVIOUSLY A BOY FROM A COUPLE CHAPTERS IN.......#in fact the first chapter I assumed he was a boy without knowing anything else. or which sibling was the trans one. like.#anyway
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Review - Sistersong, Lucy Holland
I loved this one! So much that i spent all of Easter morning reading it, and then immediately came to write a review of it!
(THIS REVIEW HAS SPOILERS)
Retellings of myth and legend is one of my weaknesses in books, and this one really hits the spot. It was a take on The Twa Sisters, an old song about a girl who murders her younger sister.
One thing that i really loved about this book is the relationships between the three siblings. You get to see how these relationships develop over the course of the book, and how they way that their treatment by others has shaped how they relate to one another. You also get to see how Constantine’s understanding of himself develops, from who he is at the start (angry, defensive, not one of them) to the end, where he understands his place beside his sisters much better, and has stepped into his own power. Its also really good to see the moments when his transness ‘clicks’ for his sisters, and how their internal monologue, especially Sinne’s, adjusts to reflect that.
The magic system within this book is one that i really love, partly because it reminds me of one of my favourite books from my childhood, but mostly because i think that it is a wonderful way to see the world, as one connected being, of which every tree and rock and animal and person is part, and as something that we risk losing connection to all too easily.
The relationships within the book explore how easily it is for an outsider looking for information can play on vulnerabilities within people, and their insecurities around their place in their families, but also how that is approached differently by different people within the group, particularly through Riva’s relationship with Tristan, and how it is viewed by Consantine, Sinne, her mother, and also Tristan himself.
Overall, I really enjoyed this book, i loved the relationships between the siblings, and how the queer characters are a part of the world, and the discussion of how the church damages people natural relationships with the world.
Go read this book!
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Looking for blogs that do book reviews or book related posts and have similar tastes to mine in order to find more excellent reads so please let me know if you are a fan of 3 or more of these:
Realm of the Elderlings series by Robin Hobb
Nightrunner series by Lynn Flewelling
Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Discworld series by Terry Pratchett
The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
First Law series by Joe Abercrombie
Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tokien
The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander
The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
Winter Rose/The Changeling Sea/The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A.McKillip
Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang
Gentleman Bastards series by Scott Lynch
Shades of Magic by V.E. Schwab
Greenhollow Duology by Emily Tesh
Black Water Sister by Zen Cho
Sistersong by Lucy Holland
Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
Dawn/Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
I read mostly fantasy, but some classic literature too and I have been trying to get into historical fiction. I prefer long series if the characters are complex or entertaining enough. Books being queer is a plus.
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Psst. I’m writing reviews again. Maybe. I wrote one review. This is that review.
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In 2018, Amy Padula, a professor at the University of California, San Francisco, was pregnant in the midst of historic mega-fires tearing through California. An epidemiologist with a background in medical anthropology, she already knew that air pollution is bad for pregnant people and fetal development, but she wanted to know just how much worse wildfire was making things.From heat events to air pollution and exposure to infectious diseases, climate change affects everyone’s health. But the risks are worse for pregnant people, which means that climate justice is also a reproductive justice issue. National activist organization SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective defines reproductive justice as “the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities.”
But maternal health in the U.S. has been called a “public health crisis.” The country has the highest rate of maternal mortality among industrialized nations as well as one of the highest rates of infant mortality. Climate change only magnifies this crisis. Climate-change induced air pollution and heat exposure heighten the risk of things like preterm births, adverse birth outcomes and even birth defects. And all of these problems disproportionately affect communities of color. Black and Indigenous women are 2-3 times more likely to die in childbirth than white women and have higher rates of preterm birth, a leading cause of infant mortality. This carries over to climate impacts on reproductive health. Researchers in California found that for every 10 degrees Fahrenheit increase in weekly average temperature, the risk of premature birth goes up by almost 9% for everyone, but almost 15% for Black pregnant people.
Policies to address the climate impacts on reproductive health are lagging in the U.S. According to a review of 105 official documents on what to do during periods of prolonged and extreme heat conducted by Human Rights Watch in 2020, information on how to protect pets was around 10 times more likely to be included than information on how to protect pregnant people.
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My Top Books of 2021
Hey guys! I thought I would make a list of my top books of 2021 on here (and please let me know if you’ve read any!). If you’d like to read my reviews of these books we can be friends on Goodreads ;)
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1. A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson
2. The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton
3. The Death of Jane Lawrence by Caitlin Starling
4. Sistersong by Lucy Holland
5. Fierce Dreamer by Linda Lafferty
6. Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
7. The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Córdova
8. The Wolf of Oren-Yaro by K.S. Villoso
9. Hall of Smoke by H.M. Long
10. Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
11. The Savage Instinct by M.M. DeLuca
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13. The Lights of Prague by Nicole Jarvis
14. Strange Practice by Vivian Shaw
15. In the Company of Witches by Auralee Wallace
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