Midnight Robber
Ratings8
Average rating3.6
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Ratings8
Average rating3.6
PRISONER OF NEW HALF-WAY TREE It's Carnival time and the Caribbean-colonized planet of Toussaint is celebrating with music, dance, and pageantry. Masked "Midnight Robbers" waylay revelers with brandished weapons and spellbinding words. But to young Tan-Tan, the Robber Queen is simply a favorite costume to wear at the festival--until her power-corrupted father commits an unforgivable crime. Suddenly, both father and daughter are thrust into the brutal world of New Half-Way Tree. Here monstrous creatures from folklore are real, and the humans are violent outcasts in the wilds. Here Tan-Tan must reach into the heart of myth--and become the Robber Queen herself. For only the Robber Queen's legendary powers can save her life . . . and set her free.
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There are some fascinating ideas in this book, and it's commendable for Hopkinson to take on some serious ideas that aren't often looked at through these lenses in fiction, but I had to push myself to finish the book–it's good, but it's a tough read from an emotional point of view, and I need writing that engages me more when there are so many damaging things happening to the characters. I suspect I'll read this book again some day and enjoy it more, but right now it felt like more work than I wanted it to be.
