Thoroughly enjoyed the short time I spent with this.Īntigone’s parents once sat upon the throne but then they were murdered by her Uncle and now he takes their place.

There are a couple things I'd have liked to have been more fleshed out (namely, the Trimere), but overall I'm happy with it. The sci-fi elements are interesting and the Dystopian reads as True Roth, but it does veer just a bit into Doing Too Much territory simply due to the length of the novella. I'm coming at this with absolutely no working knowledge of Antigone besides vaguely recognizing the name via cultural osmosis, which is to say I have no idea what the original story is (but many reviews seem to say it's a very faithful adaptation). A retelling of Antigone that hones in hard on ideas of bodily autonomy and self determination in ways that ring unfortunately true of the time and place in which it is being published. Engaging from the start and expertly paced for a novella of this length. I sat down to read this on a Sunday afternoon and blasted through it in one sitting. She said that protecting a thing was just an excuse to control it. The womb that gave my life its ebbs and flows made my body sacred to the state, and therefore, particularly subject to its might. Roth always has a solid idea but her execution is always the problem. You can tell her writing has improved but it also felt contrived at times. There some great quotes and I liked Kreon thru other’s eyes but for a short story, not much was explained. Why are they on another planet? What happened to earth? Unless I missed it which is totally possible, it wasn’t explained. People just hate the naturally born people Once again, Roth isn’t really leaning into why that’s dangerous or beneficial.

That’s inherently an interesting topic-designer babies. In this futuristic world(we don’t know the year but I guess that doesn’t matter) if you give birth naturally, your children won’t have a soul so people extract dead people’s DNA to make children. All three women were quite unique in their backstories, their current situations, and their view of their own futures which was a great start but that was it, a great start. Is there going to be a book two because if not…yikes. Yes, men confuse protection with control and that was good but you have three different types of women dealing with this in their own way but they are just in their head about it and what they are saying isn’t anything new. She’s trying to tackle the patriarchy and the oppression/controlling women’s bodies but she’s not saying anything new about it. I felt like Roth got so excited about our shitty politics and wanted to write about it with a sci if slant but she didn’t know how to incorporate it.

Inwijding by Veronica Roth