Vision in Sliver: Post One
Vision in Sliver is not my kind of book because of all the fantasy creatures. This being the third book in the series is part of the reason. I found myself lost at the beginning, but slowly got comfortable with the story line. Part of the confusion was from the assortment of characters and their roles. Another part taking time to get used to was the terminology that came with this book. After this adjustment period was over, this book was very interesting when it came to the Blood Prophets. With these Blood Prophets comes the issue of owning people. Humans owning other humans with special abilities and using these abilities for their own profit. This is a troubling topic and is what makes this book bearable. What I definitely didn't like was the drowning of babies " sounds coming from the last of the sacks as crying baby ... Too late to save any of them" (Page 73). This was very sad farming babies for profit is very cruel and inhuman. My reason to continue reading is in the hope that these children and teens are rescued and can find a home. Their place in a functioning society is still a mystery and is also, what I'm looking forward to finding out.
I did not understand a lot in the beginning either, but after reading more into the book I became more comfortable reading it. Though, on the other hand I do like this book and fantasy is what makes it even more interesting to me. I have notice a lot of similarities within the book and our society. When you mentioned the humans owning other humans for profit, I thought about issues we have such as hiring certain people for certain jobs knowing they will do well to profit their company, and also how some people get into relationships only because the other can profit from them in some way or another. Additionally, when you mentioned the drowning of babies, only the males, it reminded me of what china did to their babies. Now, I am not sure if it is still happening but in China, if a woman had a girl baby they would abort the child. Having a boy was only acceptable because they thought they could be of more use to them than girls.
ReplyDeleteI am not into SI-FI either and this book is fairly hard for me to wrap my mind around. I still do not understand the terminology that well, but it is getting better. This book is definitely getting more interesting, which is making it easier for me to read. I think this would have been easier to understand if I had read the first 2 books. To comment on what Jenipher said, this stuff does happen in the real world and it very said. I have heard about that scenario in China happening in the past and it is inhumane. I really enjoyed the quote you picked, it shows a lot of significance to one of the issue in the book.
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