from @Pibbles
> **A harrowing novel set in an alternative United States —a world of injustice and bondage in which a young Black woman becomes the concubine of a powerful white government official**
> Solenne Bonet lives in Texas, where choice no longer exists. An algorithm determines a Black woman’s occupation, spouse, and residence. She finds solace in penning the biography of Henriette, an ancestor who’d been an enslaved concubine to a wealthy planter in 1800s Louisiana. But history repeats itself when Solenne, lonely and naïve, finds herself entangled with Bastien Martin, a high-ranking government official.
Me and who?
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Most of the reviews feel like my parents reading the stories I wrote when I was 15. "Wow... This is certainly unique! Um, 4 stars?"
I did get a chuckle out of this one tho:
> What happens when you cross a terrible idea - an erotic novel about a slave in love with her master - with an okay idea - an dystopian novel about an alternative United States where a second Civil War reversed emancipation? I guess you get the blueprint for The Blueprint, which is not good, but has potential to be even worse.
> If Ms. Rashad wanted to write a more straightforward erotic novel, it would probably be pretty good, there are some genuine sensuous passages in "The Blueprint." :marseycoomer2: If Ms. Rashad gets a little better at world-building, she has the imagination to author some compelling science fiction, her ideas are good but underdeveloped. But it seems like she considers herself too good for genre fiction, she wants to be the adopted daughter of Toni Morrison and Margaret Atwood right now. And the result of such impatient ambition is phrases like "the room was washed in truth" and "I saw all the girls I was from fifteen to twenty." I'm guessing that wouldn't be quite so awkward in a romance novel, but in "The Blueprint," the romance is supposed to be a symbol of oppression, so I don't quite know why it's also a coming-of-age novel. It left me confused. Confusion is not always bad, but combined with incuriosity, it makes for an unsatisfying experience.
!bookworms !writecel
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