I've finished: Brother Bronte by Fernando A. Flores
Reading Brother Bronte was a good, but strange experience.
Following the characters as they struggle to survive this dystopian hell-scape was riveting. The setting challenged me as a reader.
It is a very low information setting, media is suppressed, and we know little about what is going on, in the world at large or in Three Rivers itself. We know what the characters know.
As far as the oppressive regime in Three Rivers I found it novel and interesting to experience the dystopia this way, and the story progresses to a satisfying ending.
But, there are hints at supernatural elements to the story that just don't seem to connect, or go anywhere.
The Bother Bronte book within a book also doesn't seem to connect with the experiences of the characters. Women are treated very badly, but not in the way expressed in the novels within the novel that we are exposed to. Accept perhaps in the general idea that girls can rebel against the system.
I may be missing something, perhaps there are connections I didn't get. Perhaps my expectation that things make more sense isn't compatible with the author's intention. Perhaps doing your best in a bad situation with the limited resources and information at your disposal is what the novel is about, and life unlike fiction doesn't hand you solutions on a platter.
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