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This novel is very well written. I found the writing to be strong, directive and nice to read. The story, however, was not my preference. I am not going to give this book a one star rating because the contents were simply not what I prefer to read about. This world is bleak, the purpose and cause are thin, and the two heroines are exploited. I had a difficult time wanting to spend my hours reading about a young girl raped by her family members and then aided to escape only to be caught in another situation of sexual exploitation: she is then sexually exploited by the man that is supposed to be helping her. That kind of story is not escapism for me. Girls and women are exploited everyday and I don't want to read a futuristic novel about it certainly. A dystopian novel has so many things the characters can face, I feel that it is a bad choice to have your young heroes sexually exploited as a means of tension. Hunger Games this is not, of course, but can you imagine what those books would have been like if it were filled with rape?

Dystopian novels are a rave in the United States, I think as we gain more and more, we are drawn to stories in which characters are facing a world without all of the daily comforts we afford ourselves. We like to read about the consequences of so much of the greed and corruption we hear about daily. We love to read about the struggle for all those things we take for granted. This novel missed that mark for me and I will not be reading anymore of this particular set of stories. I just don't want to read a novel where girls are exploited. It lacks depth. Instead of heroism, I found no heroism, humiliation is a tough thing for a reader to overcome. If you humiliate your hero, there's no coming back from that.

That being said, Alex Adams can write and write well, it is the content that will keep me away. So be aware of what's here and make the right choice for you.


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White Horse A Novel Alex Adams 9781451642995 Books Reviews

I bought White Horse after seeing it recommended on another site, and I wasn't disappointed.
Alex Adams breathed new life into the post-apocalyptic genre with her excellent, clean writing and her wonderfully crafted characters. I found Adams' protagonist, Zoe, to be simultaneously complex, conflicted, and ultimately human.
The story is in some ways simple Zoe is one of small percentage of survivors of a plague and war that have destroyed humanity. We follow Zoe on her quest to reunite with her lost lover, and along the way she meets a number of characters, some good, and some exceptionally NOT good. The story, obviously, has been done before.
However, Adams raises Zoe above the level of a caricature by the strength of her writing. Simply put, and to repeat myself, this is one of the best written first novels you are likely to read for quite a long time. In the end, Zoe's quest isn't so much to find her lost lover as it is to find humanity's heart, and to maintain her own. Adams does such a good job of conveying this idea that, no matter how cynical you may be, and no matter how many times you understand that you have read a variation of this story before, you never stop caring for Zoe.
I look forward to the next book in the series.
For quite a few weeks I've been avoiding YA post-apocalyptic and dystopians - I think I've OD'ed a little and they all feel similar - love triangles, mediocre world-building and there is apparently something very wrong about writing stand-alone novels. So I decided I would turn things on it's head a little and read a (very) adult post-apocalyptic that was originally intended to be a stand-alone.

White Horse is split into Then and Now, which I'm usually comfortable with, as long as the book doesn't lose pace because of it, and I'm happy to say that doesn't happen in White Horse. The Then is mainly focused on the gradual apocalypse happening on everyone's doorstep but never specifically labelled, and the Now, where Zoe finds herself travelling across Italy and Greece to try and find her boyfriend.

Whilst the shock value is definitely there, there isn't ever a real explanation of what the apocalyptic event is other than what Zoe stumbles upon as the world disintegrates. Normally this would bug the hell out of me, but in White Horse it works because it is true to the feel of the book itself. There are a lot of hints at what possibly could be the catalyst, characters that have been affected in very different and disturbing ways, and quite a few mysteries that are either half resolved or just left hanging.

Zoe's interactions with other characters range from instant bonding to awkward, and she seems lost and confused for quite a lot of the book. Nevertheless I found her an easy character to connect with because she isn't an instant action hero, helpless bimbo or overly emotional. There are many other characters, most appearing fleetingly and some dying pretty gruesome deaths, and whilst some are memorable, others are very difficult to like or sympathise with.

When I purchased White Horse, it was listed as a stand-alone, but a sequel is now in the works, and I'm not quite sure how I feel about that. Although the ending doesn't resolve everything, it felt like a natural ending to the story and that everything that came after was left up to my imagination, but knowing there is a second book just makes the ending feel far too rushed without making me want to stalk the next book on release day.

I feel like I'm being incredibly negative, but I actually really liked this book - I enjoyed the juxtaposition between the dreamy pace and language and the dirty side of humanity, I liked that the amount of world-building was appropriate to the main characters reactions and level of interest, that the characters don't fall into stereotypes and there wasn't even a sniff of a love triangle.
This novel is very well written. I found the writing to be strong, directive and nice to read. The story, however, was not my preference. I am not going to give this book a one star rating because the contents were simply not what I prefer to read about. This world is bleak, the purpose and cause are thin, and the two heroines are exploited. I had a difficult time wanting to spend my hours reading about a young girl raped by her family members and then aided to escape only to be caught in another situation of sexual exploitation she is then sexually exploited by the man that is supposed to be helping her. That kind of story is not escapism for me. Girls and women are exploited everyday and I don't want to read a futuristic novel about it certainly. A dystopian novel has so many things the characters can face, I feel that it is a bad choice to have your young heroes sexually exploited as a means of tension. Hunger Games this is not, of course, but can you imagine what those books would have been like if it were filled with rape?

Dystopian novels are a rave in the United States, I think as we gain more and more, we are drawn to stories in which characters are facing a world without all of the daily comforts we afford ourselves. We like to read about the consequences of so much of the greed and corruption we hear about daily. We love to read about the struggle for all those things we take for granted. This novel missed that mark for me and I will not be reading anymore of this particular set of stories. I just don't want to read a novel where girls are exploited. It lacks depth. Instead of heroism, I found no heroism, humiliation is a tough thing for a reader to overcome. If you humiliate your hero, there's no coming back from that.

That being said, Alex Adams can write and write well, it is the content that will keep me away. So be aware of what's here and make the right choice for you.