She was very average, except for the doom-n-gloom prophecy that has something to do with her and her sisters.Īnd I loved the relationship between Cate and her sisters, Maura and Tess. She wasn’t pretty-and not in the “woe is me, I’m hideous, but wait! this hot guy thinks I’m pretty so I must be gorgeous all of a sudden” way. She wasn’t superly gifted-of her sisters she’s the least academically or mentally inclined. I also liked Cate Cahill as a protagonist.
I loved the bits about the development of witches, then the very Handmaid’s Tale-esque takeover of religious fanatics. And the world-building was pretty interesting, too. As a reader, I definitely needed a lot of detail to get to know what was going on, how things worked.
I feel like Born Wicked’s plot dealt with a lot of preliminaries for the rest of the series, introducing the concept of witchery, the dystopian setting, etc. Like there’s only one kind.Īnyway, anyway. I had a similar reaction to certain YA dystopian novels that try to claim that science is bad. I find that type of generalization to be naïve and oversimplified. However, neither do I think that all religion is bad and can just be lumped together in the way Spotswood did here. If you find me telling someone that a woman’s main duty is to pop out babies and cook dinner for her husband, something is seriously wrong with the world. Okay, so in no circumstance do I agree with anything the Brotherhood preaches. Said Brotherhood also had some lovely ideas about womenkind. In the early stages of Born Wicked, I wasn’t completely hooked, as there was a lot of focus given to the Brotherhood, which, in this dystopian nineteenth century, was the equivalent to the medieval Papacy-church and government combined in one. Yet while I think Born Wicked is similar to both of those books, I do think it’s also better. Jessica Spotswood’s Born Wicked, for me, ran very closely to A Great and Terrible Beauty, but also reminded me of The Handmaid’s Tale.
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