so-so#UnpopularOpinion
Julia is not a feminist retelling of Orwell‘s book in my opinion. Not at all. A YA retelling maybe, at the most.
Julia felt very one dimensional to me, not like a real person nor a feminist one. The plot was flat too, I really can‘t understand the praise for this book. One of my least favorites of the #Litsy2024 shortlist.
BkClubCare, Megabooks, Hooked_on_books, Jas16, Well-ReadNeck, MicheleinPhilly, Suet624, Deblovestoread, Readerann, Chelsea.Poole, squirrelbrain, jlhammar, Addison_Reads, Ruthiella, sarahbarnessarahbarnes I don‘t think I‘m going to get to this one, and your review makes me feel better about that. 11mo
Librarybelle Good review! 11mo
BarbaraBB @sarahbarnes I honestly think you won‘t like it either but I can be wrong as almost all reviews on Litsy are picks! 11mo
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Jas16 Still have this one on my TBR but not especially excited about it. 11mo
Ruthiella Interesting! I still need to read this and re-read 1984 as prep. 11mo
Megabooks Wow! I really enjoyed this. We usually don‘t disagree this much. 😂😂 11mo
BarbaraBB @Megabooks Right? I was so surprised too! 11mo
Suet624 Happy to take this off my list. 11mo
squirrelbrain I really enjoyed it too @Megabooks - maybe we should report @BarbaraBB to the Thought Police?! 🤣 11mo
batsy A YA retelling! Love your honesty. I'm taking it off the list because I was also thinking I'd have to read 1984 and I don't want to (world's too grim already...) 11mo
Megabooks @squirrelbrain lol! Yes!! It didn‘t really feel YA to me. 🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️ 11mo
Readerann I totally agree, Barbara. 11mo
BarbaraBB @Megabooks @squirrelbrain 😂😂 the thought police! 11mo
BarbaraBB @batsy That too 😬 11mo
BarbaraBB @Suet624 Glad to be of help though I am a minority here! 11mo
BarbaraBB @Readerann I hoped you would!! (edited) 11mo
Hooked_on_books Very interesting! I‘m about to start 1984 today so I can get to Julia thereafter. Now I‘m intrigued! 11mo
kwmg40 I started this one with high hopes but am struggling to continue. It just feels very flat compared to Orwell's book, but given that some have praised the book highly, I'm not sure I'm ready to abandon it yet. 11mo
BarbaraBB @kwmg40 That‘s why I continued too but it didn‘t get really better imo 11mo
BarbaraBB @Hooked_on_books Can‘t wait to hear your thoughts! 11mo
TrishB I thought this one was so much better![[tagged book]](https://image.librarything.com/pics/litsy_webpics/icon_taggedBook@3x.png)
The Sisterhood: Big Brother is watching. But they won't see her coming. 11mo
The Sisterhood: Big Brother is watching. But they won't see her coming.BarbaraBB @TrishB I remember you read Both retellings but not which you preferred. I am glad somehow that it‘s not Julia 😀 11mo
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