Dienstag, 4. Juni 2019

To Best the Boys, Mary Weber

Guten Abend :)

weil ich gerade so einen Lauf habe, gleich noch eine englische Rezi :)





Hier der Klappentext:
The task is simple: Don a disguise. Survive the Labyrinth. Best the boys.
In a thrilling new fantasy from the bestselling author of the Storm Siren Trilogy, one girl makes a stand against society and enters a world made exclusively for boys.
Every year for the past fifty-four years, the residents of Pinsbury Port receive a mysterious letter inviting all eligible-aged boys to compete for an esteemed scholarship to the all-male Stemwick University. The poorer residents look to see that their names are on the list. The wealthier look to see how likely their sons are to survive. And Rhen Tellur opens it to see if she can derive which substances the ink and parchment are created from, using her father’s microscope.
In the province of Caldon, where women train in wifely duties and men pursue collegiate education, sixteen-year-old Rhen Tellur wants nothing more than to become a scientist. As the poor of her seaside town fall prey to a deadly disease, she and her father work desperately to find a cure. But when her mum succumbs to it as well? Rhen decides to take the future into her own hands—through the annual all-male scholarship competition.
With her cousin, Seleni, by her side, the girls don disguises and enter Mr. Holm’s labyrinth, to best the boys and claim the scholarship prize. Except not everyone’s ready for a girl who doesn’t know her place. And not everyone survives the deadly maze.
Welcome to the Labyrinth.
(Quelle: amazon)

Meine Meinung:
I am really fond of the cover. I like the labyrinth in the back, the girl inside and the genuine placing of the title.

The writing style was fluent and easy to read. Through the first-person-perspective of Rhen it was easy to commiserate with her.

I must admit, from reading the short description, I would have expected a slightly different story. I was expecting something like Panem or Fire&Flood or something alike. However, here I got something else and I do not want to evaluate my expectations, but what I really got - although it is hard to keep this to parts apart. The story was nice. The world the author created was mysterious and it was nice to get an idea, what life meant there - especially for a girl. The Labyrinth was quite far from my expectations, but held a lot of mysteries and secrets, which where surprising and enthralling.

Rhen was quite a nice main character. Living in a quite patriaracharl world with interest in sience and medicine and wanting to be able to learn more about that was  a challenge, which she mastered quite well. During the story, I got to know here smartness, but also her bravery. She certainly is a warrior, but has her heart at the right place. The side characters were also quite nice. Lute was a nice boy. Vincent was a great opponent and in some way a stereotopic macho. Although Seleni was fine with the life like it was for women, she allways was a great cousin to Rhen.

The end of the story was a little open, but quite hopeful. At the end there are also some open question included, to review especially the political aspects of the story, which was a nice addition.

Fazit:
Although I expected something different, I liked the characters and the adventure of exploring the secrets of the labyrinth with them - I give the book 5 out of 5 stars :)

Autorin:  Mary Weber
Verlag: Thomas Nelson
Sprache: Englisch
Veröffentlichung: 18. März 2019
ISBN-10:  0718080963
ISBN-13: 978-0718080969
Seiten: 352
(Daten beziehen sich auf die Print-Ausgabe)


Thank you to the author and netgalley for the review copy <3

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