Fortunately, lab-grown SynFlesh allows them to lead mostly normal lives.
Those affected by the Hollowing developed the need and desire to consume human flesh.
Two years ago, humanity was forever changed when melting permafrost unleashed a strange pathogen. I loves company! Have a blessed day.” The end is both predictable and partakes of a distressing white-savior mentality.Ĭalifornia victims of a climate change–induced pandemic uncover a deadly plot. The language is modern for so old a story, although the slaves and free blacks take their dialogue directly from Joel Chandler’s Uncle Remus: “Laws-a-mercy yes. Indeed, for a story with murders, attempted rape and slave-beating, no sense of horror or fear comes off the page, nor does any sort of erotic tension or longing. Nickerson describes clothing, architecture, woods and gardens in lovely detail, but even though Sophie tells her tale in the first person, there is no depth or nuance. Sophie is plucky and occasionally wise, but she also has a foil and a hope in the local minister, and she finds strength in prayer. Sophie is first charmed, then puzzled, then frightened by Monsieur Bernard, who is mercurial in his moods and unyielding in his demands. Wyndriven Abbey had been brought over, stone by stone, from France and rebuilt and added to, and it has a full complement of British, Chinese and French servants and plantation slaves.
Sophie soon finds out that not only is her guardian a widower, but there have been three wives before the last. When her father dies, 17-year-old Sophia is taken in by her godfather, the mysterious Bernard de Cressac. A bloodless retelling of the Bluebeard tale finds its setting in antebellum Mississippi.
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