I also like that she isn’t inherently rebellious like many other protagonists in the dystopia/utopia genre. I like how she doesn’t lap up the lavish lifestyle the Guild provides for the Spinsters, not really caring for all the beauty treatments and expensive clothes. Even if you don’t understand the concept right away it becomes more clear as the chapters go on.Īdelice is a strong character who wants to protect the people she cares about as much as she wants to get out of the Guild’s controlling hands. I can’t find the words to explain it right but Albin explains it very clearly and beautifully. The idea is that particular girls can manipulate ‘the weave’ and use it to manipulate the events in Arras. This book stands out from many of the other dystopia/utopia young adults books because it has such a unique, original, and imaginative world and concept.
The world Albin has created blew me away. I read this book for free when it was posted as a serialisation on the writing website Wattpad, but I would have gladly bought it. And one hour to escape.Ĭrewel is the first book in Gennifer Albin’s gripping young adult series.
One hour to listen to her sister’s academy gossip and laugh at her dad’s jokes. Now she has one hour to eat her mom’s overcooked pot roast. Not that her feelings matter, because she slipped and used her hidden talent for a moment. But if controlling what people eat, where they live, and how many children they have is the price of having it all, Adelice isn’t interested. It also means the power to manipulate the very fabric of reality. It means privilege, eternal beauty, and being something other than a secretary. Gifted with the ability to weave time with matter, she’s exactly what the Guild is looking for, and in the world of Arras, being chosen to work the looms is everything a girl could want. But sixteen-year-old Adelice Lewys has a secret: She wants to fail.
That’s what the other girls whisper behind her back. Publishing Info: Wattpad serialisation September 2014 (originally published Octoby Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Genre: Young Adult, Science-Fiction, Dystopia/Utopia
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