Self published in the UK on the 1st October 2019.
Included in my Vegan Bookshop
How I got this book:
Bought the ebook from Amazon
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Books by Gemma Lawrence / Fantasy fiction / Books from England
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
It is the future. The world is not as you remember it.
The world has changed. Seas have risen, land is scarce, and thousands of species are gone, cast into obliteration.
One young woman, born to darkness and silence, has become the leader of her people.
Rising up in rebellion against those who would kill her and her people, Holt and her allies have seized the town, but the island is not yet theirs. Taking an army of newly freed people to march upon the Factory, where she was born, Holt endeavours to set her people free from their former masters, and to free herself from the pain of her past.
Farm Land: Intelligence is Book Two in the Farm Land Trilogy by G. Lawrence.
It's been two and a half years since I read the first of G Lawrence's Farm Land trilogy, Farm Land: Sentience, so I was a little concerned on starting its sequel, Farm Land: Intelligence, that I would not remember enough of what had gone before. I need not have worried. Farm Land: Sentience was such a memorable novel that I was soon thoroughly engrossed in Holt's story again, feeling as if I had never been away. I think it would be advisable to read the series in order as, while Holt's drive for freedom in this book could be read as a standalone adventure, much of what makes these stories so gripping for me is the environment within which they are set. Farm Land: Intelligence does drop hints and reminders, but to fully appreciate the enthralling depth of Lawrence's created world I feel it's necessary to journey with Holt from the very beginning.
Farm Land: Intelligence cracks along at a faster pace so, while I appreciated its greater sense of energy, I did also miss the depth of world building and detail from the first book. Idiosyncratic characters such as Hathor seemed to feature less strongly too although I appreciated Lawrence's depictions of how psychologically damaged the rescued factory prisoners were. I wondered if these images would be as strong to non-vegans. I wasn't as astounded by Holt's inter-species interactions because I already understood them. The reactions of other characters were nicely portrayed though and I especially loved one minor character's awakening to the reality of the 'cows' he blithely ate. Lawrence has a real skill for illustrating the wrongs of our own world through the distorted lens of Farm Land. I hope these these thought-provoking moments are as shocking and eye-opening to all her readers!
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Books by Gemma Lawrence / Fantasy fiction / Books from England
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