Absolutely beautiful book.

Also as someone who saw their own dad strike during the minors strike this really struck a chord with me.


It’s also frustrating. The main character simply can’t communicate properly with anyone apart from her best friend. The book moves from past to future and just like when she was a teenager. Now she is an adult she still can’t explain things and communicate her feelings. There seems to have been no growing of her character and that’s the point.

It’s a dark book, much cleverer than me. I think it’s about those girls that don’t conform to the usual type. Those ones that become different and in this case even the body changes and becomes different and sharp and unworldly. And she. Girls become different and more powerful, the less people see them as real girls.

This really is a fabulous book. The whole time you are thinking, why hasn’t the lead character become a rust maiden? She’s just as angry and despondent as everyone else?

She makes the wrong move every time and as much as you won’t to scream and shake her, it works for the story. Every time she says ‘nothing’ instead of answering questions you get even angrier at her.

The rust maidens are such a great invention. Really scary and incredibly sad.