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| Original Title: | Santa Olivia |
| ISBN: | 044619817X (ISBN13: 9780446198172) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Santa Olivia #1 |
| Characters: | Loup Garron |
Jacqueline Carey
Paperback | Pages: 341 pages Rating: 3.84 | 8288 Users | 847 Reviews
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| Title | : | Santa Olivia (Santa Olivia #1) |
| Author | : | Jacqueline Carey |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 341 pages |
| Published | : | May 29th 2009 by Grand Central Publishing (Hachette) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Urban Fantasy. LGBT. Science Fiction. Fiction. Dystopia |
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Lushly written with rich and vivid characters, SANTA OLIVIA is Jacqueline Carey's take on comic book superheroes and the classic werewolf myth.Loup Garron was born and raised in Santa Olivia, an isolated, disenfranchised town next to a US military base inside a DMZ buffer zone between Texas and Mexico. A fugitive "Wolf-Man" who had a love affair with a local woman, Loup's father was one of a group of men genetically-manipulated and used by the US government as a weapon. The "Wolf-Men" were engineered to have superhuman strength, speed, sensory capability, stamina, and a total lack of fear, and Loup, named for and sharing her father's wolf-like qualities, is marked as an outsider.
After her mother dies, Loup goes to live among the misfit orphans at the parish church, where they seethe from the injustices visited upon the locals by the soldiers. Eventually, the orphans find an outlet for their frustrations: They form a vigilante group to support Loup Garron who, costumed as their patron saint, Santa Olivia, uses her special abilities to avenge the town.
Aware that she could lose her freedom, and possibly her life, Loup is determined to fight to redress the wrongs her community has suffered. And like the reincarnation of their patron saint, she will bring hope to all of Santa Olivia.
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Ratings: 3.84 From 8288 Users | 847 ReviewsEvaluate About Books Santa Olivia (Santa Olivia #1)
The different sections of this book didn't seem to go together to me, genre-wise.There's the first, shortest, section, really an introduction, which is a gritty, dystopian, very plausible near-future in which the border region between the US and Mexico has been militarized and the citizenship of the denizens revoked. In fact, in legal terms they no longer exist and their presence is forgotten by the general public, although the soldiers use the towns as bases and take advantage of the poverty ofThe thing about this book is...Okay, I'm not actually sure what the thing about this book is. There's a couple of points where I felt the author was being weird and wrong-headed, but overall it was so fascinating that I forgave it almost anything. I found the book fascinating because it was, to me, an indictment of the privilege on which the superhero story is constructed. Loup Garron has special powers; speed, super-strength, yer basic 'I am an advanced biological construct' lego set. But,
This is a science fiction novel from Carey, about the daughter about a genetically engineered soldier who escapes the lab and passes through a border zone created between the U.S. and Mexico (in the wake of a plague that came up from Mexico--I wonder how Carey feels now, since the copyright date is April 2009, the same month reports of H1N1 virus became news, which means that Carey would have handed the manuscript in a year earlier!). Loup is born to her single mother when her father is forced
This is your basic dystopian boxing fable with a mutant lesbian werewolf superhero/saint as the main character. I know that sounds completely ludicrous. But Carey makes it work rather well, and the book was just a pleasure to read. She writes with such ease and clarity here. And I really liked several of the characters here. I also especially liked how she dealt with a main character who was simply incapable of feeling fear, or any of its related emotions. She treats it basically as another form
I last read Carey back before my GR reviewing days when my sexuality was still an unquestioned landscape and my career path a seemingly guaranteed if empty grind. Much has changed in the seven (or is it eight now) years since, but everything is still too much in flux for my tastes, which is perhaps why this bildungsroman of a bioengineered superwoman which cuts off at the spry young age of below 20 didn't take. I'm too old to read about children puzzling out their lusts and their strengths and
Read it in one sitting. Finished at 4am.Enough said.
An entertaining dystopian/superhero novel that never reaches its full potential. I was intrigued by the description and the first few pages, but in retrospect the story itself is a bit of a letdown.Santa Olivia is set along the U.S.-Mexico border in what's implied to be the not-so-distant future. The book starts strong, the first 40 pages following a young woman named Carmen living in a militarized outpost, before moving on to the real protagonist, her daughter Loup. Loup has superhero powers
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