Weyward

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​By Emilia Hart

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Weyward is a story of a family, the focus is on three of the women from this family, from three different periods in time. I find it staggering that the subject matter of this book is still relevant today.

I’ve read a few thought-provoking books over the past while, and the same theme keeps returning. White men are asshats. This theme hasn’t even been limited to books or television shows; hell, I’m getting sick and tired of seeing a particular one on the evening news.

We like to think of ourselves as enlightened, better than our predecessors; but are we? Now, to be fair, fiction works best when it highlights the best or worst of us. Every story needs a villain.

Hart did a good job of developing her three protagonists, I felt the connection, I was appalled at their treatment. I enjoyed the interplay between the three time periods. However, I found the story a little lacking. I was looking for a bit more to happen.

Weyward was well done. It is a story intended to make the reader think about injustices, in this it is successful. The story was enough to keep me going until the end. It was lacking some story to bring it up to the next level.

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*3.5 Stars