bbraat Review of Antonia's Line

Antonia's Line (1995)

Needing to diminish your counterpart is never a sign of strength

[1/10 · 9 September 2007]

No character development, characters passed through town self-righteously and gave into impulses. Characters merely made pronouncements: "I will have a child but no husband", "he is bad", and "she is good". "I want to be an artist" and she's off to art school with no worry about the farm or the costs of school and supplies. It was a romance novel in which Holland wasn't affected by WWII and serious farming involved strolling and tossing seeds from a wicker basket while the sun sets gently behind the horizon. All men are either sinister or simpletons and all are useless. Why would a story that purports to show strong women first need to geld all the males? It is never a sign of a strong women/man to need to diminish your counterpart.