Book Review: Orphans of Chaos by John C. Wright
Orphans of Chaos by John C. Wright
My rating: 1 of 5 stars
I have had this sitting on my shelf for a while and decided on a fantasy novel as my next read. What I got was a book that comes across as a combination of the author’s very poor and immature opinion of women and some version of a reality that he envisions.
I did not get far enough to rehash the plot, completing about 60 pages. In what is presented as an interesting concept, 5 orphans in a boarding school discover their have super powers, turned south very fast. The narrator is one of the two girls in the orphanage. In the sixty pages I read she was forced to ground by another and “liked it”, had a secret communications system with the boys that involved the boys drilling a hole into the girls showers (ala Porky’s ) and told the tale of her nightly inspection that had to be in the nude. There was also a large amount of discussion of the other girl’s physical shape and curves. The children do not know their ages but guess they are between 16 and 22. So all this could be about young girls. This is all in the first 60 pages.
John C. Wright
I also checked out the author’s website and that is what did me in. I do not have to agree with an author to read their work. The fiction is just that. Their opinion is another. But after reading his site and then trying to get back to the book, I kept feeling like the items in the book were symbols, imagery or other crap for his political view point. It was not what I wanted and so I dropped it and won’t be going back.
