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Woman 99 by Greer Macallister

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This is a story about a girl, charlotte, whose sister gets taken away to an insane asylum. Charlotte does everything in her power to help her sister escape, including jumping off a bridge to be considered insane. They eventually escape only to find that the man who owns the asylum is the man she has been promised to for marriage. The story was good and captivating, although not a ton of mystery or shock to it, which is fine. I give it a 4/5 as an easy read, but also could skip.

m_klevenberg's review

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5.0

Such a unique, interesting and crazy topic!! This book was wonderful. I love a good story about sisters. The way the characters develop and change through the story is so lovely.

htipton's review

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challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

2.5

lavieboheme930's review

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1.0

1/5 Stars for Woman 99, a fictional novel by Greer Macallister that takes the reader back to a time when horrible experiments were being done to women who were in mental hospitals and got away with performing such acts.

This book couldn’t hold my attention at all, not even for a tiny bit of the amount of time that I read it. The pacing was all off going back in time to recent without any transition. And no action happened until well into the book. I prefer books that get into the action within the first couple of chapters. I don’t know what Macallister was trying to do making us wait what felt like forever for Charlotte to find her sister. I feel that if Macallister had more action and less talking inside the main characters mind, this story could’ve been enjoyable. But there was far too much going on at such a slow place, there wasn’t anything I could find that I really liked in this book.

I do think Macallister had a good idea taking the reader into a time period where those in mental hospitals were treated horribly. Not many people know the history. This was a great plot to go with but perhaps if the story was better tied in, that would’ve made it more interesting. There wasn’t one character I liked but the one I couldn’t stand at all was Charlotte’s mother who didn’t seem to care about her girls at all.

There is no one I think I could recommend this to because I felt it won’t capture many people’s attention such as it didn’t for me.

selah_naomi's review

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adventurous challenging dark emotional medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

bookhoarder76's review

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3.0

I'm going with a 3.5 for this one. I will admit that historical fiction is one of my least fave genres so maybe that's why I didn't like this one more? I'm not sure. I mean I didn't hate it but I didn't love it either. I was very satisfied with the ending which was good.

lottie1803's review

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challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

savannahldarr's review

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3.0

I thought this was an interesting read. The author definitely knows how to write a page turner. I wanted to know what happened and kept reading. For that, I was able to gloss over some plot points and language that I felt weren't plausible or historically accurate. Overall, I did enjoy reading the book.

I received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.