This was my favorite read of 2020! A hybrid of genres with a healthy serving of Orphan Black, Black Mirror feels and Girl One mixes Sci-Fi, Feminism, This was my favorite read of 2020! A hybrid of genres with a healthy serving of Orphan Black, Black Mirror feels and Girl One mixes Sci-Fi, Feminism, Gender roles, Family, Motherhood and Cults into a giant pot of thriller soup. The story begins with idea of Parthenogenesis, or women giving birth without the DNA input of men, no longer out of reach for humans. Murphy brings to life the scientific principles of this genetic "miracle" to 9 human women who each give birth to a daughter. These women begin raising their daughters in a commune until a shocking event tears them apart and scatters the family pairs across the US. When Girl One's mother goes missing, she leaves her life in Chicago to investigate her disappearance and find her mother, stumbling across fracturing secrets, betrayals and uncovering even more questions about what really took place on the Homestead. Girl One, Josephine Morrow, reacquaints herself with her "sisters" AND with a complex past which helps her come to terms with her even more complicated present. I couldn't put this book down, was constantly on the edge of my seat, poised to learn about the fate of the Homestead Miracle Girls. This book immediately needs to be made into a comic book series, and movie or TV series. Murphy's ideas are absolutely made to be available in multiple forms of media!
I was provided with an electronic copy of Girl One in return for an honest review. I appreciate the opportunity to read and review this title and absolutely cannot wait to devour Sara Flannery Murphy's other titles....and probably to immediately re-read Girl One!...more
Every time I finish something by Blake Crouch I'm breathless with the weight of what I've read. I said it after Dark Matter and Recursion, Brilliant.
Every time I finish something by Blake Crouch I'm breathless with the weight of what I've read. I said it after Dark Matter and Recursion, if he were to write the manual for a vacuum cleaner? I'd read it cover to cover and keep a copy on my nightstand. This is even more true after Summer Frost, which, without compassion, forces us to consider the philosophical and moral rammifications of extreme technological progress. If, in fact, it can always be considered progress. ...more
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