Review of Severed Roots

[Spencer Verhorik]

[Following is a volunteer review of "Severed Roots" by Nego Huzcotoq.]

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4 out of 5 stars

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I rated this book a 4 out of 5. It is one of the stranger books I have read in my life, but it was surprisingly good. The idea behind the world of the book was fascinating, and it was not not a dystopian world I had read about before. It does, however, make me think that the author believes feminism to be a bad thing, as well as the acknowledgement that traditional values have been harmful in the past. This book is definitely a dystopia based on the exaggeration of current topics and social struggles. The writing was surprisingly funny, and some parts really made me laugh. I quite enjoyed the skewed worldview this novel presented, though some of it still made no sense. This is part of why I rated it a four, and not a five. I deducted this one point because the story was a little bit all over the place, and some of the characters' motivations made no sense. The same goes for some of the plot points, which seemed to just have been thrown in the story as an afterthought. It was well-written gramatically speaking, and I did not notice any spelling errors, suggesting wonderful editing.
Overall, I would say that this book is good to recommend as a dystopian novel, but not as criticism on the current state of things: it is too absurd for me to see it as a well thought out criticising book. It did, however, succeed in two aspects: it made me rethink the traditional family values most of us had grown up with, as well as making me laugh by showing how ridiculous the treatment of women has been in the past. To think that some of the things this novel described had actually happened to women no less than a hundred years ago, is astounding. My conclusion: absurd and funny.

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Severed Roots
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