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Lethbridge-Stewart #4.2
Lethbridge-Stewart: The Daughters of Earth
To celebrate Lethbridge-Stewart's birthday, a romantic weekend is planned for him and Sally in a remote cottage in the Scottish Highlands. Unfortunately for Sally, freak weather causes her to crash her car.
Lethbridge-Stewart, meanwhile, is in Cairngorm investigating UFO sightings. Elsewhere, the Daughters of Earth, a women-only peace movement, are making waves in the political world, but just who is their enigmatic leader? And what links the Daughters with the events of Cairngom and Sally's accident?
Lethbridge-Stewart, meanwhile, is in Cairngorm investigating UFO sightings. Elsewhere, the Daughters of Earth, a women-only peace movement, are making waves in the political world, but just who is their enigmatic leader? And what links the Daughters with the events of Cairngom and Sally's accident?
- GenresDoctor Who
288 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2017
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August 5, 2017
The Brig and Sally have a quiet weekend away planned in a Scottish village. Sally heads up there first but has an accident and is taken in by the feminist group Daughters of Earth. Meanwhile Lethbridge-Stewart is investigating a UFO sighting in the Cairngorms. But what connects the UFO and the Daughters of Earth- and is their leader what she seems.
For me the best bit of this book was the end. I don't mean that in a harsh way, I mean that the epilogue has a huge and emotional moment for the Brig and Sally which will influence the next books in the series. Despite the fact they barely spend any time together here, it's a huge moment in their relationship.
I found the book a little slow at times. For me it kept the mystery going longer than it needed to and even by the end it wasn't fully explained. It felt like the book was already setting up a sequel because there are certainly loose ends.
What this book does fantastically well is female characters. The Lethbridge-Stewart books are male dominated which is hardly a surprise given they are set in a branch of the army. Here though beyond Lethbridge-Stewart and Bill Bishop the characters are almost entirely female, from the villain to the minor characters. Gender equality is an important issue here and is well discussed without getting in the way of the plot. I wish more authors thought like Groenewegen and not made characters male just because their position or skills are more often considered as male.
The series continues to play with different ways of telling stories and this is yet another style. Another enjoyable Lethbridge-Stewart story.
For me the best bit of this book was the end. I don't mean that in a harsh way, I mean that the epilogue has a huge and emotional moment for the Brig and Sally which will influence the next books in the series. Despite the fact they barely spend any time together here, it's a huge moment in their relationship.
I found the book a little slow at times. For me it kept the mystery going longer than it needed to and even by the end it wasn't fully explained. It felt like the book was already setting up a sequel because there are certainly loose ends.
What this book does fantastically well is female characters. The Lethbridge-Stewart books are male dominated which is hardly a surprise given they are set in a branch of the army. Here though beyond Lethbridge-Stewart and Bill Bishop the characters are almost entirely female, from the villain to the minor characters. Gender equality is an important issue here and is well discussed without getting in the way of the plot. I wish more authors thought like Groenewegen and not made characters male just because their position or skills are more often considered as male.
The series continues to play with different ways of telling stories and this is yet another style. Another enjoyable Lethbridge-Stewart story.
July 26, 2020
I was worried this would be an hardcore feminist diatribe. I needn’t have worried. The topic runs gently through the book, with som well made points about the treatment of women that needs to improve, but the Daughters were not presented as whiter than white, and I genuinely think Sarah presented the moderate male viewpoint (what I feel to be mine) excellently. The plot itself I felt flowed well and was never overshadowed by the politics, while this would be a lesser book without them. Continues a strong showing by Sarah Groenewegen in her published works. I look forward to the sequel that the ending seems to demand!!! I want to know more about Orca!
May 10, 2022
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Here we have the Brigadier and colleagues fighting snowstorms in deepest Scotland, along with a cell of feminist activists which has in fact been taken over by alien forces. There are layers of uncertainty and deception, and a major twist in the developing plotline of the overall series. I enjoyed it a lot, as I have enjoyed the others.
Here we have the Brigadier and colleagues fighting snowstorms in deepest Scotland, along with a cell of feminist activists which has in fact been taken over by alien forces. There are layers of uncertainty and deception, and a major twist in the developing plotline of the overall series. I enjoyed it a lot, as I have enjoyed the others.
October 1, 2018
Alongside The Showstoppers, this has to be the weakest entry in the series. The plot drags on for over two hundred pages without any of the characters really doing anything of note. The prose is jarring at times - starting new sentences where a comma would suffice. It just serves to throw the reader out of the plot.
The one thing the book does manage is to capture all the regulars quite well, even if they do spend most of the novel treading the same ground...
The one thing the book does manage is to capture all the regulars quite well, even if they do spend most of the novel treading the same ground...
August 30, 2020
Not the best book on the series
The story starts off ok but the ending is rather unsatisfactory. You never quite understand the motive of those involved. It does bring an end to what was a bit of a strained relationship.
The story starts off ok but the ending is rather unsatisfactory. You never quite understand the motive of those involved. It does bring an end to what was a bit of a strained relationship.
September 23, 2018
Sehr schwaches Buch. Die erste Hälfte ist eigentlich noch ganz gut, aber dann passiert quasi gar nichts mehr. Der einzige Zweck dieses Teils scheinen die letzten drei Seiten zu sein.
March 27, 2021
Not bad for a writers first book.
March 13, 2023
I really liked this one . I thought it was excellent . Most other reviews didn't . Each person sees something different. That's the joy of reading
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