How Icasia Bloom Touched Happiness

Name: How Icasia Bloom Touched Happiness
Brand: Findaway Voices
Availability: InStock
Author: Jessica Bell
ISBN: 9798822649101

Author: Jessica Bell

Narrator: Jessica Bell

Unabridged: 6 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Vine Leaves Press

Published: 11/08/2022

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction, Dystopian

Synopsis

Imagine being put to death for the crime of your child's unhappiness.This is the tale of Icasia Bloom: how she is caught up in a story not initially her own, and how it changes her world. In a Globe controlled by a trusted yet elusive leader who has granted immortality to those who live by The Book, misfit Icasia Bloom is doomed to die young for the crime of her child's unhappiness.Like all 'tatters' she gets food by bartering, and when she brings customers to the new local bakery, she meets another borderline outcast, Selma Beyett, whose plight touches her.Selma’s husband Jerome must die in six months if his quest for perpetual happiness is not successful.What starts as a desperate attempt to save Jerome takes the two women on a profoundly enlightening search for happiness. Icasia questions the Globe's judgement on its people and on the nature of happiness itself.Heart-warming, yet strangely unsettling, How Icasia Bloom Touched Happiness, questions everything we take for granted, and takes a long, hard look into our souls.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Regina on September 21, 2021

Greetings from my unhappy little corner of Outlier Land. How Icasia Bloom Touched Happiness is a speculative fiction novel where your worldly existence and subsequent afterlife hinge on the happiness of your child. Society is now one big Globe community with a universal leader who makes everyone liv......more

Goodreads review by Terrie on September 20, 2021

"How Icasia Bloom Touched Happiness" by Jessica Bell is Dystopian, Metaphysical & Speculative Science Fiction. The world is now referred to as the 'Globe' and is controlled by one individual who is neither seen, nor heard, only mentioned but requires all to 'Live by the Book'. This is one crazy plac......more

Goodreads review by Pat on September 10, 2021

I’m not too sure what box to pop this one in - it’s a bit futuristic sci-fi, a bit dystopian (as you can’t help the Big Brother comparisons) and a bit speculative fiction. So all in all probably not the best fit for me, which was borne out by my lukewarm reaction to it. It’s not a bad book by any me......more

Goodreads review by Peter on April 21, 2021

What a fascinating tale. Some people would describe this as alternative reality or dystopian fiction. It is true that there are parallels with “Soylent Green”, “Logan’s Run” and “The Handmaid’s Tale”. But that doesn’t tell you the truth about this book. Yes, it is about state control of reproduction......more

Goodreads review by Kiran on April 15, 2022

An interesting speculative tale which reminded me a lot of Never Let Me Go and the Handmaid's Tale. Bell forewarns of a dystonic society in which gender and birth are staunchly controlled. It's a worthwhile read for anyone who likes to think about the direction society is going in, and in which ways......more