Femlandia

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Seemingly poised to launch a devastating indictment of the patriarchy, with a feminist utopia as an alternative, Femlandia instead charts a strange and ultimately backwards course. The community has huge electric barbed wire fences surrounding it but was this to keep people out or to keep the women inside?

Dalcher cannot seem to come up with a protagonist to a story that isn't loosely based off herself, as well as being directly related to the person that is credited with whatever the concept of the book is about. The most frustrating of these being the latter - the main character going from justifiably hating her husband, Nick, for abandoning her and leaving her in financial ruin, to daydreaming about aforementioned dead husband and how "he wasn't so bad" and "at least he looked after me". Furthermore, it’s plagued by too many reality-breaking plot and character problems to list here, from Miranda solving a decades-old murder on the logic that “no one drafts a suicide note” (and, apparently, a compulsion to do the pencil-rubbing trick on any pads of paper she finds laying around) to an unintentionally comic gun-juggling finale. Better books about all-female communities, ranging from science fiction to dystopian to historical, include: Ammonite by Nicola Griffith; The Carhullan Army by Sarah Hall; Matrix by Lauren Groff; In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden; Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant.There were many flashbacks which made it a bit confusing occasionally but as a Linguistics graduate, I appreciated the fascinating bits about languages.

I could kill every single one of them, starting with Nick, continuing with Robert, and ending with the tattooed assholes who stole my kitchen pots.The effect is often like a television show using commercial breaks to artificially increase tension, and Femlandia tangles up its own pacing by throwing in flashbacks and digression that derail its momentum; it’s not clear until the very end of the novel that Miranda doesn’t know the information revealed in Win’s backstory. Feminism is stupid - feminism might save us all - feminism is inherently flawed - people don't understand feminism - feminists are literally evil slavers that keep infant boys locked up and force them to jack off into cups so that Femlandia can keep it's population going -- feminism is for everyone.

Well, this was certainly an odd one, although I didn’t expect anything else after having previously read ‘Vox’. Matrix took the idea of a gated community of women and showed all the angles—the good, the bad, all of the unconsidered subtleties. And those XX chromosomes identifying one as ‘female’ turn up frequently through the rest of the story. Men, it seems, have destroyed the economy and, with nowhere to go, Miranda and Emma head for Femlandia. Guardian 'The queen of dystopia' Nina Pottell, Prima 'Explosive' Heat 'Provocative, sinister, and fascinating' Stephanie Wrobel, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Recovery of Rose Gold 'Clever and chilling - and all too plausible' Carole Johnstone, author of Mirrorland * * * * * * * * * * * Miranda Reynolds has lost her home, her job and her husband - all thanks to an economic collapse that has brought America to its knees.A real meat-and-potatoes kind of person, you used to say when you were talking about someone simple, unpretentious, down-to-earth. Only she didn't say "patriarchy"-she pronounced each syllable with a pregnant pause in between; it came out like pay-tree-ar-key.

and that gruff dismissal of an entire segment of the population is indicative of how this book deals with any kind of nuance—it doesn't. After getting to Femlandia she realises that maybe this isn't the utopia that it first appears to be. They hope to reach a safe haven for women, but there are challanges just to survive before they get there. Her writing offers a chilling glimpse into what are sometimes terrifying scenarios in the future and her mind is full of how humanity would change along with a mix of characters that are both intoxicating and frightening. Miranda Reynold’s 20 years long husband Nick couldn’t choose the worst time to leave her and their sixteen years old daughter Emma behind by texting her he’s sorry, siphoning their savings and driving the Maserati coupe off the side of the mountain.

If you cannot handle nightmarish dystopian thrillers with graphic violence, you get to choose another read.