So I read a few chapters, but could not get into the story. I found the writing poor, and the story unbelievable (even though it was science fiction and futuristic).. had to stop.

Randall Moire fashions an intriguing alternate universe, examining culture and identity in intriguing ways. Enjoyable as a sci-go story and ripe for conversation points.

I found this an interesting take on an alternative future where the world is only populated with Women. It is not that men do not exist it is that only high up and elite members of society have access to men. This is a dystopia book where things are not at all like what we know and one of the things which I found hard to get my head around was that you can have an abortion up until the child is 5 - wow this is hard to get round. I would recommend this to any lover of dystopian novels

This was a well resolved dystopia in one book, but it was a book about a world of women written by a man, and I think something was lost in the middle, let me break down what I mean, I am a sucker for dystopias where one of the genders rule, but many things were amiss in this one, usually in this kind of dystopias, or people go really far away from the idea of god or they embrace it, I don’t really thing a society that thinks that is far and just to commit infanticide until the age of 5 is a society that dwells near a god, but the president in her orders and talking with people say things like god speed, go with god and things of the like… hypocrisy, without realizing that is hypocrisy… besides, there is no mention of god or religion in here, the women do what gives them pleasure, there’s a part in here eleanora just walks around without a top, because she decided that she would do that, and no one bats an eye, even the table server cheers on her, and that is weird, that brings me to another point, there’s a weird approach to sex in this book. Women in this book are just men in disguise, I didn’t feel as women were well represented, and I do know that feminazis do exist, but I think that doesn’t define us all…

The book starts with Eleanora discovering that men are not that extinct as she thought they were, well and that is only the tip of the iceberg, peter the man in this story, is as soft as a kitty and heroic as Hercules and perfect as a dragqueen as soon as he loses his beard, but around the middle of the book Eleanora and Peter stop being the main characters and kind of disappear and a coup of stat takes places and the book starts to become a thriller and things start to happen non stop until the ending…

I did like the premise of the book, and I gave it a chance, I just think it didn’t deliver all that had promised in the synopsis, is still a good entertaining book, but I wish it had stayed with the main characters instead of getting all over the place with the coup.

Thank you NetGalley and Atmosphere Press for the free ARC and this is my honest opinion.

This is such a great read! it is a world run by women and like most influential people they want what others don’t have and in this world it’s men. When you make the rules son also think they can break them and then a world without men not only are your rights to give birth taken away but the ability to choose how you want to live your life is also taken in this book it is a great example of how well the population does without men. They still have infighting at the top level on down. The have political rivalries and when you’re the only man brought up to the surface and years there’s going to be a little cross dressing I loved Peter and love the story. I did like every important name being a females though that was such a boon to my spirit and I highly recommend this book it was such a good book and although it’s a concept that has been done before I have never read one so original and so absolutely interesting. This is a total five star read it is definitely one I will be reading again in the future. I’ve received this book from NetGalley and the publisher but I am leaving this review voluntarily please forgive any mistakes as I am blind and dictate my review.