Miranda and her teenage daughter Emma are forced to flee to the only safe place left after another Great Depression destroys the United States' economy. The only thing is that this safe place is a feminist colony created by her mother whom Miranda fell out with years ago. When Miranda and Emma finally make it to Femlandia, they are met with skepticism. Emma, who experienced a traumatic event on the trip, attaches herself to Miranda's adopted sister Jen who runs the colony. Miranda feels like Emma is being taken away from her especially when she discovers that Emma is pregnant. Things don't feel right to Miranda, so she does a little snooping. What she finds changes everything she thought about Femlandia and her mother. #Femlandia #NetGalley

This had so much potential to be a great story, but just ended up women being horrible to one another.

This is The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, but worse for boys. Very well executed!

I’m a huge fan of Christmas Dalcher’s work having really enjoyed Q and Viox and was delighted to find an early copy on NetGalley .Even more amazing was that it coincided with me discovering how to load NetGalley books onto my kindle
Feminism and Dystopia are amongst the best topics for a novel and I had very high expectations of this book .
After reading some reservations mainly in the set up for the “end of the world” in this case it was a global financial crisis .I would have liked more about this as I felt the story too quickly ended up with a depopulated scenario with the main character and her daughter amongst the very few survivors without really looking into the how this happened
Once the pair had reached the women only refuge of Femlandia the story picked up and the characters gradual realisation that all was not right was sinister and exciting
I found this book much lighter than her previous magnificent novels ,this one was more Stephen King than Margaret Atwood .If you are in the mood for a quicker less thought provoking read though I think this book will be for you .I’d pack it in my suitcase or kindle next time we are able to fly to a beach holiday
A tiny end note was that this was the first time I’d loaded NetGalley onto my kindle and I was disappointed by the formatting there were numbers at the end of every line and odd setting of lines which made reading a less enjoyable experience.You could say well wait abs but the book when it’s published and you are probably right but then I am trying to develop a book blog and mostly concentrating on books about to be released

ma at the beginning: yeah! fuck men!
me in the middle: men are also human
me at the end: ya know what? fuck men!

I’ve become a huge fan of Christina Dalcher and her thought-provoking dystopian novels. From Vox, where the women of America are silenced, literally, to Master Class, where a child’s “IQ” determines their schooling and every advantage (or disadvantage), and now with Femlandia, where a woman and her daughter move into a women-only colony for safety but instead find more danger than they could imagine.

Miranda did not want to move to Femlandia, but the country where she was living was collapsing and danger was all around her. So, she and her daughter, Emma, had no choice but to move to a colony of only women, that Miranda’s mother, Win, founded years before. At first, it almost seems utopian, but then something is off. Men are not allowed, but babies are born; only girl babies. Miranda becomes more and more disturbed by what is happening, and nothing is as it seems.

As with all her other books, Femlandia deeply disturbed me; not in a horror way, but in a reality way. I toss in a dystopian book every once in a while because of this - it feels so vividly real, like this could happen, and that scares the heck out of me.

Belly button lint is more interesting than this awful book.
Didn't finish, don't recommend.