As soon as I heard the premise of Christina Dalcher's Femlandia, I knew I wanted to read it. This book was compelling and I was very invested, but I have mixed feelings about it. Femlandia surprised me at just how horrifying and dystopian the feminist utopia turned out to be. Nothing about this book is subtle or nuanced. Dalcher creates a horrifying dystopian society where American government has collapsed and anarchy reigns. Miranda is a pregnant newly widowed mom struggling to find a safe place in the world for her, the baby on the way, and her 16-year-old daughter. Miranda and her family were wealthy and privileged, and now they have nothing. At wit's end, she turns to Femlandia, the feminist ideal her estranged mother established years before the apocalypse officially arrived.

Subtle, this book is not. I think my biggest problem with the book was that the characters were so often caricatures rather than people.

All in all, this is a solid dystopian read with eerie parallels to our own world.