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