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3.23 AVERAGE
3.23 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
dark
reflective
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This felt very white feminist. Not a fan. This could have been better if they explored life with men, as well exploring the idea of victim blaming and crazy angry feminists.
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
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!
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.
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.
Didn't finish, don't recommend.
This novel was a mess from start to finish. It's very clearly geared toward a very specific shallow feminism espoused by middle-class white blonde women who drink from cups that say "Male Tears."
There was no coherent point to the book, no thread to hold it all together; just hot-button issues with buzzwords hanging off them. It was not well-written either, the language used was inelegant and the characters one-dimensional husks. It read like a bad YA self-published on Amazon Kindle.
Dalcher has certainly tapped into the flimsy and superficial form of neoliberal faux-feminism that sells tote-bags and is cheered on by multi-national conglomerates like Nike and Coca Cola, because it makes more money while maintaining the status quo.
There was no coherent point to the book, no thread to hold it all together; just hot-button issues with buzzwords hanging off them. It was not well-written either, the language used was inelegant and the characters one-dimensional husks. It read like a bad YA self-published on Amazon Kindle.
Dalcher has certainly tapped into the flimsy and superficial form of neoliberal faux-feminism that sells tote-bags and is cheered on by multi-national conglomerates like Nike and Coca Cola, because it makes more money while maintaining the status quo.
dark
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
2.5 stars
I’ve been thinking about this book for a few days since I finished it and to be honest, while this is a book that made me feel a lot of things, I can’t quite put my thoughts together on this one!
In the midst of economic downfall of apocalyptic scale of looting, starving and no order, Miranda tries to keep herself and her daughter Emma alive, previously a self confessed glamorous woman, until banks lost all money and her husband Nick betrayed her before taking her life, Miranda’s life becomes survival and that can only mean one thing - Femlandia, a society created by her mother Win, and her protege (and perceived replacement) Jen. Located in several states, Femlandia is essentially a woman, or rather womyn (so as not to be associated with men at all) only society, where food and water and security is abundant, but at what price?
Femlandia attempts to answer the question ‘what would it be like if men didn’t exist?’ however I’ll admit I struggled to understand the intent of the book. Vox spoke a bold, clear message about women being silenced, however the message here felt not even like ‘not all men’ nut ‘sometimes women too’. Is this about what happens when you let your hate of men consume you? I just couldn’t grasp it. There is an attempted gang rape on the page by a group of men and Win and her narrative (paralleling Miranda’s) speaks of continuous oppression and abuse at the expense of men, as is the experience of other women in Femlandia. There is a quote in the book about surely if we believe in equality, if a woman can do anything a man can, if she is capable, surely that means she is capable of the same cruelty and dominance. I think perhaps this too is the purpose of the book, but is it necessary? Especially after Vox? This is a book in which women are abusers and emotionally manipulative, women take bodily autonomy away. This latter point is particularly disturbing, it made me mentally stumble, and it’s even more bizarre for how women are the ones who, in truth, don’t have autonomy in so much of this world. I may just not get it, it could be me but i didn’t understand it.
This is a well written book but a disturbing one and I’ll admit I much preferred Vox. Thank you NetGalley for the early copy to review. It wasn’t for me but I’m sure other people will take something more from it.
I’ve been thinking about this book for a few days since I finished it and to be honest, while this is a book that made me feel a lot of things, I can’t quite put my thoughts together on this one!
In the midst of economic downfall of apocalyptic scale of looting, starving and no order, Miranda tries to keep herself and her daughter Emma alive, previously a self confessed glamorous woman, until banks lost all money and her husband Nick betrayed her before taking her life, Miranda’s life becomes survival and that can only mean one thing - Femlandia, a society created by her mother Win, and her protege (and perceived replacement) Jen. Located in several states, Femlandia is essentially a woman, or rather womyn (so as not to be associated with men at all) only society, where food and water and security is abundant, but at what price?
Femlandia attempts to answer the question ‘what would it be like if men didn’t exist?’ however I’ll admit I struggled to understand the intent of the book. Vox spoke a bold, clear message about women being silenced, however the message here felt not even like ‘not all men’ nut ‘sometimes women too’. Is this about what happens when you let your hate of men consume you? I just couldn’t grasp it. There is an attempted gang rape on the page by a group of men and Win and her narrative (paralleling Miranda’s) speaks of continuous oppression and abuse at the expense of men, as is the experience of other women in Femlandia. There is a quote in the book about surely if we believe in equality, if a woman can do anything a man can, if she is capable, surely that means she is capable of the same cruelty and dominance. I think perhaps this too is the purpose of the book, but is it necessary? Especially after Vox? This is a book in which women are abusers and emotionally manipulative, women take bodily autonomy away. This latter point is particularly disturbing, it made me mentally stumble, and it’s even more bizarre for how women are the ones who, in truth, don’t have autonomy in so much of this world. I may just not get it, it could be me but i didn’t understand it.
This is a well written book but a disturbing one and I’ll admit I much preferred Vox. Thank you NetGalley for the early copy to review. It wasn’t for me but I’m sure other people will take something more from it.