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A review by brandy_reads
Femlandia by Christina Dalcher
2.0
It is incredibly difficult to write my honest thoughts and feelings on this book without including spoilers so this will be brief.
I was extremely excited by the premise and was in the mood for a great dystopian novel. Alas, it wasn’t meant to be. Miranda’s character was either one who cared for children in need or one willing to leave a starving child on the side of the road? Which one is it? Emma enters Femlandia and becomes a completely different person with no build up or explanation. As for Femlandia, it started off with a transphobic comment. I kept reading because I thought perhaps it would get circled back to and resolved, but no, it was just a completely unnecessary comment that added nothing whatsoever to the story, unless the author was trying to make me feel sick – in which case, mission accomplished. There were also a lot of contradictions in what the founders of Femlandia believed in.
There was a lot of promise, I just don’t think it was executed well.
TW: sexual assault, child abuse, suicide
Thank you Netgalley and Berkley for the eARC.
I was extremely excited by the premise and was in the mood for a great dystopian novel. Alas, it wasn’t meant to be. Miranda’s character was either one who cared for children in need or one willing to leave a starving child on the side of the road? Which one is it? Emma enters Femlandia and becomes a completely different person with no build up or explanation. As for Femlandia, it started off with a transphobic comment. I kept reading because I thought perhaps it would get circled back to and resolved, but no, it was just a completely unnecessary comment that added nothing whatsoever to the story, unless the author was trying to make me feel sick – in which case, mission accomplished. There were also a lot of contradictions in what the founders of Femlandia believed in.
There was a lot of promise, I just don’t think it was executed well.
TW: sexual assault, child abuse, suicide
Thank you Netgalley and Berkley for the eARC.