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sparrymcgraw 's review for:
The Gender Game
by Bella Forrest
This was my second attempt to read this book, and thankfully I managed to overlook most of the initial flaws/plot holes enough to make it through the first third of this book and pick up enough pace to make it to the end. I was very excited by the premise of this book but sadly I felt the story lacked enough detail for me to really buy into it. I was disappointed by lack of intricate detail of the two opposing worlds. Instead we read about an incredibly flimsy idea of what two worlds, each ruled by a single gender respectively.
I would have really liked to have seen some more thought-out depths to the two gendered worlds. Instead I felt myself with more questions than answers and never really got a grasp of either world.
It has already been discussed on here, but the idea of any other identity besides male/female is completely absent from this story, as well as same-sex relationships.
And a last little gripe was the monarchy element, I found it incredibly hard to believe that in an advanced dystopian society, a monarchy would still be upheld in place of a governing body. Perhaps it was because of the romanticism around a monarchy, but I find it jarring, out of place and irrelevant in this story.
I would have really liked to have seen some more thought-out depths to the two gendered worlds. Instead I felt myself with more questions than answers and never really got a grasp of either world.
It has already been discussed on here, but the idea of any other identity besides male/female is completely absent from this story, as well as same-sex relationships.
And a last little gripe was the monarchy element, I found it incredibly hard to believe that in an advanced dystopian society, a monarchy would still be upheld in place of a governing body. Perhaps it was because of the romanticism around a monarchy, but I find it jarring, out of place and irrelevant in this story.