Femlandia

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my problems with this book aren't ideological—i don't read books to see my beliefs mirrored, nor do i read books to have my beliefs challenged. With no home and no money, pregnant Miranda and her daughter Emma, go off to find Femlandia, a women only commune founded by Mirandas mother. The dystopia is paper-thin, the plot is one you've encountered in more practiced hands many times, and the characters are universally loathsome.

which, hey—your compound, your rules, but since there is no mention of trans men or nonbinary/genderqueer people anywhere in the book, it feels like dalcher just didn't want to have to bother with the complexities of gender identity, and dispensed with the matter, shutting it down in one short paragraph. And many won't care because their "feminism" is full of empty slogans that do nothing to fix the problem, so I'm sure they'll love the misogyny of this book. There were many flashbacks which made it a bit confusing occasionally but as a Linguistics graduate, I appreciated the fascinating bits about languages. There are lots of stories out there that explore what society might look like without the framework of patriarchy; unfortunately this isn’t one of the better ones.

The only problem with it was that the lipstick, combined with the gold band on her left fourth, acted like a magnet for any man on the lookout for a no-strings-attached fling. i've already written far too many words in my little reviewing journal trying to figure out why i didn't love it, and now i've missed pub date, so you tell me. Instead, what I found in this story were harmful depictions of feminism, a hefty dose of TERF-ness, a hearty dash of ‘not all men’ somehow mixed with a generous splash of ‘men are disgusting animals’, all in a bright pink package with two ‘X’s on the cover.

Some have this one tagged as horror and while I wouldn’t say it’s really horror I would warn that some content is horrific in this dystopian world which leads to a trigger warning of abuse and assault.They hope to reach a safe haven for women, but there are challanges just to survive before they get there.

The chapters alternate between present tense when Miranda and Emma are in Femlandia and also Win Somers' background and Miranda's childhood. After a violent encounter, Miranda does the last thing she would have expected: she seeks sanctuary at Femlandia, the all-female colony established by her estranged mother. Society has somehow crumbled, the economy has gone to shit and people almost immediately start killing each other and/or themselves. And so they set off to Femlandia, the women-only colony Miranda’s mother, Win Somers, established decades ago. I did enjoy reading this book, but there were times that I got a little confused about what was happening.

Dalcher cannot seem to come up with a protagonist to a story that isn't loosely based off herself, as well as being directly related to the person that is credited with whatever the concept of the book is about. Honestly it's disgusting they're forcing young boys to masturbate and produce sperm so they can have babies, and if the babies are boys they pretend they're stillborn girls and the mothers think their daughters died.