The dystopia is paper-thin, the plot is one you've encountered in more practiced hands many times, and the characters are universally loathsome. To access your ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose. Anyone that has been friends with me for a while here on Goodreads knows what my relationship is like with Christina Dalcher's stories.

As Miranda is so suspicious of the place because of the history with her mother, it made the twist not very surprising and also made Emma’s character feel very flat as she just trusts these obviously shady strangers right from the off. Christina Dalcher’s latest dystopian feminist novel centers a popular locus of cultural and historical fascination: the women’s commune…Dalcher interweaves Miranda’s bitter, sharp storytelling with glimpses of Win’s life that trace a radical evolution to founding Femlandia.Christina Dalcher is a master story-teller and her books are engaging and well-written, keeping you hooked and engaged to the last page. Better books about all-female communities, ranging from science fiction to dystopian to historical, include: Ammonite by Nicola Griffith; The Carhullan Army by Sarah Hall; Matrix by Lauren Groff; In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden; Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant. It may have just been this didn’t have the shock value or “Vox,” or just that the society Dalcher drew in that novel, seemed frighteningly more likely than in this.

He sounded tired when he told me they were down to a skeleton operation, enough to oversee the animal transfers to another state before the feed ran out and the prize fauna resorted to cannibalism. For other works, please contact Cicely Aspinall at HQ Stories/HarperCollinsUK for literary subrights. It could have been so much more but it was simply written and I felt that it missed a great opportunity to develop some of the characters in much more depth. Her flash fiction appears in The Molotov Cocktail Prize Winners' anthology, Whiskey Paper, Split Lip Magazine, (b)OINK, Five2One Magazine, and several others.For all ebook purchases, you will be prompted to create an account or login with your existing HarperCollins username and password. After spending several years abroad, most recently in Sri Lanka, Dalcher and her husband now split their time between the American South and Andalucia, Spain. Special thanks to NetGalley and Berkley Publishing for sharing this digital reviewer copy with me in exchange my honest thoughts.

Our main character, the same lady who works in a fucking ZOO and specialises in animal communication, hears "coyotes" frequently while in Femlandia - it takes until she is pressed up against the chain link for her to put 1+1 together and realise that it's actually cages of feral boys all screaming and howling.The story follows mother and daughter, MIranda and Emma, and how after the total breakdown of society they must travel to a supposed safe haven for women. It just so happens that Miranda’s mother and former best friend are the founders of this sect and, though Miranda and her mother have not spoken in years, Miranda feels that this is their only choice for protection and survival.