Femlandia
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Femlandia
Narrated by:
Brittany Pressley, Cassandra Morris
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Brittany Pressley
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Cassandra Morris
About this listen
The gripping thriller from the bestselling author of VOX and Q
‘A compelling, fast paced read.’ Guardian
‘The queen of dystopia’ Nina Pottell, Prima
‘Explosive’ Heat
'Provocative, sinister, and fascinating' Stephanie Wrobel, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Recovery of Rose Gold
‘Clever and chilling – and all too plausible’ Carole Johnstone, author of Mirrorland
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Miranda Reynolds has lost her home, her job and her husband – all thanks to an economic collapse that has brought America to its knees.
The shops are empty; the streets no longer safe. Miranda and her daughter Emma have nowhere left to turn.
There is one final hope, a self-sufficient haven for women who want to live a life free from men. Femlandia.
For Miranda, the secluded Femlandia is a last resort. Life outside the gates is fraught with danger, but there’s something just as sinister going on within.
Welcome to Femlandia… It’s no place like home.
©2021 Christina Dalcher (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers LimitedListeners also enjoyed...
Amazing -totally gripped throughout
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Left me thinking for days after…life certainly is interesting
Gripping
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💚 There was no single thing that reduced the impact of this for me, but if I had to nail it down, I’d say I wanted morrrrre. More on the economic collapse, more detail about Femlandia’s earlier days, the rest of the communes. More about Jen and Miranda’s history. In all this I felt like I was coming in late to the party. And in some instances I found the characters’ motivations baffling. I think I could have been brought round, but I needed to know more, with a longer lead in.
💜 The overall message is an excellent one. It is one that sees the flaws in men and women as human flaws. Not the same, but neither more or less malevolent than the other.
Lots and lots of content warnings. Sexual assault and abuse in particular. It’s quite brutal at times and, much as I didn’t enjoy those aspects,they fit in with the story.
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🎧 Absolutely beautiful narration by Cassandra Morris and Brittany Pressley.There’s a sense throughout of a sort of ethereal strength. It’s an understated performance which was easy on the ears, but still conveyed character.
🎧 What made it all the more impressive was the nuance in giving voice to so many female characters. I should have been lost as to who was talking, but it never happened.
Very Close To Living Up To Expectations
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A little bit of The Road, and a large dollop of Dalcher's female-centred near-future hellish situations.
She always manages to make me shut the pages and give thanks for the imperfect yet vastly superior present to the one she vividly brings to life.
This slightly more complex story begins with the fairly swift collapse of society, a novel in itself, but puts within this the mother (Miranda) and daughter (and also the THEME of mothers and daughters) fighting to find somewhere safe as the world tears itself to pieces around them as the economy implodes.
And the only option? The cultish woman-only refuge of Femlandia, created by Miranda's cold, tour-de-force of a mother decades before. Which has its own rules, hierarchy and politics. And of course secrets.
Oh so dark, I listened to this as an audiobook and was chilled with the turns the story takes, it reminded me of how I felt reading Naomi Alderman's The Power, what can happen when there is a large gender imbalance, what humans can be capable of.
But. You can't deny the author's methods of drawing in a reader, of consuming them in a frightening world and narrative, and toying with their emotions... she's now a favourite of mine.
This won't give you many chuckles (though there is dark humour here in spades), but it's thrilling and scary stuff. Insightful, deep and surely bound for a screen some time soon?
I audio-read a lot of this, and the voice of Miranda, youthful enough yet motherly and strong suited the first person voice, I wanted to continue listening long past the end of each chapter. Easy to follow as an audio-read, and the additional narratives from other characters added background and slowed things down for context, leaving me wanting to know more of what was happening.
Come on men, don't just leave these titles for women - I want to talk about them with you!
With thanks to Nudge Books for providing a sample Audible copy, and the publisher for the Netgalley reading copy.
Dark, chilling gender-centred dystopia
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The novel is set during a dystopian end of days in the USA, caused a financial disaster and subsequent collapse of society. Our heroine and her daughter embark on a journey to the fabled Femlandia, a feminist utopia, in which all is not as it seems.
While the novel does raise feminist issues, and explores the troubling idea of misandry as a response to centuries of misogyny, it is not as well crafted, subtle or deep as I had hoped.
I found the heroine annoying, shallow and self absorbed, and much of the book seems to consist of a relentless, whining inner monologue, exacerbated by the narrator’s overly dramatic reading. In fact, the characters all seem like caricatures, making it hard to empathise with any of them.
The pace picks up when Miranda and her daughter Emma reach Femlandia but it takes a while to get there, I almost gave up a few times but persevered. The ending seems to be quite rushed in comparison to the first half of the book, which is a shame as the ending is the more interesting section. There were a few moments at the end where it becomes very tense and interesting.
However, overall I feel that there was opportunity for more with the concept of this book that never fully delivered.
Interesting concept but could have gone further
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Had potential. Didn't reach it. Such a shame.
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Story was very slow and couldn’t relate to any of the characters.
I liked christina dalcher book Q and after good reviews I thought I was safe to use up my monthly credit on this. How wrong and disappointed I was!
Disappointed
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thought I'd like it, but I didn't
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