A concept of a book where feminism "goes too far" to the point of creating a matriarchal society where "freedoms of man have to be limited" sounds like a reverse Margaret Attwood novel. My problem with this idea is that dystopian novels or speculative/science fiction are supposed to reflect political threats and issues in a more exaggerated/satirised way. In Hunger Games, capitalism is evil, in Handmaid's Tale, it's the lack of feminism that ruins society. However, choosing feminism itself, a movement that is still very important in our society, to ridicule and satirise comes off like punching down. The premise of the book names women's rights an adversary to freedom, which doesn't reflect the current political climate in the slightest.
The prose in the opening didn't interest me too much although the writing is acceptable and the story could get interesting. Nevertheless, it would be a very hard task to handle such a topic with care and not end up preaching slightly confusing fables. I would be interested in reading this book solely to see if it managed to complete a hard task it (possibly unknowingly) set off to do.
The prose in the opening didn't interest me too much although the writing is acceptable and the story could get interesting. Nevertheless, it would be a very hard task to handle such a topic with care and not end up preaching slightly confusing fables. I would be interested in reading this book solely to see if it managed to complete a hard task it (possibly unknowingly) set off to do.