I wanted to like this more but I couldn't. women take over, they're often as bad as the men and this pales in comparision to Gate to Women's country, Herland and The Power. The ending was rushed and honestly I felt like it should have been longer or had a sequel.

The several steps that set this world up were missing, no explanation as to why the crops were failing or why fertility was dropping off or how women seized power or why emotions (moes) were carefully controlled, and in several ways it's quite sexist (women are as different from each other as men). While I agree that it's interesting it just didn't quite grasp me as being anything other than a short story writ large, much of the end felt like it was there to add pages rather than really being thought through. I suppose what I'm largely saying is that the author had the potential to do better and didn't.

Lacks something and I'm not sure wider genre reading wouldn't help. ( )