If I could have people read one book this year, it would be this. Now that I've read this, it deserves every award - all the awards. What made me initially request an ARC of this was that it had won an award in 2014, even though it is just being republished in 2016. This was also, as a woman, the scariest dystopian I've ever read. This was so thought provoking, meaningful, eye-opening, and important. This book was perfection, and probably the easiest five stars I've given all year. There is silence only when one side wins or everyone has died.” “There are battles and accidents there are collapses and plagues. (It looks like it might be a series but fear not my fellow series haters.this is a full meal on it's own.)īooksource: Netgalley in exchange for review.ĪRC provided by the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Women are basically trade items at times and then 'hive' masters the next. Then genders are blinded when the world is thrown to shit. (Even when you wished she hadn't.dark stuff)

The author does take the time to wrap up the stories of the characters she introduces. I usually gripe and whine about not knowing all the tidbits.like what the disease actually was and what caused it. The unnamed woman sets out on her journey and I became entranced by it. It seems like by reading the blurb and a few of the reviews that you are getting a story that's been told before but not that I've read. This book takes on this type of story differently than I've seen it done. What disease cannot do, people accomplish with astonishing ease. Some people knew what would happen they knew better than to open their doors when they heard cries of help. Some people had been waiting their whole lives to live lawlessly, and they were the first to take to the streets. When the sirens quit, the rules gave out.

She poses as a man because those are her best chances of making it anywhere without being made into a captive.

She discovers that there are a few men still alive but the rules have changed. She ventures home shell shocked and is almost raped in her bed. Mostly all the women were dying and the babies and children were all gone. Just some dead bodies and the remembrances of a sickness that was rampant. She wakes up in the hospital after being sick to realize that they are no people around. A dark as night apocalyptic novel? That's actually good? All the stars going up.

The book of the unnamed midwife