I think it would have made more sense for Femlandia to feel more like a paradise from the beginning and to have had more time spent on world and character building when we arrived in the commune.

We make ourselves look older and uglier than we are, as if youth and beauty were attributes to be hidden away from the world. There are so many triggering subjects in this book which are hard to digest including extreme violence, rape, invest etc. Shocking, provocative, subversive, FEMLANDIA is a fantasy of female empowerment that curdles into a nightmare.Well, this was certainly an odd one, although I didn’t expect anything else after having previously read ‘Vox’. Alongside this anti-feminist take, the novel is engaged in another, more subtle kind of moral or political argument, one that’s ultimately just as repugnant: a bizarre kind of passionate centrism welded to a grievance-powered feeling of Boomer-flavored righteousness.

The community has huge electric barbed wire fences surrounding it but was this to keep people out or to keep the women inside? Miranda discovers just how the all-women community is capable of enduring, and it leads her to question how far her mother went to create this perfect, thriving, horrifying society. I did not like all the misandry which I felt was a bit extreme and left me wondering if there is such a thing as being too feminist.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. As the story progresses and we arrive in Femlandia, a sanctuary for women away from the harshness of what is happening to the rest of the world and away from all men. She used to laugh at her feminist friend until shit hit the fan and oh well, maybe the crazy feminist was right.