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Jan 08, 2023severina2001 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
When a plague wipes out most of the population and leaves women vastly in the minority and babies and most mothers unable to survive childbirth, a midwife disguises herself as a man as she attempts to survive in the world. This novel is…
Dec 15, 2022
The unnamed midwife travels north from San Francisco, North to East Oregon, and the East to Utah, finally settling in Missouri.
Sep 18, 2022bocalibrary_Sasha rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
This is a very depressing but interesting read. While examining the end of the world through the lens of a reproductive crisis isn't new, I believe Elison makes it her own. What this book excels at is eliciting emotion. Through journal…
Aug 20, 2022jasnadzinic rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Seriously Unputdownable! Wow! The best post apocalyptic book I’ve read so far!
Jan 12, 2022HPL_Michelle_N rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Earth Abides meets Children of Men with a little Parable of the Sower thrown in for good measure in this post-apocalyptic tale about a midwife wandering a world in which almost everybody has died of a plague, very few of the survivors are…
Nov 30, 2021
Fabulous, feminist, future-fiction.
Aug 13, 202021221018293347 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Great post apocalyptic story. Easy to read. Interesting. Fast moving. A good little pandemic with a twist for those survivors. If you are offended by elements of LGBTQ, you are warned. Otherwise, it is a great story of human…
Mar 15, 2019INVS rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
I so dislike small print, but this held my attention well past time I should have put it down to save the eyesight. Reviews are really broad. I liked it for the imagination she used as to what one might be prepared to do - as a female -…
Jan 12, 2019auntiejackie rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Really enjoyed this book, though it is pretty bleak. Read it in one sitting and looking forward to the next book.
Dec 28, 2018Edisto rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Totally into post-apocalyptic dystopian novels and thoroughly enjoyed this book. Surprised and extremely happy to find out it was the first of a trilogy. I took this book to the beach and reserved the second book The Book of Etta for when…
Feb 07, 2018lostintheshelves rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
I love post-apocalyptic fiction and was really excited to find one such novel with a bisexual heroine, but was deeply disappointed by this very mediocre book. The writing is neither great nor terrible, and the apocalypse (clearly written…
Aug 23, 2017Ichijo rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
While by no means the worst book I've read in 2017 - it was still really boring and unoriginal, it was almost a paint by numbers post apocalypse. If I hadn't read Station Eleven this year I would have labeled it the worst post-apoc story I…
Mar 31, 2017PearlyBaker rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This novel hit a home run for this old sailor touching on all of my very favorite genre's. I would describe it as feminist, dystopian, post-apocalyptic survival story with Mormons! The only thing missing were Scientologists and drug…
Mar 15, 2017LPL_KateG rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
WHOA! Going between starkly written journal entries from the "unnamed midwife" and 3rd person narrator who fills in some of the details, this book weaves a post-apocalyptic tale that had me turning pages late into the night. Follow this…
Jan 18, 2017
I highly recommend this book for fans of Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale" or the 2006 movie "Children of Men". This story deals with the traumatic end of the world by plague scenario that many of us know, however, Elison's story focuses on…