Review: Well put together story with some topics that are difficult to deal with
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 22, 2013
I'm fairly well read with my science fiction and this book was enjoyable to me. Some of it felt a bit contrived and I can easily see how some of the material could even be seen as offensive (as a number of the reviews show) but one of the key things I think science fiction (and in a related fashion population fiction in general) does is allow us to examine sticky moral and social issues in a more abstract fashion and that's one of the bits that's at the core of this book.Instead of having a misogynistic society featured (the usual fictional go to) the author presents us with it's opposite and the protagonist has to deal with it and we the readers get the opportunity to think about the issues that are still inherent from a different perspective than what we're used to. In addition we get to see the beginnings of change in society and to me that's an important message in the book, that one person can make a difference in any society if they're willing to try.In the end the book left me looking forward to seeing how the characters and the society they inhabit will change over time which is why I'm looking forward to an eventual sequel.