I’m not sure how far I made it into this, but put it down because the matriarchal society it envisioned was deeply unconvincing after the first few chapters. Very cookie-cutter, let’s just reverse some of the socialization of women but also keep our dated notions around how men are socialized in a patriarchy, justifying it as some kind of biological incentive. How sexualization is abruptly and sustainably cringe-worthy as well.

For all that, I liked the prose work and would have read on, if not for issues that undermined every aspect introduced so far.