I had to physically roll up my sleeves before typing out this review because there is SO MUCH I want to say about femlandia but long story short it was absolutely terrible and possibly one of my least favourite reads of the year. I found the stance the author took on feminists and safe spaces designed for women to be extremely biased in a way that vilified feminists, which in my opinion is problematic because of how vilified feminists already are in real life. I'm not saying I expected the book to be extremely pro-female commune because I understand that there needs to be a plot and climax while writing a story, but if Dalcher cannot deal with such nuanced topics in a sensitive and mature way then she really shouldn't be writing about them. 

The terrible and unnecessary representation of women aside, the writing was SO boring. Every 2 or 3 pages Miranda would regurgitate and restate how she worked with apes to the point where every time i saw the word ape on a page i wanted to just skip it. The writing lacked the depth that other works of dystopian fiction usually have, even typically YA works, like the Hunger Games, and there was no real-world building, something that is integral to this genre. 

The characters were extremely one-dimensional and so so bland that I just couldn't be bothered to invest any emotion into any of them. All in all, this book was boring, forgettable and just not very good. would not recommend