The Power

Cool premise that the author doesn't carry all the way through. The story unfolds through several POV characters, but there's always the one (or more) that you're bored with, or there's a boring stretch for one you do like. So I often felt unsatisfied.

The conceit that the book itself is written by a man in a matriarchal world is fascinating. It only bookends the novel with "research" interspersed—I wished there was more.

Very well-done fable of power and gender that should force you to re-examine every single hierarchical structure that we take for granted. Social fiction on par with Atwood and LeGuin, and especially takes a page from the former in that, if any aspect of the story seems particularly far-fetched, one should keep in mind that this is happening right now.