In the world of Geratica women are in charge of just about everything and men focus mainly on manual labor. This is the way things have always been done in Geratica and seeing as how the core of the planet is female it is not expected to change in the foreseeable future. However, something has happened to the planet's core causing a second, parallel world to emerge as well. Efforts are being made to develop technology to reach the core to restore balance. As always a minority is unhappy with how things work and wish to adjust the core to give men a more dominant role in their society (interesting enough a lot of the people pushing for change are women who have not bothered to see how their husbands feel about this).
Linda Radcliffe is an Administrator and adviser to the Queen of Geratica and is second only to her. Linda prepares the Queen’s speeches for her and helps her to navigate and deal with the “Male Right’s Protesters”. Unfortunately Linda’s soft-spoken daughter, Alexandra goes to a school where the headmistress is someone largely in favor of Male Rights. When Linda send a letter to the headmistress from the Queen refusing to give in to these protesters the headmistress becomes furious. To top it off Alexandra is in competition with the headmistress’s daughter for the school college champion title. The headmistress encourages her daughter to set up Alexandra. When this backfires it starts a chain reaction of publicity, political debate, and even violence and threats.
What I liked best was that it was refreshing to read something directed more towards females that were not a sappy romance or princess story. Don’t get me wrong fantasy and adventure stories with a strong female lead are not that hard to find now but this book was different from even them. The dynamics of court operations and politics were interesting and realistic without being boring. Linda and Alexandra’s work, home, and school life were well described and the focus was divided between everything in such a way that readers come to know each of the main characters on a personal level.
What I did not like was the fact of there being two Geratica was not as big of a factor as I was expecting. While the issue with the planet’s core that caused the second world to form was a big factor it was mainly for other reasons. The interest in the core was more because of the Male Rights Protesters than the split. It just felt like the second word should have gotten more attention throughout the book than it did.
The length and content make this book acceptable for mature readers only. Not only is there a lot of sexual events through the book there is a lot of political debate. Some concepts sound inappropriate by our standards that are common for the Geratica race. Readers must have an open mind. Also while some men may enjoy this, women will be drawn to this book more so. I give this book a full rating of 4 out of 4. I believe that if this book is gone over by a professional editor it could become extremely popular. I would love to see it on the bookshelves at places like Books A Million and Barns & Noble. The author was able to create a race similar to ours yet drastically different and wrote a compelling story around them. I hope to be able to read all other volumes about Geratica.
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