Nothing much gping for this one

Story is pretty directionless and depressing. Totally unnecessary element of paedophilia. End only concerns one character, all the others forgotten. The whole world of the story is nonsensical to some degree and unrelatible. Feels like a very long, relentlessly depressing prologue.

Narrator has a nice voice, but insists on all her characters speaking in varying degrees of a horrible, grating, whiney tone. It's pretty unbearable and, like elements of the story, completely unnecessary.

Read The Last Midwife or The Handmaid's Tale if you want a good, compelling, dystopian,p anti-female novel.

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Mediocre

It’s a shame really as the concept was quite good but never really seemed to go anywhere. There are lots of things that are left unanswered and the plot just sort of ticks over with no gravity. The performance is OK but when the cast is a group of young girls a lot of the voices inevitably go down the high pitched whiney route to make then distinctive. This is incredibly hard to listen to. If I was to describe this book in one word it would be ‘meh’.

Awful

This was a bizarre story, it could have been amazing, but it lost itself midway.

A great performance delivering both innocence and bleakness

The reader is never quiet sure, neither are the girls, when realisation of the sickness both physical and moral becomes apparent its appalling, a chilling warning of twisted patriarchy

Challenging, heartbreaking and utterly riveting

Trigger warning for child abuse/ sexual abuse but well worth listening to if you can stomach it. Very well thought out and executed, this book was an emotional roller-coaster from start to finish. I'd recommend listening to it in segments due to the nature of the topics within.

Political Relevance, But Turgid Plot

Struggled to finish. Lacks detail in word building, with slow plot. Found characters frustrating in inability to achieve anything. Generally unsatisfied.