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The Book of Flora

The Road to Nowhere, Book 3

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The Book of Flora

By: Meg Elison
Narrated by: Shakina Nayfack
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In this Philip K. Dick Award-winning series, one woman’s unknowable destiny depends on a bold new step in human evolution.

In the wake of the apocalypse, Flora has come of age in a highly gendered post-plague society where females have become a precious, coveted, hunted, and endangered commodity. But Flora does not participate in the economy that trades in bodies. An anathema in a world that prizes procreation above all else, she is an outsider everywhere she goes, including the thriving all-female city of Shy.

Now navigating a blighted landscape, Flora, her friends, and a sullen young slave she adopts as her own child leave their oppressive pasts behind to find their place in the world. They seek refuge aboard a ship where gender is fluid, where the dynamic is uneasy, and where rumors flow of a bold new reproductive strategy.

When the promise of a miraculous hope for humanity’s future tears Flora’s makeshift family asunder, she must choose: protect the safe haven she’s built or risk everything to defy oppression, whatever its provenance.

©2019 by Meg Elison. (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Action & Adventure Adventure Dystopian Fiction Genre Fiction Literature & Fiction Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Science Fiction & Fantasy

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Enjoyable, but not nearly as good and engaging as the first two in the series.

Enjoyable but not as good as book 1&2

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This has been one of those trilogies where you end up hoping it will turn into a series. I've read a lot of apocalyptic fiction featuring the usual tropes but the Road to Nowhere trilogy stands out due to the complex issues covered. It's been a very enlightening experience for me as I've read few novels written from the LGBTQ+ perspective.

Shakina Nayfack's performance is powerful and potent and she truly brings Flora to life.

Well written apocalyptic fiction with depth...

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How we got from a midwife having to dress as a man to stay safe in a world, that thanks to a virus, is now much less populated and mostly populated by men to both the book of Etta and Flora being basically about transsexualism I don't know...

Post apocalyptic trans-sexual coming of age?

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