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Title: An interesting dystopia
Review: The story is told from the perspective of a woman whose life utterly changed in her mid-twenties due to a gov't coup in the US that left the executive and legislative branches dead. A totalitarian regime is put in place that controls women as breeding resources. The only thing that really bothered me about the book was that I found the timeframe unbelievable, that in 5-10 years society could be completely upheaved to where people accept this new power structure and imposed religiousness. I kept feeling it'd make a better story if the main character was one generation removed from the coup, but so much of the story as delivered depends on the woman's experiences pre-coup. I, too, was disappointed in the open ending; though the fictional "historical notes" addendum gives you some indication of what happened after the story, you still don't get any specific indication of what eventually happened to the main character.
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