Think Amazons. This book is about the future earth where gender roles are reversed due to a genetic disease that only males inherit. Thus, the women are the leaders, hunters, and authority figures. Males are treasured and tightly guarded. A very interesting social construct. The storyline is also well done.

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Excellent book on the end of our civilization and a new one built on the ashes of the old one.... with very few men surviving.... I would love to read a prequel and a sequel of this book. I will be watching Laurie R. King's website to see if she does write more of this world.
If you like this book... read Beekeeper's Apprentice. Excellent book. An aftermarket Sherlock Holmes series...the best series.

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If you are into post-apocalypse books you'll probably enjoy this one too. It takes place in California decades after the breakdown in civilization, but communities, and even cities, are starting to recover. However, not all have the same social ethos. In fact, there is a growing threat from further north that must be addressed.

The dominant characters are women, as, due to a deadly virus, men are few and was be protected. They are not allowed to do hard work and must be cared for. And they are shared by all many women. It was obviously written by a woman with a personality disorder and hatred of men. I certainly wouldn't want to ........ Whoa! Wait a minute. No hard work for men? Tenderly cared for? Shared among many women? That sounds like a good deal to me! Why couldn't I have been born into that kind of society?

Actually, it was a bit hard to get into in the early chapters, but after awhile you began to bond with the good characters. That aside, there are enough evil women to fill a large jail. I also liked it that the main characters bonded with dogs. As far as I am concerned, existing literature wastes enough print on cats.

And I was just kidding about the author. Leigh Richards is actually Laurie King whose "Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes" books I've thoroughly enjoyed.

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