I don't know how to approach this. I don't enjoy post-apocalyptic novels. This one features a virus that kills most of humanity, but is just a bit more lethal for females than males. This causes various forms of sexual tension, a lot of forced breeding, and just bad times.

As much as I want to say something like that wouldn't happen, I think I might be lying to myself.

I wonder if an appropriate comparison would water in Water World to human females in The Book of the Unnamed Midwife. Or some other scarce resource? In any case, the writer does understand resource scarcity, and what can happen in such a situation, and presents it in disturbing ways. (And yet, the inner economist in me is happy that someone got it right, even if I am appalled by the results).

I found the ending reasonable. I'm not sure if I'll continue the series, but that's less a comment on the book or the series, and my general reluctance to read series of books, especially when they're not all published. But the ending is good enough that I don't feel that I am required to keep reading.