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J.S. Fields: Queen (NineStar Press) 1 star

Nobody leaves Queen. On the tidally locked, women-only planet, a vulva and an authority problem …

Had potential, but feels undercooked

1 star

Picked it up in the hopes of good intersex representation. It does have an intersex character with an actual intersex variation.

The world-building felt very incomplete and implausible in ways that kept interrupting my suspension of disbelief (e.g. it opens with "humans can survive without vegetation"... no we can't). I found the pace to be plodding and the main character to be just too unlikeable for me to want to know what would happen to her.

From the book descripton, I'd expected it would be an intersex take on the "woman-only society" subgenre, but it didn't really go there in a meaningful way. It instead tried to be a space colonization story, but it lacked the worldbuilding to pull it off. This book had potential - there could have been a great horror story here - but seemed to suffer from poor quality editing.

Would rate 1.5 /5 if I could. Couldn't bring myself to finish the book.