Review: Queentide

Queentide by Donna Fisher
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

What happens when the formally oppressed become the oppressors?

This is a work of fiction and is set in Australia, but if you look at what is going on in the USA right now, you will see that it really isn't truly a fictional book.

This book and the author's thoughts on equality for all are ambitious in their scope. I liked the ideas of what it takes for women and other minorities to regain (or gain) their 'selves', to be treated as equals.

This book looks at two different women and how they plan on making these changes. As you know from the synopsis, this book is set slightly in the future after Covid 19 in a world where the men have the rights and privileges they had back in the late 1800s. Women are now poised to take back what they have lost and then some. This book shows two different ways of going about this. Neither way is perfect since no matter what, the formally oppressed will become the oppressors.

This was an interesting read that might make some people a tad uncomfortable or jubilant. It depends on how you see things.

*ARC supplied by the publisher, the author, and BookSirens.

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SYNOPSIS: "Australia in 2026 is not an easy place to be a woman.

Authoritarianism has crept into the country and women have lost their rights and voices. But Bodie and her militant granddaughter, Insley, are gambling everything to return them.
They have set up a radical feminist group, Queentide, to steal the upcoming election and make Aboriginal politician, Kathleen, the next Prime Minister of an all-women Government. The ex-wife of a senior Minister, Lilith, vows to help them by sharing explosive secrets that will guarantee Queentide's success.
But two things might stop them. A state-backed, violent men's rights group and a bitter power struggle that threatens to tear Queentide apart.
Can the women harness the storm and smash the patriarchy?
Or will Queentide wreck itself?"