Week 35 Review: Scorpica

From Goodreads:

A centuries-long peace is shattered in a matriarchal society when a decade passes without a single girl being born in this sweeping epic fantasy that's perfect for fans of Robin Hobb and Circe.

Five hundred years of peace between queendoms shatters when girls inexplicably stop being born. As the Drought of Girls stretches across a generation, it sets off a cascade of political and personal consequences across all five queendoms of the known world, throwing long-standing alliances into disarray as each queendom begins to turn on each other—and new threats to each nation rise from within.

Uniting the stories of women from across the queendoms, this propulsive, gripping epic fantasy follows a warrior queen who must rise from childbirth bed to fight for her life and her throne, a healer in hiding desperate to protect the secret of her daughter's explosive power, a queen whose desperation to retain control leads her to risk using the darkest magic, a near-immortal sorcerer demigod powerful enough to remake the world for her own ends—and the generation of lastborn girls, the ones born just before the Drought, who must bear the hopes and traditions of their nations if the queendoms are to survive.

My Review:
This was a really great read! I loved this world, it was so interesting to watch it start to collapse under the fact that there are no more females being born. It was such an entertaining read, and I have to know what's going to happen next!

We start off right before everything goes wrong when female babies stop being born, which lets us get a glimpse of what the world looks like when everything is mostly running smoothly. If this series is 5 books long, then each book will be about a queendom, in this case, Scorpica. 

Scorpica is the country most hit by the drought, because they throw away any males that are born, they're the ones that are the most strictly female. That their leadership looks for strength and proof of having the ability to have female heirs puts everything into chaos. 

There are some morally gray or questionable characters in this book. And some that honestly are some minor antagonists, because what they were doing was just that bad. And that last chapter really showcased that! Some of the choices that were made were very much ones that I disliked! 

Really enjoyed this book, and I can't wait to see where it goes! 

Author: G.R. Macallister
Series: The Five Queendoms #1 
Read: August 30th, 2022
Source: NetGalley 
Reason Why: Sounded really great, and it's a DAC Book and a Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2022 Book! 
Publisher: Gallery/Saga Press
Published: February 22nd 2022

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