6/28/2023 0 Comments Outlaw by anna northThe most common way for a barren woman to be treated was to be scapegoated, accused of witchcraft, and blamed for all miscarriages and misfortunes of her neighbors. I did think it interesting that women who were mothers were so elevated, but the flip side of that is that women who couldn’t be, or anyone whose “activities” threatened the creation of children, have it all that much worse off. Things do NOT go well for women who can’t have children. This has made an already patriarchal, misogynistic, religious society fertility- and baby- and motherhood-obsessed. Outlawed is an alternate history western set in 1894-5, in a world where seventy years before, a disease everyone just calls ‘the Flu’ killed a huge portion of the population. Or that at least didn’t kill the one character I liked the most. It was a super fast read, read it only about three hours, and parts of it I really liked, I guess overall I just wasn’t in the mood for a story that wasn’t all HEAs all over the place. I still don’t know how I feel about this one and it’s been over a month.
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