The Book of the Unnamed Midwife (The Road to Nowhere #1)

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Philip K Dick Award Winner for Distinguished Science FictionWhen she fell asleep, the world was doomed When she awoke, it was dead.In the wake of a fever that decimated the earth s population killing women and children and making childbirth deadly for the mother and infant the midwife must pick her way through the bones of the world she once knew to find her place in this dangerous new one Gone are the pillars of civilization All that remains is power and the strong who possess it.A few women like her survived, though they are scarce Even fewer are safe from the clans of men, who, driven by fear, seek to control those remaining To preserve her freedom, she dons men s clothing, goes by false names, and avoids as many people as possible But as the world continues to grapple with its terrible circumstances, she ll discover a role greater than chasing a pale imitation of independence.After all, if humanity is to be reborn, someone must be its guide. Read The Book of the Unnamed Midwife (The Road to Nowhere #1) author Meg Elison – kino-fada.fr A dark as night apocalyptic novel That s actually good All the stars going up She wakes up in the hospital after being sick to realize that they are no people around Just some dead bodies and the remembrances of a sickness that was rampant Mostly all the women were dying and the babies and children were all gone She ventures home shell shocked and is almost raped in her bed She discovers that there are a few men still alive but the rules have changed.She poses as a man because those are A dark as night apocalyptic novel That s actually good All the stars going up She wakes up in the hospital after being sick to realize that they are no people around Just some dead bodies and the remembrances of a sickness that was rampant Mostly all the women were dying and the babies and children w... ARC provided by the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.There are battles and accidents there are collapses and plagues There is silence only when one side wins or everyone has diedThis book was perfection, and probably the easiest five stars I ve given all year This was so thought provoking, meaningful, eye opening, and important This was also, as a woman, the scariest dystopian I ve ever read What made me initially request an ARC of this was that it had won an ARC provided by the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.There are battles and accidents there are collapses and plagues There is silence only when one side wins or everyone has diedThis book was perfection, and probably the easiest five stars I ve given all year This was so thought provoking, meaningful, eye opening, and important This was also, as a woman, the scariest dystopian I ve ever read What made me initially request an ARC of this was that it had won an award in 2014, even though it is just being republished in 2016 Now that I ve read this, it deserves every award all the awards If I could have people read one book this year, it would be this This book changed me.I...One of the most utterly absorbing books I ve read in a long time A post apocalyptic novel that doesn t forget that before the apocalypse people were LGBT and full of yearning and need Grim but lots of pockets of warmth Really interesting protagonist, an unnamed midwife, who begins to creat...The Book of the Unnamed Midwife a really, really good apocalyptic book If you can stand it Dark, grim, bleak, scary but also hopeful in the end The world is in the grasp of a global flu Many people get killed, mostly women Nobabies born The Midwife survives the flu, wakes up in a deserted hospital, only to discover that ...Fantastic Not my usual genre, but wow, so powerful and so very frightening Even though this is a work of fiction, it s disturbing to think this could happen in our future Something has wiped out most of the world s population and only a small fraction of the survivors are women It s a story of strength and survival in a post apocalyptic world Very dark and violent at times, especially to women Between Ebola, Zika, super bugs or even biological warfare, are we that far off from something th Fantastic Not my usual genre, but wow, so power...A gritty post apocalyptic tale told with stark realism and frank sexuality.Unlike other post apocalyptic books that wash over the disaster and cleanly describes later events down the road, author Meg Elison tells the good, the bad and the ugly of the immediate days afterwards The reader follows the travels of a lone female survivor after a cataclysmic epidemic has targeted women and babies, leaving a very ugly and stinky male post pan...The book of the Unnamed Midwife is tragic dystopian post apocalyptic survivalist novel I read aor less corresponding to this type and I consider this to be one of the best right after Blindness The story does not sound so new A fever wipes out 98 % of the human population, the women and the unborn babies being the most affected A terrible world to live in The main character is a nurse who wakes up in the hospital bed where she was left to die with the disease Thanks to her fighting The book of the Unnamed Midwife is tragic dystopian post apocalyptic survivalist novel I read aor less corresponding to this type and I consider this to be one of the best right after Blindness The story does not sound so new A fever wipes out 98 % of the human population, the women and t...Thanks to Netgalley for this ARC.Post Apocalyptic survivalism, featuring perhaps the very last midwife upon the planet.This wasn t a particularly easy novel to get through, mostly for the emotions and the horror of what would likely happen to the surviving women after 98% of all men die from a virus and only 1 100 of that counts as women The author makes a pretty convincing case that what would result would be massive maltreatment of the rare women, mirroring what still happens today, but much Thanks to Netgalley for this ARC.Post Apocalyptic survivalism, featuring perhaps the very last midwife upon the planet.This wasn t a particularly easy novel to get through, mostly for the emotions and the horror of what would likely happen to the surviving women after 98% of all men die from a virus and only 1 100 of that counts as women The author makes a pretty convincing case that what would result would be massive maltreatment of the rare women, mirroring what still happens today, but much worse, with enormous ignorance, rape, and misogyny the likes that we haven t seen since that freaking rally...Full disclosure I am married to the author However, she did not ask me to review her book But she did ask me to read it many times during its development and I must say it never became tedious or a chore.I was immediately pulled in by the prologue and I found myself nodding, quietly yet triumphantly by proxy, at the end.Obviously,I have a personal stake in this, but having read it and the newspaper lately, even if I weren t married ...Update 1.99 for the first two books in this series today on Kindle September 17, 2017 LOVE love love this series Free with Kindle Unlimited This book has one of those titles that makes you think twice It s a bit generic, vague, clunky Makes you think you might be reading a lot about someone delivering babies not really Plus, it s a legit post apocalyptic book instead of one of those that pretends to be but is really just fiction with the apocalypse as an afterthought, way in the Update 1.99 for the first two books in this ser...

The Book of the Unnamed Midwife (The Road to Nowhere #1)
  • English
  • 16 March 2018
  • Paperback
  • 291 pages
  • 1503939111
  • Meg Elison
  • The Book of the Unnamed Midwife (The Road to Nowhere #1)