I'm not buying the third book in this series, though I'll probably borrow it from the library, because a friend of mine wants to discuss the series.

I won't put any more money into Howey's hands, because I am PISSED about the way Howey, who wrote a fairly gender-balanced first book, silenced and disempowered the women in this one.

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So, in one of the timelines, all of the women are asleep. Literally asleep. I kept reading, though, thinking "Well, maybe this is necessary for some kind of narrative device." But, no, it's only necessary so that we can be surprised by the villainy of one of the only two women who get to wake up, the whore in the classic virgin/whore dichotomy that so many male writers rely on.

One timeline has to be from a male point of view; fine, that was set in the first book. His murder of the pregnant woman, unknowing as it was, was unnecessary, but ... fine. OK.

And there was a third timeline, a timeline that continued forward from one told largely from a woman's point of view in the first book. But, no, this one, too, was given to a male voice, and ended with the violent death of a woman.

Ugh. Just, ugh.