For example, our protagonist will travel a small while with a former bar girl from Las Vegas. One of the major things I appreciated about this novel, besides how well it was written, was we get conclusions to minor characters stories. There is always a sense of danger and it doesn't let up, except for a few parts here and there. It is a gritty and harsh world she lives in and Elison pulls no punches when it comes to describing the world our protagonist walks. The book will also be about the people she meets and how she chooses to survive in this world. I am going to end the summary as this is the first part of the book. After being almost raped, she realizes she must traverse the world as a man, while still looking to help women in the world stay alive. Men have become no more than animals who use women for sex or trade. She ventures out into the world which is filled with danger for her. She grabs years and years worth of birth control because if a woman is impregnated, it will mean death for the woman and the child. Throughout the book as she discovers the world, she realizes that the plague was far worse than she thought and women are in trouble. A nurse wakes up after getting the plague and doesn't know how much time has passed or what is going on, except that most of her hospital is dead and the number of babies born had been decreasing. The story is a plague has wiped out most of the world's population so much so that men outnumber women 10-1. That is how deeply drawn into this book I became.
It also was one of those books that when I finished it, I went on Facebook to make sure all my friends were ok. This was one of those books that when I started it, I just didn't want to put it down. I knew I had requested it from NetGalley*, which is why I had a copy of the book, but had forgotten the premise. I started reading The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison without knowing much about it.
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