I really enjoyed this story. The two main characters contend with climate change policies and politics and herd-mentality, by way of making decisions about if they should or could 'drop-out' and have children. Every aspect of culture in this future society discourages unsanctioned childbirth but the drive to have and raise your own, it seems, will always loom large. Emma Donoghue plays off of familiar tropes but in a way that foregrounds the main characters struggles and difficulties with their desire to have what they want even though it goes against all 'logic' - that is to say questioning the policies and politics and herd mentality to come.

Very good. Familiar ground covered freshly with writing about human people you can care about. ( )

The Breeder's Tale
Review of the Amazon Original Kindle eBook (September 2020)

Maybe I'm reading these Amazon Original Out of Line eBooks too close together, as they are starting to all seem derivative of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, with their dystopian projections. This one has a repressive society where childbirth is restricted.

Halfway to Free is one of seven Amazon Kindle eBooks released September 1, 2020 as part of their Amazon Original Out of Line collection of short stories about women taking control. ( )

Pandemic read courtesy of audible and amazon.