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Gave me pandemic nightmares. It stretched my understanding of gender inequality. Past paced. Definitely a story for our time. Five stars.

An interesting take on a dystopian era novel. Set from multiple perspectives over a seven year period including before, during, and after pandemic. A book that addresses country reform, work drafts, and fertility when a flu takes out 90% of the worlds male population. Heart wrenching and surprising at times realizing how much the world would potentially change without a male population.

the topic was very poignant bearing in mind the pandemic. Really well written and made me think outside my own bubble. Did struggle a little with keeping track of the characters. Deeply thought provoking book.

This was an excellent and thought provoking dystopian novel about a plague that ravishes the male population and really asks the question, what does society look like with a reduced number of men

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🎧 1st 1/3 of book was compelling. A pandemic kills men, 90% of the time. Multiple female POV chapters that start with the character‘s name 🙌

The 2nd 1/3, what would happen if the world was ruled by women? What would change & how. 👍🏼

I woulda finished the book differently. The inexplicable turn women take shortly after a vaccine is available felt a bit disappointing yet it would prolly make a good book club selection.

It had potential ⭐️⭐️⭐️

First book of 2022… interesting reading

When I picked up this book, I thought it would be more about a world where the vast majority of men have died in a pandemic and less about the pandemic. In fact, it is more about the pandemic and less about this other world. Overall, I liked the book as constituted. I just think the other formulation would have been vastly more interesting. So, many topics were left unexplored or under-explored - teased.

A virus is sweeping the world and is only killing men. Different characters lives are followed throughout the book while also bringing up some other issues like capitalism, feminism, incels, dangerous conspiracy theories and loss. I found it interesting and quite the page turner at the same time. Hits kind of close to home right now though with everything going on
3 ⭐️

I was ready to like this one as easy escapism but it turned into a weirdly pro-capitalist, pro-cop read with two dimensional white woman feminism. The pandemic was unrealistic from the science to the politics and all the characters seemed somewhat interchangeable in how they spoke and thought aside from over explained personality traits. Interesting premise, initially interesting world building, poor execution.

Started The End of Men with expectations that I feel will be crushed. This has a certain trashy contemporary fiction for white women vibe that I usually hate but is captivating enough that I'm going to keep reading it. Willing to reserve (further) judgement until I am farther along and also willing to enjoy this as an escape read (i recognize the weirdness of a novel about a pandemic being escapism during a pandemic but here we are).

At times pretty depressing and reminiscent of the COVID-19 pandemic, and at other times thought provoking. I really enjoyed how this book took this interesting approach to introduce facts about our real world (phones are designed for men's hands, medical care is designed for male patients, etc.) I also liked the jump between the views of different characters to show how women in varying aspects of life were affected by the virus.

Just started reading this one about a plague that only kills men. It‘s good. But I‘m feeling anxious and stressed while reading it. Normally books like this don‘t bother me, but I think I have a touch of PTSD from working at a hospital throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. This is definitely hitting a bit too close to home right now. The characters and the situations feel real to me.

Pretty cool pandemic fiction. Really makes you think “What if...?“ 4 ⭐s

Elements felt a little too real given the world we currently live in but once the world building was established the story didn‘t go much further and felt very stream-of-counciousness.

A world-wide pandemic that only kills men?This was certainly interesting, more so because of our current situation with COVID-19. Each chapter is a different women‘s story, following their lives as they navigate the loss of husbands and sons, the search for the source of the virus, a vaccine and the way the world changed post pandemic. It‘s a little bit déjà vu ?
3 1/2 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
#virus #pandemic

Couldn‘t resist picking this one off my book shelf after our thoughts on Australia‘s male politicians today @JennyM @CarolynM 😕😳
My hubby bought it for me…

Overall Rating 4¾⭐ | Narration 😁 = Very Good
An all-encompassing look at what it would be like if a fast-spreading Virus, that kills off the male population, might look like for the survivors. A world that is mostly made up of women/girls with only about ten percent of the male population surviving. This story is both thought-provoking and horrifying, especially in light of our current pandemic.

This was really interesting. I liked that it explored A LOT of different perspectives of how people react to this dangerous virus that only kills men. I think #ThePower has a similar idea, but this book is so much better. I would have loved to learn more about how the world changed when women were suddenly the majority.

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#novel #kindle #theendofmen

A deadly global pandemic 🤔 but this one kills 90% of men😳. I started reading this and thought “why am I terrifying myself?” And realized, compared to these characters, my life during covid-19 is a piece of cake😉. Thought provoking too.

This was a quick read. A flu like virus takes out 90% of the men on the planet. There is a rush to understand where it comes from and how to stop it. Told from in the first person from many view points. It‘s surprisingly accurate in describing what life in a pandemic is like, considering it was written in the before times. ::chills:: “We did the best we could with what we knew at the time.”

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Super excited for the tagged book!!

Check out my review at LaceyDoesLit.com! Thank you, Putnam Books, for the gifted copy!

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After reading the synopsis I knew that I wanted to get this as soon as possible! So excited to fit this one in soon!

So maybe you're not ready to read a book about a pandemic yet. But possibly the most interesting thing about this is that she wrote the whole thing before our world turned upside down. I liked it a lot. Basically there's a flu virus and all of the men start dying. So women are forced to take over.

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Pub date is 4/27/2021