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In my quest for more and more dystopias, I found two books about a future where there are few men, if any. One was written by a man, one by a woman. I couldn't wait to see the difference between the two! Nomansland by Lesley Hauge is the woman's perspective of what life would be like without men.

Keller is a Tracker "in training". Trackers protect the Foundland from interlopers... men in particular. Foundland has survived for generations as a woman-only civilization and would like to keep it that way. After sickness and mutations decimated the population, a group of women moved north to a college campus where they have learned to survive. Everyone has a job, but everyone may be subject to impregnation if the Committee suspects a wave of fertility is spreading. Impregnation is not optional, and is done from sperm saved from a sperm bank, but Trackers are rarely impregnated.

When the rebellious Laing finds a house from before, the girls sneak off every chance they get to revel in the found objects. They still don't know why the Committee members are at the campus, but they can't resist the house and its forbidden objects like high heels, makeup, magazines, and most forbidden in Foundland, mirrors. But there is more to Foundland than they are told. While found objects and fashion are forbidden, the Committee uses them regularly. They have to come from somewhere. Keller begins to suspect there is more to Foundland and the world than they have been led to believe. But can she stand up against what she has always known?

This book had a really great premise, but I am afraid it fell a little short for me. It was really good, but I wouldn't say it was excellent or my favorite dystopian world. The characters were interesting, but you don't learn about anyone other than Keller in much depth until the very end. Amos, the experienced Tracker, is a wonderful mix of obedience and rebel that will keep you wanted more. But the book starts a little slow. Just when things really picked up and got interesting, it ended! And search as I might for the possibility of a sequel, I think I might not got any closure. If Hauge knew what was good for her book, she would continue the story.

The writing is fairly simple, but the terms used and descriptions are sometimes difficult to understand. You know the objects they are describing are things we are familiar with, but sometimes it takes a bit to figure out what they are talking about. I think my students would have a difficult time understanding the blind obedience, but maybe it would be a great lesson for them! In Nomansland, rebellion for rebellion's sake is pointless, but rebellion for freedom is impossible to ignore...


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Nomansland Lesley Hauge Books Reviews

Story was interesting. I thought more was going to happen but nothing did. I read this on my kindle and felt like it ended abruptly.
Poor narrative.
A land with no men? That seemed like a very interesting read. I did enjoy this book. It was both interesting and sad. I only wish it had been a little longer. I feel like in the end things got cut off. Maybe the author is setting up for a book 2. I hope so because I would love to see what continues to happen. I would have given this book a 4 start review if it had a better ending to it.
Both my teenage daughter and I thoroughly enjoyed reading Nomansland. The story is excellent and I can't wait for the next book which will hopefully continue where Nomansland left off. The book leaves you fully aware of all the uncertainties facing a young teanage girl living in turbulent times. We want to read more about Keller! What happens to her later in life? Who does she meet? How does her background and the events that took place in Nomansland affect her? The personalities of the teenage girls really came to life for us. Especially in the description of the (almost unlikely) friendship between Keller and Laing, which sometimes almost leads to rivalry between them, but above all is a true friendship. A very special type of friendship. What my daughter also especially liked were the descriptions of the objects the girls found and how the girls reacted to these objects. This makes you realise how much we take for granted and how "crazy" we can become when scarce items suddenly become available (like being in a candy store after having no candy for a year).

We loved this book and recommend it for adults and teenagers. The next book by Lesley Hauge is already on the top of our wish list.
Yet another feminist-ish dystopia, in which a daughter of a distant future glimpses women of today and attempts to comprehend them. My issue is that Keller and her fellows spent so much time musing over the relics of the lost past that we never got a proper look at *her* world. What was the Tribulation? How long has it been, and what else is known of the remnants of the world? If Nomansland is known to be a failing settlement, why is it still allowed to exist? Keller herself is very real, but the rest of the women and girls are only just sketched.

In short, if Ms. Hauge wants to write a second book expanding her post-apocalyptic world and allowing Keller to grow and learn, I will read it, but I'm not inclined to recommend "Nomansland" to others.
This was a pretty enjoyable read, kept me interested through the whole book. If there is anything wrong with the book its the ending. As you read the book many things are set up and put into motion and at the end of the novel your waiting for at least several of them to be explained but as your getting to the last pages you can tell your going to be disapointed. The story ends but this book truly leaves you wanting more.

Well done first novel but should have had a better ending.
I looked forward to reading this piece of apocalptic fiction. Although labelled as young adult, I had hoped it had the depth of The Hunger Games, The Pslams of Herod or even the classic Z for Zackariah. Unfortnaley, the writer tries to hard to 'describe' found objects and the frivolity of our current lives. We are never truly let in on what caused the disaster, but it appears it was a nuclear war.
The narrating character seems to be manic depressive - with wild mood swings that out strip what a normal teenager would have.
Compared to other apocalyptic fiction out there for young people, this comes up short. And for an adult it is dull and repetitive.
In my quest for more and more dystopias, I found two books about a future where there are few men, if any. One was written by a man, one by a woman. I couldn't wait to see the difference between the two! Nomansland by Lesley Hauge is the woman's perspective of what life would be like without men.

Keller is a Tracker "in training". Trackers protect the Foundland from interlopers... men in particular. Foundland has survived for generations as a woman-only civilization and would like to keep it that way. After sickness and mutations decimated the population, a group of women moved north to a college campus where they have learned to survive. Everyone has a job, but everyone may be subject to impregnation if the Committee suspects a wave of fertility is spreading. Impregnation is not optional, and is done from sperm saved from a sperm bank, but Trackers are rarely impregnated.

When the rebellious Laing finds a house from before, the girls sneak off every chance they get to revel in the found objects. They still don't know why the Committee members are at the campus, but they can't resist the house and its forbidden objects like high heels, makeup, magazines, and most forbidden in Foundland, mirrors. But there is more to Foundland than they are told. While found objects and fashion are forbidden, the Committee uses them regularly. They have to come from somewhere. Keller begins to suspect there is more to Foundland and the world than they have been led to believe. But can she stand up against what she has always known?

This book had a really great premise, but I am afraid it fell a little short for me. It was really good, but I wouldn't say it was excellent or my favorite dystopian world. The characters were interesting, but you don't learn about anyone other than Keller in much depth until the very end. Amos, the experienced Tracker, is a wonderful mix of obedience and rebel that will keep you wanted more. But the book starts a little slow. Just when things really picked up and got interesting, it ended! And search as I might for the possibility of a sequel, I think I might not got any closure. If Hauge knew what was good for her book, she would continue the story.

The writing is fairly simple, but the terms used and descriptions are sometimes difficult to understand. You know the objects they are describing are things we are familiar with, but sometimes it takes a bit to figure out what they are talking about. I think my students would have a difficult time understanding the blind obedience, but maybe it would be a great lesson for them! In Nomansland, rebellion for rebellion's sake is pointless, but rebellion for freedom is impossible to ignore...