A Brother's Price (Paperback)

from mamajoan

Scifi/fantasy fans will be better off thinking of this as a romance novel rather than sf/f, otherwise you will be disappointed. The concept is interesting, but the execution is a bit bland. As a romance novel, it's well-written and fun to read, following most of the general conventions; most of t...

from francescadefreitas

While this wasn't the clever feminist parody I expected after reading the first page, it was enjoyable. A standard love story set in a society where gender roles are reversed - men are scarce, treasured, housekeepers. While the roles played by men and women are amusingly portrayed, There was noth...

from amf0001

One of the things I like about fantasy is that it allows us to explore our real world by creating mirror worlds and seeing what leaps out at us about our beliefs and prejudices. In this world, men are rare, the birth rate feels like 10 female babies to every male baby. The result is that clans of...

from rocalisa

Going solely on the blurb, one could be forgiven for suspecting Wen Spencer's A Brother's Price to be a badly written romance. This is far from the case. In fact, while it features a bethrothal and a wedding, it is barely a romance at all. This is a tale of society and manners - tipped upside dow...

from SimonW11

Easily the scariest book have read this year, The first book to promote a gut reaction and rethink on gender issues from me in years. This pouports to be romance in a world where women outnumber men at least twenty to one. Are romances different there? You bet but not always in the way you expect...