Lawless by Crystal AshMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Excellent Dystopian RH MC Book
Once again we are playing genre bingo in a way that doesn’t make me cringe. This was a really good book that blends genres seamlessly.
The year is 2100 and in a small nursing college Mariposa is graduating with a nursing degree. The world is falling apart and the USA has Collapsed. The next day Mariposa goes to register for her licence only to be told that her home is now under new laws that forbid women having a medical licence of any kind.
This is the changing face of the country in which she lives. Women are being rounded up and treated like chattel. They are sold as ‘wives’ to the strong, the rich and the corrupt. Somehow she makes it through the next three years travelling around trading her skills as a medic for room, board and safety.
Then the outpost she is temporarily working in turns into a place she can’t escape from. The Steel Demons MC show up and take over the outpost. Their reputation is of ruthless murderers and rapists and Mariposa is terrified. This is when her world changes.
This story is very nuanced. The world building is excellent and conveys completely the chaos and anarchy that would follow the collapse of government. The author draws on some of the events that are occurring in modern America with women’s reproductive rights being eroded by the men in power. This kind of environment could very well lead to women’s rights be completely withheld by the men in power, in 80 years time.
I like that The Collapse isn’t caused by one big catastrophe, like a virus or alien invasion, but is caused a subtle and more gradual political and military change in power.
This book doesn’t take narrative shortcuts. It has depth and looks closely at the personalities involved within the world that has been built. The author takes the time to subtly reveal the characters of those within the story.
At the end of the book, things have shifted for Mariposa, but not enormously. She has changed her mind about Reaper, the MC President, but she still does not trust him completely. Her situation is still fragile and she still doesn’t know herself and what she is capable of completely. This book moves her forward in her journey towards self knowledge, but it’s a small step on the path.
I really can’t wait for the next book, in this slow burn RH series. As this is the first book I’ve read by this author, I think I’ll have to look at others that are already published whilst I wait until December for the next one in this series.
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