Has anyone read Only Ever Yours (feminist YA dystopian)?

[TheCountessofFitzdotterel]

Only Ever Yours

I just finished it and feel like I've been knocked for six. Has anyone else read it? It's been compared to The Handmaid's Tale, which might be an overstatement but it is certainly very impressive and thought-provoking.

If anyone hasn't read it yet but likes the sound of it, maybe we could do a thread like the old Feminist Book Club threads?

Forgot to say thanks op for recommending.

Reading it now so skimming spoilers!

Right, I HATED IT.

I'm a lone voice I see!

I just thought it was really badly written and really stupid.
It didn't say anything interesting or novel. The main character was awful, none of the other characters were given any real motivations, they all seemed paper thin.
Worst book I've read since I read a v v poor thriller in 2012 which had ghost dwarves in it. Ghost. Dwarves.

It was gripping and made me feel sick. Poor Frieda.

Have just completed 22 hours of flights + stopovers and read this all the way through. Like others I found it very disturbing. I thought the voices being piped put at night acted as a great metaphor for unnoticed / insidious messages in our own society - c.f. the beach body ads.

I think the one thing that rang a little hollow to me was how - apart from frieda and isabel - all the girls were so actively cruel to one another. I do see how that was inculcated by the society but the idea that women will almost always inevitably turn on one another feels a bit problematic. Am I right in thinking that relationships between women are depicted a bit more positively in A Handmaid's Tale? It's been years since I read it...

Just finished this after downloading it when the OP posted this thread.
I loved it. I don't think it was brilliantly written but so much of it rang horribly true. Made me think of my younger, unconfident self and remember how my entire teenage years were spent desperate for some small crumbs of male attention. (I didn't have a great adolescence.) Most of all it just made me feel desperately sorry for young women growing up today
Going to see if I can find some reviews.

It's £1 on Kindle today!