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There are scenes here, like one in a hospital and another in a suburban garden, which will stay with you. This book is literally nightmarish. It worked its way into my dreams. The world has been severely devastated by Moths that cross bred and carried a deadly toxin that affected only the men in the world. Either by killing them or sending them mad and into fits of rage killing those within their reach. I do not want to give away spoilers because there are enough in the synopsis to start with. A few too many, in my opinion. Nevertheless, it is enough to be going on with.
Exploring male violence against women, homo-normativity, and gynocracy, Moths is a powerful assessment of life through the lens of a main character in her 70s. Aremastered and revitalised version of the previously self-published, smash-hit dystopian thriller by the same name, Moths shows us a new, post-pandemic world.
Many years later, very few even remember what life was like before the change. Mary does, though, and when an opportunity presents itself, she is faced with soul-searching decisions to make. Will she cling to the only strand of the past she has left or will she risk it all in the name of equality? I liked that the main protagonist was a much older woman who had lived through the outbreak. Mary brought a breath of fresh air to the proceedings that sometimes you lose with younger ones. As a survivor, she and her friend Olivia had a certain rapport which helped bring some humour to the narrative.
It’s certainly a striking, eye-catching cover, which really draws attention to the importance of the dust. On the 9th of July 2019. I know so precisely because that is when I read an article on the BBC titled Toxic processionary caterpillar plague spreads across Europe. I was planning to write an apocalypse book that flipped the gender power dynamic – I just needed a narrative vehicle. A moth plague presented itself as the perfect villain. Did you do much research before you started writing?Recommended for fans of Naomi Alderman’s, The Power, this new heart-breaking and confrontational new novel from Jane hennigan is thoughtful self-assessment of humanity’s perception of gender norms, it’s relationship with violence, redemption and it’s desire for reciprocity.
So, what is feminist here? Clearly not the world itself, which paints all men as evil and all women as weak and incapable. Finding a world that has been turned upside down is nothing new. But now we have a society where women are the dominant power and men are marginalised. The themes explored in Moths are extremely relevant such as sexism and freedom, but unlike books such as The Handmaid's Tale, the boot is on the other foot. The men of this world are enslaved, not just for health reasons if you get my meaning. You explore some big, and extremely topical, themes: male violence against women, homo-normativity, and gynocracy. How do you feel about continuing sci-fi’s great tradition of providing explorative terrain for current societal issues? Mary, the books protagonist, is in her 70s. She's one of a decreasing number of people who remember the world is it used to be, before a plague that no one could have predicted changed everything.
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What I liked most though was how this was dealt with as the men weren’t just dismissed and ignored, they were treated as something that needed protection. This leads to women being the ‘protectors’ and the way they could protect these men was by isolating them and making sure they followed the rules. The way they kept them happy was by indulging them but it becomes clear this is in fact done to control them like men did to women of the past. Sometimes you read dystopian books and whilst the concept may work the execution of life after it seems so extreme that it feels too far fetched but this one kind of makes sense. You have to keep the men safe from being exposed so they have to stay indoors, therefore, women will have to be the gender that runs the world. Moths is a game changer in dystopian fiction. I loved this book. It's a brilliantly disturbing and disturbingly brilliant work of dystopian fiction set in a world radically altered by a catastrophic series of events, which began 40 years before. Change the plan you will roll onto at any time during your trial by visiting the “Settings & Account” section. What happens at the end of my trial? Along with about a billion other people – Fary Taleby Stephen King. It’s compelling and excellent and barking mad. What’s next for you? Moths explores male violence against women, homo-normativity, and gynocracy, and is described by the publisher as “a powerful assessment of life through the lens of a main character in her 70s”.
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