The Last Fembot

by K.T. McColl

A reformed sinner, a programmed seductress, and a world arrayed against them...

Jude is a nobody. Taken in by the Sorority as a child after the Ultimate Sin, he has toiled in the fields for most of his adult life. His goal is to keep body and soul together, and never again attract the attention of those whose scars he wears.

The world as he knows it is shattered when he discovers what is possibly the world's last fembot in an abandoned house. Alive.

Confronted with the embodiment of evil, the catalyst for the Enlightenment that gave birth to the Sorority, Jude has a decision: leave her, turn her in, or see where her programming -- and his -- might lead them.

Please note: This novel contains graphic depictions of sex and is not intended for readers under 18 years of age.

Genres: Science Fiction

245 pages, ebook

Published October 15, 2017

Reviews

[Amber Skye · Rating 5 out of 5]

This story is the essence of brilliance! With flowing prose, great imagery, and interesting characters, K.T. McColl’s splendid novel, The Last Fembot, kept me glued to the pages.
Early in the novel, we discover that women have taken over parts of the world and are ruling with an iron fist—yet rarely with a velvet glove. What precipitates all this is the creation of a series of robots enabling men to enjoy the perfect woman—beauty, charm, intelligence—without any of the nagging, jealousy, or negative relationship aspects that many men perceive as the cost of a beautiful companion. As Fembots minimize the role of women in Society, men become obsessed with the perfect woman in the form of a programmed machine. But as the menfolk are distracted in their pleasure, the scorned women devise a plan to take over. The society known as The Sorority, comprised of “Sisters,” do just that. And they are ruthless, demeaning and demoralizing the men in some very creative ways. In fact, the once assailed women become the worst kind of assailants…well, most of them anyway. They even have an all-female Gestapo known as The Lozen.
Our protagonist, Jude, works the fields in Lowville but is frequently antagonized by the Sorority. His relationship with an ostracized Sister from decades ago is a black mark he can’t shake, and he is the focus of a rather nasty Sister with grand plans for her future who has it in for Jude. You see, men are not allowed impure thoughts; it is the greatest of sins…that is, unless a particular Sister requires certain services. But men have their needs too, and when Jude discovers a Fembot in an abandoned house, his world turns upside-down. But his antagonistic Sister is suspicious and closely on his trail.
McColl’s writing is excellent, with such great metaphors as “There was comfort in her embrace, like a remembered childhood blanket.”
Another great philosophical line: “Was it only the absence of opportunity that kept a virtuous man from vice?”
The book picked up steam as I read, and I had difficulty pulling myself away from the mesmerizing tale. I’d give this novel six fabulous stars if I could!

[J.B. Trepagnier · Rating 5 out of 5]

I wouldn't really call this erotica. Sure, there are some pretty heavy sex scenes, but it reads more like a commentary on society. For so long, the patriarchy has reigned, what happens when a matriarchy takes over? Are people still exploited in the same way? Does the sex trade go out of business? Does slavery essentially no longer exist?

If you're looking for a girl power book, this isn't it. Neither gender is really shown in that great a light aside from a few characters. If you're looking for a box that's strictly sex with female robots, this is probably too deep for you. What the book does show is that if you want to have a functioning society, men and women have to work together equally without one gender in absolute power, or there will be chaos and people will be exploited

[Patrick Brown · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a terrific book! Dystopian with a little erotica thrown in for good measure, The Last Fembot really goes much deeper. For me, the social commentary of our affinity for gadgetry, our disconnect with other humans, and our lust for instant gratification are the greater topics.

The author struck a chord with so many varying topics that the head spins! Furthermore, McColl's crisp prose, slick metaphors, and solid character development are the traits of the best writers. The scintillating dialogue was an added bonus! I'll be reading more of this fine author's works in the near future! Great story, K.T. McColl!

[Jean Wilde · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was an entertaining yet thought-provoking read. The author does a good job creating a rather bleak world for men. A women's revolution has completed shifted the balance of power, creating an Amazonian, matriarchal society. The timeline was slightly murky for me but the main character Jude is now a man in his late 30s/early 40s I should think, who has accepted his lot in life and passively allows himself to be abused by the female dictators of society. It's realistic I suppose, I just wished he resisted more or fought for what he believed rather than having everything just happen to him.

I couldn't really cheer him on with his whole "I've been with you twice but I'm now completely in love with you" romance with the fembot. He informed the reader how fembots were the last straw that pushed the whole revolution to come about and yet he admittedly repeats his father's sins completely unapologetically. I really liked the way the author explained how fembots went from being novelty sex toys owned by losers to the sophisticated, high-tech lovers that came to replace women in men's lives.

The hierarchy of the men in society wasn't really clear to me or how the women were chosen to become a lozen, sister, mother...etc. Also, for women to go through a revolution only to turn around and demean members of their own sex and treat them like prostitutes and servants seemed strange.

Overall, a fast enjoyable read and very thought-provoking. A lot of it may not seem so far-fetched when you think about it :)

[Judy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Provocative dystopian romance

Well crafted, well written novella with the humorous cultural criticism I've come to expect from K.T. McColl. A page turner with some twisty surprises.

[Brin Murray · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a slightly unusual mix of dystopian and erotica. Jude has spent his life under an oppressive system known as the Sorority, a kind of matriarchy in which men are reduced to laboring under a serf-like system in the fields, or are “free men” in the city where they serve one of the Sisters and aren’t really very free at all – in fact are mainly used as f**k puppets. The system came about when Fembots, gorgeous robots programmed to sexually and emotionally gratify their male owner’s every whim, became so popular that women were in danger of becoming redundant and so staged a revolution known as the “Enlightenment,” whereby men became basically enslaved.
Jude, a farm labourer all his life, discovers a long-hidden Fembot on a scavenging mission to a nearby abandoned town, reactivates her and falls in love/erotic thrall to her ageless charms. Of course this is all forbidden and he’s suspected of being up to no good by the merciless Sister Aisha. She takes him away to be her free man in the city, but not to use him as her latest sex toy: turns out they’re more closely related than he knows, but that doesn’t affect her pure antipathy, and poor Jude has to put up, amongst other things, with a most uncomfortable chastity belt-type ordeal to keep his natural male energies in check. And then he catches the eye of a horny high-ranking sister and some more mind-blowing sex ensues, even while he never forgets his true love Jessie the Fembot…
The story races along at a fine old pace, and (having read more erotica in the last few days than I normally do in… well, a lifetime up till now) the erotic scenes seem perfectly steamy. Jude is relatable, a slightly jaded, sexually athletic and apparently highly desirable Mr Ordinary. He’s a decent guy in a very nasty place, who when he’s not servicing the various gorgeous females who cross his path yearns for a freedom he’s never known.
Because I’m that kind of picky reader, and much more attuned to dystopian than erotica, I have to say the mechanism by which this society broke down is a little unclear: where did all the population go? Why are so many towns abandoned? It’s mentioned that maybe people who didn’t like the Sorority system left the area, maybe for the coast: is this an enclave, then, a discrete geographical area, of fanaticism? But then you’d think more men would try and escape. Also, there don’t seem to be many children (and any social system which doesn’t procreate is doomed anyway): maybe because of the “Ultimate Sin” rule which governs this dystopian world. I wasn’t quite clear on this. I presumed the “Ultimate Sin” was sex, and Jude’s original offence in the past was sex with a Sister, Abigail – who is now reduced to genteel prostitution. In a matriarchal society?
For me the Sorority as a system didn’t quite gel. When Rabbit, early in the story, is punished for a picture of a naked woman he is blamed for “objectifying” women – and taken to a Sister’s night club where he is stripped naked, fondled by numerous sisters on stage and then mounted in a public sex display. This is meant to humiliate him, and demonstrate to him what it means to be objectified.
BUT it is preceded by a scene where a dancer in the club is objectified in a far worse way – and she’s female. The sex act she is made to perform is far more humiliating, and she’s not being punished: it’s just part of the normal club’s activities. The waitresses in the club are – GUESS WHAT? female – and walk around in shelf bras, suspenders, stockings and nothing else. In a women’s club? Where the dominant culture absolutely rejects the objectification of women? This makes no sense at all - unless the women of the future are all sexually aggressive lesbians who enjoy the kind of sleazy stuff that generally feeds our contemporary male fantasies. Rather than watching the cast of Bromans swagger round bearing their cocktails (no pun intended!).
Even when the free men are waiting at a much later date to be chosen for night-time fun by a visiting contingent of female dignitaries, the servers performing menial waitressing tasks are women, while the men wait on the sidelines before being paraded like sexy show ponies.
For me, this read as if the author can’t quite make that leap of imagination, to a world where men actually perform the minimum wage menial tasks, female prostitution is not on the radar, and men are the sex objects in a women’s night club. Yes, I think about this stuff a lot - but to me, this world was a half-baked realization of what a true dominant women’s culture/Sorority would look like, and is too inconsistent to hold belief: it reads more like a male fantasy of such a world, with the odd lesbian voyeurism thrown in for good measure.
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I also find it slightly uncomfortable that both Rabbit and Jude end up with a Fembot, the perfectly obliging, ageless sexual superstars. Like they won the lotto and could afford to ditch the real women. Hm. Readable, yes. As social commentary - falls drastically short.
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It was still a fun read, well-paced, with a relatable main character, and hot sex. I just couldn’t take the world-building seriously.

[Francesco Rizzuto · Rating 5 out of 5]

Although dystopian future worlds aren't my usual cup of tea, I found KT McColl's novel The Last Fembot both intriguing and highly entertaining. Actually, I couldn't put it down.

Right up front, I'll warn that this is not an erotic novel per se, and the sex scenes depicted in the story will not make a jaded reader's blood pressure soar or demonstrate any new positions; however, the rather brief interludes wherein the protagonist indulges his lustful urges with both human and non-human partners are crucial to making sense of where the story arc is going. KT McColl is nonetheless an accomplished author of erotica, as evidenced by her many other successful titles, but The Last Fembot is more of a serious political statement than an exercise in titillation.

I won't dish out any spoilers, as the book is well worth the purchase price, but please read on.

Jude is a kind of middle aged outlander in a world where all the power bases are occupied by women. The supreme "Mother" is a kind of female Jim Jones (Google him) complete with her own Red Brigade (the Lozen). There are several lesser mothers who preach Sunday sermons in local churches that are compulsory to attend; I wasn't quite clear on all the aspects, as the structure of this new society is not explained in great detail. Basically, it's still a fundamentally Christian cosmology with an angry, wrathful God-The-Father having been toppled by an equally dole and unforgiving God-The-Mother, with the whole Abrahamic tradition turned on its head.

With religious zeal and hell-bent on revenge, all surviving men have been more or less enslaved or, like Jude himself, consigned to serfdom, supposedly in retaliation for their having once rejected their human sex partners for Fembots, the 'perfect woman'(read: no nagging, no headaches, well, you get the picture). The sins of the fathers visited on the sons. Yeah, I could relate to that.

In this total role reversal, however, women have subsequently adopted all the least attractive characteristics and tastes of men; or maybe those traits were always recessive and only needed an opportunity to out. In any case, the Ultimate Sin of making love to machines has condemned what few men are left in the world to very unenviable consequences.

Guess what Jude finds when he's scavenging around the countryside. Yep, it's a Fembot.

This is all merely background to what is basically an old-fashioned boy-meets-girl, or rather, boy-meets-robot, love story. Having finished the novel then gone back, like Jude himself does, to scavenge whatever leftovers and cast-offs might be found in this devastated political landscape, I felt that there were potentially two novels here, perhaps even a trilogy. Nonetheless, the basic premise is captivating in its own right: what might life be like if women were to banish men to the most insignificant and subservient roles in society. I was drawn into the story by the author's fluid prose, and a few clever literary touches early-on helped me get familiar with Jude's world: "the cuckoo never came out, but a clack inside the clock announced hourly that perhaps it wanted to but had forgotten how." I was hooked until the last page.

A highly recommended read that leaves one thinking.

[Emma Jaye · Rating 4 out of 5]

Don't be fooled by the title, this is far more than an erotic tale, it is an examination of what happens when technology and lust interact to produce a dysfunctional dystopian society where men are the victims of their predecessors excesses.

Saying that, it is very sexually graphic in places. A robot that is indistinguishable physically from a perfect example of the real thing, who's only desire is to please her owner, and men virtually enslaved by the moral female majority, who are decidedly less than moral.

Warning: It doesn't portray either gender in a particularly favourable light. If you're looking for 'sweet' this isn't it.

[Scarlett · Rating 5 out of 5]

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The blurb and cover are what got me initially interested (that and I am a fan of K.T. McColl's work). I've developed a mild obsession with AI over the last few years, and this story delightfully fed my obsession! McColl combines the perfect amount of science, philosophy, mystery, and sex to create a sci-fi story worth reading - and re-reading! Her characters are great, too. I hope there's a sequel!! Five enthusiastic stars from me!

[Eric Weber · Rating 5 out of 5]

I LOVE THIS STORY!

I love this book! KT McColl does an excellent job of painting a picture of each scene in the book. The sexual euphemisms are also very entertaining.

[Paulskim · Rating 4 out of 5]

I knew a book written by K.T. McColl would be a good one, at the very least for the quality of her language. It helped me knowing that since I'm not a fan of science fiction, and also because the first quarter of the book was confusing. We slowly understand that women of a country's state are socially and politically in control and dominate men who lost their liberty because of their selfish libido. It is then that the story gets its pace when learning how it happened. We are then driven into a search for freedom and a romance between a man and an almost human female robot. The first encounter of Jude and Jessie is a pure gem: brilliant, fun, sexy and witty. So, if I found the book too ambitious for a simple tome, preventing the story to be well established on its multiple levels, it remains a captivating distraction.

[Phil Sageser · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is "The Handmaid's Tale" in reverse. That is, here it's the women who are in charge after men allowed themselves to be seduced into a life of pleasure and irresponsibility by the creation of the ultimate sexual robots. Unfortunately, the women are at least as repressive as the men ever were and develop their own distorted religion to justify their own lust for power -- and power to indulge their lust. Ironically, it may be that the robots were more human than their creators. As a dystopian society, there is much that doesn't add up. As a sexual fantasy, it's a distinctly male one, in spite of the women being in charge. Nonetheless, it makes for an entertaining read and, it seems likely, with a sequel to follow.

[David · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a very thought provoking story about a dystopian future, but I think it's a social commentary as well. I like what I've read from KT McColl, and this is a good example of her skills.

[Rui D · Rating 5 out of 5]

great book , great story.