Stacey the most powerful woman you’ve never heard of. Although she’s one of the most successful women in business, she has always kept a low profile so far. She might be the CEO of a huge conglomerate, but she hasn’t put forward any kind of political agenda. Until now. Drawing upon every favor she can, she moves to fund and subsidize the creation of a new town. Bella Springs will be carved out of the wilderness. This brand-new city will include apartments, houses, offices, and everything else a new community might need. It sounds like a grandiose experiment, perhaps one designed to appeal to her ego. That’s what plenty of journalists believe anyway, only they don’t know the truth. Bella Springs will be a bastion of one political female supremacy. Stacy Farber will prove women can take complete control of every facet of leadership. The men don’t know it yet, but when they move to the city, they’ll be outnumbered and functionally demoted. Being a man is a disadvantage now. More importantly, Stacy Farber will use her influence to make sure that women get every opportunity to succeed. Whether it is a question of employment, wages, or any other freedom, men will find themselves at a severe disadvantage. In every game and competition, the women will win. There might be a few token, male leaders, men like Matthew O’Reilly. But little by little, he will see that his voice doesn’t really matter, especially as new statutes are proposed. He might vote against them, but these rules will go into effect anyway because no one cares what some man thinks. First, the boys will be given curfews. Later, they’ll be required to wear uniforms. On and on, the local ordinances turn males into second-class citizens. Then there are the college students, kids like Mia and Zack. They both enroll in the brand-new university. Excited to start their adult lives, they continue to date because they’ve been in love for so long. But while Mia starts take Leadership courses, Zack is confined to “service” classes. He doesn’t know it yet, but he’ll be trained as a servant. Because really, boys shouldn’t worry about science or math. Instead, Zack should learn how to please his girlfriend. Cooking and cleaning are the skills he’ll really need. Throughout the city, the men don’t know what’s happening. But even if they figure it out, they’re still surrounded by powerful women who might not let them go. This 85,000 word novel features extreme female domination, male subjugation, spanking, public humiliation, stocks, chastity training, pegging, and more. All characters are consenting adults with age of 18.
Anna has written most of her stories in two series. One is called 'Crystal Canyon Quarantine', and this one called 'American Matriarchy'. The initial book of CCQ series named 'When Women Rule" was a pretty messed up book. But several of the later written books in the series were really good. In fact, one of the CCQ books is in my list of Femdom Erotica Masterpieces.
Probably the same thing is happening with this series as well. So far I haven't read any other books of American Matriarchy, so I can't tell about the other books. But this first book of the series is even bigger mess compared to the CCQ's first book. I really don't understand what the author was trying to do here. Because the premise is awesome. Its execution ruined it completely.
The central idea of this book is that a new city is created by a woman named Stacy, with the intention of making it a Female Supremacy community. And this city is located in California, USA. But the author conducted literally zero research on the technical aspects for creating such a city in such a location. Hence, there is only blabbering. No real knowledge is provided of how exactly population is brought into such a city, and how much is even brought. Where these people are going to work? How this city is going to earn money? Because a whole city cannot earn enough to run just by taxes of a branch office of even the largest enterprise in the world. Only information provided is those of the university students. But is the city's whole economy is based on student's fee? Even this information is not provided. Why give name of a country and then even a state when you don't want to research what's possible in that location? Why not make it futuristic book, so that whatever thrown upon us is acceptable? And then throw something upon us rather than just omitting those crucial details. Because everything in this book became simply 'unrealistic' and 'impossible to achieve' for that ignorance.
Let's talk about University now. The book seems to have about three-fourth of the focus on that university, but we're actually never taken into the university itself (well, once we were taken to universities premise somewhere, but in the open air, and by the end of the book, but that's all). We never saw any class rooms. We never saw what students were learning (neither females nor males). We were given 'hints' of what was happening there. Really? Why even bother with that?
Let's come to the most irritating aspect of the book. When all these 'Entirely unacceptable' laws are being launched (and one by one) it's never truly described what's exactly to the male population. Only one punchline described that all those who wanted to leave have left (and that was talking about the university students actually, not the other male population.) The scenes of two men doesn't describe the entire male population. It was compulsory to show their reaction, whether they are reacting aggressively or submitting themselves to those laws, and why. And if they're being kept forcefully in the city, how they're being kept?
Let me add something very funny. People can't post messages to social media pages. But what about calling someone for help over the phone or email? This city, Bella Spring, is only one hour away from a large city of California (never given game which one). Can't someone from there come for their aid? Can't a lawyer come for aid? Because the city is surely breaking way too many state laws (someone tell Anna that a city comes under jurisdiction of a state.)
I shouldn't be commenting on poor characterization because a book like this doesn't require characterization of a single character. Because the main theme is of a city. Some well written books on the premise of a place have never bothered to build a single character, and have jumped from scenes to scenes of random characters, and those were still very successful. Problem, however, with this book is that, it kept it's focus entirely on the characters, rather than the city. And it brought forth scenes of three couples regularly. But among those six characters, the book only attempted to build three characters. Why? What about the other three? Presence of those three characters in the scenes destroyed the potential impact of those scenes completely. Two of the very important characters are provided zero background information. I won't go in too much detail to make it a spoiler, but there is a boy named Zack who seems to have no parents, no friends, no siblings, and in fact no relatives in the entire world (except his girlfriend Mia), but then he has also managed to get into a university by magically having a very large loan from somewhere (we don't know from whom and where.) And this boy's scenes has covered more length in the book than any other characters. Yeah! That's true!
Now Scenes. Three scenes are so identical it seems like we're reading same scenes. Only minor differences. Two other scenes are also in the book that have no role to play in the story. They are simple interludes, and boring ones too. Two other scenes seemed to be playing a role when I was reading it, but later on everything happened in those scenes was simply wasted.
If this is not all, every few passages they are talking about bringing statues and legal stuffs, and most of that is entirely wrong and illegal. And no real solution is provided about how they are going to counter the issues that would arise, and how they would cover their tracks. We're simply, and repeatedly told, Stacy is too powerful. She's a is Billionaire. She can buy out everyone in United States. Yes! That's it!
I can write lot more about the mistakes of the book. But this has already become my biggest review at goodreads already. So let me cut it short. This book is literally trash. I would still give chance to some other books of the series, because the idea presented in the book is good. But I won't recommend reading this book to anyone. If you're a fan of Anna Ritter, better stick to Crystal Canyon Quarantine series. Even though the first book is not good, several of the later books are worth reading. This book is only going to deliver frustration and headache.
American Matriarchy is the concept of taking control of a society by ridding it of patriarchal roles and customs that have held women back for centuries. Now women are dominant and boys are inferior. Two couples in particular, Naomi and Matthew, and Mia and zack, illustrates the dynamic between superior females and inferior males. There are some rough spots where sentences seem garbled and misplaced pronouns. Needs some cleaning up and more effective editing. I like stories of female domination, FLRs, female supremacy. I liked this story too.
Turning men into servants. A great funny read. The thing that I liked most about this book was hearing men getting put in similar situations that females had and still have to deal with. I can dress the way I want wherever I want Mommy! Ha! Makes you think. I am glad I know now that my conquering needs need to be guided by a smart nice pretty lady. A guided hand is needed.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
It's a very good story so far, over halfway through. However, I'm very disappointed with the blatant lack of editing. Typos galore. Character name mistakes. In one scene, a council member is sitting at his desk in his office, glances up to look at the other council members in session, and two paragraphs later steps out and notes everyone's gone for the evening. Blindfolded but able to see, etc. At this level of writing it cost multiple stars especially at $5.99 a rental copy! If you can decipher and ignore all the errors it is worth reading, however if English isn't your native language you will struggle with it.
This book follows a few different pairings. The most interesting one was the male and female college students. The rest of the book was more of an intellectual exercise. Also, the copy I read could use another pass by an editor or proofreader to clean up the errors.