I have it on the list of my most anticipated books for this year. I'm glad to hear that it's actually feminist. Nowadays, whenever I see a book labeled as "feminist", I feel the need to make some extra research before actually trying to read it. You never know, if what's behind it is real feminism or liberal "feminism".

So thanks for the recommendation!

I really hope it doesn't turn 180 degrees in the sequel just like it happened with "The Gilded Ones".

I just finished reading this one from the library and wanted to recommend it here! Has anyone read it yet? I would have put it in o/FeministBooks but I remember seeing something about they didn't appreciate feminist fiction.

The book is about a women's suffrage movement in a fantasy Egypt-based kingdom with elemental magic that some few characters are born with. I grew up in a super conservative, misogynistic christian community rather than muslim and I felt it was so incredibly, chillingly, infuriatingly accurate to my experience in a far-right religious community in how the men and the handmaiden women thought, acted, and made excuses and always infantilized and/or blamed women for their horrendous woman-hatred.

There's a few scenes that could be triggering but overall, even though it has imaginary things like people who can cause earthquakes, I think a lot of women could read it and be really inspired to learn more about what it has taken in ALL of our countries to get the vote, ability to sign our own documents, divorce etc because at no point have men just "given away" thes rights back to us. Seeing how the fictional Daughters of Izdihar had to keep fighting against so many unfair obstacles with the entire legal system stacked against them reminded me of a lot of real-world current and historical women's rights movements.

I have to say it ends abruptly on a cliffhanger so the story isn't over, and the characters are young and act like it lol, but dear Goddess do I wish women could just raise our hands and kill misogynists with magical earthquakes and tsunamis and set them on fire in real life!

This sounds fascinating, and is on my TBR. Glad to know it's feminist (I bounce hard off a lot of fantasy these days).