145 Views 0 Favorites 3 Chapters 0 Chapters/Week 4 Readers 0 Reviews 6.4k Words Jan 23, 2022 brambonius Michael tries to survive in a hostile world focussed on extreme manliness as an intellectual, but when he gets a confusing rating in the male hierarchy when he turns 18, his father forces him to go to a Wife School to choose a fiancée. He hasn't even talked to a girl since he was 5 though... On the other side of the great segregation between the sexes in The Nation there's Megan, who is not interested in marriage at all, but rather reads a good (black market) book or even a study book from a boy school, and Eliza, who already seems to have some kind of connection to Michael.
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Will they be able to cross the distance between the sexes without falling into the destructive patterns of their world, and manage a relationship or at least become friends, or will they just be crushed by the heartless system they're in?
Dystopian slice of life drama with a hint of scifi, especially in the later later parts. Probably rather psychological too. Don't expect too much of the romance part to develop except if you can handle slow burn and several dead end streets before anything happens at all...
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