It reminded me a bit of Carol Nelson Douglas' Six of Swords series. If I sound dismissive, it's only because I grew up in heavily genderized sci-fi and it appears that I can't even revisit it for long. It's always about being a biological and gendered girl in a structure that resembles the Quest of the (Male) Hero. In the 1970s, it also includes sexual inequity, possibly insta-love with a man who struggles with women's equity, and quite probably about rape. What's Women's Sci-Fi, you ask? Oh, it's simple stuff it's the stuff that's about being a female and owning (female) power. It turns out that my feeling was not inaccurate the book sprung out of an award-winning novellete.
Not to mention the novel-length 'plot' feels a great deal a series of short stories strung together into a novel. But some of the responsibility needs to go to McIntyre for writing what 100% seems like Women's Sci-Fi, 1970s-Style. Why? I fully admit much of it is me, in this particular mood in my life at this moment.
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