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 It was refreshing to finally read a YA dystopian where men weren't the ones still in charge. Sure, some of them might have a couple of women that are somewhere up the ladder as well, mostly though men are in charge. In this book however, women are in charge, because men were the ones the screw up the world in the first place. It's a nice change therefore, to read something like this. 
 This immediately also makes it quite different from all the other dystopians where everything is usually violent and terrible things are going on, which causes the uprisings. In this case though, everything really does seem perfect, except for that tiny fact that men have no say in anything. 
 The world building in this book is great. Firstly, the book plays on Greenland; I've never read anything about that before. Everything that happened was due to a nuclear war, which seems plausible enough. On top of that, other people also survived and we find out about them. I find this lacking a lot in other books. In those, no one else in the entire world seems to be alive anymore, which is very strange. Here, the people in Thule have contact with people from Canada and Iceland, they know about the barbaric Mericans (yep, those from the USA) and know that elsewhere in the world others most likely survived as well. This is supported when those from Europe come over. 
 I also really enjoyed the fact that the people from Thule decided to really take care of nature this time around and preserve most of the world around them. Sometimes even forgoing technology because it could have a negative impact on nature (e.g paved roads, electricity). 
 Of course, this wouldn't be a dystopian without something being wrong. There is, men in this world don't have a say in anything. They're treated well enough, but always have to do what the women tell them. This doesn't sit well with all of them, though they don't respond with violence. Instead the son of the Konega (a type of Queen) eventually shows the women men are valuable and should have a say in what goes on in the country. 
 There is also a great legal system in place, based on shame and guilt instead of incarceration. It's all explained in the book, and I thought it was amazing! 
 If you speak Dutch, or know how to read it, do pick up this book, it's a refreshing take on dystopians (even though it was written before most of the other ones). Also, for my German readers, this book has been translated to German: Kinder der Mutter Erde.