**I made it to 65% of the way through, then skimmed the rest. 
 The premise pulled me in---women basically stopped giving birth to girls. A facility houses (jails, really) a handful of young women in the hopes of finding a cure so they can start producing some female offspring. Cue government over-involvement, cue uprisings, cue a bleak and harsh world with much fewer people. 
 Zoey is one of these females, yet she senses she's being lied to, and wants to break out of the place and find out for herself what the heck is going on. 
 So, that's all cool. But it is such a slog to read, it moves like molasses, the narrative is dry and odd and while the dialogue is good, it wasn't enough for me to care about what happens to Zoey, or anyone else.