This is the book. If you should make the ultimate decision to read only one book in 2017, mabe you should take this one into consideration. If you're a senstive persone, ready to judge a book or drop because of some gory an triggers scenes... well, this one is not your cup of tea. But if you're willing to brace yourself, maybe you should give it a try. 
 The book shows an hars reality where the word "rape" can be used as a joke, where people feel embarassed or wrong for being abused by someone who chose to disregard his humanity and the one of the others. 
 It's in this kinda of world that Jack, Alex and Peekay live. And so Branely, even if her voice will never be a POV. 
 After reading this book I thought that I wanted to be more like Alex. I wanted to be free of the fear of speaking aloud against words dropped around like they were nothing. I wanted to stop turning myself from other people, while thinking: they will never learn, whatever you tell them. They will say that you're heavy and that they are just joking. Because that's why most of the people think. It's always a joke and you, you that you want to make things right, you're the wrong one. 
 This is why I want to be more like Alex. I've been like her for a periodo of my life. Things changed a bit and I even believed that the world was coming to a massive change. Then everything started to go dark and so I've another long road before returning to find my hidenn strenght, but this book reallt inspired me. I just have a long path ahed and I wish that this book is going to have the same impact that had on me onto other people. 
 In Alex I saw and read about myself. Few people know about my dark side, the one where my rage and fury fuel everytime. In Alex's anger I saw myself and I cannot deny it. I will never deny it. It was beatiful to read about someone like her. She's not positive like everyone would love to see, following the modern moral code and what society think to be most right, and I loved this about her. I needed someone more brutal, someone whom is not all flowers and bleeding heart of moralism. 
 I liked Peekay, I liked her growth and her path through the world, her confrontation with Branely and how she well incarneted the normal side of people, the ones who aren't really able to unlash their anger towards the others. 
 The only characters that I didn't really loved are Branely and Jack. 
 Branely... I don't know. To be honest, I don't like people that act like her, neither I can empathize really well with them, but I'm understand her struggle between finding herself and the labal that everyone put on her, male especially. It was horrible to see how some guys pointed at her as someone who could have been raped first, just because of the way she acts and her body. At the same time, it looks like she can never learn, always thinking that having sex and using her body will drag here on, like it's the only things she has. 
 I didn't like Jack, maybe because I felt him distant for most of the book, always trying to cath Alex's attention for no reason and I could not understand the romance, It was just out of place. I think that it could have been much bettere if Alex and Jack would have been just friends. 
 Also, I didn't feel like Alex really cared 100% about him and their relationship. Instead of trying something else, during the last pages of the book, she chosed for the most strong one, something from that she would has never come back, but she did it anyway. 
 The Female of the Species doens't want to be a book ready to pat an hand on your shoulder and says: it's al right. This kind of things aren't real. 
 They're very much real. 
 It questions our modern morals, talks about rape culture, how someone who is part of it has to star a long path but will probably be still imperfect at the end of it, and it take all of use to see our world and think that a lot of things can have only a brutal and bloody end.