I Who Have Never Known Men

I Who Have Never Known Men

By:

Jacqueline Harpman

Spice Scale
Number of books
1 Published
KU
❌
Audiobook
✅
Series Status
Complete
Interconnected
N/A
Overall Rating
Coming Soon

SISTERHOOD. SECRETS. SURVIVAL.

Discover the haunting, heart-breaking post-apocalyptic TikTok sensation, now available in a beautiful hardback gift edition.

Deep underground, thirty-nine women are kept in isolation in a cage. Above ground, a world awaits. Has it been abandoned? Devastated by a virus?

Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only vague recollection of their lives before. But, as the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl - the fortieth prisoner - sits alone an outcast in the corner.

Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground. The woman who will never know men.

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SOPHIE MACKINTOSH, BOOKER PRIZE-LONGLISTED AUTHOR OF THE WATER CURE

Discover the reader obsession.

**Orlanda, the next sensation from Jacquline Harpman, is available now**

Jamie’s review

Very mixed feelings about this book! On one hand, I could not put it down. I loved the writing. I loved our nameless FMC and the 39 women, I loved the concept and the post-apocalyptic setting. On the other hand, I NEED ANSWERS.

I feel like fans of the movie Triangle of Sadness would love this book. And I DID love this book until I finished it and wanted to throw it across the room.

40 women are kept in a cage in an underground bunker for years patrolled by male guards that won't speak to them. They don't know why they are there or how they got there. Then they learn about the outside work…. or what's left of it.

The humanity and friendship make this story beautiful. And there are no men, so that's a huge positive 😉 But if you're looking for a tidy feel good book or a mindless escape read, this ain't it.

I give it 4.5/5 even though I am NOT happy about it.

I feel like fans of the movie Triangle of Sadness would love this book. And I DID love this book until I finished it and wanted to throw it across the room.

The humanity and friendship make this story beautiful. And there are no men, so that's a huge positive 😉 But if you're looking for a tidy feel good book or a mindless escape read, this ain't it.

I give it 4.5/5 even though I am NOT happy about it.