Anna has written most of her stories in two series. One is called 'Crystal Canyon Quarantine', and this one called 'American Matriarchy'. The initial book of CCQ series named 'When Women Rule" was a pretty messed up book. But several of the later written books in the series were really good. In fact, one of the CCQ books is in my list of Femdom Erotica Masterpieces.

Probably the same thing is happening with this series as well. So far I haven't read any other books of American Matriarchy, so I can't tell about the other books. But this first book of the series is even bigger mess compared to the CCQ's first book. I really don't understand what the author was trying to do here. Because the premise is awesome. Its execution ruined it completely.

The central idea of this book is that a new city is created by a woman named Stacy, with the intention of making it a Female Supremacy community. And this city is located in California, USA. But the author conducted literally zero research on the technical aspects for creating such a city in such a location. Hence, there is only blabbering. No real knowledge is provided of how exactly population is brought into such a city, and how much is even brought. Where these people are going to work? How this city is going to earn money? Because a whole city cannot earn enough to run just by taxes of a branch office of even the largest enterprise in the world. Only information provided is those of the university students. But is the city's whole economy is based on student's fee? Even this information is not provided. Why give name of a country and then even a state when you don't want to research what's possible in that location? Why not make it futuristic book, so that whatever thrown upon us is acceptable? And then throw something upon us rather than just omitting those crucial details. Because everything in this book became simply 'unrealistic' and 'impossible to achieve' for that ignorance.

Let's talk about University now. The book seems to have about three-fourth of the focus on that university, but we're actually never taken into the university itself (well, once we were taken to universities premise somewhere, but in the open air, and by the end of the book, but that's all). We never saw any class rooms. We never saw what students were learning (neither females nor males). We were given 'hints' of what was happening there. Really? Why even bother with that?

Let's come to the most irritating aspect of the book. When all these 'Entirely unacceptable' laws are being launched (and one by one) it's never truly described what's exactly to the male population. Only one punchline described that all those who wanted to leave have left (and that was talking about the university students actually, not the other male population.) The scenes of two men doesn't describe the entire male population. It was compulsory to show their reaction, whether they are reacting aggressively or submitting themselves to those laws, and why. And if they're being kept forcefully in the city, how they're being kept?

Let me add something very funny. People can't post messages to social media pages. But what about calling someone for help over the phone or email? This city, Bella Spring, is only one hour away from a large city of California (never given game which one). Can't someone from there come for their aid? Can't a lawyer come for aid? Because the city is surely breaking way too many state laws (someone tell Anna that a city comes under jurisdiction of a state.)

I shouldn't be commenting on poor characterization because a book like this doesn't require characterization of a single character. Because the main theme is of a city. Some well written books on the premise of a place have never bothered to build a single character, and have jumped from scenes to scenes of random characters, and those were still very successful. Problem, however, with this book is that, it kept it's focus entirely on the characters, rather than the city. And it brought forth scenes of three couples regularly. But among those six characters, the book only attempted to build three characters. Why? What about the other three? Presence of those three characters in the scenes destroyed the potential impact of those scenes completely. Two of the very important characters are provided zero background information. I won't go in too much detail to make it a spoiler, but there is a boy named Zack who seems to have no parents, no friends, no siblings, and in fact no relatives in the entire world (except his girlfriend Mia), but then he has also managed to get into a university by magically having a very large loan from somewhere (we don't know from whom and where.) And this boy's scenes has covered more length in the book than any other characters. Yeah! That's true!

Now Scenes. Three scenes are so identical it seems like we're reading same scenes. Only minor differences. Two other scenes are also in the book that have no role to play in the story. They are simple interludes, and boring ones too. Two other scenes seemed to be playing a role when I was reading it, but later on everything happened in those scenes was simply wasted.

If this is not all, every few passages they are talking about bringing statues and legal stuffs, and most of that is entirely wrong and illegal. And no real solution is provided about how they are going to counter the issues that would arise, and how they would cover their tracks. We're simply, and repeatedly told, Stacy is too powerful. She's a is Billionaire. She can buy out everyone in United States. Yes! That's it!

I can write lot more about the mistakes of the book. But this has already become my biggest review at goodreads already. So let me cut it short. This book is literally trash. I would still give chance to some other books of the series, because the idea presented in the book is good. But I won't recommend reading this book to anyone. If you're a fan of Anna Ritter, better stick to Crystal Canyon Quarantine series. Even though the first book is not good, several of the later books are worth reading. This book is only going to deliver frustration and headache. ( )

Pretty harsh. ( )