House of Women

The art is all black and white, very bold and stark and gorgeous. With a few lines, Goldstein evokes wonderful mood and emotion. What we have is an science fiction tale of nuns trying to give the natives of a “backward” planet religion and civilization and culture. Each nun has a role and fills a different near archetype. The youngest, prettiest one also has a thing for their imperial male contact of a particular corporation doing things on the planet. So does one of her sisters. And we have the age-old jealousy women in love conflict, which was my least favorite part of the book. The scientist nun basically ruins everything because of a dude. Over the trope of jealous female.

That being said, the rest of the book was interesting and tragic and quite lovely to look at.