Upright Women Wanted

I do enjoy a slim novella, so it feels unfair to criticize the slight world building of a post-something, southwest hellscape where information is tightly controlled by the government, energy is scarce and life is precarious. I just could have used a bit more to chew on. Instead what I get is just cowboy set dressing and the knowledge that queer love in this world is dangerous. Well not so dangerous for our protagonist it seems who, days after her lover Beatriz is publicly hung, falls in queer love-at-first-sight. It's a novella, things move fast I suppose.

Subversive gun-toting lesbian librarians in an apocalyptic Wild West is as good a tag as any to hang your hat on, but this story needed more meat on its bones.