I totally teed this up to provide an emotional balance against Invisible Women. Sequel to Scorpica, which introduced us to the matriarchal society of the Five Queendoms, this book deals with the fallout of the climactic events at the end of the first book, and the various societies’ efforts to find their footing in the new era. Although this book does spend some time with the new young queen of Arca and her fight to secure power, it also spends some time in the queendom of Paxim where efforts were made to raise males to equal the status of females (scoffed at by those who were accustomed to seeing men raised to be servile and submissive), as well as back in Scorpica where the next generation of warriors is rising. Most of the book spends time on various individual storylines, so it is a bit jarring (but quite satisfying) when the various threads abruptly weave together near the end. Lots of interesting plot developments lining for the sequel.