Thoroughly awesome book set in a matriarchal society, in which five queendoms exist in an uneasy balance of power. Scorpica is the martial queendom, where girls are trained to battle and boys are given over to other queendoms to raise. I absolutely loved the various queendoms and their clashing cultures, illustrations of the various ways that matriarchies would rule. Great pacing, building towards a climactic ending; the worst thing about this book was finding out that it was actually only published earlier this year, and that I would have to wait for further sequels to arrive.