duuuuude, this was so fun.

i'm not the biggest sci-fi girly outside the scope of black mirror-esqe fiction, but when i saw this flagged as lgbtqia+ i was like, fine. i'll bite the bullet. maybe the REASON i don't like sci-fi is that i don't see enough gay people in it.

this story takes place in on our dying planet, but in the year 2050. global warming is doing it's thing - flooding, storms and tornadoes are taking out whole cities, the planet is correcting the damage that humanity has done for decades by overheating and eliminating large swathes of the population.

enter: the inside project. the inside project is billionaire jacqueline millender's dream and thanks to a ridiculously large donation, she's director of the manhattan branch, meaning she'll be running a city-sized and weather safe structure. her goal? create a feminist utopia for herself and other women. a great idea that we can see is going to go sideways the second her trans assistant shelby asks her if trans women will be included in the accepted applicants and jacqueline waffles at the idea, immediately giving you the idea that her version of feminism is peak white, capitalistic and terfy feminism. the book heavily explores these things and i really loved the inclusion of these discussions in this book.

our other characters include ava, a lucky(?) inclusion to the project and olympia, a doctor that struggles to control jacqueline's increasingly more insidious requests to play with eugenics, to encourage pregnancy to "populate" the project, to secretly impregnate inhabitants with jacqueline's own eggs without telling the mothers, and so on.

definitely a dissection of why even the most idealistic of ideas cannot be structured around the belief systems of a single individual, particularly one whose feminism is transphobic and completely not intersectional. also did some really excellent things here with talks about chosen family which, for me, is really integral to the queer experience.

a very, very excellent read. i encourage everyone to pick this up asap.

Yours For The Taking by Gabrielle Korn

Yours For The Taking is a mesmerizing story of queer love, betrayal, and chosen family, and an unflinching indictment of cis, corporate feminism.

The year is 2050. Ava and her girlfriend live in what's left of Brooklyn, and though they love each other, it's hard to find happiness while the effects of climate change rapidly eclipse their world. Soon, it won't be safe outside at all. The only people guaranteed survival are the ones whose applications are accepted to The Inside Project, a series of weather-safe, city-sized structures around the world.

Jacqueline Millender is a reclusive billionaire/women’s rights advocate, and thanks to a generous donation, she’s just become the director of the Inside being built on the bones of Manhattan. Her ideas are unorthodox, yet alluring—she's built a whole brand around rethinking the very concept of empowerment.

Shelby, a business major from a working-class family, is drawn to Jacqueline’s promises of power and impact. When she lands her dream job as Jacqueline’s personal assistant, she's instantly swept up into the glamourous world of corporatized feminism. Also drawn into Jacqueline's orbit is Olympia, who is finishing up medical school when Jacqueline recruits her to run the health department Inside. The more Olympia learns about the project, though, the more she realizes there's something much larger at play. As Ava, Olympia, and Shelby start to notice the cracks in Jacqueline's system, Jacqueline tightens her grip, becoming increasingly unhinged and dangerous in what she is willing to do—and who she is willing to sacrifice—to keep her dream alive.

The book has some serious themes of gender, but it doesn’t provide a lot of new discussion about gender. This is very disappointing as it is set in the 2050s and later. The author lacks to include any mentions about how trans men factor into discussions of gendered oppression.

The characters are very under-developed and there are like six different POV characters, meaning enough time is not dedicated to each. The prose and dialogue are sometimes stilted and the ending feels rushed and facile. The whistleblower plot line happens too quickly and easily to be believable.

I got the wrong book as well. It’s a physics book so that’s unfortunate. I was looking forward to reading Yours for the Taking.

Power is poison when it goes uncheck regardless who holds it. Since white men are given more opportunity to exercise power, it is more frequent to see one of them making headlines after abusing their power years over years. But let's not forget them women can be no different than their male counterparts. While we are vocal in demanding for more power for women, we should be equal in monitoring how that power is used.

Jacqueline Millender was no different than a white man. While promising a world where people can be equal under her command in the underground world that was created against the climate stricken world above, she was actually forming a dictatorship. Like all dictatorships before hers, this one was bound to fall because people eventually fed up, people want some sense of control over their own lives.

While I believe we will need to live underground or in space in couple of decades due to climate beating us for all the things we did to it, I hope that it will be not the be the dystopia described on these pages. If we are going to have no sunshine or once in a while cool breeze, we might as well have no dictator looming over us.

I LOVE a good dystopian book. In my opinion, they’re more disturbing than horror books or crazy psychological thrillers.


The year is 2050, and the planet is overheating.
There is one possibility of surviving: If your application is accepted in The Inside Project - A place that promises a new beginning for the human race.


Ava is accepted, and she soon realizes that everyone inside are… women.There are no men.


Jacqueline Millender is a radical feminist with a ton of money. The Inside Project is her idea of a new matriarchal society. In her mind, this plan is flawless. Afterall, who needs men?


This book was CRAZY. I looooved the audiobook. It felt like I was watching a weird feminist futuristic sci-fi movie.


This is a dystopian book that touches on really important subjects like climate crisis, gender identity, and genetics preimplantation of embryos.

In a time when the world has been thoroughly ruined by climate change, a project exists to house thousands from the encroaching disasters. Except the primary investor turned director has decided to exclude men.

The story is told from the perspective of several women involved in the project and how their lives are shaped within the experiment. It's a very interesting look at morality and society and was not at all what I was expecting. For a tale that spans over 20 years, the book remained fast-paced and riveting and left me wanting to know more about how the characters will move forward.

Well that was disappointing. I was really looking forward to this one, but as I now see others are saying, the file includes the wrong book- something about Physics, which is very much not in my wheelhouse. Hoping to get a file of the correct audiobook to read and review, but I’m not entirely sure how to go about that?

Unfortunately this copy of Yours For The Taking was the incorrect audiobook. I am really looking forward to reading this book and will seek out the audio version once published. Thank you!

Wrong audio file - seems to be an issue for everyone! Will be seeking out an ebook copy though as it sounds excellent

Wrong file sent. Not book I requested. Was really looking forward to this. No review shared elsewhere.

No review, as incorrect audio file was provided and then removed. I would be happy to read and provide a review at a later date with a correct copy, as the premise was intriguing!

I will not be sharing this review with GoodReads or elsewhere, as the publisher gave me the wrong book. Apologies for the author - I would love to read your book!

Upon downloading this audiobook, I realized I was given the wrong book and what I was sent was a self-help books, so there is no way I can appropriately give a review of this, so I will not be.

I requested this one because it might be an upcoming title I would like to review on my Youtube Channel. However, after reading the first several chapters I have determined that this book does not suit my tastes. So I decided to DNF this one.

This is the wrong audiobook file.

Incorrect audiobook file as noted by other reviewers. I won’t be posting a review anywhere else but here, obviously. Really hope it’s rectified somehow and I have the opportunity to read the correct book in the future.

Did not receive the correct book, assuming this was an error from netgalley so won't be posting this receive anywhere but here it is on netgalley

Never received the book, so no rating. Happy to revisit if I ever receive it. Sorry to this author...

This review will only be posted here because I did not receive the correct audiobook file.

The title of the actual book provided was not included in the file (started with "chapter 1"), but it was some kind of science non-fiction.

So, this is kinda weird, but this isn't the book I requested.
It took me a while to figure it out, but I think this is an issue on Macmillan's side.

Audiobook ARC given to me is not he correct book, therefore I can not give feedback at this time. I'm not sure where to go from here.