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The Motherhood Mandate
- The Unborn Child Protection Act, Book 2
- Narrated by: Elena Moore
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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Summary
She dreamed of adventure. Now she's detained by the authorities. Her crime? She's pregnant.
Rylee Williams is looking forward to a fun-filled gap year before she heads East for college. An extended trip to Europe. Volunteering for her congregations Home Mission. Maybe even mentoring for her old high schools robotics team.
Pregnancy was the last thing that she expected. Detained under the Unborn Child Protection Act and forced into the Wisconsin Individual Family Education program with her on-again, off-again boyfriend, Rylee struggles to navigate in a world that has reduced her to a walking womb.
Can this strong-willed mother-to-be reclaim her life . . . and her future?
Set in 2028, this chilling companion to The Fatherhood Mandate, M.E. Wright offers frightening insight into current cultural and political trajectories. The Motherhood Mandate digs deeply into the endgame of authoritarian governments and their silver-tongued rhetoric.
Explore the repercussions of our current-day culture war. Get your copy now!
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- Kirsty Barrett
- 27-07-24
Excellent
Excellent. Having read the story from Sam POV it was good to see the other side. It was worth it but totally agree with the series order. Its effect was much more hard-hitting hearing Sam's story first. Our central character here is definitely still the rich spoilt kid. She goes through her own trauma's though, and is still left at the mercy of the law which means she cannot control her own body.
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- PJ Stewart
- 20-07-24
Absolutely Brilliant Duology
I cannot recommend enough to listen to this audiobook in conjunction with The Fatherhood Mandate. This is Riley's side of the story and just as excellent as Sam's. Elena Moore's narration is pure perfection and the two audiobooks work seamlessly together. I cannot recommend these enough!;
A book for our tumultuous times, speculative fiction that ponders an authoritarian, dystopic future. Would things be different if men had to share the consequences of an unplanned pregnancy in a state where voluntarily ending a pregnancy is illegal? Would it be different if they were not allowed to travel out of state, go to a bar, have their interactions watched, their electronic devices? Being forced by law to go through hours of a tens machine birthing simulation and hours of parenting/ relationship classes?
Zack and Rily broke up. Riley was chaos, a self-absorbed, materialistic rich kid, a spoilt daughter of a deeply religious mother. Zack was about to start college on a tennis scholarship at his dream school, it was just a matter of all the pieces falling into place
Despite breaking up, Zack and Riley hooked up again when he came home in the summer, Riley told Zack throughout she was on the pill, but could no longer take it because she couldn't get pregnant. She didn't like condoms. She was always in the mood and wild in bed. This was Zacks kryptonite that he could not resist and did not insist on using protection
The book opens with Riley desperately trying to get back together with Zack, after breaking up with him again, but this time, Zack is done, he won't get back together, he is starting a new life in fall at college, but her words resonate with him, "things have changed"
Until one day, when out with friends, Zacks mother calls him, demanding he comes home immediately, furious, catatonic. Zack's mother Wendy attends the same church as Riley's mom and is hyer-focussed on reputation and face, so any strange visitors have the curtains twitching. Zack gets home to see an official in the house, with a manilla envelope. Riley is incarcerated, because she is 7 weeks pregnant and his life and all of his plans are about to crumble to dust
The book is so well written, it explores both sides of the debate, the impact on families, the communities and the individual freedoms and rights and social interactions. No matter which side of the debate you are on, this book is applicable to both, to take a breath and see the different scenarios, ramificiations and impacts.
The interplay between each individual character is so well thought out and I found myself gripped right to the end, waiting for the final outcome and the DNA test, which was not what I was expecting at all.
I cannot recommend this audiobook enough
Thank you to Storyorigin for this incredible ALC. My review is left voluntarily and all opinions are my own
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