Overview: Exploitative. Hyper-Productive. Militarist. Miserable. Quatron is a fantasy world warped to serve the cold interests of a corporate oligarchy.

Romantic. Arrogant. Idealistic. Intense. Ellaria is a young woman doomed to decades in a credit camp after inheriting her father’s medical debt.

Locked away, closely monitored, and put to work with thousands of others, it’s clear there’s no future for people like Ellaria under this system … so she will fight for a new one.

Verdict: Joining forces with an eight-foot-tall aspiring optimist, a wizard with a shotgun, and an ex-noble sorceress that she can’t keep her eyes off, Ellaria will revolt against Quatron’s regime of corporate control.

But Ellaria has critical questions to answer: How can anyone defeat such a deeply entrenched system? What will the oligarchs be willing to do to stay in power? And most importantly, what sort of world should she aim to build?

She needs to find her answers quickly. The time of rebellion begins.

In what is an enthralling, dutifully diligent, and masterfully sculpted new novel from author Jacob Dallas-Main, They Called Her Rebel: A Fantasy Novel About Late-Stage Capitalism, People Power, and Queer Love is a fantasy novel, at heart, but comes complete with a rather magical, sometimes politically skewed, and yet always thought-provoking prose throughout.

Coming complete with fantastical tales, spiriting places and emboldened characters galore, they are all woven together by a veritably crystalline pinpoint accuracy to bring forth a fun, at time subtly nuanced, and yet always focused within the ideals of socialism work of novelist art.

Thus, I highly recommend this book to all those readers seeking a book whose written veins are forged from the radical, at all times interpersonal desires of a scenescape whose fantasy concept is as enchanting as it is conceptually satisfying.

About the Author - Jacob Dallas-Main is a writer, research analyst, and activist based out of Atlanta, Georgia. Jacob’s primary passion is political organizing and activism, which he does as a committed member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation. Jacob hosts the weekly book review podcast The Socialist Shelf, which you should only check out if you’re a fan of bad jokes with a little bit of politics and literature sprinkled in.

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