I'm not entirely sure how I feel about this book. I quite enjoyed reading it, although I felt it became tiresome in the second half. It never seems to say anything or come to any sort of conclusions, and left me wondering what the point was.

A virus, Maternal Death Syndrome, is killing all pregnant women, without exception, and the world is facing a future without children. We're told this story by 16 year old Jessie, who approaches this crisis with an frantic need to do something about it - she is vaguely involved in a activist organisation, and then finds a solution she decides to dedicate herself to. The decision she makes means the narrative inevitably stalls a little, and the second half of the story did tend to drag on. Ultimately, while I quite enjoyed parts of it, I kept thinking of dystopic novels that tell similar stories in a much deeper and more satisfying way, and that doesn't reflect very well on The Testament.