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The concept of Outlawed is wonderfully creative—a reimagined American West in which women and gender-fluid outcasts band together as law-breaking cowboys. The execution, however, left something to be desired. Falling flat from its initial promise, the novel is predictable and slow. There are too many characters, such that none of them make a particularly strong impression, and even the protagonist, a midwife, is lackluster and bland. I really wanted to love this book—the LGBTQ themes, the dystopian society obsessed with childbirth, the way social anxieties created outcasts—but unfortunately, the story never really expanded beyond the original idea.