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3.5 stars.
The small mindedness of corporate feminism and white supremacy come together in a dystopian world falling apart thanks to worldwide climate disasters.

An extremely wealthy, reclusive and prominent feminist, Jacqueline Millender decides to create a series of enclosed safe harbours for people approved by The Inside Project. Those who qualify are the only ones guaranteed safety in a world falling apart. What no one knows is that the Inside Project is a way for Jacqueline to test out her hypotheses that a world without men will be a better world (e.g., no war, no more environmental destruction, etc.)

Two people are pulled into Jacqueline's orbit: Shelby, a trans woman who gives up everything to support Jacqueline as her personal assistant, and Olympia, a doctor who signs up to manage medical services in one particular Inside enclave. We also meet Ava, who is accepted inside, but her lover Orchid is not.

Things initially seem to be going well at Inside, but the longer time goes on, Olympia wonders what Jacqueline's real intent is, as the women inside are monitored constantly, drugged, and assigned roles and responsibilities sometimes contrary to their inclinations. Jacqueline grows increasingly hardline as time passes, and I was pulled along in as things went from bad to worse outside, but Shelby's, Olympia's and Ava's eyes are all opened to the terrible costs of Jacqueline's dreams and plans.

The novel has rough spots, and sometimes it wasn't always believable, but I liked Olympia and Shelby.